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Catergories: Interviews
Shelly Bryant divides her year between Shanghai and Singapore, working as a translator, writer, and researcher. She translated Sheng Keyi’s novels, Northern Girls, and Fields of White and Death; Chew Kok Chang’s short story collection, Other Cities, Other Lives, and You Jin’s collection of travel essays In Time, Out of Place, and Li Na’s memoir, My Life. She...
Catergories: Book
How long would it take to walk across the world's most populous country?
The Great Walk of China is a journey into China's heartland, away from its surging coastal cities, where the ripples of prosperity are only just beginning to be felt and many find themselves left behind.
Through his conversations with the people he meets along the way, the...
Catergories: Book
Miranda and Marko's parents are away on a business trip when their grandfather disappears, leaving them all alone. As they try to figure out what to do, a mysterious package containing an old bronze mirror arrives by post, setting in motion a series of events that take the brother and sister to fifteenth century China and on board the fleet of the famous Admiral...
Catergories: Interviews
Tom Lutz has published two books this year: Drinking Mare’s Milk on the Roof of the World: Wandering the Globe from Azerbaijan to Zanzibar, and And the Monkey Learned Nothing: Dispatches from a Life in Transit. He is the founding editor-in-chief and publisher of Los Angeles Review of Books and is producer and host of The LARB Radio Hour.
He has written for the New...
Catergories: News
The Hong Kong Trade Development Council organised the 20th Hong Kong Book Fair from 22 July till 28 July 2009. It resulted in a record high of 900,000 people attending the seven-day event.
During the book fair, the HKTDC was conducting a survey to track track changes in the reading habits of Hong Kong people. They found that:
1) about 60 per cent of Hong Kong...
Catergories: Book
Danny Cartwright and Spencer Craig were born on different sides of the track. Danny, an East End Cockney, leaves Clement Attlee Comprehensive School at the age of 15 to take up a job at a local garage. He falls in love with Beth, the boss's daughter, and asks her to marry him. Spencer Craig resides in the West End. A graduate of an English public school and Cambridge...
Catergories: Book
On the rooftop of the world, shoe-horned into the Grand Himalayas, Bhutan - or Thunder Dragon - is a fiercely independent kingdom.
Isolated, charming, peaceful and religious, the Bhutanese are a pragmatic, sensitive people who take from the West what will benefit their country and leave the rest. Only 4,000 tourists will visit the kingdom in any one year and they...
Catergories: Book
As the 70th anniversary of their destruction approaches, Odyssey tells the story of these uniquely twinned cities using literary extracts from Socrates, Murasaki Shikibu, St Francis Xavier, Tokugawa Ieyasu, Commodore Perry, Vincent Van Gogh, Giacomo Puccini, Jack London, Sun Yat Sen, D. T. Suzuki, Eleanor Roosevelt, Josef Stalin, Winston Churchill, Dame Edith...
Catergories: Book
Intriguing. Absorbing. A truly eye-opening glimpse into the world's most mysterious and fascinating country.
North Korea is a land of unrivalled natural beauty with more than 5,000 years of history and culture. From the top of mythical Mount Paekdu to the lush valleys and the incredible rock formations of stunning Mount Kumgang, and from the white beaches of the...
Catergories: Book
Amir Ali leaves his village in Bihar to travel to London with an English captain, William Meadows, to whom he narrates the story of his life – the story of a murderous thug. While Meadows tries to analyse the strange cult of the Indian Thug, a group of Englishmen sets out to prove the inherent difference between cultures and people by examining their skulls –...
