Comments for Adam Williams http://www.adam-williams.net Writer, speaker, novelist - Author of The Palace of Heavenly Pleasure, The Emperor's Bones and The Dragon's Tail Thu, 28 Aug 2008 15:57:54 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6 Comment on Three Shadows Sichuan Earthquake Benefit by Photography Art Centre Raises Funds for Sichuan China Earthquake : The Imaging Buffet http://www.adam-williams.net/2008/05/17/three-shadows-sichuan-earthquake-benefit/#comment-30 Photography Art Centre Raises Funds for Sichuan China Earthquake : The Imaging Buffet Fri, 30 May 2008 15:04:29 +0000 http://www.adam-williams.net/?p=109#comment-30 [...] More about the Earthquake Benefit, including a partial list of the artists who donated works. Information about the China earthquake on the Red Cross website, and information about how to donate to the relief effort.  Email This Post         Print This Post         [...] [...] More about the Earthquake Benefit, including a partial list of the artists who donated works. Information about the China earthquake on the Red Cross website, and information about how to donate to the relief effort.  Email This Post         Print This Post         [...]

]]> Comment on ‘Beijing Portrait of a City’ out now! by Adam http://www.adam-williams.net/2008/03/11/beijing-portrait-of-a-city-out-now/#comment-28 Adam Tue, 06 May 2008 10:31:06 +0000 http://www.adam-williams.net/2008/03/11/beijing-portrait-of-a-city-out-now/#comment-28 Tingting Li - Thanks for your enquiry. The book is on sale at The Bookworm Building 4, Nan Sanlitun Road, Chao Yang District, Beijing 100000, P.R. China Tel: (010) 6586 9507 Email: books@beijingbookworm.com Website: http://www.beijingbookworm.com Do go there to check it out. The Bookworm is a wonderful library, bookshop, coffee shop, restaurant and bar with great atmosphere, good speakers during their evening literary events, and hundreds of books! Tingting Li - Thanks for your enquiry.

The book is on sale at The Bookworm Building 4, Nan Sanlitun Road, Chao Yang District, Beijing 100000, P.R. China

Tel: (010) 6586 9507
Email: books@beijingbookworm.com Website: http://www.beijingbookworm.com

Do go there to check it out. The Bookworm is a wonderful library, bookshop, coffee shop, restaurant and bar with great atmosphere, good speakers during their evening literary events, and hundreds of books!

]]> Comment on ‘Beijing Portrait of a City’ out now! by Tingting Li http://www.adam-williams.net/2008/03/11/beijing-portrait-of-a-city-out-now/#comment-27 Tingting Li Tue, 06 May 2008 06:38:28 +0000 http://www.adam-williams.net/2008/03/11/beijing-portrait-of-a-city-out-now/#comment-27 Where can i buy this book in Beijing? Many Thanks! Where can i buy this book in Beijing? Many Thanks!

]]> Comment on The old Hong Kong Club Building by kevin http://www.adam-williams.net/2007/11/11/the-old-hong-kong-club-building/#comment-14 kevin Sun, 16 Mar 2008 07:39:22 +0000 http://www.adam-williams.net/2007/11/11/the-old-hong-kong-club-building/#comment-14 It makes me sick to think of what those of us who never saw these beuatiful buildings are missing. Why couldn't they have preserved a bit of it? It makes me sick to think of what those of us who never saw these beuatiful buildings are missing. Why couldn’t they have preserved a bit of it?

]]> Comment on Farewell to a Legend - Kevin Sinclair by Judy McGrath http://www.adam-williams.net/2007/12/24/farewell-to-a-legend/#comment-7 Judy McGrath Fri, 04 Jan 2008 07:34:33 +0000 http://www.adam-williams.net/2007/12/23/farewell-to-a-legend/#comment-7 Is this the same Kevin Sinclair that worked on the Dominion Newspaper in Wellington New Zealand back in the early 1960's and shared a flat with my late husband Terry McGrath? They went on notorious Pub crawls up Willis Street and often turned up at my place of work at lunch time in their slippers looking very inebriated. It was because of Kevin that I met my husband Terry. Kevin had asked my flat-mate for a date and she was too wary to go unless I came along too and that was how I met Terry. Kevin and Terry were both recruited to go over to Melbourne to work for the Melbourne Sun. I remember Terry coming home one night laughing like mad because Kevin had set fire to the paper table cloth at a boring R.S.L. Club Meeting. We lost track of Kevin as we went went off to Canada and he to Hong Kong although I believe he and Terry cought up in Auckland here at some stage. Terry died of Cancer in 1993. Please give Kit and family my deepest sympathies. Best regards Judy McGrath. Is this the same Kevin Sinclair that worked on the Dominion Newspaper in Wellington New Zealand back in the early 1960’s and shared a flat with my late husband Terry McGrath? They went on notorious Pub crawls up Willis Street and often turned up at my place of work at lunch time in their slippers looking very inebriated.
It was because of Kevin that I met my husband Terry. Kevin had asked my flat-mate for a date and she was too wary to go unless I came along too and that was how I met Terry. Kevin and Terry were both recruited to go over to Melbourne to work for the Melbourne Sun. I remember Terry coming home one night laughing like mad because Kevin had set fire to the paper table cloth at a boring R.S.L. Club Meeting. We lost track of Kevin as we went went off to Canada and he to Hong Kong although I believe he and Terry cought up in Auckland here at some stage. Terry died of Cancer in 1993. Please give Kit and family my deepest sympathies. Best regards Judy McGrath.

