Digging a Hole to China: A Memoir on Teaching and Traveling

Hong Kong is a cultural crossroad between East and West. Contemporary Asia is a mixture of the ancient and the modern. Laima Vince documents the diverse voices of contemporary Asia while teaching, traveling, and exploring. During the two years chronicled in this book (2013 - 2015) Laima takes a 56-hour train ride from Guangzhou to Tibet; hikes through the rain forest with a descendant of Head Hunters; goes island hopping across the turquoise waters of the Philippines with three generations of a Filipino family in a traditional bamboo boat; builds a house from palm tree fronds with her students in a Cambodian village; and stands together with Hong Kong's student protestors as a witness to the Umbrella Revolution.