Belle Yang | Belle Yang
Nov.26.2012
(Updated January 9th, 2013)
“A bookstore is one of the only pieces of evidence we have that people are thinking.” –Jerry Seinfeld
Last holiday season, the American Booksellers Association reported that books—the paper kind—made a comeback. The independent bookstores tracked by the Association...
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Oct.05.2012
“To have another language is to possess a second soul.” –Charlemagne
The European Emperor Charlemagne said that at a time when the opportunity to learn a foreign language—or to learn to read or write one’s own—was rare. These days, it’s reported that 53% of Europeans can speak a foreign language....
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Jun.02.2012
I post this the photojournal by X every anniversary. This year, 2012, My father hungers all the more for the voices of dissent via New Tang Dynasty Televison online, and his nightmares returns to the time of his escape in 1947, just a half-a-step ahead of the encroaching Communists....
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May.14.2012
When my last adult nonfiction came out to great reviews, try as WW Norton my publisher might, we could not land a review in the coveted NYTimes. So when my humble bilingual book came out to little fanfare, I thought nothing of it. This morning, roaming around the pages of Amazon, I...
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Oct.16.2011
There are no statues or plaques to commemorate them, just a few illusive names like China Cove, China Camp remain of their tenure in California. Few of my friends who live in the Monterey Bay Region know that Salinas would not be the agricultural hub (nor Castroville, Watsonville, Pajaro and...
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Jul.21.2011
FORGET SORROW exhibit ends August 13, 201
I passed out in the middle of the night half a month before the opening of this show. I had internal bleeding that left me with merely one-third of my blood volume. My doctor friend who works at the Stanford VA told me he'd never seen anyone's...
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May.03.2011
There's always a surreal quality to death. When it is someone like bin Laden, it heightens. To the people of California's Monterey County it heightens even more, because Leon Panetta, CIA director and the guiding hand in taking down Bin Laden, is such an important part of this community.
Panetta...
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May.02.2011
I saved my life by joining Dave Whipple's hiking brotherhood soon after the beginning of summer 2010, right in the middle of my book tour for my graphic novel "Forget Sorrow." Climbing high above sea level meant I could leave my greedy carcass and attain see level in the mountains where...
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Jan.13.2011
On Saturday, the Wall Street Journal published an excerpt from Amy Chua's book "Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother" and it set off a storm of debate about cultural differences and parenting. In her essay, Chua wrote that "A lot of people wonder how Chinese parents raise such...
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Dec.05.2010
It took 14 years to write, sell and paint my graphic memoir, FORGET SORROW. This week I received the news on its listing as recommended graphic memoir of 2010 in the SF Chronicle and today, the LA Times. (Just heard as I write that FS made Barnes & Nobles Year's Best Reading. Part of my job...
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