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Asian Fiction & Non-Fiction

Description: For readers of books set in Asia, or Asian Related, Asian writers, Asian American writers, Asian Culture. Contemporary and Historical Fiction, Travel, Travel Musings, Arts & Culture, and History. This group is open for all discussion relating to Asia: Korea, China, Japan, India, Malaysia, Thailand, Laos, Nepal... you name it. I'm setting the boundaries of Asia as listed on Wikipedia.

Talk about your favorite authors, settings, and time lines. Start a Group Read, Book Ray, or Book Ring. Recommend a great book, or ask for one. Or recommend a good website.

A Sampling Of Our Touchstone Authors:
Kobo Abe, Thalassa Ali, Barry Hugheart, Pearl S. Buck, Da Chen, Eleanor Coerr, Angela Davis-Gardner, Kiran Desai, E.M. Forster, Mahatma Gandhi, Kaye Gibbons , Sadeq Hedayat, Barry Hughart, Gish Jen, Ha Jin, Sayed Kashua, Yasunari Kawabata, M. M. Kaye, C. J. Koch, Joy Kogawa, Satish Kumar, Jhumpa Lahiri, Rattawut Lapcharoensap, Lilian Lee, Peter May, Seth McEvoy, Yukio Mishima, Haruki Murakami, V.S. Naipaul, R. K. Narayan, Hsien Y. Pai, Sheridan Prasso, Balachandra Rajan, José Rizal, Laura Joh Rowland, Bertrand Russell, Lisa See, S’oshitsu Sen, Vikram Seth, Charles Sheffield, Philip Snow, Sen'O Tanaka, Amy Tan, Pramoedya Ananta Toer, Gail Tsukiyama, Christopher West, Su Xi, Xu Xi, Cao Xueqin, Banana Yoshimoto

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Japanese Culture, Zen, Thailand, Tea!, Ancient China, Yoga, Taoism, Vajrayana, Travel and Exploration Literature, Manga!, Yaoi, Expats in Korea who thing!, Looking for cheap books in Bombay, Tai Chi, Daegu, South Korea, Japanese Literature, Korean Geeks, Martial Arts, Tottori Exchange, JET Book Exchange, Prabhupada's Books, Japanese Craft Books, PinoyThing!, LT@Taipei, Chungju, Origami, Indian Authors, Chadou, the Way of Tea, Central Asia, 4swap@Tamsui, Israeli LibraryThingers, Roleplayers in Korea, douban, Librarie India, Hong Kong Bookies, DimSum Thing, indian bibliophiles, Silat, Zhongwen Ban 中文版, Forumosa 中文版

Interesting Links:
The Mishima Yukio Cyber Museum, Asian Authors, Billy Chaka--Official site of Isaac Adamson, Amy Tan, Gail Tsukiyama, The official American website of Haruki Murakami, The official English Language website of Banana Yoshimoto

Most recent members: goyanaut, , AlexAustin, arcanacoelestia, Baia, JeannieLin, johninttown, windmoonclayton, MyIndiaLibrary, ScanningDarkly, catarina1, milkyfangs, roulette.russe, the_bastard, nialso, stealth.librarian, starsmending, insolent_redhead, losingheart, katekasserman, paperdust, APrivateLibrary, angeltyuan, Violette62, wyaryan, chinakelly, redkit, coldicuti, theoldman, aarti — 989 total

