So close I had to dodge the burning bits of ash coming down on me…
Here in China, everyone sets off their own fireworks from the streets, from their driveways, from bridges, and from their apartment balconies. In a town of densely-built apartments, the result is a fireworks show literally right before your eyes - so close, in fact, that you will have to shield your eyes with your hands...
Happy Chinese New Year!
Celebrating the Spring Festival in Zhejiang province this year! New Year on the mainland is different, especially having spent a few Spring Festival celebrations in HK the last few years. Here, children have been setting off firecrackers all week, starting as early as 6 a.m., the booms echoing loudly off the dense apartments in town....
In transition
I’m on the move again, and promise to blog more from my new location soon. On the eve of my departure from Hong Kong, here are a few things (in no particular order) I’ll miss about this great city, my home for the last year. 10) A most efficient city, connected by affordable and punctual...
My Mother the Tigress
I called my Mother on Skype this morning to discuss the excerpt of Amy Chua‘s new book published on the Wall Street Journal over the weekend. Reading Chua’s article, my Mom said, was like reading documentation of her own child rearing techniques. “I still remember our fights,” she wrote in an e-mail to me before...
Where a child’s book bag is bigger than the child herself
It was windy yesterday in Hong Kong. Even though the forecast said high 15, by afternoon it was overcast and the wind gusts brought on a biting cold. At the Chi On Primary School in Kwai Fong (north-western Kowloon) we certainly felt it. Hong Kong public schools all kind of look the same. There’s a...
My story this week for CMAJ: China struggles to rebuild mental health programs
By Suzanne Ma A plainclothes policeman checks the blood stains on the wall at a primary school where a man stabbed eight children to death and injured five others in Nanping, China. Photo credit: Reuters The anomaly is striking. At least a dozen workers leapt to their death in same factory compound in southern China...
The Lies China Travel Service Will Tell You
We were in Taiwan when we received the email: my boyfriend’s grandfather had passed away in mainland China. He had been ill for a long time, having suffered a stroke more than a year ago. He’s been in the hospital ever since. I visited him the last two times I was in China. He was...
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