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Phil Whelan asks Michel Bonnin, Director of the Sino-French Academic Centre at Tsinghua University and also author of the book "The Lost Generation: The Rustification of Chinese Youth (1968--1980) " to tell us what is the book about and how did he mana...

Joe Studwell speaks about his new book, How Asia Works

Phil Whelan is joined by this years Pulitzer Prize winner for fiction (The Orphan Master's Son), Adam Johnson.

Phil Whelan meets martial arts expert and writer Hing Chao, who's just put together and published a manual on a 300 year old Kung Fu discipline called "Hung Kuen".

Phil Whelan had a chat with hot property British author, Joanna Kavenna. She is the author of The Ice Museum, Inglorious (which won the Orange Prize for New Writing), The Birth Of Love, and Come to the Edge. Her fiction has appeared in the New Yorker, ...

Stephen King, chief economist at HSBC, says the western world will have to accept that the last 60-70 years were the golden age and growth was abnormally strong. With the prospect of slower growth ahead and the need to deleverage, western countries wil...

Phil Whelan meets 2010 Pulitzer prize for verse winner, Rae Armantrout on her poem and asks how she became a poet.

Anna Pao Sohmen, the daughter of the late shipping tycoon YK Pao, talks about her new book, "Y K Pao: My Father", dedicated to the memory of her famous father.

Phil Whelan talks to author and scholar Marshall Moore about his latest novel "Bitter Orange", which looks at just what would happen if somebody REALLY had what we might call "superhuman" powers.

Author and scholar Mark O'Neill is one of the several writers here for the HK Book Fair 2013. He talks about a personal story of his grandfather, a missionary in Manchuria in the 19th century.

Phil Whelan is joined by Michael Vatikiotis, writer, and formerly a journalist for the BBC and chief editor of the Far East Economic Review to talk about his working experience as a journalist and his latest book, The Painter of Lost Souls.

Phil Whelan meets author and Professor (of East Asian Studies at Fairfield University, USA) Danke Li on her new book "Echoes of Chongqing: Women in Wartime China". It documents the story of ordinary women in an extraordinary situation during the second...

Angie Man is joined by Florence Hui, Under Secretary for Home Affairs, to talk about the books which have inspired her to see things with a holistic view, not just in work, but in all walks of life.

On Morning Brew, Phil Whelan meets author Philip Eisenbeiss who has recently penned "The Bel Canto Bully" telling of the exploits of the legendary opera impresario, Domenico Barbaja (and accompanies a brand new NAXOS CD of the same name).

Minfong Ho, award winning Chinese American writer talks about cross cultural challenges and her books for young readers.

Jan Latta, an adventurous wildlife photographer and author of 'The True to Life' book series tells us about why it is important to educate children about endangered species and about the HK Young Readers Festival she participated in.

Robert Newton talks to Phil Whelan about his book "The Black Dog Gang" and how he started writing. Robert is also here for the 2013 Hong Kong Young Readers Festival.

Phil Whelan chats author Tan Twan Eng who was announced as the winner of the 2013 Man Asian Literary Prize. He is the first Malaysian author to win Asia’s most prestigious literary award.

Phil Whelan meets Dr. Maya Jaggi, Monique Truong and and Vikram Chandra, the esteemed judges of 2013 Man Asian Literary Prize and asks them the art of judging.

Indian author Jeet Thayil tells Phil Whelan about his book, Narcopolis, which illustrates the transformation of Bombay to Mumbai - through the change of opium to heroin. He is one of the shortlisted finalists of the Man Asian Literary Prize.