2024-09-05 23:32
Well said, Andrea! "Asian Fantasy" labels are not just reductive, but toxic and tokenizing. It often comes from a lack of reading broadly, and we hope those readers will read wider and learn and grow.
(Ironically, for years my friends and I used to call many books "European Fantasy"--always meaning the shallow derivations of Tolkien and Camelot. That term obviously got challenged eventually.)