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"Asia Beyond the Stereotypes: Portrayals of North Korea, China, and India" featuring Barbara Demick and Kavita Philip

Barbara Demick is the Los Angeles Times Beijing bureau chief and the author of Logavina Street: Life and Death in a Sarajevo Neighborhood. Her most recent book, Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea, won the BBC's Samuel Johnson Award for the year's best work in nonfiction for 2010. Demick will join in conversation with Kavita Philip (History). The talk will be moderated by Erika Hayasaki (Literary Journalism), with introductory remarks from Jeffrey Wasserstrom (History).
Free and open to the public; light refreshments will be served. For more information or for disability accommodations, contact Patricia Pierson: piersonp@uci.edu or (949) 824-6876. Sponsored by the Department of History, the Literary Journalism Program, and the Center for Asian Studies.