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Jun.12.2013
Birds of Paradise Lost by Andrew LamBooks in Conversation
Read Andrew Lam, and bask in his love of language, and his compassion for people, both those here and those from far away. He reminds us that we have history in common; we can laugh and cry together. — Maxine Hong Kingston
The thirteen...
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May.20.2013
I’ve always been restless, but the year I turned twelve I was desperate to escape my life and discover a bigger, better world. Other people, the elite, the rich, people who worked in big offices, got to fly around the world on airplanes, why couldn’t...
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May.11.2013
Note: I wrote the essay below a decade ago and it was collected in "East Eats West: Writing in Two Hemispheres." On the occasion of Mother's Day, it is reposted here. My mother suffers from dementia and forgetfulness now, and is growing frail, but her ways remain forever devoted to traditions, to...
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Apr.23.2013
Arirang: The Bamboo Connection is no longer in print. The 488 page adventure novel by D. K. Christi is only available in ebook format at Amazon.com Kindle.
The ebook may be downloaded for reading at any computer device in addition to Kindles and ereaders. The print copy was...
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Feb.15.2013
From my paper comparing Hong Kong's minimal welfare state to America's bloated one:
In the weeks leading up to Hong Kong’s handover to Chinese sovereignty, Hong Kong’s caged-home dwellers were in the spotlight. The city was flooded with foreign journalists, and the phenomenon of the city’s...
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Feb.14.2013
I am posting two of the papers I wrote under my Phillips Foundation Fellowship in 1997-1998, on the topic of Hong Kong. This is the first, titled "Hong Kong As a Model for a Free Society." The upshot:
The irony is this: That even five months after becoming a part of the largest...
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Jan.16.2013
This is something I wrote (gulp!) more than 20 years ago. I'm re-posting it here because I think it is instructive regarding the financial problems we are facing here in the US 21 years later. When I visited Vietnam in 1990, the country was suffering from sporadic bouts of...
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Jan.14.2013
I LOVE LOVE LOVE this blog!
Here's an article that sort of explains.
"Natsumi Hayashi does not call the photos she posts on Yowayowa Camera Woman Diary “jump shots.” A jump, she says, is composed of many movements. And those who go up must come down."
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Oct.08.2012
You'll find pomegranate art throughout Israel. The ancient Jews believed the fruit represented fertility. Be fruitful and multiply it says in the Old Testament. Pomegranate seeds will sprout readily in the right environment so I understand how they became such a symbol for fertility and there are...
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Aug.23.2012
SAN FRANCISCO--When I was young, I used to eat food taken from a supermarket's garbage bin. We first came to America from Vietnam in the mid 70s as refugees, and my eldest brother got a job working in a supermarket across from our crowded, ramshackle apartment. Among his many chores he...
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