When I was an exchange student in Hong Kong, a friend of my roommates had a teaching gig on Saturday mornings and was looking for a replacement. Dora had graduated and couldn't keep up this English tutor job. It sounded like a fun job. I would teach English to Mrs. Yoshizawa and … [Read more...]
Volunteering with refugees in Hong Kong
When I moved to Hong Kong in 1990, the territory was home to 55,000 Vietnamese refugees. The US and other western countries had stopped taking in the numbers of refugees they admitted in the last half of the 1970s and early 80s (even though the US caused the crisis in the first … [Read more...]
Book of the week–Neon Panic
I have such a large to-read pile that it sometimes feels overwhelming and impossible to get through. But when I recently received a copy of Charles Philipp Martin's novel, Neon Panic (Vantage Point, 2011), I had to start it right away. As if the cover wasn't enticing enough, the … [Read more...]
My only Chinese New Year in Hong Kong
I was thinking today of the years I spent in Hong Kong and realized I was only really there for Chinese New Year right before I left the Territory for good. It was 1998, I was pregnant, and unable to travel back to Hubei Province (doctor's orders!) to visit my in-laws. So I … [Read more...]
Book of the week–The Borrowed
At the end of last month, I reviewed Chan Ho-Kei's gripping Hong Kong police novel, The Borrowed (Grove, 2017) on the Los Angeles Review of Books' China Blog. It was one of my favorite books last year and the most gripping Hong Kong novel I've probably ever read. If you're … [Read more...]
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