Several days ago I posted some photos from Montreal's Chinese lantern exhibit at the botanical gardens. But before I saw the lanterns, I stumbled upon Chinatown. My sisters-in-law and I were in Old Montreal, headed up to Schwartz's deli, when I spotted a pagoda-like structure off … [Read more...]
Book of the week–Watering Heaven
After a stretch of reading narratives from WWII China, this week I turned to a collection of contemporary short stories, mainly set in Beijing and Los Angeles.Watering Heaven (Signal 8 Press, 2012) by Peter Tieryas Liu consists of twenty stories that mostly feature male … [Read more...]
Finding Morris Cohen
Last week I posted a review of Daniel Levy's bio of Morris Cohen, the one-time bodyguard of Sun Yat-sen. While I read this mesmerizing story, I paid close attention to Cohen's years in Montreal during and after WWII. So when I was in the Quebecois city last week, I looked out for … [Read more...]
Autumn lantern exhibit at the Montreal Botanical Gardens
Yesterday I returned from a magical long weekend in Montreal with my husband's two sisters. We mainly shopped and ate, but on Saturday trekked out to the Montreal Botanical Gardens. As luck would have it, the Gardens were showing their annual lantern exhibition in the Chinese … [Read more...]
Podcast interview about Jews in China
Tonight I had the utmost pleasure to talk to Stuart Beaton about Jews in China on his fabulous author podcast site: http://rastous.podomatic.com/entry/2012-10-16T18_15_27-07_00.As Stuart writes, "This interview ranges over why Jewish people came to China before the Second … [Read more...]
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