]]> Comment on Farewell to a Legend - Kevin Sinclair by charles muirhead http://www.adam-williams.net/2007/12/24/farewell-to-a-legend/#comment-6 charles muirhead Wed, 02 Jan 2008 08:21:28 +0000 http://www.adam-williams.net/2007/12/23/farewell-to-a-legend/#comment-6 Met Kevin often and fondly with my young son, to whom he was always most gentle and kind, in Sai Kung-even gave him a tip for a story once!. A sad loss, but his presence made the world a better, kinder place. Met Kevin often and fondly with my young son, to whom he was always most gentle and kind, in Sai Kung-even gave him a tip for a story once!. A sad loss, but his presence made the world a better, kinder place.

]]> Comment on Farewell to a Legend - Kevin Sinclair by Chris Davis http://www.adam-williams.net/2007/12/24/farewell-to-a-legend/#comment-5 Chris Davis Thu, 27 Dec 2007 02:33:56 +0000 http://www.adam-williams.net/2007/12/23/farewell-to-a-legend/#comment-5 Dear Adam, The SCMP is planning to run a Kevin Sinclair tribute feature tomorrow (28 December). Quentin Chan has asked me to contact some of Kevin’s long-time and dearest friends to see if they would write a couple of hundred words about their friendship with him or a memorable event that involved Kevin. I was wondering if you would allow me to attribute a couple of comments from your website? I am proud to call Kevin a dear friend and a great chum, although I only knew Kevin for the last 20 years. We even set up a pub together, which made money, quite an oddity for a Sinclair investment. But man oh man, what a spirit our great chum had. On Friday when I was wheeling him through his kitchen to the back door of he stopped me and asked that David (his son) and I help him walk the couple of steps outside. After all, a man deserves the right to walk out of his own house on his own terms. As Kit, David and Kiri were about to drive away he squeezed my arm and murmured that I am a good mate. When they were gone I left a bucketful of tears on their driveway. Kit, Kiri and David spent Christmas Day with me and my family. On Jan 5th a group of Kev’s friends are going to the seafood restaurant on Tap Mun Island, one of Kev’s favourite places in Hong Kong and the scene of many long, long Saturday afternoon lunches. Regards, Chris Dear Adam,
The SCMP is planning to run a Kevin Sinclair tribute feature tomorrow (28 December). Quentin Chan has asked me to contact some of Kevin’s long-time and dearest friends to see if they would write a couple of hundred words about their friendship with him or a memorable event that involved Kevin. I was wondering if you would allow me to attribute a couple of comments from your website?
I am proud to call Kevin a dear friend and a great chum, although I only knew Kevin for the last 20 years. We even set up a pub together, which made money, quite an oddity for a Sinclair investment. But man oh man, what a spirit our great chum had. On Friday when I was wheeling him through his kitchen to the back door of he stopped me and asked that David (his son) and I help him walk the couple of steps outside. After all, a man deserves the right to walk out of his own house on his own terms. As Kit, David and Kiri were about to drive away he squeezed my arm and murmured that I am a good mate. When they were gone I left a bucketful of tears on their driveway.
Kit, Kiri and David spent Christmas Day with me and my family. On Jan 5th a group of Kev’s friends are going to the seafood restaurant on Tap Mun Island, one of Kev’s favourite places in Hong Kong and the scene of many long, long Saturday afternoon lunches.

Regards,
Chris

]]> Comment on The old Hong Kong Club Building by Siobhan http://www.adam-williams.net/2007/11/11/the-old-hong-kong-club-building/#comment-2 Siobhan Sun, 23 Dec 2007 12:27:58 +0000 http://www.adam-williams.net/2007/11/11/the-old-hong-kong-club-building/#comment-2 Only last week I was watching with nostalgia a cine film that my son is editing which was taken of my wedding reception in "The Blue Room" in the late seventies. It's where my parents and grandparents also celebrated their marriages and is a part of my family history. I'm glad the club is hanging Piers's painting of the grand old neo-renaissance style building that used to dominate the skyline. What a shame it has been replaced by an ugly modern skyscraper! As you say, that's the way things are done in Hong Kong. But I can't help feeling sad about it. Only last week I was watching with nostalgia a cine film that my son is editing which was taken of my wedding reception in “The Blue Room” in the late seventies. It’s where my parents and grandparents also celebrated their marriages and is a part of my family history. I’m glad the club is hanging Piers’s painting of the grand old neo-renaissance style building that used to dominate the skyline. What a shame it has been replaced by an ugly modern skyscraper! As you say, that’s the way things are done in Hong Kong. But I can’t help feeling sad about it.

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