Shanghai

"The past is what you remember,
imagine you remember,
convince yourself you remember,
or pretend you remember."

Old Times, Harold Pinter

Men Playing Cards, Shanghai

Adelaide, the place for a happy life?

"FOR years Lin Chen resisted his wife’s entreaties to move abroad. Then, when their daughter was born in 2012, he started thinking about her schooling. He realised he wanted a less stressful education than the one he and his wife endured in their climb to the middle classes, and he wanted to leave space for fun. “My wife and I suffered a lot,” he says. “I don’t want my daughter to suffer through all that.”

And so the Lin family will soon be off to Adelaide, Australia, part of the greatest and most consequential wave of emigration in modern Chinese history: middle-class Chinese seeking not better opportunities or political freedoms but a better quality of life."

Yearning To Breathe Free, The Economist, 26 April 2014

Kids, Shanghai

​Shanghai 2004

Eastern Heathens, An Anthology of Subverted Asian Folklore

A story of mine will be published in a new anthology, Eastern Heathens, edited by the  talented Ng Yi Sheng and Amanda Lee Koe. The launch is on Saturday, 23 March 2013 at The Arts House, Singapore at 630pm.

See you there if you can make it.

​Acrobats at The Old Bell Tower, Beijing, 2004