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An Indian-Malay boy tackles difficult words for his spelling bee while swimming, Sea Gypsy girls venture to the big city with their artist cousin, a Japanese-American waltzes in her family's temple, an Arab grieves for his lost Russian wife... In these stories which span Asia from Japan and Hong Kong to Malaysia and Yemen, Wes Stevens brings an enigmatic, evocative ... and laconic new voice to Asian fiction. A-R-C-H-I-P-E-L-A-G-O is not just a...

As daughter of Edward Schreyer, governor general of Canada and premier of Manitoba, and great-granddaughter of Anton Schreyer, late-nineteenth-century immigrant and pioneer, Karmel Schreyer grew up in a tradition of both pioneer simplicity and political activism. After more than a decade of globetrotting, Schreyer returns from her Hong Kong home to the Manitoba homestead to spend a summer introducing her two young daughters to their Canadian h...

Mani Rao is one of East Asia's most admired English language poets. Her early books did not circulate widely outside of Asia. This collection of one hundred selected poems, in a new international edition, bring Rao's work to new audiences worldwide. This volume is drawn from six book: Echolocation (2003), Salt (2001), The Last Beach (2000), Living Shadows (1997), Catapult Season (1992) and Wingspan (1987), covering a writing period of nearly t...

A collection of Asian stories for children from ages 10-14. At last! If you're fed up reading about kids playing baseball, carving pumpkins or playing in the snow, then crack open this collection of stories filled with football in the city, rickshaws, shopping and tropical swamps: stories about friends, magic, school and growing up. The collection includes stories by: Sam Jam, Tony Lee, Laura Ros, Christine Morgan, Eva Ng, Nirmala Nagarajan, S...

Bill Purves trained as a seaman, earned his seaman's papers and made several voyages on a variety of Asian-owned and operated freighters to research this unique inside look at the worldwide shipping industry and the people behind it. From Taiwan to Estonia, and Egypt to Myanmar, amid the roar of engines and the trading floor, in A Sea of Green you will meet the shipowners and brokers, captains and ordinary seamen that make this important part ...

This is impersonal poetry. Nothing here is about me." Using the established poetic forms of the villanelle and thesonnet, "Snowblind from my Protective Colouring" gives us dialogues from many characters, some imagined some real, as they confront and express their lives and relationships. From the un-named She and He of 'Everything in Life is Contagious' who address with romantic imagination or a merciless realism, their declining relationship ...

Hongkongitis is ... an incurable affliction that causes one to secretly love Hong Kong while complaining loudly about it. While everyone else in Hong Kong was out doing real jobs, writer and cartoonist Larry Feign put together this collection of true but ridiculous facts, observations and stupid scientific theories about the most hyperventilating, oddly loveable city on earth. Read irrefutable proof that ... Hong Kong is actually located in Fr...

Mani Rao's poetry has featured in anthologies by Penguin, WW Norton and Bloodaxe, and has been translated into French, Italian, German, Korean, Chinese and Arabic. She lives between India, Hong Kong and the USA. Ghostmasters is her eighth book, and collects poems published in: Zoland Poetry, XCP, Washington Square, Wasafiri, Tinfish, Softblow, Indian Literature, Almost Island, 91st Meridian and other journals.Advance praise:Mani Rao is an endl...

the moon looks down at its reflection in the water below: surrounded by cliffs, and framed in points of light. moments of realisation are connected through sea and sky. miss moon's class is a dialogue with a constantly shifting Other, moving through cornwall, wales, hong kong and australia but always located in myth and in memory. -- viki holmes was born in st. austell, cornwall, in 1975 and lived there until she was nineteen. she lived, studi...

In this first collection, Martin Alexander shares the sense of home and occasional displacement felt by many who choose to live in Hong Kong, a place hovering between languages and cultures on China's margins.

True to the promise of its title, Food Court offers a poetic feast for the delectation and delight of the experienced and novice reader, the self-professed Hong Kong insider or the transient or first-time visitor to English-language creative writing in Hong Kong. Food is the subject matter of many of the poems, but the title of this first collection by Timothy Kaiser is also self-consciously ironical. Kaiser likes to write about the men and wo...