Chinese Matchmaker: A story about friendship in China in the 19th Century
Snow Flower and the Secret Fan By Lisa See Random House, 258 pages, $21.95 In her 1976 memoir, "The Woman Warrior," Maxine Hong Kingston recalls the familiar Chinese proverbs chanted by her parents: "When fishing for treasures in the flood, be careful not to pull in girls," and, "There's no profit in raising girls. Better to raise geese than girls."In the 19th Century rural Chinese...
Chinese Matchmaker: No business like snow business
THE recent blizzard in New York taught me the importance of encouraging youth entrepreneurship.It began last Friday, at around 11.30 pm, when someone rang the doorbell of our Brooklyn apartment.The Wife peeked through the spyhole and saw an African American lad, who, in hip-hop parlance, was 'macked out to the dilly-o' with his outsize Fubu threads and a do-rag on his dreads.At this hour in our neighbourhood, we'd be suspicious of someone in a...
Chinese Matchmaker: China's New Revolution: Private Home Ownership
The newly built two-room apartment cost a small fortune by a Chinese worker's standards--more than 5,000 yuan, or about $1,562.The floors are concrete and required painting. The walls were bare, and there were no lighting fixtures.Still, Shen Huanshan, 58, scraped up the cash to buy the apartment. There are restrictions on any resale, because the local chemical company, his employer, subsidized its purchase, but Shen and his wife hope that someday they can pass it on to...
Chinese Matchmaker: MEMORIES OF A `LOST' COMMUNITY OF CHINESE PEOPLE
When Song Wong was a child, it was her job to light the incense in respect to the kitchen god, the outside god, the front door god and other deities each morning and evening in the tiny Buddhist temple on the second floor of the building next to her home on Santa Rosa's Second Street.Song Wong Bourbeau, now 85, stood before the temple altar again Friday, in the gallery of the Sonoma County Museum, where it was reconstructed for the current historical exhibit. It was covered...
Chinese Matchmaker: MISS INFORMATION SITES OFFER HELP WITH MATCHMAKING
Dear Miss Information: My mother has a PC with Windows 95 or something like that. I would like to know how I can have a "personals ad" placed on my mother's computer, and what, if anything, will it cost? - Anthony Wilson Dear Anthony: Now you want to place a personals ad on your mother's computer? Hmmm. If it were on your mother's computer, well, then nobody would be able to read it except your mom. Miss Information will take the...