The Buried (2019) by Peter Hessler is a good book! Hessler and his family, wife and two twin daughters moved to Egypt in 2011, about…
truth is stranger than fiction
The Buried (2019) by Peter Hessler is a good book! Hessler and his family, wife and two twin daughters moved to Egypt in 2011, about…
‘Why the US had entered the World War against Germany’. Asked the Vice Chancellor under Hitler’s regime Franz von Papen (1879-1969) at a party in…
Recently, the closing of two consulates, got me interested in the Chinese legation and embassy in U.S. As it turns out, Qing dynasty of China…
Chee Hsin cement tile by the Pottery: QX #115 or #165, from the house at 684 Yuyuan Road in Shanghai. Photo courtesy: Feng Guoyin 冯国鄞 ⇒ This three-story…
Chee Hsin Pottery‘s QX #108 or #158 cement tiles are seen on a front porch in the popular TV series Nothing But Thirty 《三十而已》. The show…
On July 22, at 9am, Texas Tribune reported that China’s Houston consulate was ordered to close in 72 hours. Next thing we knew was fire trucks surrounded…