Teranga and Sun

I had worked with the brilliant tool Canva since 2017, albeit in a professional setting where I was more a passive recipient of mockups lovi...

Adrift from the Ming Dynasty to delve instead on Late Medieval/Early Renaissance Venice for my upcoming novel, The Mascherari. The jump...

17 May 2013 is officially Buddha's birthday this year, and all over the world, people have joined into the celebrations. Did you ...

I am pleased to announce the Paperback release of The Ming Storytellers on  January 2013 . To celebrate this occasion, one lucky ...

1. It has eunuch characters - The main male character is a Muslim eunuch with a turbulent childhood. He existed. Yet in contrast to w...

Post Opium War: (left to right) Britain, Germany, Russia, France and Japan slicing out China There is a perception, especially in th...

The alluring Gong Li in Tang Dynasty film,  Curse of the Golden Flower Nothing quite spells mystery like a glimpse into China’s forb...

It always irks me a little when I hear the people of several countries within the African continent being designated under the broad term...

Publishing Perspectives presented an interesting article about the complexity of translating Chinese books into English, together with...