BEST BOOKS AUTHORS PUBLISHERS WEEKLY Lotus Lijia Zhang. Holt, $27 (368p) ISBN 978-1-62779-566-1 After the memoir Socialism Is Great!, Zhang returns to the landscape of a rapidly changing China in this debut novel, which explores the daily life and inner world of Lotus, a young prostitute living in the city of Shenzhen, who supports her… Continue reading a review in Publishers Weekly

I came to hk to give a keynote speech at a HSBC conference. Amazing how everything in hk works. Within minutes of my arrival, I got a local SIM card; the train to the central and a taxi to my hotel. And there are endless good restaurants. A life without struggle? Do people in hk… Continue reading HK