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Monday, 28 February 2022

Everything you always wanted to know about Chinese literature in translation, by Nicky Harman

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Full disclosure: I’m devoting my blog this month to a personal project, The Paper Republic Guide To Contemporary Chinese Literature. Trans...
Saturday, 26 February 2022

“Who Dare Say?” Reading voices of witness from Burma/Myanmar in a time of war

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On Thursday, as aerial photographs began to circulate of long columns of cars leaving Kyiv, their precious cargo of human life appearing pai...
Thursday, 24 February 2022

Small London Indie Press Leopard Print Releases First Anthology of Asian Stories

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This week's Contemporary Voices column is written by Ivy Ngeow as guest writer for Asian Books Blog.  Ivy is a true Renaissance woman ...
Tuesday, 22 February 2022

Indie-Spotlight: Selling Books with Asian Main Characters - Part II

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  Indie Spotlight   is a column by WWII historical fiction author  Alexa Kang . The column regularly features hot new releases and noteworth...
Wednesday, 16 February 2022

Indie-Spotlight: Selling Books with Asian Main Characters - Part I

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  Indie Spotlight   is a column by WWII historical fiction author Alexa Kang . The column regularly features hot new releases and noteworthy...
Sunday, 6 February 2022

Talking About Rakugo 2: The Stories Behind the Storytellers, guest post from Kristine Ohkubo

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  If you have been following Asian Books Blog, you’ve probably come across the name Kristine Ohkubo. Kristine is a Los Angeles-based indie-a...
Friday, 28 January 2022

'In the Same Light'? New translations of Tang poetry by Wong May

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  Guest review by Daryl Lim Wei Jie Wong May, the poet behind In the Same Light , a collection of two hundred Tang Dynasty poems in translat...