On the day the first part of this account was written, I had no idea whether Wong and his wife were alive. Or whether they were condemned to be, or had already been, executed by the communist government of China.
Time was running short – it was less than a month before the 11th Asian [...]
We first heard the name of Deng Chung Leung aka Deng Yu back in December ’89 in Hong Kong from an eccentric Canadian, Ross Sinclair.
Ross and we became good friends over the years that followed our first meeting in the coffee shop of the Prince Hotel in Tsim Sha Tsui. We had been referred [...]
This story was originally the content of a letter written April 25, 1994, for Lordson’s twin nieces Karen and Kelly in Los Angeles.
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By now it is no longer news that I am stuck at home with a heavy cast on my left leg from top to toes and moving around slowly with a pair of [...]
To this day, almost everyone I meet, after I tell him or her that I was born and raised in China, asks me the same question: “How did you get out?”
Sometimes I say, “Easy!” and other times I say, “It’s a long story.”
Some would know to ask, since it was long after the border between [...]