49 authors under 45 from across Asia have today been published in a themed edition of the Griffith Review,
one of Australia’s leading literary magazines. Griffith Review 49: New Asia Now, edited by Julianne Schultz and
Jane Camens, and published in parallel with an edition of Asia Literary Review, takes a journey through the region’s
diversity, featuring a new generation of literary stars.
Wednesday 29 July 2015
Tuesday 28 July 2015
This Week in Asian Review of Books
See the Asian Review of Books for ever-interesting discussion. Here is a list of its newest reviews, excerpts, letters, essays, and round ups:
Murder with Bengali Characteristics by Shovon Chowdhury reviewed by Peter Gordon
China’s Forgotten Peoples: Xinjiang, Terror and the Chinese State by Nick Holdstock reviewed by Joshua Bird
A Kim Jong-Il Production: The Extraordinary True Story of a Kidnapped Filmmaker, His Star Actress, and a Young Dictator’s Rise to Power by Paul Fischer reviewed by Glyn Ford
Picturing Technology in China: From Earliest Times to the Nineteenth Century by Peter J Golas reviewed byJuan José Morales
China’s Forgotten Peoples: Xinjiang, Terror and the Chinese State by Nick Holdstock reviewed by Joshua Bird
A Kim Jong-Il Production: The Extraordinary True Story of a Kidnapped Filmmaker, His Star Actress, and a Young Dictator’s Rise to Power by Paul Fischer reviewed by Glyn Ford
Picturing Technology in China: From Earliest Times to the Nineteenth Century by Peter J Golas reviewed byJuan José Morales
Sunday 26 July 2015
Thursday 23 July 2015
Lion City Lit: Exploring South Asian Identity, by Verena Tay
Asian Books Blog is based in
Singapore. Lion City Lit explores what’s going on in the City-State, lit-wise.
Here, Verena Tay talks about the South Asia Literary Salon, organised by the Institute of South Asian Studies at the National University of
Singapore. It was chaired by Meira Chand and took place earlier this month.
Authors at Ubud
Ubud Writers & Readers Festival, which runs this year from 28 October until November 1, has announced some of the authors, artists and thinkers who will attend. More names will follow in August, but for the now, this is the list:
Tuesday 21 July 2015
This Week in Asian Review of Books
See the Asian Review of Books for ever-interesting discussion. Here is a list of its newest reviews, excerpts, letters, essays, and round ups:
Dreams of the Hmong Kingdom: The Quest for Legitimation in French Indochina by Mai Na M Lee reviewed by Peter Gordon
The China Model: Political Meritocracy and the Limits of Democracy by Daniel A Bell reviewed by Kerry Brown
Midnight’s Furies: The Deadly Legacy of India’s Partition by Nisid Hajari reviewed by Meera Kumar
The King of Shanghai by Ian Hamilton reviewed byTimothy Sifert
The China Model: Political Meritocracy and the Limits of Democracy by Daniel A Bell reviewed by Kerry Brown
Midnight’s Furies: The Deadly Legacy of India’s Partition by Nisid Hajari reviewed by Meera Kumar
The King of Shanghai by Ian Hamilton reviewed byTimothy Sifert
Monday 20 July 2015
Read Paper Republic
Paper Republic is a collective of literary translators, promoting new Chinese fiction
in translation. Last month it launched a fantastic year-long initiative, Read
Paper Republic, for readers who are unfamiliar with Chinese fiction, but
who wonder what new Chinese fiction in English translation has to offer in manageable formats - so no 500 page novels.
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