Street battles between protesters and police erupt in Hong Kong’s most serious street violence in nearly half a century. What was behind the "fish ball revolution? Was this a hawker riot or a case of civil unrest?
Book Review: Xinran’s ‘Miss Chopsticks’ Tells the Story of a China We Don’t Often Read About
Miss Chopsticks is the fictionalized biography of 3 unrelated Chinese women, who have been reborn in book form as sisters, their lives intertwined by Xinran, whose first novel was acclaimed novel The Good Women of China.
Superstition: Essential Facts About Friday the 13th
Friday the 13th is thought to be unlucky in many cultures, and someone with a morbid fear of it is said to suffer from triskaidekaphobia, paraskevidekatriaphobia, or friggatriskaidekaphobia. A pronunciation guide follows.