https://www.scmp.com/rss/318739/feed en https://assets.i-scmp.com/static/img/icons/scmp-meta-1200x630.png https://www.scmp.com At the Beijing Bookworm Literary Festival, while browsing the bookstands, I heard a European woman comment wearily: "Asian writers are so predictable. Home, family, displacement and immigration - that's all they write about." Obnoxious as it was, there was a certain truth to the remark. For though one can find a plethora of novels written by Chinese, Bangladeshi, Lebanese, and other so-called non-native English speakers, the subjects they can write about have been limited by certain stereotypes... https://www.scmp.com/comment/insight-opinion/article/1768320/asian-writers-struggle-stereotype-their-origins?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/comment/insight-opinion/article/1768320/asian-writers-struggle-stereotype-their-origins?utm_source=rss_feed Fri, 17 Apr 2015 02:41:32 +0000