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Notes on Hanoi
Things I saw while walking the city's streets and peering out from inside its cafes.
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Emily Ding
Peering around riverbends
A reflection on the river journeys I've taken, past and present.
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Emily Ding
Living in a world not of our own making
On Abang Adik and the tragedy of statelessness in Malaysia & what fiction may do, differently from journalism, for social justice. (Plus: a companion…
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Emily Ding
Watching Gaza
On ceasefire, condemnations, and the deterioration of language.
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Emily Ding
Recapturing memories in a place I loved before: a fool's quest?
On revisiting Nusa Penida, now that it's become a popular destination for daytrippers from mainland Bali. (Really an essay about rethinking why and how…
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Emily Ding
Remembering Sanmao, the Taiwanese travel writer who lived in the desert
She was born some eighty years ago today.
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Emily Ding
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Writing about the vivid “waving” frog that vanished suddenly
An ode to the Chiriqui harlequin frog, and how to think and tell stories about species extinctions.
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Emily Ding
Ways of Writing
Can travel writing be redeemed? An essay based on a reading of Tim Hannigan's Travel Writing Tribe: Journeys in Search of a Genre.
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Emily Ding
Waggle dancing
A tentative first step in discovering new stories for the table: on growing, eating, and sharing food equitably in a rapidly warming world.
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Emily Ding
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From an old city by the sea #2
Studies in minor details: An exercise in watching people and noticing how this city—until recently a poster child for overtourism—is changing as it…
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Emily Ding
From the Munich-Berlin overnight train
On slow travelling, being alone in unfamiliar places, and talking (or not talking) to strangers.
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Emily Ding
Blurred lines of violence, loyalty, and love
The trouble with the Troubles in Northern Ireland and what it's got to do with Game of Thrones.
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Emily Ding
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