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BIOGRAPHY
Born and raised in Malaysia, Tinling graduated from Wellesley College, worked for several years, and is presently working toward a Ph.D. in Chinese Literature at Yale University. In 1997 she was awarded the generous Wellesley College Stevens Traveling Fellowship to travel to Asia to further develop FireWife. FireWife is her first book. Tinling is fluent in Mandarin-Chinese and the Teohchew and Hokkien dialects. Her grandparents left China and settled in Malaysia in the 1920s and 1930s when Malaysia was a British colony. Her parents are first generation Chinese born and raised in Malaysia. The greatest gifts Tinling's parents have given her are her three brothers. Tinling now lives in Vermont with her husband and her baby daughter. Her Favorite Things Tinling loves colors, meadows, trees, fabrics, photographs, books, food, cooking slowly, eating slowly, dancing, the smell of rain, her daughter's laughter, the sound and shape of words, and the taste of lemon grass in Penang Laksa noodle soup. Her Favorite Quote "The tears of the world are a constant quantity. For each one who begins to weep somewhere else another stops. The same is true of the laugh." by Samuel Beckett Major Influences on Her Writing The sound of Chinese language, Chinese poetry, Chinese diaspora. Her Favorite Lines "Go with the flow: let come, let go." "I am fine; I don't live in Sudan." Favorite Links eric reeves' sudan reports living on earth slow food movement chez panisse restaurant v day hyphen magazine mcsweeneys this american life head butler restaurant au pied de cochon what has happened to the elephants? doctors without borders thehungersite.com Go daily and click. Sponsors of the site will donate one cup of staple food per click. ionarozealbrown.com Tinling's friend, Iona Rozeal Brown, is known for her paintings titled a³ blackfaces. Tinling loves the colors, wit and the thought-provoking marriage between African and Asian elements in Iona's paintings. On the home page, the image to enter Events is Iona's work painted moons ago when she was a college student. Recently, Hirshhorn Museum in Washington, DC, bought a painting of Iona. bingyi.info Tinling's friend, Bingyi, donated a painting to a charity art auction in Beijing in 2006. The painting went for $16,000. On the home page of this website, the image to enter Forum is that painting. Since then, Bingyi has had solo exhibitions in New York City and Beijing. Tinling loves the ease and childlike quality in Bingyi’s paintings. citizenyang.blogspot If Citizen Yang has not posted or has been posting only job ads for days on his blog about the environment and environmental law, that is because he has been busy washing dishes, changing diapers, shoveling the snow or mowing the lawn. On the home page, the photo to enter Contact was taken by Citizen Yang. gone2thedogs.com Tinling's friend, Mei Chin, introduced her to the SUKA doggy machine. If you want to know what kind of dog you are, go to this site and click game. Mei Chin won the 2005 James Beard Foundation MFK Fisher Distinguised Writing Award for her Saveur article, Eat Drink Mother Daughter. Brava! annbrandon.com Tinling's friend, Ann Brandon, is a connoisseur of Italian art. Her marvelous book, Artful Italy, is essential for finding hidden treasures in rarely visited nooks in Italy. She just launched an exquisite webzine for lovers of Florence, Venice, and Rome. goodbooksguide.com Eric Forbes is a book blogger in Malaysia. His site is well known among Malaysian book lovers. He lives in Kuala Lumpur. yamazaki.the.crab.blogspot This is a blog blogged by a crab named Yamazaki (cough, Sujin Kim). Yamazaki was saved by Tinling's sister-in-law (cough, Sujin Kim) from a sushi restaurant in LA. It has since been struggling with a plastic palm tree in a tank. While not blogging, Yamazaki waits for Godot. |
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