By Colin Marshall I moved from Los Angeles to Seoul in part because I prefer living as a foreigner to …
A Korean Travel Writer Reveals the Los Angeles Even Angelenos Don’t Know
May 2016
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 …