Group Talk

Topics		messages	Last message
Modern Chinese Fiction		6	brianjungwi, Tuesday 11:57am
Kiriyama Prize		3	catarina1, Monday 9:28pm
Haruki Murakami: best and worst		78	Rise, December 15
World War II from the Japanese side		18	keigu, December 11
Japanese Mythology		3	PhoenixTerran, December 11
What do you think of Yukio Mishima?		28	keigu, December 11
Japanese Self-Instruction		14	keigu, December 11
Sources of Japanese Tradition		6	keigu, December 11
The Sound of Language - Amulya Malladi		5	keigu, December 11
Thoughts on Translations		14	keigu, December 10
Book of Five Rings		5	PhoenixTerran, December 8
What Are You Reading Or Have Just Finished.		225	vpfluke, December 5
My voyage around Asia		17	katrinasreads, November 14
New language learning group (Hindi)		1	Yiggy, November 7
Giveaway: Novel of Ancient Japan		1	aarti, October 13
Books on Joseon dynasty Korea (1392–1910)?		4	sqdancer, September 15
Giving Away Three Chinese/Chinese-American Fiction Books		1	valkylee, August 1
Book Reviews		35	lilisin, July 25
What is your favorite Asian film?		118	chidori, July 12
Historians on Asian culture.		29	brianjungwi, June 4
Haruki Murakami's latest		4	dcozy, May 31
White Tiger, etc.		12	GeoffWyss, May 14
Plagiarism (Chinese New Year)		7	dcozy, May 13
Opinions on 'Three Cups of Tea'?		2	hemlockclock, May 12
Edo/Tokugawa Period Recommendations		4	hemlockclock, May 12
First novel giveaway		1	GeoffWyss, April 15
poignent set of short stories		2	brianjungwi, April 11
Something new please...		3	annacruise, April 10
Arundhati Roy's THE GOD OF SMALL THINGS		22	SatyajitMishra, December 2008
Japan in January on the Reading Globally group		1	chrisharpe, December 2008
For anyone who read Murakami's Norwegian Wood		4	mwentlandt, December 2008
Opinions on Naomi Hirahara		1	gscottmoore, December 2008
Asian Fiction & Non-Fiction Message Board		177	elbgwn, December 2008
a thousand pardons...		3	tshanley, November 2008
I'm new here...		13	slickdpdx, October 2008
Kyoko's House		2	JoseBuendia, October 2008
Bollywood Film Fans? I need your help, please		11	lisa211, September 2008
Maybe you can help...		11	slickdpdx, September 2008
contemporary chinese fiction		24	rebeccanyc, August 2008
New Natsuo Kirino!		4	JoseBuendia, August 2008
anybody want to swap books on Asia?		1	alhickey, August 2008
Asian Echoes Blog		3	xiaolung, August 2008
History of India and China in the 20th Century?		13	Nycticebus, July 2008
Recent History of Asians in Publishing		7	T42, July 2008
FREE FOOD FOR MILLIONAIRES by Min Jin Lee -- has anyone read this? Thoughts, please.		4	sungene, July 2008
Asian Graphic Novel		2	belleyang, July 2008
Central Asia anyone? Muslims and Russians?		4	LyzzyBee, July 2008
Has anyone read 'Chasing the Sea'?		1	flemingt, June 2008
Opinions on Saiichi Maruya		5	dcozy, June 2008
Filipino Literature?		6	Periodista, May 2008
Yellow Fever ...		1	steffanpiper, May 2008
Dormant: Amy Tan		6	MarianV, April 2008
Dormant: Asian Horror or Suspense		30	elipsett, April 2008
Dormant: books in Chinese		4	edwinbcn, January 2008
Dormant: Floating Clouds - Fumiko Hayashi		6	gscottmoore, January 2008
Dormant: 'Serious' Modern or Postmodern Japanese fiction?		9	legxleg, January 2008
Dormant: Fiction & NonFiction Books: South-East Asian Region		2	DannyS, November 2007
Dormant: Minamoto Yoshitsune		5	enheduanna, November 2007
Dormant: Japanese Film - Ozu and the Poetics of Cinema		1	gscottmoore, October 2007
Dormant: Graphic Fiction		3	gscottmoore, September 2007
Dormant: What the heck is Rei Tiein?		3	poetontheone, September 2007
Dormant: Armenian books		1	kar1zak, August 2007
Dormant: Japanese Historical Fiction		20	Macbeth, July 2007
Dormant: Hari Kunzru's The Impressionist		2	bookgrl, June 2007
Dormant: May 4th literature, anyone?		5	WillSteed, June 2007
Dormant: Hitomi Kanehara		2	scottpack, May 2007
Dormant: Reading Asian Canada		11	betterthanchocolate, April 2007
Dormant: Kino No Tabi		2	doceirias, April 2007
Dormant: Reading Group--Kitchen by Banana Yoshimoto		82	RobinsonP, April 2007
Dormant: Mishima in Translation		1	JoseBuendia, March 2007
Dormant: Benazir Bhutto's revised memoirs		1	fictiondreamer, March 2007
Dormant: Reading Group--My Name Is Red by Orhan Pamuk		40	aluvalibri, January 2007
Dormant: Amy Yamada		1	Antipodean, January 2007
Dormant: Group Reads, BookRings & BookRays		73	Opinicus, December 2006
Dormant: studying LT members' use of tags		8	Airycat, November 2006
Dormant: Member INFO		4	Opinicus, November 2006
Dormant: Orhan Pamuk wins the Nobel Prize in Literature!		2	aluvalibri, October 2006