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A rojak* of items that caught my eye this week…

English PEN is the founding centre of a worldwide writers’ association with 145 centres in more than 100 countries. The organisation cam...

  At the Diana Green History lecture by Elif Shafak,   Following on from last week’s post about Asia Bookroom , the bookshop in Aust...

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 and round...

In Asia, we’re used to supplementing antibiotics with a whole range of other therapies: Ayurveda, TCM, Malay Traditional Medicine, and ...

Nicky Harman is a much-acclaimed translator of Chinese into English. She focusses on fiction, poetry and occasionally literary non-ficti...