When my oldest son started college this fall, I learned about a professor at his school who forecasts the success or failure of governments. When I did a quick Google search, I came across a book Bruce Bueno de Mesquita had written back in 1985: Forecasting Political Events: The … [Read more...]
Photo Friday
Here's another old photo I recently found. It's from my Hong Kong civil ceremony, ie, elopement, back in 1995. As I write in Good Chinese Wife, I had the worst time finding something to wear for this ceremony. So I ended up wearing a brown sundress, a white blouse, and a black … [Read more...]
A year in photos–2016
I can't wait for 2016 to be over and done with. Go. Away. Already. But to stay positive until then, I was fortunate to experience quite a few highlights. In January, I wrote the introduction for the re-release of Ban Zhao's Instructions for Chinese Women and Girls (Camphor Press, … [Read more...]
Book the week–How to Hong Kong
It always seems like I end one year and start a new one reading books published by Blacksmith Books in Hong Kong. Today as I waited for my kids at Sunday School and stayed indoors as the snow blanketed Chicago, I sat down with Lena Sin and Nicholas Tay's How to Hong Kong: An … [Read more...]
Book of the week–Hong Kong: An Appointment with China
Hong Kong has never been more at a crossroads with One Country, Two Systems than it is now. So to understand more, I recently delved back into the past with Steve Tsang's 1997 narrative, Hong Kong: An Appointment With China (I. B. Tauris, 1997).On a personal level, I never … [Read more...]
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