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The author of the new book 'The Jakarta Method' reveals how the murder of one million Indonesians in 1965 became a template for Cold War campaigns across the developing world.
Author Rob Schmitz discusses his book about the inhabitants of a single street in Shanghai.
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.
“Pakistan has not been able to get the Indian part of Kashmir in four wars. A fifth war is not going to change that,” said former Ambassador of Pakistan to the United States Husain Haqqani in a discussion on the legacy of India's partition.
North Korea is completely isolated politically and geographically," says author Joseph Kim. "So in some ways it’s tempting for us to think of North Koreans as aliens from another Earth. But we are all basically the same people."
Nisid Hajari, author of the new book 'Midnight’s Furies,' discusses how India’s Partition in 1947 continues to affect India-Pakistan relations today. He appears at Asia Society New York on June 16.
Controversial author discusses visiting Taiwan, plans for his next novel, and drawing mandalas while stoned in his room.
Spoken word artist and social activist Bao Phi says privileged Asian American activists need to "illuminate the least privileged in our own communities."
Seven authors who appeared on multiple year-end "best-of" lists all presented their new books at Asia Society in 2014.
