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...reflexive imitation, a term coined in the 18th century by Adam Smith to describe the psychological act of putting yourself in someone else's shoes and experiencing their feelings - you wouldn't do that unless you were after some sort of social bond. Some years later, in 1999, the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology published an influential paper showing how socially bonding the act of mimicking can be, even when people aren't aware they're being imitated. In the study, psychologists Tanya Chartrand, who is now at Duke, and John Bargh, who is now at Yale, asked college...
...What began in 1999 as a Hong Kong journal of prose and poetry known as Dim Sum - a part-time labor of love produced, somewhat intermittently, by Hong Kong author Nury Vittachi - took on a new lease of life when, in late 2006, U.K.-based banker and arts patron Ilyas Khan bought out the publication. He restyled it as the ALR, publishing it under the umbrella of his Asia-focused literary publishing agency and film-production business, Creative Work. "We purposely decided not to restrict ourselves to Hong Kong," says Khan, previously a director of the Man Hong Kong International...
...Khan and his partners, who include former Granta editor Ian Jack, first had to lay down the journal's parameters. "The concept of Asia is tricky because it's an idea as much as a geographical area," says Chris Wood, who took on the role of the ALR's editor in chief in 2007. "We asked ourselves, Can we actually call ourselves the Asia Literary Review? What are our boundaries? Do we include Constantinople, Australia? Do we limit ourselves to Asians writing about Asia?" In the end, the ALR decided not to opt for a mission statement but to keep...
...love," insists Khan. "Writing is a profession, and it's just as important as any other art or form of expression. We pay the going rate." Wood backs him up. "We can pay a fee that will encourage writers," he says, "and if we can put them in a journal alongside better-known names that's a great encouragement. In the past, many Asian authors have found it difficult to see a future in writing. Perhaps now they can see the road ahead...
Some locals are seeing the loss as an opportunity. The folks behind the Ann Arbor Observer, a 33-year-old free monthly, hope to pick up some of the News's journalists and advertisers. Then there's the Ann Arbor Journal, a free weekly paper/website that started circulating to 20,000 homes three weeks before the News closed. Plus, the university has the Michigan Daily, which doesn't cover the town but keeps an eye on its biggest employer. All in all, there may eventually be more reporters covering Ann Arbor than before the newspaper was killed...