500 Words From  is a series of guest posts from writers, in which they talk about their latest books. Here, Verena Tay talks about  Spect...

Adrienne Loftus Parkins is an Asian literature consultant in the UK. She is the director of the annual Asia House Festival of Asian Literat...

Penguin China is at the forefront of bringing Chinese literature in translation to an English speaking  public.  They commissio...

As part of the inaugural Cooler Lumper arts festival, intended to become annual, Kuala Lumpur this weekend hosts #Word, an eve...

There has recently been much discussion on English-language Chinese websites of the Shanghai dialect.  Qian Nairong, a linguist wi...

Select Books specialises in books about Asia. Throughout urban South East Asia you can find terraces of narrow buildings known as shop...

I’d never heard of officialdom lit until I read The Civil Servant’s Notebook , by Wang Xioafang. It is, however, a much beloved genre ...