L’Orient, l’amour et le mariage by Anna May Wong « L’Orient est l’Orient et l’Occident est l’Occident et jamais les deux ne pourront vraiment se rencontrer ». C’est là une vieille, vieille maxime; oui déjà vieille quand Rudyard Kipling la fixa à jamais dans ces mots retentissants et rythmés dont il a le secret. Mais [...]
Wong, May Q A Cowherd in Paradise: From China to Canada Victoria: Brindle & Glass 256 pages $24.95 ISBN 978-1-926972-40-4 Publication date: April 2012 May Q. Wong’s A Cowherd in Paradise is an intimate family portrait of her own family in Montreal. For those interested in writing their own family histories, Wong’s A Cowherd in [...]
His watch read high noon. Even so, Matt Erickson took a moment to adjust his vision to the sweltering darkness inside the hut. A small window emitted a hazy beam of sunlight that lit up tiny motes of dust. He recoiled at the reek of urine and sweat. “What do we have here?” he asked [...]
The True Life Story of a Chinese Girl by Anna May Wong Part 2 Note: This memoir was originally published in Pictures, September 1926. My sister and I were very happy in the Mission School down in Chinatown. Since all the other pupils were Chinese also, we were no longer torment by the taunts of [...]
The True Life Story of a Chinese Girl by Anna May Wong Part 1 Note: This memoir was originally published in Pictures, August 1926. A lot of people, when they first meet me, are surprised that I speak and write English without difficulty. But why shouldn’t I? I was born right here in Los Angeles [...]
My reason for being in Bangkok this time was to attend the Southeast Asia Writers Conference, only that’s not exactly the correct name. Once I arrived, I heard people talking about the “C-ride” festival. I wondered, oh shit, am I here at the wrong time, or in the wrong place? Both? In fact, I had [...]
In the western suburbs of Chengdu lies the cottage of Du Fu 杜甫 (712-770), one of the Tang 唐朝 (618-907) Dynasty’s most celebrated poet and writer. Although he was born in Gongyi city, near Luoyang, Henan, he led an itinerant life because of civil war in China. The war that affected him was the An [...]
Book Review: The Long March Home by Zoё S. Roy (Inanna Publications, 2011, 260 pages) Launched 46 years ago, Mao Zedong’s destructive Cultural Revolution ripped apart the social fabric of China, splintered families and fractured lives. The current Chinese government’s policy of smoothing a revisionist’s plane over the excesses of an era of terror is [...]
A book on relationships by the fengzhui master Jerry King was recently published. Here is the Preface of King’s book by his editor Aileen Lee: We aspire to construct beautiful sand castles, but one can never stand firm on a foundation carved in loose sand.” – so read the opening hook of an article on [...]
The documentary Lily Goes Home, produced by Tony Chan, is a continuation of a 1992 interview with former Lt. Lily Lee Adams, a triage nurse in Cu Chi, Vietnam during 1969-1970 (see Part One American Nurse). She talks about her life after Vietnam, her bonds with other veterans and their counselling issues, especially other Asian-American [...]