Asian Review of Books

@BookReviewsAsia

Now published by the @RSAsianAffairs, the Asian Review of Books is a dedicated pan-Asia book review publication.

Hong Kong / London

Joined June 2012

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Asian Review of Books@BookReviewsAsia · Jul 25

"Using Shakespeare to understand China is something of a bankshot... that Da is able to spin this analogy may say more about Shakespeare and Lear than it does about China" asianreviewofbooks.com/the-chinese-tr…

BookReviewsAsia's tweet card. Nan Z Da has been teaching Shakespeare’s play King Lear, she says, for more than six years. One cannot help but envy her students.

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Asian Review of Books@BookReviewsAsia · Jul 20

“Old Kiln” by Jia Pingwa [ARB review asianreviewofbooks.com/old-kiln-by-ji…] reviewed in @spectator spectator.co.uk/article/maoist…

BookReviewsAsia's tweet card. Old Kiln is a novel spoken by the muse of memory but carved into shape by the fear of forgetting. Jia Pingwa (b.1952) wrote the first draft in 2009 after visiting his home village. Remembering a...

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Asian Review of Books@BookReviewsAsia · 4 h

This weekend on the podcast: Sanjena Sathian discusses her latest novel “Goddess Complex” asianreviewofbooks.com/podcast-with-s…

BookReviewsAsia's tweet card. Sanjana Satyananda, the main character of Sanjena Sathian’s novel, Goddess Complex, is a bit of a mess. She’s back in the States after a spell in India, ending her marriage with her actor husband w…

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Asian Review of Books@BookReviewsAsia · 18 h

New book announcement: “Brown God’s Child”, poetry by Smitha Sehgal (Erbacce) asianreviewofbooks.com/new-book-annou…

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Asian Review of Books@BookReviewsAsia · Jul 25

"The early 20th-c 'New Story of the Stone' by Wu Jianren is one-part fan fiction, one-part historical fiction & one-part science fiction: a fascinating perspective on a moment in China’s history that speaks volumes about its present and possible futures" asianreviewofbooks.com/new-story-of-t…

BookReviewsAsia's tweet card. New Story of the Stone by Wu Jianren is one-part fan fiction, one-part historical fiction, and one-part science fiction. A full translation by Liz Evans Weber gives English-language readers access …

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Asian Review of Books@BookReviewsAsia · Jul 25

"Indira Gandhi and the Years that Transformed India" by Srinath Raghavan, reviewed in Telegraph telegraphindia.com/books/when-ind…

BookReviewsAsia's tweet card. Raghavan shows that Indira Gandhi actively sought the prime minister’s job at the untimely death of Lal Bahadur Shastri in January 1966

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Asian Review of Books@BookReviewsAsia · Jul 25

Today in the ARB: Elizabeth Lawrence reviews “New Story of the Stone”, an early Chinese science fiction novel by Wu Jianren tr Liz Evans Weber @ColumbiaUP asianreviewofbooks.com/new-story-of-t…

BookReviewsAsia's tweet image. Today in the ARB: Elizabeth Lawrence reviews
“New Story of the Stone”, an early Chinese science fiction novel by Wu Jianren tr Liz Evans Weber @ColumbiaUP asianreviewofbooks.com/new-story-of-t…

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Asian Review of Books@BookReviewsAsia · Jul 24

"Theory and Practice" by Michelle de Kretser reviewed in @LRB lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v47/…

BookReviewsAsia's tweet card. A lot of contradictions are laid out in Michelle de Kretser’s Theory and Practice, and one’s tolerance for...

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Asian Review of Books@BookReviewsAsia · Jul 24

ARB review of “The Tiger’s Share” by Keshava Guha asianreviewofbooks.com/the-tigers-sha…

BookReviewsAsia's tweet card. Brahm Saxena summons his family—his wife, daughter and son—to announce that they, especially the children, should not expect anything from him as inheritance. Rohit, the son, is rattled but Tara, t…

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Asian Review of Books@BookReviewsAsia · Jul 24

Drops today: this week's ARB @NewBooksNetwork podcast @nickrigordon talks to Sanjena Sathian about her recent novel “Goddess Complex” @penguinrandom asianreviewofbooks.com/podcast-with-s…

BookReviewsAsia's tweet image. Drops today: this week's ARB @NewBooksNetwork podcast @nickrigordon talks to Sanjena Sathian about her recent novel “Goddess Complex” @penguinrandom asianreviewofbooks.com/podcast-with-s…

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Columbia University Press@ColumbiaUP · Jul 23

