I first heard about Peter Hessler’s book “Oracle Bones” from my mom. She was reading through it and enjoying it immensely, and she recommended it profusely. I promptly ignored her for a year, until I managed to read a corroborating review from somewhere. I picked up both of his books at the time, “River Town” [...]
Continue Reading...The Wife and I watched a 2004 documentary over the weekend titled “A State of Mind” that was incredibly enthralling. I’ve never been to North Korea, but I’ve known many South Koreans, and I’ve seen a few collections of photographs from various travelers that have managed to make it to the country over the last [...]
Continue Reading...Reading is one of my favorite things to do, and it’s become harder and harder to make time for books over the last few years. However, over Christmas I was given Martin Jacques’ book “When China Rules the World” and I read most of it on the six flights we took over the holidays.
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Back in the dark old days of the internet, I started an “e-commerce” business. I was fresh out of high school, the dot com boom was storming its way toward oblivion, and technology talk was everywhere. I grew up in China, so I thought, why not become the Amazon.com of Chinese stuff? China has tons [...]
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