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Hi,
Welcome to my website!
Launching a website makes me wonder the same thing I used to
wonder doing the 6 AM news on college radio: is anybody out there? So, if you
are here, thank you for stopping by. And if you’ve got time to have a look
around, here’s a preview of what you’ll see ... |
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Books
Well, actually, it’s just “Book” – I’ve only written one so
far – but I’m being optimistic, so “Books”. My book is called Little
Emperors: A Year with the Future of China and recalls the time I spent teaching
elementary school in the southern Chinese city of Guangzhou. Read more about it here. Or, better yet, just read it!
Bio
For the most part a writer’s life is, as P.J. O’Rourke once
described it, “Got up. Wrote. Went out. Came back. Wrote some more.” Nothing
that would make great TV, that’s for sure. But here’s mine, in any case.
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Photos
This is a selection of
photographs from places I’ve been lucky enough to live in and travel to over
the last fifteen years or so. It’s my favourite page on the site. (Press F11 on
your keyboard for optimal viewing.) Enjoy!
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GZJO
Gee-Zed-Jo (or “Gee-Zee-Jo”, if you’re American) is a cartoon strip I created in December 1996 while living in Guangzhou. I thought it might be more interesting than a photocopied Christmas letter to send to family and friends. I’d been drawing the character ever since I was a 14-year-old with spiky hair, as a sort of self-portrait in the margins of high school notebooks, but I’d never given her a name or much of a story. It was only upon arriving in China that my hitherto anonymous, story arc-less cartoon found both a name and a narrative.
The Adventures of Guangzhou Jo caught on and I’ve been including it with my Christmas cards every year since. Now it’s here for the whole wide world to see. |
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Blog
This is still under construction while my web designer, Jimmy Chow, and I sort out a technical problem (the technical problem of his programmer
having gone AWOL recently). Please stay tuned!
Press
Here you’ll find links to articles and interviews about Little Emperors. (Read, listen and watch as I answer the same questions the same way, over and over!) If your computer is half a decade old, like mine, the audio and video files will take a few minutes to load up.
Events
This is a list of places and times where I will be reading
from my work. Come on out and say hi.
And that’s all, folks! Hope you enjoy it.
Best wishes,
Jo
A written word is the choicest of relics.
It is something at once more intimate with us and more
universal
than any other work of art. It is the work of art
nearest to life itself.
~ Henry David Thoreau ~
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