In 1923, the Blue Express, a luxury train also known as the Peking Express, departed from Shanghai, chugging northward to Peking. On the nig...

 Chinese cinema has a long history, as well as the fandom around movies within China. Much like its Western and Japanese counterparts, the C...

 Shanghai between the world wars is a fascination of Westerns, the Chinese themselves, but also the Japanese. The zeitgeist of 1920s Shangha...

More Than One Child: Memoirs of an Illegal Daughter (Balestier, 2021) is Shen Yang ’s story of growing up as an ‘excess-birth’ or ‘illegal’...

Indie Spotlight   is a column by WWII historical fiction author  Alexa Kang . The column regularly features hot new releases and noteworthy ...

Tony Miller has just published The Missing Buddhas through Earnshaw Books (Hong Kong). Tony arrived in Hong Kong in 1972, with a degree in ...

About the Book : A snobbish French executive arrives in Shanghai with his expensive shoes and ties, expecting a short career-boosting postin...

The Cultural Revolution has been a taboo subject in China, but confusing and forgotten to Westerners. The political upheavals instigated by ...

The question of “Who Lost China to the Communists?” became a political flashpoint in American politics. It gave rise to the McCarthy Era and...

The Girl Who Played Go is a historical novel by Chinese author Shan Sa, originally published in French, translated into English. With that ...

Earnshaw Books (Hong Kong) is releasing two new memoirs on April 1. Made in China by Simon Gjeroe, and Spring Flower by Jean Tren-Hwa Perk...

Backlist books is a column by Lucy Day Werts that focuses on enduring, important works from or about Asia. This post is about The Golden C...

The 1980s was a period of rapid change and economic growth for China. In 1979, paramount leader Deng Xiaoping opened special economic zones ...

Compared to Nazi Germany, the Japanese Empire during World War II receives little to no coverage in Western media. Even more obscure, are ...

Chinese history has long been ignored in the West, but a few spotlights do shine out from time to time on certain events, even if only to ...

The Book of Shanghai   published in the UK in partnership with the Confucius Institute, which promotes Chinese language and culture worldwid...

This month on Indie Spotlight, Bijou Li tells us about the inspirations behind her time travel novels which she has self-published on Amazon...

Nicky Harman on “ Buddhism ” a wonderful exhibition in London’s British Library displaying Buddhist art and literature from all over Ea...

David Chaffetz, author of A Journey through Afghanistan , is an independent researcher of Asian arts and literature. He has read Persian and...

Indie spotlight focusses on self-published authors and self-publishing. Alexa Kang is a Boston-based, Chinese-American author. She publishe...