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Asia House Literature Programme Manager Jemimah Steinfeld (left), Alec Ash (centre) and Rob Schmitz (right). Chinese today are dreaming for much more than material wealth and their dreams are more individualistic than in the past. This was topic of the literature event 'Chasing dreams: the common man in China today' held at Asia House.

Chinese life goals have shifted from making money to finding meaning, say authors

China-based authors Rob Schmitz and Alec Ash reveal what the young Chinese today really want.

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Chinatown in San Francisco

Being a famous Chinese-American is an ‘impossible burden,’ says author

Peter Ho Davies, author of The Fortunes, gives an interview ahead of his talk on 22 August.

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Three young Chinese Red Guards from the Cultural Revolution.

The cult of the mango in the Cultural Revolution

Jemimah Steinfeld explains how mangoes, shaped liked the sun, came to symbolise Mao.

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Celebrated author and veteran India correspondent Sir Mark Tully is pictured speaking to a gathering of members of the Indian Journalists' Association in London where he spoke about India prime minister Narendra Modi's first two years in office

Sir Mark Tully: ‘So far Modi has done nothing about reforming the administration of India’

The veteran author and broadcaster shares his views on Narendra Modi's first two years in office.

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Adonis Haxholli, 14, from Haverstock School in London, receives his Amazon vouchers after being told he has won the poetry prize in the Asia House Student Writing Competition 2016. He is seen with a representative from Eastside Educational Trust at a writing workshop held at Asia House

A poem about Kosovo among the winners of the Asia House Student Writing Contest

More than 500 students from schools across the UK entered the competition this year.

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