When I first went to China 22 years ago, I stayed at the Shanghai Conservatory of Music for several days. Many foreign travelers stayed in their international student hostel back then.A few weeks ago I found a link about Jewish Shanghai on an Asian Jewish Life tweet and … [Read more...]
Book of the week–Wild Ginger by Anchee Min
Last month my college friend Dina heard Anchee Min speak in New York. When she raved about Min's lecture, I thought back to how much I loved reading Red Azalea (Pantheon, 1994), Katherine (Berkley Trade, 2001), and Becoming Madame Mao (Mariner, 2001).So I decided to pick up … [Read more...]
Argyle Street Camps
I love history. And when I've lived it, even better!In 1990, I saw a notice at my university in Hong Kong for volunteer English teachers at a Vietnamese refugee camp. Actually, it was called a detention centre.I wanted the job. Ever since my mom took me to a low-key, … [Read more...]
Shanghai snacks
My ex-husband is in town to visit our son this weekend. He brought us these bags of snacks from Shanghai.The Chinese characters on three of the bags translate to "I'm happy. I'm healthy".The bag on the bottom left has candied walnuts. The bags on the bottom right and … [Read more...]
Waterloo Road–then and now
Several years ago I stumbled upon Martin Booth's memoir, Golden Boy (Picador, 2004), also known as Gweilo (Doubleday, 2004) in the UK--about his boyhood in Hong Kong.As a young boy, Booth lived in the Fourseas Hotel and roamed the streets of Kowloon on his own in the early … [Read more...]
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