Lisa See, Shanghai Girls, and China’s Wings
Reading Lisa See's account of the bombs that fell between the Cathay and the Palace Hotels where Nanking Road meets the Bund in Shanghai Girls, I was certain sh...
Month: July 2012
Scenes from a Shanghai refugee camp, by Schiff, December 1937
1937 sketches of a Chinese refugee camp, the camp school, Chinese nurses in a hospital, and a Chinese woman working in support of the war effort, all drawn by S...
Old photograph fever sweeps China
Apparently, the Communist party frowned on China's history as "black time," and its scourging of past associations caused most Chinese to purge their family pho...
China’s Wings event in Houston, July 21
On Saturday, July 21, at 3:00 p.m., I’ll be doing a China’s Wings presentation and book signing in Houston, at the Barnes & Noble in Vanderbilt ...
China’s Wings reviewed by Noozhawk
Excellent review of China's Wings by Tom Cahill of Noozhawk, Santa Barbara's online newspaper.