Books
Chatwin digs through the city’s 3,000-year history on a trek down Changan Jie, or Long Peace Street
The Redemption of Time, by Baoshu, transports Liu’s characters into a new universe.
In his second memoir, Forty Nights, ex-marine Chris Thrall describes with wit and warmth his attempts, with varying degrees of success, to face his demons back home in Britain.
Exhalation by Ted Chiang includes nine tales, most of them masterpieces while a couple don’t quite hit the mark.
Find answers to existential questions, learn how to arm yourself in the fight against climate change and explore the world beneath your feet, all in the pages of a book.
Artist Assia Bennani pays homage to her adopted home of 12 years with a loving portrait of the city co-written by Ellen Ng. Tale follows the adventures of a young girl and a lost frog as she helps him find his way home.
In The Unpassing, evocative story about the arbitrariness of life in an unfamiliar place, San Francisco-based author Chia-Chia Lin creates a shadowy world, rich in imagery and atmosphere, seen through a child’s eyes.
The New York-based Indian writer’s ninth novel lays bare mankind’s failure to process the new realities of a changed environment
Pulitzer Prize winning Hong Kong photojournalist enjoyed an advantage in China as a Chinese person with local insight but the freedom of a foreign correspondent. He captured the humour of daily life under communism and the trauma of big events.
In The Great Successor, Anna Fifield digs deep into the dictator’s early life, speaking with former classmates and others who knew the reclusive leader when he struggled with foreign languages and social interaction.
American architect Austin Tang who came to the city in 2008, says lingering for a few seconds can help to register reality in motion
Despite more than 100 books about him, Soviet secret agent Richard Sorge has remained an enigma. In new biography An Impeccable Spy, Owen Matthew sheds fresh light on a dedicated Bolshevik who loved wine, women and song.
In his book, Shanghai Free Taxi, NPR correspondent Frank Langfitt takes to the streets in a makeshift cab to get a taste of what people think of their homeland, and while it might be a novel approach, it motors down a familiar road.
Writer David Eimer travels to far flung corners of the country formerly known as Burma to better understand its present.
As much a national history as it is a travelogue, Anna Sherman’s book paints an intricate, rich portrait of the city once known as Edo.
Takahashi Mizuki is co-director of the Centre for Heritage, Arts and Textile, the arts centre at The Mills, a Hong Kong conservation project
The charmingly affable writer keeps it kinky with yet another hanky-spanky page turner that ventures away from the Fifty Shades universe, although not too far.
Former New York Times journalist Karoline Kan draws on family stories to write a coming-of-age tale unique to contemporary China.