Yesterday, after taking my daughter Sarah to her supplementary math class in the Hongkou district of Shanghai, we walked over to Duolun Road, a now famous historic street in this part of Shanghai. I was searching for the exact site where a Japanese seaman named Hideo Nakayama had been murdered in 1935, causing an international scandal that likely contributed to Japan’s march to war with China. And I found it.

Over the past three days I have been attending the Asia Pacific Association for International Education or APAIE conference: https://www.apaie2018.org/. This year it was held in Singapore and had over 2200 attendees  from this region as well as elsewhere around the world. This year it was held in Singapore and had over 2200 attendees  from this region as well as elsewhere around the world .

A night one the town including a visit to the new Hoy Hoy, a rockabilly joint on Maoming Road, and to the JZ Club to see the Big Band

Whereupon I go with my students, colleagues and friends upon a long, exhausting, enlightening walking tour of the city, encompassing the wreckage of the old and the glitter of the new