Literature

Big Picture: Contemporary China with Author Yan Lianke

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Summer Reading 2023

Book Recommendations by Members, Speakers, and Asia Society Global Staff

A crowd fills a crowded station in Beijing

'Land of Big Numbers' Author Te-Ping Chen on Writing Her Way Through the Dark

The Wall Street Journal reporter talks to Asia Blog about her debut collection of short stories, which depict ordinary lives in China and of the Chinese diaspora.

Charles Yu and his latest novel, Interior Chinatown

Book Excerpt: Charles Yu's 'Interior Chinatown'

Willis Wu longs to assume the role of Kung Fu Guy — but is it all it's cracked up to be?

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Winter Reading 2020

Book Recommendations by Members, Speakers and Asia Society Global Staff

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Summer Reading 2020

Book recommendations by members, speakers and Asia Society Global staff

Asia In-Depth Podcast: Novelists Tishani Doshi and Salman Rushdie on Fiction, Poetry, and India

The two writers discuss Doshi's recently-published novel "Small Days and Nights."

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Asia Society Switzerland's Winter Reading List 2018

Once more we have asked our members, this year's speakers as well as our colleagues all over the world what they have been reading lately. Here is our list of book recommendations, a selection for the travelling the world through windows of time and space – page by page.

Rasika Dugal, Nandita Das, Raja Sen and Gayatri Rangachari Shah

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Manto: A Special Pre-Release Screeening

On September 17, 2018, Nandita Das, Rasika Dugal and Raja Sen discussed the making of the film 'Manto' at Asia Society India Centre's special pre-release screening.

Author Celeste Ng Believes That Cultural Visibility Should Include Everyone

The 'Little Fires Everywhere' scribe on the increased visibility of Asian-Americans on screen, the TV adaptation of her book starring Reese Witherspoon and Kerry Washington, and why she needs silence to write.