Annabelle’s must-reads
— June 9, 2018Bond’s list includes a book about a mountaineering tragedy that her friends thought she was mad to read before scaling Everest and the story behind one of the world’s biggest sporting brands
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American mum teaches her children to be Chinese
— June 8, 2018Patti Waldmeir, the Financial Times correspondent and author of ‘Chinese Lessons: An American mother teaches her children how to be Chinese in China’, explains why she decided to move with them to Shanghai
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Fritz Demopoulos’ must-reads for a desert island
— June 2, 2018Fritz Demopoulos might be a huge science-fiction fan but only one novel from the genre made it onto his list, joining books about archaeology, Middle Eastern adventures, Chinese legend and the internet’s gold-rush years
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The People and the Light in the Arctic
— June 1, 2018In one of the coldest regions in the world, the Sami have survived harsh elements of nature and even state repression to continue their way of living and preserve their culture and traditions.
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Australian turns detective to find her HK roots
— June 1, 2018After a lifetime of being asked, ‘Where are you from?’, Alison Choy Flannigan decided to find out; after many false leads, she traced her roots to a New Territories clan, and learned she belongs to its 26th generation
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