Devika Misra reports. Singaporean-born, Paris-based Fiona Sze-Lorrain is a poet, translator, musician, and now novelist. Her debut work of...

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

As a follow-up to Rosie Milne's post on THE BOOK OF SHANGHAI , I have been thinking about what makes a good introduction to contempora...

Matthew Legare is the author of the Reiko / Inspector Aizawa historical thrillers set in pre-World War II Japan, and published by Black Mist...

Paul French, the bestselling author of Midnight in Peking and City of Devils , writes Asian Books Blog's monthly Tsundoku column.  He ...