Kate Whitehead

The British writer, headline author at the Hong Kong Literary Festival in November 2015, talks to Kate

Chinese novelist Chan Koonchung says he writes for “his Beijing friends” though they can’t buy

Born in Shanghai in 1948, the artist spent the Cultural Revolution drawing propaganda posters and admiring

You have to be “a bit crazy” to want to go to the weird and wonderful places that excite

Inspiration doesn’t always come easy, but sometimes a cosy hotel room is all a writer needs to get

Ten years ago, the number of Western visitors to North Korea was well below a thousand a year, with Americans