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Following the format of the highly successful Great British Railway Journeys and related series with Portillo as presenter, each episode features a railway journey in south-east Asia using Bradshaw's Through Routes to the Chief Cities, and Bathing, and Health Resorts of the World (1913) [a] as a historical reference, in order to consider how ...
The Scholastic Asian Book Award (SABA) is the joint initiative of Scholastic Asia and the Singapore Book Council (SBC). The award recognizes children's writers of Asian origin who are taking the experiences of life, spirit, and thinking in different parts of Asia to the world at large.
The Bureau began to publish a magazine, Lotus, a forum for short stories, poetry, book reviews, and literary essays. [4] The inaugural Lotus Prize was given in 1969 to Alex La Guma, who was living in exile in London at the time. [5] After the assassination of its secretary general, the Bureau moved to Beirut, then Tunisia, and finally back to ...
The literary critic and sinologist Andrew H. Plaks writes that the term "classic novels" in reference to these six titles is a "neologism of twentieth-century scholarship" that seems to have come into common use under the influence of C. T. Hsia's The Classic Chinese Novel.
The Asian American Literary Awards are a set of annual awards that have been presented by The Asian American Writers' Workshop since 1998. The awards include a set of honors for excellence in fiction, poetry and nonfiction, chosen by a panel of literary and academic judges; a Members' Choice Award, voted on by the Workshop's members from the list of that year's entries; and a Lifetime ...
A new group, South Asian Women for Harris, raised over $250,000 for the campaign during a two-hour call last week, according to The Associated Press. Around 4,000 women attended, including ...
In this work, the author relates the story of a time best described by Captain Arthur Connolly, of the East India Company before he was beheaded in Bokhara for spying in 1842, as "The Great Game". The Great Game was played between the Russian Empire and British Empire for supremacy in Central Asia. At stake was the preservation of India, key to ...
In the last two decades, the Asian American population has more than doubled in the U.S., according to census data, with Indian Americans now accounting for the country’s largest Asian group.