Last week I learned that the Italian publisher Newton Compton has bought the rights to translate Good Chinese Wife into Italian!This is my first foreign rights deal and I am beyond excited about it. I assume the publisher will create their own cover to appeal to the … [Read more...]
Book of the week–The Japanese Lover
I was drawn to Isabel Allende's new novel, The Japanese Lover (Atria, 2015) because it sounded a lot like one of my favorite novels, Dana Sachs' The Secret of the Nightingale Palace (William Morrow, 2013).Both stories take place in the present and around WWII. Both star a … [Read more...]
Photo Friday
Here's another photo from my walk through Kowloon City and the area where Hong Kong's Kai Tak Airport used to stand.It's funny how I used to walk through this park quite often in my 20s, but never stopped to appreciate it back then. I guess I was always in a hurry, either … [Read more...]
A night with CASL
I've had so much fun this autumn volunteering with the Chinese American Service League in Chicago. I started teaching English to two classes of senior citizens and have recently added a craft class. My kids have gone with me a couple times. We even made a local Chinese newspaper … [Read more...]
Photo Friday
I got these Chinese opera combs last month when I was in Shanghai. It was my first full day back in Shanghai as well as the first day of the World Congress on Art Deco. Just before noon, my mom, friend Mary, and I had to duck out before the last lecture of the morning was … [Read more...]
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