Lijia Zhang's Blog, page 23
January 16, 2021
December 19, 2020
A guest on the BBC”s Weekend program
For once, I had to get up early this morning for BBC World Service’s Weekend program. It’s a two hour long news and current affair program from 6.30 to 8.30 am. It always has two guests, who comment on the events in the past week. I am one of the guests. And the other one is veteran journalist Frank Langfitt, NPR’s star correspondent who was their China correspondent. Incredibly, we used to be neighbors in Beijing. What a small world.
Here’s the link to the program.
December 1, 2020
my memoir
Looking at the photo, you would think that my memoir “Socialism is Great!” has been translated into Chinese. That’s not the case, but there’s a sweet story here.
Out of the blue, I received an email this morning from a Chinese guy named Cui Kai, who is a manager at a fast delivery company in Beijing. He loves my book so much that he took the trouble to translate it, printed out, bound it and gave a few copies to his family and friends to share.
He said he is more than ten years younger than me. So he didn’t know the part of history I described. He thanked me to enlighten him and to inspire him ‘lit the light in his heart’, in his words. What a morale boost on this cold wintery day?
I do have good news to report. The memoir will be translated into Spanish by an Argentina publisher, working in conjunction with a Spanish publisher. And it will be translated into German. So all the major European languages will be covered now!
November 24, 2020
November 19, 2020
Oped on China’s rising single population
Still being single? No worries. Join the boat.
See my latest oped in SCMP about the growing number of single people in China.
November 5, 2020
my oped on animal cruelty in China
My latest piece about animal cruelty in China, calling for animal protection law. A word of warning, you may find some parts – the horrific killing of a pregnant cat and my blowing up toads for fun as a child – disturbing. My younger daughter Kirsty who edited the piece before publication urged me not to put it there as she feared it might damage my reputation, but I wanted to tell the truth.
October 19, 2020
October 8, 2020
September 22, 2020
domestic violence
A Chinese woman is badly abused by her husband, yet, a court denied her divorce. Here’s my opinion piece in SCMP about domestic violence and divorce in China.
September 20, 2020
my oped on racism and BLM
https://thewire.in/society/china-racism-black-lives-matter-guangzhou-africans
