I'm a little late for International Women's Day, but better late than never, right? A couple months ago my friend Jean sent me Chung Wenyin's first novel, Woman Islands (Serenity International, 2011), of course in translation.Chung Wenying is one of Taiwan's most popular … [Read more...]
An evening with author Xu Xi
On Wednesday night I met celebrated author Xu Xi for dinner in Chicago. She's in town for the AWP conference (Association of Writing Programs). I've worked with Xu Xi before, as a contributing writer for her anthology, Fifty-Fifty: New Hong Kong Writing (Haven Books, 2008) and … [Read more...]
Last in Translation
All relationships experience miscommunication at some point or other, but add a foreign language and you're bound to have some benign misunderstandings. Stuart Beaton writes about a recent such mishap. (No worries--all's well that ends well.) Stuart has a great podcast blog (his … [Read more...]
Book of the week–East River Column: Hong Kong Guerrillas in the Second World War and After
I just finished reading Chan Sui-jeung's East River Column: Hong Kong Guerrillas in the Second World War and After (Hong Kong University Press, 2009) and have a new appreciation for the brave men and women of Hong Kong and southern China during and after the war.Hong Kong is … [Read more...]
Mission to Metro
When I think of all the changes in China since I left in the late 90s, one that stands out is the advent of the warehouse grocery store. That was so not the case back in my day. So here's Stuart Beaton, our man in Tianjin, to explain just how great the shopping in China has … [Read more...]
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