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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 Yokohamapart 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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