This week in the Asian Review of Books

Asian Books Blog is not a review site.  If you want reviews, see the Asian Review of Books.  Here is a list of its newest reviews:

The South China Sea: The Struggle for Power in Asia by Bill Hayton and Fire on the Water: China, America, and the Future of the Pacific by Robert Haddick reviewed by Peter Gordon
Hard Choices: Challenging the Singapore Consensus by Donald Low and Sudhir Vadeketh reviewed by Kerry Brown

A Poetic Backgrounder to the Hong Kong Protests 
Willow Trees Don’t Weep by Fadia Faqir  reviewed by Agnes Bun

If you are interested in Agnes Bun's piece on the background to the Hong Kong protests, then you may also like to read Chinese Mainlander Sheng Yun's first hand account of events in Causeway Bay, published here in the London Review of Books.