Cousin Felix Meets the Buddha

UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism
cordially invites you to meet:

LINCOLN KAYE
Author of Cousin Felix Meets the Buddha: and Other Encounters in China and Tibet

HSU MEI-LANG
Illustrator

Among veteran Asia correspondents, Lincoln Kaye enjoys a near legendary reputation as someone who dives deeper and ranges farther than most of his colleagues. A longtime correspondent in Indonesia, India, Hong Kong and China for the Far Eastern Economic Review, Kaye is the author of the recent "Cousin Felix Meets the Buddha: and Other Encounters in China and Tibet" (Farar Straus & Giroux) illustrated by his Taiwanese wife Hsu Mei-Lang. His journalistic style is picaresque_vivid descriptions of chance encounters and back road tales that are Chaucerian in their richness. Given a choice, Kaye shirks the first-class express compartment for the 3rd class local. He is more at home in the roadside tea stall than the five star hotel. The result in "Cousin Felix, " which has won rave reviews in the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Washington Post and other publications, is a journey into a China full of characters that include a reincarnated Tibetan llamas, unreconstructed Maoists, slick lawyers and common folk on quests and missions seldom covered in the daily press.

Please bring a brown-bag lunch and come hear Kaye and Hsu Mei-Lang, who now live in Northern California, speak about their work.

(Books will be available for sale)

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