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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 Novelist Min Jin Lee on the 'Eternal Foreignness' of Being Asian American The Korean-American writer discusses her work profiling Japan's marginalized Korean population.	Monkey Business a cross-cultural dialogue between contemporary Japanese and American authors	Asia Blog Four Southeast Asian Writers Talk Language, Identity, and Culture As part of the Singaporean Literary Festival in New York, Asia Society hosted two Singaporean and two Filipina-born writers for a reading and discussion.
Asia Blog Interview: Yang Mu on Personal Narratives and the 'Thriving' Taiwanese Literary Landscape In his autobiographical essays, Yang Mu tells the story of Taiwan's social, political, and cultural changes in the twentieth century through personal narratives about his childhood in Hualien, on the Pacific coast of eastern Taiwan.	Asia Blog Interview: Kevin Kwan on World of 'Insane Fortunes' in New Novel 'China Rich Girlfriend' In a Q&A, author Kevin Kwan previewed his upcoming novel 'China Rich Girlfriend.'	Southern California The China Mirage In conversation with author James Bradley
Report / India Not The End Of The Book: Reviving Indian Literature Rohan Murty and Rahul Jacob speak about the effort to conserve classical Indian literature.	Asia Blog Interview: Suki Kim Aims to Depict 'Human World' of North Korea in Undercover Memoir Author Suki Kim taught English at a private university in Pyongyang for six months, while also working surreptitiously on a memoir.	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.