I'd been waiting since May to read Jeremy Tiang's debut novel, State of Emergency (Epigram Books, 2017) and finally had the chance last week. His translation of Chan Ho-Kei's The Borrowed is one of my favorite books, so I was eager to read his own novel.And it didn't … [Read more...]
Black Friday Bookbinding
On the day after Thanksgiving, my niece and I did something a little off the beaten shopping path. We took a bookbinding class this summer at Bari Zaki Studio in Chicago and returned today to do another type of bookbinding: the coptic stitch. We started with these tools. Since … [Read more...]
Book of the week–The Road to Sleeping Dragon
Last week I read Michael Meyer's new memoir, The Road to Sleeping Dragon (Bloomsbury, 2017). I really enjoyed his first two narrative/memoirs about Beijing and Manchuria. This one recaps some of those, but goes more into his early years in China when he arrived in Sichuan with … [Read more...]
Photo Friday
We had our first snow of the year today! This was on my walk through Chinatown after volunteering at the senior center this morning. … [Read more...]
Whatever happened to old Kai Tak?
When my mom first traveled to Hong Kong in 1962, this passenger terminal at Kai Tak was new and so modern. I saw airports in Southeast Asia thirty years later that didn't come close to this. My mom's family would fly in and out of Kai Tak for much of the sixties, seventies, and … [Read more...]
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