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...Asian roots," a category that can include just about anything with a gloss of soy sauce: expats writing Asia-based historical fiction, hyphenated Asians getting back to their roots, nonfiction writers discovering the region. Not to mention the proliferating literary output from the other side of the border with mainland China. Asian books are hot in the literary capitals of New York and London, and regional publishers are priming their presses for local authors. "It's all getting up to an international standard," says Vittachi. If Hong Kong can't produce Asia's greatest literature, the city...
...Westernization came relatively easily to Japan because it had been looking elsewhere for new ideas for centuries. Unlike China's rulers, who believed themselves to be the center of the world and exacted tribute from the barbarians around their empire, the Japanese turned without compunction to the Asian mainland for everything from their writing system to their Confucian values...
...inspiring fable, the story of Jackie Chan's youth is up there with Abraham Lincoln's or Harry Potter's. Boy is born in Hong Kong to poor refugees from the mainland. Boy enters opera school, where he trembles and thrives under his master's whip hand. Boy puts these hard lessons to use in films, becoming a would-be successor to Bruce Lee and finally his own man: an international star and, quite possibly, the most famous living Asian...
...Tensions over Pyongyang's nuclear program remained high as the U.S. resumed spy-plane flights near North Korea and announced that the country could be only months away from producing weapons-grade uranium. Amid concerns that Pyongyang was preparing to test a ballistic missile capable of reaching the Japanese mainland, Japan dispatched a reconnaissance ship toward the Korean peninsula and news reports said Tokyo was mulling sanctions if the test went ahead. MEANWHILE IN THAILAND ... Crimes of Passion Thai police have to fight not only criminals, but amorous advances from members of the public inflamed by their tight-fitting uniforms...
...Hoping to leapfrog this roadblock, Murdoch has been currying favor with Beijing ever since his Star satellite network, which runs nine channels in China, got a foothold on the mainland. The relationship got off to a rocky start in 1993, after Murdoch offended authorities by declaring that satellite broadcasting threatens "totalitarian regimes everywhere." Since then, Murdoch has chosen not to irritate the Communist Party. In 1999 he ordered HarperCollins, News Corp.'s publishing arm, to drop a book by former Hong Kong Governor Chris Patten because it was critical of Beijing and, shortly after, dismissed the Dalai Lama...