Sundays
used to be for lounging with the papers, now they are just as likely for
lounging with iPads. So if you're lazily clicking around looking for something
to read, here are a few suggestions, focussing on what's going on lit-wise in
Asia.
Seen
online around the region
Book ahead for Ubud, Hong Kong and Irrawaddy literary festivals (Time Out Shanghai /
China)
Are you buying books and not reading them? (The Asian Age / India and the UK)
Foreign publishers shop for local book rights at Jakarta fair ( Jakarta Post / Indonesia)
This
week in Asian Review of Books
See
the Asian Review of
Books for
ever-interesting discussion. Here are links to its newest reviews, excerpts,
letters, essays, listings, translations, news items, and round ups:
Lee Fook Chee’s Hong Kong: Photographs from the 1950s by Patricia Chiu and Edward Stokes reviewed
by Juan Jose Morales
Verdi’s “Otello”: Shakespeare Sings in Hong Kong
by Peter Gordon
Taiwan’s China Dilemma: Contested Identities and Multiple
Interests in Taiwan’s Cross-Strait Economic Policy by Sharyu Shirley Lin reviewed
by Nicholas Gordon
Global Exposure in East Asia: A Comparative Study of
Microglobalization by Ming-Chang Tsai reviewed
by Salvatore Baboons
The People’s Bard: How China Made Shakespeare its Own by Nancy Pellegrini reviewed
by Peter Gordon
The Cauliflower by
Nicola Barker reviewed by Rosie Milne
Transpacific Community: America, China, and the Rise and
Fall of a Cultural Network by Richard
Jean So reviewed by Francis P
Twitter
and blog spots.
Each
Sunday I suggest a Twitter account you may like to follow, and a blog I find
interesting – either about books, or about Asia, or both.
Twitter
spot
PublicBooks, @publicbooks. Public Books is a monthly review devoted to debate
about books and the arts, created by and
for a transnational community of writers, artists, and activists. It bills itself
as “Bringing cutting-edge scholarly ideas to a curious public”. For the website
click here.
Blog
spot
The Royal Asiatic Society.
The Royal Asiatic Society is a UK-based organisation providing provides a forum
for those who are interested in the languages, cultures and history of Asia to
meet and exchange ideas. Related Twitter account @RAS_Soc.
Follow
Asian Books Blog on Twitter. Like Asian Books Blog on Facebook, or send a
friend request to Rosie Milne.