Asian Books Blog will close for Christmas and Chinese New Year.  It will reopen on Monday Feb 3, 2020.  In the meantime, happy reading!! S...

Noelle Q De Jesus is a Filipino American short story writer who explores issues of identity, belonging, and attachment. Her stories are inti...

It's the holidays - it's official - Hannukah, Christmas, the Russian Christmas, New Year (hell, the lunar new year is in January so ...

People sometimes comment that this blog discusses a “niche topic”—Asian literature. If Asian literature is considered niche, then Western As...

  Midnight in Peking and City of Devils author Paul French has just launched his latest project – Murders of...

Some end-of-year thoughts from Nicky Harman In my more pessimistic moments, I feel Chinese novels translated into English are a hard s...

Last month on Indie Spotlight, Phil Tatham, publisher at Monsoon Books, told us about their exciting new hybrid imprint, Dollarbird . This m...