My older son just finished his second year of college Chinese and was showing his young siblings his textbook because they, too, are learning Mandarin, but at a slower pace. The little ones could understand come characters here and there, which was rewarding after several years … [Read more...]
Book of the week–Travels in a Dervish Cloak
I have to admit I bought this book for its cover. I usually have good luck picking books based on their covers; they usually turn out to be just as magical and as enlightening as they appear from the outside. Last month I saw something on social media where Hong Kong-based … [Read more...]
Book of the week–Unnatural Selection: Choosing Boys Over Girls, and the Consequences of a World Full of Men
Over the last couple of months, I've come across Mara Hvistendahl's 2011 book, Unnatural Selection: Choosing Boys Over Girls, and the Consequences of a World Full of Men (Public Affairs), while reading other books about feminism in China. So when I was in New York in March, I … [Read more...]
The chocolate bar at the Pen
Last night a couple of my sisters-in-law and I hit the Peninsula's chocolate bar to celebrate a birthday. We'd never been before and I have to say I was a little hesitant ingesting so much sugar at a time of the evening when I don't even eat. But that's what special occasions are … [Read more...]
Happy Pub Day to KSR Burns!
Ever since I first visited Paris a couple years ago, I can't get enough of books set there. I'd read them before my first trip, but there was something about the city that kept me thinking about it after I left (and after I returned from my second trip there a year later) that … [Read more...]
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