July is Discounted Buy a Book month.

Summer discounts and 4th of July sales are getting a new addition to the family- my book , which is 20% off for the entire month of July! If you haven’t ordered a copy yet, now’s a great time to do so. Special Edition Jiujiang: 九江Ÿ Nine Rivers by CS Owsley and Jiujiang: 九江 Nine [...]

Every beginning has an end.

I was never good with good-bye. Those last words you’ll ever hear from someone- that’s a lot of pressure. Today I’m flying Shenzhen airlines from Nanchang to Shanghai, then on to the US via American Airlines. It’s been three years since I arrived. In that time, I’ve experienced so many wonderful and fascinating faces of [...]

Yangtze river outgrowing its flood walls in downtown Jiujiang.

The flooding in southern China has almost escaped presence in Jiujiang, the northernmost city in Jiangxi province. The capitol city, Nanchang, hasn’t been so lucky as well as many other cities and rural areas further south, however, the flood walls in downtown Jiujiang which keep the mighty Yangtze river (Chang jiang in Chinese) at bay [...]