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Saturday, 17 December 2022

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  Asian Books Blog is closed from today, December 17, until January 30 2023 - after Chinese New Year. Happy reading!  If you celebrate Chris...

The Forgotten Promise, guest post by Paula Greenlees

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UK-based Paula Greenlees lived in Singapore during the late 1980s. She fell in love with Southeast Asia and tried to travel as much as possi...
Monday, 12 December 2022

Chinese Movie Magazines: From Charlie Chaplin to Chairman Mao

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 Chinese cinema has a long history, as well as the fandom around movies within China. Much like its Western and Japanese counterparts, the C...
Wednesday, 7 December 2022

Nicky Harman reviews two new translations of Lu Xun

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Lu Xun  鲁 迅  (1881 - 1936)  is the leading figure of modern Chinese literature of the early twentieth-century. He pioneered writing in verna...
Thursday, 24 November 2022

Khairat Kita: Interview with Fauzy Ismail and Zakaria Zainal

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A  collection of interviews, photographs, essays and personal reflections,  Khairat Kita  is a project documenting the last few remaining Ma...
Tuesday, 22 November 2022

The Fringe and the Fabulous: (Personal) Highlights from the Singapore Writers Festival

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Poet Ng Yi Sheng (front row) snaps a photo as Claudia Rankine and Nate Marshal l share a lighthearted moment during their dialogue at the Na...
Wednesday, 16 November 2022

Bridging two cultures. Nicky Harman interviews London-based, Beijing-born Alicia Liu of SingingGrass

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  NH: Can you tell me briefly where you come from and how long you've been in the UK? Alicia Liu: I was born in Beijing and moved to t...