Gaijin
Peter Tasker
Ian Buruma comes of age in Japan’s warm, wet days of low-tech chaos
Category: East Asia
Forgotten Naga
Rupert Winchester
On the trail of elusive hornbills and freedom fighters in India’s tense border zone
Turning east
Sebastian Strangio
What explains Southeast Asia’s periodic lurch to authoritarianism?
Post-1997
David Parrish
Hong Kong’s post-handover generation takes on the political system
Daydream believers
Mark Robinson
How young and ambitious Vietnamese find themselves working in Tokyo’s convenience stores.
China calling
David Eimer
Can Aung San Suu Kyi resist China’s influence? The generals before her couldn’t
What China wants
Peter Tasker
China is back in charge in Asia.
Miserablism
Rupert Winchester
Modern-day India, where societal oppression is balanced by personal freedom
Midday’s children
Rupert Winchester
Two new books labour under the shadow of Salman Rushdie’s masterpiece.
Thread songs
Gill Green
How a French traveller stumbled upon the Miao and their textile culture
Pinball wizardy
Rupert Winchester
The multigenerational family saga comes of age in Asia
Tangled up in red
Chris Taylor
The US love affair with China is marked by cycles of exuberance and deflationary despair.
Borderlands
Vu Duc Liem
The true history of the Cambodian-Vietnamese border.
Chat Tomuk
Chat Tomuk
Jaipur’s emergence as a literary hub.
I say Poona
Easterine Kire
Where it all started for the writer.
Threadbare
Gill Green
Enthusiasts will appreciate Devare’s book, but not experts in the field
Standing up to China
Nicholas Chapman
Friction is nothing new in Vietnam–China relations
Damming the Mekong
Michael Buckley
Vietnam lies at the wrong end of the Mekong River.
One Chinese
Chris Taylor
‘Do you speak Chinese?’ is akin to asking ‘Do you speak Romance?’
Meatamorphosis
Rupert Winchester
Han Kang’s The Vegetarian is a short, dark, depressing but brilliant novel
Sorrow in a shopping mall
Chris Taylor
The word “miracle” is bandied about far too much in the context of China
Dreamworld
Rupert Winchester
A huge step forward for Beijing-based Hong Kong novelist Chan Koonchung
Mad, bad and French
Michelle Vachon
Michelle Vachon explores the “bad Frenchmen” of Indochina