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Volume IV, Number 1, Spring 2003
Features
  A
PAINTER WITH NEEDLES
Young Yang Chung, advocate of and proselytizer for a new and elevated
conception of the embroiderer's art.
by Morris Rossabi
THE
CHUNG YOUNG YANG EMBROIDERY MUSEUM
A
new museum opens in Seoul in 2004.
TAIWAN'S
TAI-GU TALES DANCE THEATER
Founder and choreographer Lin Hsiu-Wei combines influences from East
and West in her distinctive, original dance aesthetic.
by Caroline Herrick
HOW JAPAN PICTURED
THE WEST
Nineteenth-century woodblock prints from Yokohama—part popular
art, part breaking news report.
by Suzanne Charlé
CITY
SCAN - Beijing, Sapporo, Ulaanbaatar
FILM
Capturing
the essence of Korean identity, in ink and on film: Im Kwan Taek's
Chihwaseon (Painted Fire)
by Angela Y. Choi
ART
BOOK ROUNDUP - Photography - Japanese gardens -
Indonesian puppets
by Caroline Herrick
BOOK REVIEWS
An
Artistic Exile: A Life of Feng Zikai (1898-1975)
by Geremie R. Barmé, reviewed by Pieter Holstein
Bombay
London New York by
Amitava Kumar, reviewed by David Vinjamuri
The
Breaking Jewel by Makoto
Oda, reviewed by Ronald Suleski
Call
Me Ishmael Tonight: A Book of Ghazals by Agha Shahid
Ali, reviewed by Sara Suleri Goodyear
Embracing
the Firebird: Yosano Akiko and the Birth of the Female Voice in Modern
Japanese Poetry by Janine Beichman, reviewed by Charles
DeWolf
Grace:
An American Woman in China, 1934-1974 by Eleanor
McCallie Cooper and William Liu, reviewed by Tony Giffone
Letters
from Thailand by Botan, reviewed by Andrea
Kempf
A Loyal
Character Dancer by Qiu Xiaolong, reviewed by Jeffrey
C. Kinkley
Memoirs
from the Beijing Film Academy: The Genesis of China's Fifth Generation
by Ni Zhen, reviewed by S. Louisa Wei
The
Seduction of Silence by Bem Le Hunte, reviewed by
Eve Kushner
Travelling
with a Bitter Melon: Selected Poems (1973-1998) by
Leung Ping-kwan, reviewed by Brian Holton
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