Shelly Sanders is a Canadian novelist who writes historical fiction set in Old Shanghai and the former Soviet Union. Her main characters are Jewish and ultimately have to flee their homes in the hope…
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- Julie Masis is the editor and publisher of the Russian Boston Gazette, a newspaper for Russian-speaking immigrants in Boston. She is also a freelance journalist who has written extensive…
- Karen Fang is professor of English at the University of Houston and author of the new book Background Artist: The Life and World of Tyrus Wong (Rutgers University Press, 2025), which is…
- Shalama and Paul, Shanghai, 1950. Photo courtesy of Jean Hoffmann Lewanda I met the author Jean Hoffmann Lewanda for lunch this past November in New Jersey, not too far from her home in subur…
- I first came across Cara Lopez Lee on a listserv group (remember those!) for authors who write about Asia. Cara’s memoir, They Only Eat Their Husbands: Love, Travel, and the Power of Running Away…
- Katie Gee Salisbury first came across Anna May Wong when she was doing a college internship and found an old black-and-white photo of the starlet from almost a century earlier. This image would fo…
- Ivy Ngeow grew up in Johor Bahru, Malaysia, and now makes her home in London. An architect and interior designer by trade, she is also a novelist with five books under her belt, the latest a thril…
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Felix Lembersky, Execution: Babyn Yar (1952), oil on canvas, 35 1/4 x 46 3/8 in. / Private collection Yelena Lembersky (b. 1969) grew up in Leningrad at a time when Jews were sta…
- Weina Dai Randel burst onto the literary scene a number of years ago with her duology about Empress Wu Zetian, China’s first woman leader. After winning the prestigious Rita Award in 2017 an…