ANDREA PLATE WRITES — (This is the third in an original series about new wave feminist writers in Korea.) Why, for the past fifteen years, has literary icon Bae Suah — author of at least twelve sensationally popular surrealist novels, several short story collections, winner of two Korean literary prizes…
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(This is the second in an original series about new wave feminist writers in Korea) ANDREA PLATE WRITES — Is this the face of modern-day feminism in Seoul? If I Had Your Face, Frances Cha’s debut novel (Ballantine Books), tells the story of four young women struggling to succeed in…
Full Article KOREA: NEW WAVE LITERATURE AS WOMEN’S LIBERATION (PART TWO)
GREGORY F. TREVERTON WRITES — I first thought it unfortunate that my friend, mentor, colleague and one-time boss, Joe Nye, published this book about morality and foreign policy at a time when the current president’s moral sense of anything doesn’t extend beyond the almighty dollar. Yet in fact that timing is…
Full Article BOOK REVIEW: NYE’S ‘DO MORALS MATTER?’ ANALYZED BY TREVERTON, THE WELL-KNOWN U.S. INTELLIGENCE GURU
Asia Media Press, the ambitious new spinoff from our Asia Media International website and Asia Media Center, announces the official publication of the ebook version of its initial title: a knowing and moving behind-the-scenes look at the care and un-caring of veteran soldiers in serious treatment at the largest Veterans…
Full Article BOOK ANNOUNCEMENT: MADNESS BY Asia Media PRESS GOES LIVE ON AMAZON.COM
Asia Media International’s Senior Advisory Andrea Plate celebrated a pre-launch party for her book “Madness: In the Trenches of America’s Troubled Department of Veterans Affairs,” which was produced by Asia Media International and published by Marshall Cavendish Asia, at the Del Rey Yacht Club in Marina Del Rey. The four…
Full Article LOS ANGELES: PRE-PUBLICATION PARTY FOR NEW BOOK ON VETERANS OF ASIAN WARS TRAPPED IN VETERANS ADMINISTRATION TREATMENT SYSTEM
ANDREA PLATE WRITES – “Although my research focuses on Mexico, its findings are relevant to understanding the broader phenomenon of people who grew up in the United States but have been deported to countries around the world,” says author Beth C. Caldwell in her compelling, comprehensive and properly chilling new…
Full Article BOOK REVIEW: ‘DEPORTED AMERICANS’ MAKES YOU WONDER WHICH GROUP WILL BE NEXT ON THE GOODBYE HIT LIST
As part of the Asia Media regular curriculum, this Fall the ‘Introduction to the Media and Politics of Asia’ course for undergraduates features two provocative, required books. One is Kishore Mahbubani’s latest provocation – ‘Has the West Lost It?’; the other is ‘Conversations with Mohamad Mahathir: Operation Malaysia’, relevant anew…
Full Article LOS ANGELES: TWO ASIAN MASTERS, TWO BOOKS – ONE LMU COURSE
ANDREA PLATE WRITES—Otto Warmbier, an American student captured by North Koreans, died, comatose, just days after his release to the US. But even to survive an insane North Korean gulag may also portend tragedy. So suggests Korean-American author R. O. Kwon in her recently released novel, The Incendiaries. For a…
Full Article BOOK REVIEW: ‘Koreans Just Don’t Believe in Therapists’
ASIA MEDIA WRITES – Another Vietnamese language edition of ‘Conversations with Lee Kuan Yew’ is now available in Vietnam. The paperback edition (pictures) comes from the respected presses of Tre. Tre Publishing House (In Vietnamese: Nhà Xuất Bản Trẻ) is a one of the most popular book and magazine publishers…
Full Article VIETNAM: TRE PUBLISHING HOUSE IN HANOI AND HO CHI MINH CITY MARKETS NEW PAPERBACK EDITION OF LEE KUAN YEW BOOK
For the rest of the world, Singapore has often been a point of intrigue. It is a small country, so small in fact that traveling from one end to another would take you less than an hour. Yet currently, this country has one of the highest GDP per capita in…
Full Article SINGAPORE: ONLY THE TRUE LOVER BOTHERS TO CRITIQUE THE OBJECT OF AFFECTION WITH SUCH A KNOWING EYE
ASIA MEDIA INTERNATIONAL WRITES — Fudan University Press just published, in simplified Chinese translation, the text of the 2nd Edition of ‘Confessions of an American Media Man’. The new volume is picture above (to the right of the English language original first published in 2007 – then reprinted twice, then…
Full Article SHANGHAI: ‘CONFESSIONS OF AN AMERICAN MEDIA MAN’ GOES CHINESE
TOM PLATE WRITES — Tom Wolfe, who had little to say about Asia alone but whose novels and journalism had everything to do with how we all live today, on whatever continent, in this messed-up globalized world, was the love of magazine editors. He was famous among them for never…
Full Article LITERARY CORNER: THE PASSING OF A GREAT AMERICAN JOURNALIST
BHAVAN JAIPRAGAS OF THE SOUTH CHNA MORNING POST WRITES – If you find yourself peeved by the hawkish tone of most US commentaries about China’s rise, you should blame East Coast Americans who dominate the conversation about ties between the two major powers . In his new book YO=YO DIPLOMACY,…
Full Article HONG KONG: ‘US CHINA POLICY – A TALE OF TWO COASTS’
By AMI Staff – Marshall Cavendish Asia International, one of the leading quality book publishers in all of Southeast Asia, has now put out onto the SEA market the print edition of ‘Yo-Yo Diplomacy,’ the latest book by Professor Tom Plate of Loyola Marymount University. E-book editions will be available…
Full Article SINGAPORE: CONTROVERSIAL ‘YO-YO DIPLOMACY’ BOOK UNVEILED IN SOUTHEAST ASIA MARKETS