It hasn't even been a week since Girls' Day in Japan and now today is International Women's Day!To kick off International Women's Day, yesterday the blog Speaking of China presented a list of 30 women who blog about relationships between western women and Chinese men. I was … [Read more...]
Dishes in a Hubei wedding banquet, 1995
I love Chinese banquets.Years ago, I partook in a chaotic wedding banquet on a scorching summer day out in the middle of Hubei province, but hardly had time to taste the many dishes.In fact, it was my wedding banquet.I knew few of the 200 guests seated at 20 round … [Read more...]
Book of the week–Baby, We Were Meant for Each Other
In all this Tiger Mother hype and hysteria, I remembered reading that National Public Radio's Scott Simon recently wrote a memoir about adopting his two daughters from China. So I fired up the Kindle (I'm loving it!) last week and downloaded Baby, We Were Meant for Each Other … [Read more...]
Wuhan street food
Last week I boiled up some tang yuan for the 15th day of the Chinese Lunar New Year, otherwise known as the Lantern Festival.I meant to post something about tang yuan, or gooey chewy rice flour balls filled with red bean, black sesame, or peanut paste. But I ducked out the … [Read more...]
An evening with Amy Chua
With all the hype centered around Amy Chua's new book, Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother (Penguin, 2011), I jumped at the chance to hear her live last week.The Chicago Tribune sponsored the event, featuring a live interview moderated by Trib literary critic Elizabeth Taylor … [Read more...]
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