Christopher MacDonald is Chinese-to-English translator and interpreter based in the UK. He spent a year in Xian, in 1985, and has since live...

Simon Wickham-Smith, author of Modern Mongolian Literature in Seven Days Aurelia Paul recently graduated from Boston Univer...

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

Asian Books Blog is based in Singapore. Our occasional column Lion City Lit explores in-depth what’s going on in the City-State, lit-wise....

Janet Steele is associate professor of media and public affairs, and international affairs, at George Washington University, USA. She is the...

C. G. Menon is a British Asian writer born in Australia. Her debut collection of short stories,  Subjunctive Moods , is published b...

Aurelia Paul recently graduated from Boston University, where she was studying comparative literature and Chinese. In her fortnightly...