• A Korean Travel Writer Reveals the Los Angeles Even Angelenos Don’t Know

    By Colin Marshall  I moved from Los Angeles to Seoul in part because I prefer living as a foreigner to …

    Mao Badges — Red, Bright and Shiny (And Open to Every Form of Capitalist Speculation)

    By Helen Wang and Paul Crook In his new book, The Cultural Revolution: A People’s History 1962-1976, historian Frank Dikötter …

    The Triumph of Han Kang and the Rise of Women’s Writing in Korea

    By Charles Montgomery In my years in Korea, I never met an author humbler or nicer than Han Kang: she …

    From Sichuan to Shanghai: A Q&A with Marketplace Correspondent and Street of Eternal Happiness Author Rob Schmitz

    By Susan Blumberg-Kason Rob Schmitz has witnessed enormous changes in China since he first lived in rural Sichuan twenty years …

    Two Poems by Bruce Bond

    By Bruce Bond Wind Machine I do not know her, the woman caught in the passions of the wind machine …

    Writing About Korea, in Korean, for Koreans — as an American: an Interview with Robert J. Fouser

    By Colin Marshall  Robert J. Fouser first lived in Korea in the mid-1980s, going on to become a professor at …

    Looking Back at Modern Short Stories from Korea, the Very First Collection of Korean Fiction in English

    By Charles Montgomery Literature has always occupied a position of high cultural importance in Korea. The country’s history is thoroughly …

    The Great American (in China) Novel

    By Robert Foyle Hunwick Fiction by foreigners in China has lost its sheen considerably since the days of André Malraux’s …

    It’s Time to Get Over QWERTY — A Q&A with Tom Mullaney on Alphabets, Chinese Characters, and Computing

    Jeffrey Wasserstrom inverviews Tom Mullaney Last month, I was one of two speakers at a lunchtime event on China held …