Irene Eng The Kibbitzer

  
Consul General Peng Keyu was at a small fundraising reception (about 50 people or so, mostly Chinese in finances) last week at Harvard Club, with a pledged donation of US$55k for the quake victims. He took the floor after the featured speaker. Couple of minutes in to his opening notes, he ditched English in [...]

Long before Mick Jagger and the Dream Threter, there was Henry Kissinger, the very first rock star in the People’s Republic of China, not just American rock star, he was the most talked about rocker, period. Famous and larger than his boss Nixon.
Auntie Spalding’s 4×4 meter home (a single room) in Building 16 was the little salon for [...]

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