I took Jake to college last week on a whirlwind trip to New York. We left on a 6am flight and I returned on the last flight of the evening. It was sunny and warm and a perfect day for settling into his dorm and doing some last minute shopping.Since Jake had to be at a 4pm … [Read more...]
Photo Friday
Earlier this year I had the great honor to write an introduction for Camphor Press's re-release of Ban Zhao's Instructions for Chinese Women and Girls. I used excerpts of this ancient classic in my memoir, Good Chinese Wife.This week I guest blogged for Camphor Press, writing … [Read more...]
Book of the week–Streets: Exploring Kowloon
I'm not one to shy away from a Hong Kong guidebook--always comparing what's in them with what I remember from living there 20-25 years ago--but when I learned about Jason Wordie's Streets: Exploring Kowloon (Hong Kong University Press, 2007), I grabbed it extra quickly.The … [Read more...]
Book of the week–The Sympathizer
It was almost 25 years to the month that I found myself in a hotel lobby in Danang, Vietnam, surrounded by a couple dozen Vietnamese men and women, the former far outnumbering the latter. A couple of the men were fiddling with a VCR connected to a color TV while the rest of us … [Read more...]
Art Deco in Paris
I learned about Art Deco in Shanghai, but went to its birthplace last month and stumbled across a few residential buildings with beautiful Art Deco characteristics. I thought I would find more such buildings, but that's probably because I wasn't able to see the whole … [Read more...]
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