World Literary Tour: Visit China in 5 Books
This time last year I was about to head to Hong Kong and their long weekend of celebrations to mark
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Countries in Crisis As Seen In Fiction & Non Fiction
Week 2 of Non Fiction November brings us one of the most stimulating and thought provoking topics of the whole
Read moreThe Chilli Bean Paste Clan by Yan Ge [book review]
Bean paste is a stable of Asian cuisine but I suspect for Westerners it’s an acquired taste. I tried
Read moreDo Not Say We Have Nothing by Madeleine Thien #Bookerprize
A superb novel about the power of music set against a background of China’s most troubled decades.
Read moreBalzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress – Dai Sijie
During the Maoist regime of 1970’s China, reactionary individuals were packed off to the countryside to be cleansed of their
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