Web Daily Reading International Herald Tribune New York Times South China Morning Post Far East Economic Review The Daily Deal Bloomberg.com Hardball Briefing Newsletter (a must-read for all you political junkies out there!) Thorn Tree Highlights Newsletter (c/o bootsnall.com) New York Post General Lonely Planet The Thorn Tree (lonely planet discussion boards) Boots-n-All Boots-n-All -- General Tips Boots-n-All -- The Typical Traveller Planning [Visa Info Sites] Cathay Pacific All-Asia Pass (from the United States) Peregrine Adventure Tours US State Department US State Department -- Travel Warnings Universal Currency Converter IAMAT Other Travellers Bernard Cloutier Martin Adserballe James S. Milne Martin Wierzbicki Brian Ma Patrick Jennings Guillaume Dargaud Mad Nomad Books Recommended books I have read Shanghai Baby, Wei Hui -- the fast life and dark side of priviledged twenty-somethings in contemporary Shanghai The Quiet American, Graham Greene -- beautifully and intelligently written, a haunting vision of saigon before the fall of indochina History's Fiction, XuXi -- charming vignettes of HK lives One Hundred Poems from the Chinese, translated by Kenneth Rexroth -- beautiful visions of ancient china First They Killed My Father, Loung Ung -- heartbraking, captivating, and beautifully written account of a family's struggle to survive in Khmer Rouge Cambodia from the scarred memories and imagination of a 5-9 year old child Shanghai, Christopher New -- annoyingly simple, unempathetic, and immature main character, however interesting visions of shanghai's coming of age Books on my to-read list A Lost Paradise, Jun'ichi Watanabe L'Amant, Marguerite Dumas Derailed in Uncle Ho's Victory Garden, Tim Page Seven Years in Tibet, Heinrich Harrer A Dream of Red Mansions Reference Lonely Planet Travel Guides Rough Guide Phrasebook/Travel Dictionaries Movies Hong Kong In the Mood for Love (2000), Wong Kar-Wai Chungking Express (1994), Wong Kar-Wai Those Were the Days (2000), Yip Wai Man Xiao qin qin [And I Hate You So] (2000), Chung-Man Hai The Queen of Kowloon (2000), Clarence Fok Yiu-leung China Suzhou He [Suzhou River] (2000), Ye Lou Xingfu shiguang [Happy Times] (2000), Zhang Yimou The Shower (2000), Yang Zhang Yi Yi (2000), Edward Yang The King of Masks (1996), Wu Tian-Ming Temptress Moon (1996), Chen Kaige Raise the Red Lantern (1991), Zhang Yimou The Last Emperor (1987), Bernardo Bertolucci Ermo (1994), Zhou Xiaowen Vietnam Three Seasons (1999), Tony Bui The Lover (1991), Jean-Jacques Annaud Cyclo / Xich lo (1995), Anh Hung Tran Apocalypse Now (1979), Francis Ford Coppola Cambodia The Killing Fields (1984), Roland Joffé Japan Shitsurakuen [Lost Paradise] (1997), Yoshimitsu Morita All About Lily Chou-Chou (2001), Shunji Iwai The Eel (1997), Shohei Imamura The Mystery of Rampo (1994), Rintaro Mayuzumi & Kazuyoshi Okuyama Tampopo (1986), Juzo Itami Other The Year of Living Dangerously (1982), Peter Weir The Beach (2000), Danny Boyle [horribly acted, but beautiful Thai locations] Video Lonely Planet Video Series Full Circle with Michael Palin (PBS Series) Music California Dreamin', Mamas & The Papas Kelly Chen (Hong Kong) Vicky Chiu (China) Na Ying (China) Park Yi Joon (Korea) Koyote (Korea) Karen Carpenter In the Mood for Love (Soundtrack) Nat King Cole: Mejores Canciones Other You know you've been in China/HK too long when... Asia Journal in the IHT

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