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This Ain't Your Mother's China

National China Performing Arts Center
Dec.07.2011
This Ain't Your Mother's China

December 2011 - Release of three long form articles in RedRoom.com on China after living in Lhasa, Beijing, and Shanghai for 2-1/2 years+.

1. Of a Firestorm in Lhasa

2. Ain't Your Mother's China

3. Lost in Transliteration: Just Another ABC in the Big Bad PRC

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William's Latest Blogs

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May.12.2010 - 10:46 pm
Insider Outsider: An Interview
James Kuai talks to author/professor/activist William Poy Lee about how his 2007 memoir The Eighth Promise has influenced his thoughts about US, China, Tibet and more. Date...
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Jun.29.2008 - 11:14 pm
Dead or Alive - Showing Up for Friends
Naomi Newman
A few weeks ago, I had RSVP'ed to attend the 25th anniversary party of Mustard's Grill, that culinary lodestar that placed Napa on the map not only as a wind destination but a...
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Jun.23.2008 - 5:19 pm
IN MEMORIAM -- GEORGE CARLIN, AND YET HE'LL LIVE FOREVER
For those of us who love Lenny Bruce, Richard Pryor, Mort Sahl, Chris Rock, and all other comedian warriors who loved all words and tolerated no hypocrisy, please honor the...
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Jun.17.2008 - 4:38 pm
Kindle-ized, Globalized, Public Intellectualized, and Excised
I'm being Kindle-ized by Amazon.com., so my agent recently informed me.  The good news is that my first book, The Eighth Promise, will be downloadable in about six weeks from...
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Comments from William

May.06.2010 - 11:23 pm
In response to: Insider Outsider: An Interview with Author William Poy Lee by james Kuai --
I'm always gratified when a
I'm always gratified when a reader or writer contacts me. I am away a bunch on travels and writing retreats, but will...
Jul.10.2008 - 6:55 pm
In response to: When is it real?
book contracts
Caroline -- congrats on another book sale.  I've only sold my first one and I was ecstatic. Every step is so real and...
Jul.03.2008 - 11:10 pm
In response to: Dead or Alive - Showing Up for Friends
Thomas -- it's not the
Thomas -- it's not the deepest of regrets of course, just one of those choices that was easily enough accomplished had...
Jun.30.2008 - 3:18 pm
In response to: Dead or Alive - Showing Up for Friends
Eric -- always good to hear
Eric -- always good to hear from you.  I'm going to make a special trip to Seward's Folly just to kick it with your...
Jun.25.2008 - 8:06 am
In response to: IN MEMORIAM -- GEORGE CARLIN, AND YET HE'LL LIVE FOREVER
Def Comedy Jam too?
Were you a fan of HBO's Def Comedy Jam circa Martin Lawrence as host?  And the impossibly agile break-dancers who...

Writing

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Article: Bent & Twice Broken: Penguin China-bashes to to Protect Ping Fu's Flawed "Memoir"
Article: JUST ANOTHER ABC IN THE BIG BAD PRC: Impressions of a Shapeshifting Civilization
Article: OF A FIRESTORM IN LHASA: The March Incident 2008 & the Final PR Battle Within Tibet

Audio & Video

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Image Gallery: Lost in Transliteration
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Video: @ GOOGLE, July l, 2008: INTIFADA IN SF CHINATOWN: The first modern Chinese American Civil Rights March - Summer of '68
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—Gloria Steinem

About William

Born 1951 in San Francisco and raised with one root in the traditional Toisanese speaking urban village of SF Chinatown and one root in the heady Bohemian North Beach culture of jazz, Beat poetry, Zen, the counter culture, hedonism, and good Italian food....
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Causes William Lee Supports

Kim Baptiste's Culture Clash Hip-Hop Clubs for Youth, SF Bay Area East Bay Meditation Center, availing Buddhist wisdom to inner cities Belladonna Sanctuary...

William’s Favorite Books

Temple of My Familiar, Red Harvest, The Thin Man, The Long Goodbye, The Love Wife, Androgyny, East of Eden, Notes of a Native Son, Seeing Through Shuck: An...