Volume 1, Number 1 Spring 2000
Features
  Artful Marketing
by Geremie R. Barmé
Beijings 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 Indonesias 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
Mongolias 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 Japans 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: Indias 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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