The Red Telephone – Most Coveted Gadget in China
The Red Machine (reconstructed via digital manipulation of Olga Pavlovsky’s Flickr Image “The hot line” licensed under CC attribution)(From China’s Private …
Tag Archives: Books
Eucalyptus makes me nostalgic
A restful repast was taken in this fine establishment in the Arabic quarter of Singapore. And now with a fine …
Book Club discussion on SAINT JACK at Bukit Batok Library
People make love for so many crazy reasons, why shouldn’t money be one of them? That quote is from Saint …
“Ways to get published the Non-traditional way” at the National Library
Collaborated with the Ivan Chew today for a talk at the Lee Kong Chian Reference Library. The event was organised …
Douban.net – A social network based on what you read
I have been trying out various reading list social tools – the kind where they let you input the books …
Comment fights before the blog days (A reader fights back on an Western guy’s travelogue on Japan)
This one is a travelogue written in the 1930s by an American traveler. I found this in the same old …
An Italian Spy in 1930s China
This is another interesting book I found. It is again set in the crazy 1930s. The author is an Italian …
Missing China with this old book
This one is another of my favorite books. The author was volunteer supply driver in China doing supply runs from …
“China’s new creative age” and other 50 year old books
Whenever I want to read some old books on China I go to India. More specifically this one bookshop in …
Heaven my blanket, Earth my pillow
Here is a poem from a collection I am reading – Heaven my blanket, Earth my Pillow by a Song …
