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Sunday, 26 February 2023

Hungry Ghost: interview with Victoria Ying

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Victoria Ying is a critically acclaimed author and artist living in Los Angeles. She started her career in the arts by falling in love with ...
Wednesday, 22 February 2023

"Owlish". Nicky Harman reviews a new novel by Dorothy Tse, translated by Natascha Bruce

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  Owlish is the story of Professor Q, a university lecturer in the city of Nevers. He is not a happy man: his wife refuses intimacy with hi...
Sunday, 19 February 2023

Make It New: A warm welcome for Gaudy Boy's 'New Singapore Poetries'

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A gathering of new names One July evening, I took the chance to ask Jee Leong Koh – an editor of the new Gaudy Boy anthology New Singapore P...
Sunday, 12 February 2023

The Visible Invisibles: Stories of Migrant Workers in Asia, guest post by Shivaji Das and Yolanda Yu

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  Featuring a careful curation of unconventional yet universal life stories from a diverse cast of characters, The Visible Invisibles: Stori...
Sunday, 5 February 2023

Wuxia and xianxia, guest post from Alice Poon

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Alice Poon is currently based in Vancouver. After a childhood spent devouring Jin Yong’s wuxia novels, Alice has, over the years, fed hersel...
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...