In this Off the Page episode, Nicholas Gordon (Asian Review of Books) and author Bin Yang talk about DISCOVERED BUT FORGOTTEN and the linkages between China, the Maldives and the Indian Ocean. buff.ly/jm1ZOYW #ChIndiaOcean #ChinMaldvian @NewBooksNetwork @BookReviewsAsia

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Asian Review of Books@BookReviewsAsia · Jul 23

"'The Tiger's Share' should be seen as a novel not in the way it captures its times but how its times react to it" asianreviewofbooks.com/the-tigers-sha…

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Asian Review of Books@BookReviewsAsia · Jul 22

"Tiger Lessons" by Sannapureddy Venkatarami Reddy, tr from Telugu by Narasimha Kumar, reviewed in Scroll scroll.in/article/108434…

BookReviewsAsia's tweet image. "Tiger Lessons" by Sannapureddy Venkatarami Reddy, tr from Telugu by Narasimha Kumar, reviewed in Scroll scroll.in/article/108434…

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Asian Review of Books@BookReviewsAsia · Jul 22

“If you had no interest in 'Lear' but some interest in contemporary Chinese history, then you might change your mind about Lear after the comparison,” writes Nan D Za in “The Chinese Tragedy of King Lear” asianreviewofbooks.com/the-chinese-tr…

BookReviewsAsia's tweet image. “If you had no interest in 'Lear' but some interest in contemporary Chinese history, then you might change your mind about Lear after the comparison,” writes Nan D Za in “The Chinese Tragedy of King Lear” asianreviewofbooks.com/the-chinese-tr…

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Asian Review of Books@BookReviewsAsia · Jul 22

ARB review of “From Southeast Asia to Indo-Pacific: Culture, Identity, and the Return to Geopolitics” by Amitav Acharya asianreviewofbooks.com/from-southeast…

BookReviewsAsia's tweet card. The marketing blurb for Amitav Acharya’s most recent book From Southeast Asia to Indo-Pacific begins, rather portentiously, “Southeast Asia was created by geopolitics, and it might die with it.” Th…

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Asian Review of Books@BookReviewsAsia · Jul 22

Today in the ARB: @soni_archivist reviews “The Tiger’s Share” by Keshava Guha @johnmurrays @HachetteUK @HachetteIndia asianreviewofbooks.com/the-tigers-sha…

BookReviewsAsia's tweet image. Today in the ARB: @soni_archivist reviews “The Tiger’s Share” by Keshava Guha @johnmurrays @HachetteUK @HachetteIndia asianreviewofbooks.com/the-tigers-sha…

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Asian Review of Books@BookReviewsAsia · Jul 21

“Mendell Station” by JB Hwang reviewed in @AP apnews.com/article/book-r…

BookReviewsAsia's tweet card. “Mendell Station” is Korean American writer J.B. Hwang’s first novel. And it is all about death — its horror, finality and mystery, and, most of all, how those who knew and loved that person must...

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Asian Review of Books@BookReviewsAsia · Jul 21

"The deeply claustrophobic nature of Kimura's writing and Tejima's translation supports one of the novel’s central ideas: small-town Japan can be a very close-minded place." asianreviewofbooks.com/someone-to-wat…

BookReviewsAsia's tweet card. Tae Kudo is a neurotic 46-year-old woman who has become something of a hypochondriac in the early months of the coronavirus pandemic. Some of her experiences will be deeply familiar to most readers…

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Asian Review of Books@BookReviewsAsia · Jul 21

Today in the ARB: “The Chinese Tragedy of King Lear” by Nan Z Da, who "has been teaching Shakespeare's play -- she says -- for more than six years. One cannot help but envy her students." @PrincetonUPress asianreviewofbooks.com/the-chinese-tr…

BookReviewsAsia's tweet image. Today in the ARB: “The Chinese Tragedy of King Lear” by Nan Z Da, who "has been teaching Shakespeare's play -- she says -- for more than six years. One cannot help but envy her students." @PrincetonUPress asianreviewofbooks.com/the-chinese-tr…

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Asian Review of Books@BookReviewsAsia · Jul 21

In the podcast: The Russians came late to Japan, arriving after the Portuguese and other European powers. But as soon as they arrived, Russia tried to use spies and espionage to learn more about their neighbor—with various degrees of success. asianreviewofbooks.com/podcast-with-j…

BookReviewsAsia's tweet card. The Russians came late to Japan, arriving after the Portuguese and other European powers. But as soon as they arrived, Russia tried to use spies and espionage to learn more about their neighbor—wit…

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