Volume 1, Number 3, Winter 2001
Features
  THE
GANGES SIDE OF MODERN
by Raghubir Singh
The master photographer’s reflections on his work and on the cornerstones
of Indian art and life.
THOSE WHO EAT
by Yo Henmi
Foraging on the flip side of plenty-in Dhaka, Bangkok, and Mogadishu
— with the prize-winning Japanese journalist.
RISING HIGH
an interview by Sang Ye
A Beijing builder tells her story.
On-Site: LETTER FROM CALCUTTA
by Dominique Lapierre
An emotional evocation of the “City of Joy.”
Fiction
POSTCOLONIAL AFFAIRS OF FOOD AND THE HEART
by Leung Ping-kwan
Hong Kong at the handover.
A SHOW TO DELIGHT THE MASSES
by Tsering Dondrup
A Tibetan tale, in which justice is served.
TSERING DONDRUP
by Lauran Hartley and Pema Bhum
Profile of the Mongolian/Tibetan writer from Qinghai Province.
Departments
CITY
SCAN — Chennai (Madras), Dhaka, Jakarta, Ulaan Baatar, Xian
GLEANINGS
WORTH
REPEATING
THEATER
A Theater of Expression from the Valley of Manipur: Indian director
Ratan Thiyam’s company tours the United States
by Sunil Kothari
FILM
Blurring the Boundaries: The use of fact in fiction
After Life, reviewed by Mark Schilling
Not One Less, reviewed by Shelly Kraicer
BOOKS
Art Book Roundup
BOOK REVIEWS
Evening
Clouds by Junzo Shono, reviewed by Craig Loomis
Japonisme:
The Japanese Influence on Western Art Since 1858
by Siegfried Wichmann, reviewed by John M. Lundquist
The
Blue Bedspread by Raj Kamal Jha, reviewed by Karline
McLain
Anil's
Ghost by Michael Ondaatje, reviewed by Ranjini Obeyesekere
Death
of a Red Heroine by Qiu Xiaolong, reviewed by Andrea
Kempf
Shanghai:
The Rise and Fall of a Decadent City by Stella Dong,
reviewed by Timothy Tung
Virtual
Tibet: Searching for Shangri-la from the Himalayas to Hollywood
by Orville Schell, reviewed by Greg Alling
First
They Killed My Father by
Loung Ung and
When
Broken Glass Floats by Chanrithy Him,
reviewed by Felicity Wood
Voices
from S-21: Terror and History in Pol Pot's Secret Prison
by David Chandler, reviewed by Sarah Stephens
POETRY
Blue Women
by Makoto Ook
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