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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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,…
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…
