The Hindu Prize is one of India's most prestigious literary awards. This year, works by Anita Nair, Shovon Chowdhury, Hansda...
Day: October 6, 2014
'The River's Song' takes on many themes and it would be worth the reader's while to step into this absorbing,...
China has begun to publish oral testimonies of 100 survivors of the 1937 Nanjing Massacre, in the latest move to refute Japanese politicians' denial of Japan's World War II aggression. The daily publications began on Wednesday with the testimonyof 85-year-old Xia Shuqin. It was posted on China's NationalMemorial website and that of the Memorial Hall of the Victims ofthe Nanjing Massacre by Japanese Invaders. Read More
Mo Yan, a Chinese writer and Nobel Prize winner, was awarded the honorary degree Doctor Honoris Causa, the highest honor...
The first Chinese emperor, Qin Shi Huang, continues to fascinate, most recently for television viewers in Britain through Andrew Graham-Dixon's...
One newcomer to the world of literary journals in Japan is an old hand at literature, and straddles both financial...
The award-winning 1950 Akira Kurosawa film classic “Rashomon,” based on two short stories by Ryunosuke Akutagawa, used different and contradictory...
“Parade” by Suichi Yushida was originally published in Japan in 2002 Beautifully banal. Perhaps not the most positive-sounding turn of...
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