http://www.asiaarts.ucla.edu/ Asia Pacific Arts, published by the UCLA Asia Institute, covers the dynamic worlds of Asian and Asian American arts and entertainment. en-us Or: Banned in China! Buy it! Race cars are cool! Plug into Yan Lianke's newly translated novel, Serve the People!http://www.asiaarts.ucla.edu/article.asp?parentid=91653In Finding Iris Chang, Paula Kamen explores her own friendship with the late Chinese American pioneer, attempting to make sense of a premature end.http://www.asiaarts.ucla.edu/article.asp?parentid=88428Tahmima Anam's A Golden Age brings a story about the Bangladesh Liberation War to an English-speaking audience, but at what expense?http://www.asiaarts.ucla.edu/article.asp?parentid=88562Novelists, playwrights, journalists, and slam poets. APA acknowledges Asians and Asian Americans that had a way with words in 2007.http://www.asiaarts.ucla.edu/article.asp?parentid=84592Published over a decade after its 1996 Korean debut, the English-translation of Kim Young-ha's first novel I Have the Right to Destroy Myself sheds light on Kim's beginnings in the Korean literature scene. http://www.asiaarts.ucla.edu/article.asp?parentid=83043In the first English-language book on celebrated director Ang Lee, Whitney Crothers Dilley provides a crash course on the filmmaker who rose to fame by transcending boundaries.http://www.asiaarts.ucla.edu/article.asp?parentid=79223Anupama Chopra's latest book King of Bollywood: Shah Rukh Khan and the Seductive World of Indian Cinema encapsulates all that is endlessly fascinating about the man and the movies.http://www.asiaarts.ucla.edu/article.asp?parentid=76446Cynthia Kadohata -- whose children's novel Kira-kira won her a Newbery Medal in 2005 -- writes from the point of view of a Vietnam war scout dog in her latest book: Cracker! The Best Dog in Vietnam.http://www.asiaarts.ucla.edu/article.asp?parentid=69548Alice Greenway's debut novel -- a story about two sisters living in Hong Kong during the Cultural Revolution -- took home a First Fiction award at the 2007 Los Angeles Festival of Books.http://www.asiaarts.ucla.edu/article.asp?parentid=69673The writing and conceptualization of Vikram Chandra's latest novel Sacred Games took him into the criminal underworld of Bombay where he discovered a story of epic proportions.http://www.asiaarts.ucla.edu/article.asp?parentid=69672