2008 Man Asian Literary Prize

Advisory Council for the 2007 Prize

The Prize's Advisory Council assisted the Administrative Committee in various activities, including outreach. The Advisory Council for 2007 was, in alphabetical order:

	Mark L. Clifford was Editor-in-Chief the South China Morning Post, from February 3, 2006 to April 1, 2007. He left to join the Asia Business Council, as its Executive Director. Clifford is also the author of several books, including China and the WTO: Changing China, Changing World Trade (2002).
	Charles Foran is an award-winning Canadian writer, journalist and broadcaster. His books include Carolan's Farewell, Kitchen Music, Butterfly Lovers, House on Fire and Sketches in Winter: A Beijing Postcript, The Last House of Ulster: A Family in Belfast and The Story of My Life (So Far).
	Leung Ping-kwan is Chairman of the Chinese Department at Hong Kong's Lingnan University. He is a literary, film and culture critic and an accomplished contemporary Chinese language poet. He has published more than ten volumes of poems, including bilingual editions such as Travelling with a Bitter Melon (2002).
	Pankaj Mishra is the author of The Romantics (2000), An End to Suffering: The Buddha in the World (2004), and his most recent book, Temptations of the West: How to be Modern in India, Pakistan and Beyond. Mr. Mishra also writes literary and political essays for The New York Times, The New York Review of Books, The Guardian, and the New Statesman.
	Hsu-Ming Teo's first novel Love and Vertigo, was awarded the Australian/Vogel Award. Her most recent book is Behind the Moon. Born in Malaysia in 1970, she is now a research fellow at the Department of Modern History at Macquarie University.