Water Ghost

by Ching Yeung Russell | Children's Books | This book has not been rated.
ISBN: 1563974134 Global Overview for this book
Registered by wingAzukiwing of Miami, Florida USA on 7/31/2017
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Journal Entry 1 by wingAzukiwing from Miami, Florida USA on Monday, July 31, 2017
Based on Russell's own childhood, this story describes life in 1940s China. Yeung Ying is a ten-year-old living with her grandmother and relatives in a small village in Guangdong, southern China. Ying is looking forward to camp with her classmates, but first she has to find money for camp fee.

The story, along with the illustrations, vividly portrays life in rural China in that area. I am curious what American children will think of Ying's favorite dishes and soup. Not appetizing, to say the least...

Journal Entry 2 by wingAzukiwing at Far East/Asian Bookbox, A Bookbox -- Controlled Releases on Tuesday, October 10, 2017

Released 6 yrs ago (10/10/2017 UTC) at Far East/Asian Bookbox, A Bookbox -- Controlled Releases

CONTROLLED RELEASE NOTES:

Putting into the bookbox.

ETA: Yes this comment is not in the right spot but I don't want to journal after the release, and I can't help chirping in after Hyphen8's lovely journal, so this is the spot for it...

Ahh, thanks for bringing back the memories. I love haw flakes as a kid, peeling each flake off and treasuring the flavor. What could be just two bite-ful is rationed out in paper thin flakes to last for days. (Not that we were that deprived as kids, but my rule was to eat once one flake at a time.)

And red packet money, li-see, I thought Japanese has the same thing, otoshidama, not in red envelop but white with gold? Anyway, I love this system more than Christmas present. You don't have to be nice, you just need to go up to an adult and say Happy New Year, and they'll fork over cash. Which you can use to buy any toy or snack you want, no hoping that Santa will pay attention to your wishlist. Chinese is very practical, lol. But of course, if you are small enough, you may trustingly hand over the money to mom when she says she'll save it up for you.


Journal Entry 3 by winghyphen8wing at Honolulu, Hawaii USA on Sunday, October 15, 2017
Gratefully claimed from AlterEgoZoe's Far East/Asian bookbox.

Illustrations by Christopher Zhong-Yuan Zhang.

Featuring a cute label by azuki.

Journal Entry 4 by winghyphen8wing at Honolulu, Hawaii USA on Monday, October 23, 2017
I'm not a Chinese-American, but when I was growing up, our next-door neighbors were, and in Hawaii we're exposed to a lot of cultures. A lot of the earlier immigrants from China to Hawaii were from the Guangdong region - they all spoke Cantonese. (I remember being amused when my classmates took Chinese in school - to make the relatives happy - but still couldn't speak to their older relatives in Chinese because they were learning Mandarin!)

We would sometimes get li see (how I spelled it in my head) for New Year or other special occasions (weddings, etc.) but no one told me there was a direct connection to saying "Kung Hee Fat Choy" to someone: we just said it to everyone at Chinese New Year (and "Shinnen Omedetō Gozaimasu" to my grandparents at regular New Year, but that's another story). Someone would often give us gau and my favorite of the candied fruits & vegetables was the coconut..but even the pretty lotus root was ok once it had been sugared!

Jin dui is my mom's favorite dessert when we go for dim sum, but I like the little custards with the flaky crust better.

I pass on the fish guts, but my grandfather's favorite part was the eyeballs..so it's all in what you're used to, I guess. A friend's mother-in-law had her eating pigs feet soup after her son was born - and not drinking any water!

Oh, and I remember Popo next door would give us haw flakes in little paper cylinders...and we used to get plastic packages of paper-thin Chinese (beef? pork?) jerky from somewhere...

Also, just throwing this in: you can still get a fancy cheongsam in Chinatown, and the Narcissus Queen contestants always have nice ones. :)

Journal Entry 5 by winghyphen8wing at Ward Gateway Center in Honolulu, Hawaii USA on Tuesday, October 24, 2017

Released 6 yrs ago (10/24/2017 UTC) at Ward Gateway Center in Honolulu, Hawaii USA

WILD RELEASE NOTES:

Monday, October 23, 2017: left on the newspaper box outside the Korean BBQ place - it was too rainy to go looking for more interesting location! (Larger photo here.)

Released for Secretariat's 2017 Never Judge a Book By Its Cover Challenge (week 42: spines with no artwork), DragonGoddess's Tick Tock challenge, and AlterEgoZoe's Spook-Tacular October challenge.

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