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Simon Elegant is an award-winning journalist, novelist, and screenwriter with an extensive career covering Asia. He served as Bureau Chief for TIME magazine in both Southeast Asia and China and worked as an editor and correspondent for the Far Eastern Economic Review. His journalism provided in-depth insights into the region’s political, social, and economic landscapes, earning him a distinguished reputation in the field.
As a novelist, he has written A Chinese Wedding, which explores the cultural complexities faced by an American woman marrying into a Hong Kong family, and A Floating Life, a historical novel centered on the Tang dynasty poet Li Bai. The latter was praised by The New York Times for its evocative portrayal of both the legend ...more

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A Floating Life: The Advent...
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City on Fire: A Novel of Ho...
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A Chinese Wedding
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