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Novelist Amy Tan (L) and Orville Schell (R) onstage at Asia Society New York on March 6, 2014.

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Asia Blog Interview: Mohsin Hamid Traces 'Discontent' Across Cultures in Globe-Trotting New Collection "There are writers in Pakistan who are far braver than I am," says the acclaimed novelist, on the eve of a new U.S. book launch.	Asia Blog Book Excerpt: 'Indonesia, Etc.' by Elizabeth Pisani After a year of travel around the archipelago, veteran Indonesia-watcher Elizabeth Pisani found "a nation quite different from the one I thought I knew."	Asia Blog Book Excerpt: 'The Descartes Highlands' by Eric Gamalinda A complex and compelling story of two young men who share a biological father and a family secret, but grow up continents apart, each unaware of the other.
Asia Blog Book Excerpt: 'Tehran Noir' Comes to Gotham City Darkly gripping "noir" fiction from Iranian writers plumbs the depths of the nightmare city of Tehran and the limits of human corruptibility and loyalty.	Texas Author and Filmmaker Introduces Newest Novel to Houston Xiaolu Guo speaks at Asia Society Texas Center about I Am China a day after the book's American release.	Report / India Meet the Author: DSC Prize Winner Cyrus Mistry In conversation with Bachi Karkaria, Cyrus Mistry spoke about his new book.
Asia Blog Book Excerpt: 'I Am China' by Xiaolu Guo Xiaolu Guo's ambitious new novel explores China through the perspective of a curious London-based translator.	Texas Remembering Tiananmen, Twenty-Five Years Later NPR's Louisa Lim offers insiders' accounts of this seminal tragedy, revealing reverberations still felt today.	Asia Blog Video: Nobel Laureate Mo Yan Explains How 'Good Writers' Language Has Personality' In an Asia Society exclusive video, the eminent Chinese novelist shares his considered views on what makes for successful literary translation.
Asia Blog Interview: Genre-Bending Japanese Novelist on 'Political' Writing, Post-Fukushima One of Japan's most lauded authors explains why genre distinctions don't concern him and how he responded to the Fukushima disaster.	Texas From Bombay to Canton, Ghosh Documents How British Paved Way for Opium Route Award-winning writer presents masterful narrative of how Indian trade thrived in China.	Asia Blog / New York Book Excerpt: 'The Valley of Amazement ' by Amy Tan Amy Tan's latest novel draws on her own family stories to explore the world of early-1900s Shanghai.