Counting down to the final instalment of Anna and Jörg Winger’s German Cold War trilogy, Deutschland 89, which airs in the UK in March, 2021, here is Part 2 of my reflection on Deutschland 83. Part 1, It’s a Very, Very Mad World, is here. Deutschland 86, Part 1: Africa is here. Deutschland 86, Part 2: Europe, is here. […]
EDIT: This post is a reflection on childhood sadness. For anyone disappointed that this isn’t about the Netflix series Wednesday, I did, at least, play the cello – an instrument from which great misery can be pulled from catgut strings… As an aside, I loved Lisa Loring as Wednesday Addams when I was a kid, […]
From the Archive. Wang Lin is a composite character ‘You want to come to a dance tomorrow?’ Wang Lin, my Mandarin tutor, asked me after our class. She was a major in the Korean Department, but taught me basic Chinese in exchange for a chance to practice her already excellent English. ‘A dance?’ I said, […]
Jinan, Shandong Province, 1993 Wang Lin is a composite character Back in the early nineties, we had no email, no external phone lines and letters from England took three or four weeks to arrive, if they ever arrived at all. The latest news and reviews always reached us late. One evening, Wang Lin appeared unannounced […]
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