Volume IV, Number 3, Winter 2004

Features

CONTEMPORARY ART IN A RURAL SETTING
Japan's Second Echigo-Tsumari Triennial: Linking art with the environment and involving local communities.
by Robert J. Fouser

THE RICKSHA ARTS OF BANGLADESH
Conveying the dreams and desires of the man in the street.
by Joanna Kirkpatrick


THE BLUE JACKET
A symbol of hope at a "thought-reform" farm.
by Gao Ertai

Poetry

A ROUGH SKETCH OF AUTUMN

by Hahm Dong-seon

Departments

EXHIBITION HIGHLIGHTS

CITY SCAN - Calcutta, Hong Kong, Osaka

BOOKS
Cookbook Roundup

Recently published books on Asian cuisine.
by Andrea Kempf




BOOK REVIEWS
Children of Kali: Through India in Search of Bandits, the Thug Cult and the British Raj by Kevin Rushby, reviewed by Arshia Sattar
The Chinese in America: A Narrative History by Iris Chang, reviewed by Adrienne Mong
Consuming Bodies: Sex and Contemporary Japanese Art edited by Fran Lloyd, reviewed by Susan J. Napier
The Image Factory: Fads and Fashions in Japan by Donald Richie, with photographs by Roy Garner, reviewed by Leila Wice
In Pursuit of Heavenly Harmony: Paintings and Calligraphy of Bada Shanren (1626-1705) from the Estate of Wang Fangyu and Sum Wai by Joseph Crang and Qianshen Bai, catalogue by Stephen D. Allee, reviewed by John R. Finlay
Mountain Home: The Wilderness Poetry of Ancient China translated by David Hinton, reviewed by Eva Shan Chou
Samurai William:The Englishman Who Opened Japan by Giles Milton, reviewed by Sarah Stephens
Stories for Saturday: Twentieth-Century Chinese Popular Fiction translated by Timothy C. Wong, reviewed by Tony Giffone
Tibet, Tibet: A Personal History of a Lost Land by Patrick French, reviewed by John M. Lundquist

To Live by Yu Hua, reviewed by Allan H. Barr
Tokyo: City on the Edge by Todd Crowell and Stephanie Forman Morimura, reviewed by Lawrence Rogers
Vietnam: Journeys of Body, Mind, and Spirit edited by Nguyen Huy and Laurel Kendall, reviewed by Annabel Jackson
A Yankee in Meiji Japan: The Crusading Journalist Edward H. House by James L. Huffman, reviewed by Yasuhiro Makimura


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