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Carol Isaak on Portland’s Lan Su Chinese Garden
Episode 59
Lan Su Garden is a magnificent Ming scholar garden in downtown Portland, Oregon. It opened in 2000, a collaboration between sister cities Portland an…
7 months, 1 week ago
Books on Korean Islands with John Ross and Chris Tharp
Episode 58
The islands, in order of appearance in the episode, are: Geomun Island (Port Hamilton); the garden island of Oedo (Oe Island – “do” is the Korean wor…
7 months, 2 weeks ago
Amy & John Discuss Gift Book Ideas for the Holidays
Episode 57
Books discussed in this episode, in order of appearance:
The Last Great Australian Adventurer: Ben Carlin's Epic Journey Around the World by Amphibiou…
7 months, 3 weeks ago
Ted Goossen on Translating Hiromi Kawakami's "Third Love"
Episode 56
Amy Chavez has a deep discussion with Ted Goossen about Japan, it's emerging culture, it's historically strong women and how Japanese literature and …
8 months ago
Sam Baldwin–Self-publishing Success and a New Travel Book Review Website
Episode 55
Sam Baldwin tells John Ross about some ingredients behind the success of his self-published memoir For Fukui’s Sake: Two Years in Rural Japan (the su…
8 months, 1 week ago
What's it Like to Live in China? Mark Kitto on China Running Dog
Episode 54
In his novel China Running Dog, a young man in his early twenties lives in Shanghai in the year 2000, in a greed-crazed free-for-all moral and lawles…
8 months, 2 weeks ago
The Wondrous Elixir of the Two Chinese Lovers–Tim McGirk
Episode 53
The Wondrous Elixir of the Two Chinese Lovers – Tim McGirk
The novel tells the story of archaeologist Ned Sheehan's discovery of two ancient Chinese t…
8 months, 3 weeks ago
Lauren Scharf on Japanese traditional houses: minka and akiya
Episode 52
Lauren Scharf talks about Japan's minka, kominka and akiya houses in Japan.
MinkaCon 2025, is an event to be held from Nov. 7-9, in Shinshiro, Aichi P…
9 months ago
A Tale of Three Tribes in Dutch Formosa
Episode 51
A Tale of Three Tribes in Dutch Formosa (by Yao-Chang Chen, translated by He Wen-ching)
Sitting in for Amy is the duo John Ross & Eryk Michael Smith o…
9 months, 1 week ago
Sally Burdon: Asia Bookroom and rare books
Episode 50
Asia Bookroom exhibits their most precious items at rare and antiquarian book fairs in Melbourne, Sydney, and Hong Kong. Look for them at the Sydney …
9 months, 2 weeks ago