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...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...
...rallies that culminated in a military coup. In a perverse reworking of history, the Thai putsch's supporters dubbed it a victory for People Power. Later, in a bid to reclaim the leadership their side lost in another set of elections, the so-called People's Alliance for Democracy took over Bangkok's international airport, dealing a body blow to Thailand's vital tourism industry. Since then, yellow- and red-shirted supporters of two political camps have taken turns occupying the government, and international visitors continue to stay away. Instead of relying on the sanctity of the ballot...
...opposition leaders to succeed as commander in chief. Just three days after a pair of Marcos allies defected from his camp because of the egregiously rigged electoral result that favored a decaying dictator over Aquino, Asia's first female President was sworn in. At the time, Cory Aquino took office as little more than a symbol: the grieving widow of opposition politician Benigno (Ninoy) Aquino Jr., who was gunned down at the Manila airport just moments after returning from exile in the U.S. (See Aquino's life in photos...
...every now and then it seems to return to the brink. But the dire days of deadly coup plots are over. At the end of her life, as she engaged in an excruciating battle with cancer, Corazon Aquino was the most revered figure in the Philippines. The country took out its yellow ribbons once again, bedecking trees and lampposts and even Facebook pages with the symbol of her revolution. And when she died, the Philippines and the world were reminded of the exemplary days of courage that she had embodied, the People Power uprising that would become a model...