Short Stories from the New Asia-Pacific
Cheng & Tsui (2009)
“Trevor Carolan’s Another Kind of Paradise is a wonderfully rich collection of some of the best contemporary fiction from East and Southeast Asia. These stories give students a direct window onto the wildly diverse cultural assumptions and in fluences at play in Asian societies today. And they illustrate in unforgettable ways the tensions and dramas of daily life in societies undergoing economic and cultural change at a dizzying pace. Another Kind of Paradise is the perfect supplement to any course on modern Asia, or on contemporary Asian, world or comparative literature.”—Paul Ropp, Klein Professor of History and Asian Studies, Clark University
Trevor Carolan was born in Yorkshire and began writing professionally at age seventeen, filing dispatches from San Francisco’s Haight-Ashbury music scene. He is widely published as a journalist, literary critic, anthologist, poet, and translator and has also worked as a media advocate for international human rights, Canadian Aboriginal land claims, and Pacific Coast watershed issues. He holds a doctorate in interdisciplinary studies from Bond University in Queensland, Australia, and teaches English at University of the Fraser Valley, near Vancouver.
His other books are Against The Shore: The Best of Pacific Rim Review of Books, which he co-edited with Richard Olafson; The Pillow Book of Dr. Jazz, an autobiographical novel; Celtic Highway, a collection of poetry; Giving Up Poetry, a memoir of his acquaintance with Allen Ginsberg; and Return to Stillness: Twenty Years With a Tai Chi Master, an account of his lengthy studies with Master Ng Ching-Por in Vancouver’s Chinatown.
