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: nialso, stealth.librarian, starsmending, insolent_redhead, losingheart, katekasserman, paperdust, APrivateLibrary, angeltyuan, Violette62, wyaryan, chinakelly, redkit, coldicuti, theoldman, aarti, pieshine, rchase, kupasa, menglidong, sumanam, dryope, danielbeattie, peads, dtwlim, marcingpin, Enoah_Ballard, Baburtours, kidzdoc, knittingmomof3979 total

Created: Jul 28, 2006 by Opinicus; Language: English

Group Talk

 
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Japanese Mythology 1PhoenixTerran, Wednesday 12:43pmignore
My voyage around Asia 17katrinasreads, Saturday 3:50pmignore
Sources of Japanese Tradition 5danielbeattie, November 12ignore
Japanese Self-Instruction 13PhoenixTerran, November 9ignore
New language learning group (Hindi) 1Yiggy, November 7ignore
Giveaway: Novel of Ancient Japan 1aarti, October 13ignore
Book of Five Rings 3PhoenixTerran, September 24ignore
Books on Joseon dynasty Korea (1392–1910)? 4sqdancer, September 15ignore
Giving Away Three Chinese/Chinese-American Fiction Books 1valkylee, August 1ignore
Book Reviews 35lilisin, July 25ignore
What do you think of Yukio Mishima? 27dcozy, July 24ignore
Historians on Asian culture. 29brianjungwi, June 4ignore
Haruki Murakami's latest 4dcozy, May 31ignore
White Tiger, etc. 12GeoffWyss, May 14ignore
Plagiarism (Chinese New Year) 7dcozy, May 13ignore
Opinions on 'Three Cups of Tea'? 2hemlockclock, May 12ignore
Edo/Tokugawa Period Recommendations 4hemlockclock, May 12ignore
First novel giveaway 1GeoffWyss, April 15ignore
poignent set of short stories 2brianjungwi, April 11ignore
Something new please... 3annacruise, April 10ignore
Japan in January on the Reading Globally group 1chrisharpe, December 2008ignore
For anyone who read Murakami's Norwegian Wood 4mwentlandt, December 2008ignore
Opinions on Naomi Hirahara 1gscottmoore, December 2008ignore
a thousand pardons... 3tshanley, November 2008ignore
I'm new here... 13slickdpdx, October 2008ignore
Kyoko's House 2JoseBuendia, October 2008ignore
Bollywood Film Fans? I need your help, please 11lisa211, September 2008ignore
Maybe you can help... 11slickdpdx, September 2008ignore
contemporary chinese fiction 24rebeccanyc, August 2008ignore
New Natsuo Kirino! 4JoseBuendia, August 2008ignore
anybody want to swap books on Asia? 1alhickey, August 2008ignore
Asian Echoes Blog 3xiaolung, August 2008ignore
History of India and China in the 20th Century? 13Nycticebus, July 2008ignore
Recent History of Asians in Publishing 7T42, July 2008ignore
FREE FOOD FOR MILLIONAIRES by Min Jin Lee -- has anyone read this? Thoughts, please. 4sungene, July 2008ignore
Asian Graphic Novel 2belleyang, July 2008ignore
Central Asia anyone? Muslims and Russians? 4LyzzyBee, July 2008ignore
Has anyone read 'Chasing the Sea'? 1flemingt, June 2008ignore
The Sound of Language - Amulya Malladi 4gscottmoore, June 2008ignore
Opinions on Saiichi Maruya 5dcozy, June 2008ignore
Filipino Literature? 6Periodista, May 2008ignore
Yellow Fever ... 1steffanpiper, May 2008ignore
Dormant: Amy Tan 6MarianV, April 2008ignore
Dormant: Asian Horror or Suspense 30elipsett, April 2008ignore
Dormant: books in Chinese 4edwinbcn, January 2008ignore
Dormant: Floating Clouds - Fumiko Hayashi 6gscottmoore, January 2008ignore
Dormant: 'Serious' Modern or Postmodern Japanese fiction? 9legxleg, January 2008ignore
Dormant: World War II from the Japanese side 15gscottmoore, December 2007ignore
Dormant: Fiction & NonFiction Books: South-East Asian Region 2DannyS, November 2007ignore
Dormant: Minamoto Yoshitsune 5enheduanna, November 2007ignore
Dormant: Japanese Film - Ozu and the Poetics of Cinema 1gscottmoore, October 2007ignore
Dormant: Graphic Fiction 3gscottmoore, September 2007ignore
Dormant: What the heck is Rei Tiein? 3poetontheone, September 2007ignore
Dormant: Armenian books 1kar1zak, August 2007ignore
Dormant: Japanese Historical Fiction 20Macbeth, July 2007ignore
Dormant: Hari Kunzru's The Impressionist 2bookgrl, June 2007ignore
Dormant: May 4th literature, anyone? 5WillSteed, June 2007ignore
Dormant: Hitomi Kanehara 2scottpack, May 2007ignore
Dormant: Reading Asian Canada 11betterthanchocolate, April 2007ignore
Dormant: Thoughts on Translations 13JoseBuendia, March 2007ignore
Dormant: Mishima in Translation 1JoseBuendia, March 2007ignore
Dormant: Benazir Bhutto's revised memoirs 1fictiondreamer, March 2007ignore
Dormant: Reading Group--My Name Is Red by Orhan Pamuk 40aluvalibri, January 2007ignore
Dormant: Amy Yamada 1Antipodean, January 2007ignore
Dormant: studying LT members' use of tags 8Airycat, November 2006ignore
Dormant: Orhan Pamuk wins the Nobel Prize in Literature! 2aluvalibri, October 2006ignore
What Are You Reading Or Have Just Finished. 219lilisin, Tuesday 12:52pm stop ignoring
Haruki Murakami: best and worst 76danellender, August 19 stop ignoring
What is your favorite Asian film? 118chidori, July 12 stop ignoring
Arundhati Roy's THE GOD OF SMALL THINGS 22SatyajitMishra, December 2008 stop ignoring
Asian Fiction & Non-Fiction Message Board 177elbgwn, December 2008 stop ignoring
Dormant: Kino No Tabi 2doceirias, April 2007 stop ignoring
Dormant: Reading Group--Kitchen by Banana Yoshimoto 82RobinsonP, April 2007 stop ignoring
Dormant: Group Reads, BookRings & BookRays 73Opinicus, December 2006 stop ignoring
Dormant: Member INFO 4Opinicus, November 2006 stop ignoring

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