Volume 1, Number 1 Spring 2000
Features
  Artful
Marketing
by Geremie R. Barmé
Beijing’s “nonofficial” artists have achieved recognition
on the international market, but what they yearn for is acceptance at
home.
Voyage
to Exile
by Pramoedya Ananta Toer
The sea voyage that took Indonesia’s foremost living writer
and eight hundred fellow prisoners to the remote island penal colony
of Buru.
Pramoedya
Ananta Toer
by Suzanne Charlé
Profile of the novelist and controversial historian
Bounty
from the Sheep
by Tserendash Namkhainyambuu Popular philosopher, herdsman,
and former member of the Great Hural shares his wit and wisdom, in excerpts
from his autobiography.
Tserendash
Namkhainyambuu
by Mary Rossabi
Mongolia’s herdsman extraordinnaire.
On-Site: Letter from Hong Kong
by Josephine Khu
Crosscurrents of emigration and return.
Fiction
Graduation
by F. Sionil José
A story from the Rosales Saga, an epic work that spans a hundred
years of Filipino history.
The
Gotthard Railway
by Yoko Tawada
A short story by one of Japan’s most imaginative young writers.
Interview
with Yoko Tawada
by Eva Shan Chou
Fantasy and reality, and life in Japan and Germany
Departments
City
Scan — Beijing, Bombay, Phnom Penh, Seoul, Singapore
Gleanings
ART
The Art of Meditation: Korean installation artist Yook Tae-jin
by Robert Fouser
MUSIC
East Meets West: India’s fusion musicians
by Deepali Nandwani
FILM
Mononokehime: A Japanese phenomenon goes global
by Susan J. Napier
BOOK REVIEWS
Comfort
Women: A Filipina's Story of Prostitution and Slavery Under the Japanese
Military by Maria Rosa Henson, reviewed by Jill A.
Tardiff
The
Arts of the Sikh Kingdoms edited by Susan Stronge,
reviewed by Mary-Ann Milford-Lutzker
A Matter
of Time by Shashi Deshpande, reviewed by Nirmala
Bhat
Handwriting
by Michael Ondaatje, reviewed by Joe Kovacs
The
Encyclopedia of the Chinese Overseas edited by Lynn
Pan, reviewed by Eva Shan Chou
Streetlife
China by Michael Dutton, reviewed by Jean
Ash
Notes
of a Desolate Man by Chu Tien-Wen, reviewed by Tony
Giffone
The
Money Demon by Chen Diexian, reviewed by Andrea Kempf
A Sheep's
Song: A Writer's Reminiscences of Japan and the World
by Kato Shuichi, reviewed by Rebecca Spyke Gardner
The
Cape and Other Stories From the Japanese Ghetto
and
Snakelust
by Kenji Nakagami, reviewed by Kenneth Richard
The
Dragon Hunt: Five Stories by Tran Vu, reviewed by
Kim Ninh
POETRY
In Real Time: A Ghazal
by Agha Shahid Ali
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