{"id":1081,"date":"2012-08-10T10:56:42","date_gmt":"2012-08-10T02:56:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/xichuanpoetry.com\/?p=1081"},"modified":"2012-08-10T10:56:42","modified_gmt":"2012-08-10T02:56:42","slug":"finalists-for-2012-asia-society-bernard-schwartz-book-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xichuanpoetry.com\/?p=1081","title":{"rendered":"Finalists for 2012 Asia Society Bernard Schwartz Book Award"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/asiasociety.org\/media\/press-releases\/five-finalists-chosen-2012-asia-society-bernard-schwartz-book-award?utm_campaign=socialmedia&amp;utm_source=twitter&amp;utm_medium=socialmedia\" target=\"_blank\">Asia Society <\/a>has announced the finalists for its Bernard Schwartz Book Award. The only literary author shortlisted is <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Yu_Hua_%28author%29\" target=\"_blank\">Yu Hua<\/a> \u4f59\u534e:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<ul>\n<li><em>Cambodia\u2019s Curse: The Modern History of a Troubled Land<\/em> by Joel Brinkley (PublicAffairs)<\/li>\n<li><em>China in Ten Words<\/em> by Yu Hua (Pantheon Books)<\/li>\n<li><em>Deng Xiaoping and the Transformation of China<\/em> by Ezra Vogel (Belknap Press of Harvard University Press)<\/li>\n<li><em>Water: Asia\u2019s New Battleground<\/em> by Brahma Chellaney (Georgetown University Press)<\/li>\n<li><em>Where China Meets India: Burma and the New Crossroads of Asia<\/em> by Thant Myint-U (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>For more information, including the list of judges, click <a href=\"http:\/\/asiasociety.org\/media\/press-releases\/five-finalists-chosen-2012-asia-society-bernard-schwartz-book-award?utm_campaign=socialmedia&amp;utm_source=twitter&amp;utm_medium=socialmedia\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Asia Society has announced the finalists for its Bernard Schwartz Book Award. The only literary author shortlisted is Yu Hua \u4f59\u534e: Cambodia\u2019s Curse: The Modern History of a Troubled Land by Joel Brinkley (PublicAffairs) China in Ten Words by &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/xichuanpoetry.com\/?p=1081\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[3],"tags":[450,679,678,676,680,677],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8srwF-hr","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":2229,"url":"https:\/\/xichuanpoetry.com\/?p=2229","url_meta":{"origin":1081,"position":0},"title":"Xi Chuan, Yu Hua, Mo Yan, &#038; others at Istanbul Book Fair","author":"Lucas Klein","date":"October 30, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"China will be guest of honor at the International Istanbul Book Fair (Nov 2-10), with the theme being the Journey of Chinese literature from traditional to contemporary as illustrated by the \u201cNew Silk Road.\u201d Festivities are scheduled to include Xi Chuan \u897f\u5ddd and sixteen other Chinese authors, such as Ge\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Links&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Links","link":"https:\/\/xichuanpoetry.com\/?cat=3"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":1306,"url":"https:\/\/xichuanpoetry.com\/?p=1306","url_meta":{"origin":1081,"position":1},"title":"Found in Translation: Five Chinese Books You Should Read","author":"Lucas Klein","date":"October 19, 2012","format":false,"excerpt":"In yesterday's post on the review of Bei Dao's The Rose of Time: New and Selected Poems (New Directions, edited by Eliot Weinberger), I also mentioned the short collection of Bei Dao's poetry Endure (Black Widow Press), which I translated with Clayton Eshleman. 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