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2007—The Year of the Golden Writing Adventure

Writing Adventures in Shanghai By Kristin Bair O’Keeffe Happy New Year, writers! Here in China, 2007 is the Year of the Golden Pig, a rare event that occurs once every 60 years when the pig sign...

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Shanghai vs. Beijing: Compare and Contrast

Writing Adventures in Shanghai By Kristin Bair O’Keeffe Shanghai is a city surging toward modernity. Here, everything and everyone longs to be hip, shiny, new, cool, sexy, sultry, and western. The...

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Explore the Unknown: A Journey Into Shanghai’s Wet Markets

Writing Adventures in Shanghai Column & Photos By Kristin Bair O’Keeffe Remember when you were a little kid? A fearless little moppet who didn’t mind a bit of dirt or a few suspicious shadows...

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Learning to Speak Chinese

Writing Adventures in Shanghai By Kristin Bair O’Keeffe Never in my life did I think I would be learning to speak Chinese. Italian? Maybe. French? Perhaps. German? Doubtful, but not beyond the realm of...

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Hear the Bellow of Your Creative Beast

Writing Adventures in Shanghai By Kristin Bair O’Keeffe Sshhh! Do hear that? The bellow of my creative beast? That’s what listening to good writers does to me. You know what I mean, don’t you? You go...

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Writing Adventures in Shanghai: Sentences—The Long and the Short of It

By Kristin Bair O’Keeffe Yang Erche Namu’s memoir about growing up in a remote area of China somewhere deep in the Himalayas, “Leaving Mother Lake: A Girlhood at the Edge of the World,” begins with a...

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Writing Adventures in Shanghai: Wulumuqi Road: The Art (and Skill) of...

By Kristin Bair O’Keeffe At the beginning of April, my husband and I moved from the outskirts of Shanghai to the hustling, bustling downtown area, and our new neighborhood—Wulumuqi Road (pronounced...

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Kristin Bair O’Keeffe’s Blog Chosen for Writer’s Digest 20/20

Maria Schneider, editor of Writer’s Digest, is selecting twenty (only twenty!) worthy blogs for her blogroll. And guess who was selected? Our very own Kristin Bair O’Keeffe who blogs over at Shanghai...

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#1 Writing Rule: Do Not Judge

Writing Adventures in Shanghai By Kristin Bair O’Keeffe To be honest, when I first arrive in Mumbai, India, the only thing I can think is “How the hell am I going to write about this place?” It is hot,...

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Writing Adventures in Shanghai: Petting a Panda: A Lesson in The Personal Essay

By Kristin Bair O’Keeffe Congratulations! An editor at one of the magazines you’ve been pitching for months has asked for a 500-800-word personal essay about your recent trip to Chengdu, China, where...

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