I've been blogging now for five and a half years and have written plenty about the Mid-Autumn Festival, one of my favorite holidays ever. I've even had articles published in Chicago about where to go to celebrate this festival. So I don't know why it's taken me this long to post … [Read more...]
Book of the week–The Magical Life of Long Tack Sam
I'm not sure where I first learned about this beautiful graphic novel, but I think it was somewhere on Amazon. I love Chinese history, a good romance, and--kind of new for me--graphic novels. Ann Marie Fleming's The Magical Life of Long Tack Sam: An Illustrated Memoir (Riverhead, … [Read more...]
New photos from my first year in Hong Kong!
I have no idea why I haven't posted these photos before. In fact, I haven't even taken them off their sticky album sheets since I first placed them there 24 years ago. When I looked closer at them tonight, I realized some were taken in places I'd forgotten I'd visited back then. … [Read more...]
A summer of sentimental movies
For the first time as a mother, I've had eight days of 5-hour stretches completely to myself. Two of my kids were in all-day day camp and the other was either volunteering at sleepover camp or on a college tour a time zone away.So what did I do with all this free time? If … [Read more...]
A tale of two guidebooks
When I was researching Shanghai for a manuscript that's now been put on hold, I turned to guidebooks from the periods for which I was writing. As a guidebook author myself, I find them to be somewhat telling of the times in which they take place. In Good Chinese Wife, I didn't … [Read more...]
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