My Short 2009 (and beyond!) China Wishlist
Instead of looking back on 2008, or making predictions for 2009, I thought — why not share a list of my hopes and wishes for China in the next year…and beyond? So…here’s a short list of what I’d like to see in the Middle Kingdom in 2009, and after. It is NOT a prediction; I […]
Buck’s East Wind: West Wind: The feminist side of the Good Earth, where foreign women married Chinese men, long before it was cool
I’m a huge fan of Pearl Buck. From the moment I opened the “House of Earth” trilogy — which includes “The Good Earth”, “Sons” and “A House Divided” — I was hooked, and devoured every word passionately. But yet, there was always one part of the book I found heartbreaking, perhaps for personal reasons. In […]
Fox…er Phoenix News Strikes Again: Overseas Chinese biggest fears – daughter marrying a black man, and a child going gay?
Phoenix News (aka 凤凰å«è§†ï¼‰is run by Rupert Murdoch, the guy behind Fox News. So maybe it should come as no surprise that, in the aftermath of the election, it decides to drag on a couple of pundits from California, professors both representing the overseas Chinese population, to spread a little more hatred and division on […]
After all of the sour milk, can we trust China?
Just this evening, I was chatting with my good friend Caroline, who is from Zhejiang Province in Yiwu, and she happened to mention that she knew an import-export broker from South America. “He said that someday he would like to make me the manager of his Yiwu office,” she wrote, “because I’m the only person […]
We’re not just about China and Chinese translation…we do some great, plain-old writing projects too!
Hi all! It’s been a while since we’ve been on the blog, with our move to Pocatello, Idaho. Thought I’d dig into the mailbox and respond to what’s becoming a Frequently Asked Question. This comes from my friend Joel here in Pocatello as well: Do you focus solely on Chinese culture and translations or do […]
Foreign Babes in Beijing Video Clips — see Rachel DeWoskin as Jiexi
This is a companion to my Foreign Babes in Beijing Book Review — or for anyone who has read the book. If you’re dying to see what Rachel DeWoskin looked like as Jiexi, or see Louisa, Tianliang, and Tianming, this will satisfy. It’s a 16 minute clip, apparently made from a company who sells the […]