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Friday, 26 July 2019

Summer reading

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Asian Books Blog is taking a break until Friday September 6. In the meantime, what will you read if you're visiting Thailand, Taiwa...
Thursday, 25 July 2019

Backlist books: The Nine Cloud Dream by Kim Man-jung

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Backlist books is a column by Lucy Day Werts that focuses on enduring, important works from or about Asia. This post is about The Nine...
Wednesday, 24 July 2019

PEN TRANSLATES' WILL FORRESTER: IN CONVERSATION WITH NICKY HARMAN

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  NICKY HARMAN interviews WILL FORRESTER, International and Translation Manager at English PEN, where he runs PEN TRANSLATES, the major...
Saturday, 20 July 2019

Researching Old Shanghai by Matthew Legare

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Matthew Legare is the author of the Reiko / Inspector Aizawa historical thrillers set in pre-World War II Japan, and published by Black Mist...
Sunday, 7 July 2019

Tsundoku #6 - July/August 2019

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Welcome to issue #6 of Tsundoku – a column by me, Paul French, aiming to make that pile of ‘must read’ books by your bed a little more teete...
Friday, 5 July 2019

500 words from Anna Wang

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Anna Wang was born in China in 1966, and was living in Beijing in 1989, during the Tiananmen Square protests. She has published nine books i...
Wednesday, 3 July 2019

O Thiam Chin Talks to Elaine Chiew about Vampires, Teenage Girls and His Sixth Book of Short Fiction, Signs of Life.

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Photo courtesy of the Author and Alan Siew O Thiam Chin is the author of five collections of short fiction: Free Falling Man , Never Be...