From 30th September to 14th October I walked with friends along one of the old pilgrim trails to Santiago di Compostela. This shrine in Spain’s Northwestern Province of Galicia has been the destination of Christian pilgrims for 1000 years. In the great Cathedral lies the body of St James, Son of Zebedee, one of the […]

The China Dream: Past, Present & Future – a recent business speech given by Adam Williams

On Friday morning I took my eight-year-old daughter for her first ride this summer. We drove down into the river valley, then up the other side, cresting a hill with panoramic views of the Sibillini Mountains on one side and the sea on the other. We descended past hay-bearing tractors down a steep track, through […]

“Ancient legends get a modern twist thanks to a popular novelist from Chongqing. Xing Yi reports. Hong Ying left her hometown, Chongqing, at a young age, but the novelist and poet returns to the southwestern city of China again and again in her books – from her well-known autobiography Daughter of the River to her […]

Launch of Hong Ying’s new children’s book The Legend of Liya combined with an exhibition of illustrator Cherry Denman’s paintings

• The time: 14:00 on April 30
• The place: BAYU Culture Centre, No.85, Fourth Zhongshan Road, Yuzhong District, Chongqing.
• The contact person: Qu Tingjuan, the Curator of BAYU Culture Centre
• The contact number: 15902307011
• Email?26777559@qq.com

Published in both Chinese and English, The Girl from the French Fort is Hong Ying’s first children’s book.

With illustrations by Cherry Denman.

Portraits of Adam Williams, Hong Ying and their daughter, Sybil, were recently painted by the Italian artist, Marco Fulvi.

Photos by Deborah Swain

At the Xin Zhou Kan Magazine’s Study Salon held in their office in Beijing on 6th April, a Chinese novelist and a Taiwanese singer met after many years to reminisce nostalgically about their formative years as poets and performers during China’s 1980s. Hong Ying who left home in 1980 to travel round China for a […]

Yesterday my good friend, Filippo Pucci, celebrated his 70th birthday in La Vecchia Posta Restaurant in Force.

Ieri il mio buon amico, Filippo Pucci, ha celebrato il suo 70° compleanno al Ristorante La Vecchia Posta a Force.