Volume IV, Number 2, Summer 2003

Features

FROM KENTUCKY TO KUNMING
An AppalachiaSouthwest China filmmakers' exchange.
by L. Somi Roy

COMING TO TERMS WITH THE PAST
French Cambodian director Rithy Panh's films on the effects of the Khmer Rouge regime.
by Caroline Herrick

THE REINVENTION OF TRADITION
The paintings and calligraphy of Taiwan artists Liu Kuo-sung, Hsiao Chin, and Tong Yang-tze
by Yi-li Kao

Fiction

THE BOISTEROUS GAME
A short story by the author of To Live.
by Yu Hua

Poetry

GODZILLA OF THE DISTANCE
THE STRUCTURE OF THE EGGPLANT
VANISHED FLOWERS, DREAMS AND
SACRIFICES
by Akira Tatehata

Departments

EXHIBITION HIGHLIGHTS

CITY SCAN - Phnom Penh, Seoul, Taipei


BOOK REVIEWS

Autobiography of a Geisha by Sayo Masuda, reviewed by Susan J. Napier
Contemporary Indian Art: Other Realities edited by Yashodhara Dalmia, reviewed by Justin Marx
Cousin Felix Meets the Buddha: And Other Encounters in China and Tibet by Lincoln Kaye, reviewed by Tony Giffone
A Dictionary of Maqiao by Han Shaogong, reviewed by Hsiao-ping Wang
The Gate by François Bizot, reviewed by Sarah Stephens
The Great Wave: Gilded Age Misfits, Japanese Eccentrics, and the Opening of Old Japan by Christopher Benfey, reviewed by Andrea Kempf
Nanjing 1937: A Love Story by Ye Zhaoyan, reviewed by Allan H. Barr
Pakistan: In the Shadow of Jihad and Afghanistan by Mary Anne Weaver, reviewed by David Vinjamuri
Ruling from the Dragon Throne: Costumes of the Qing Dynasty (1644-1911) by John E. Vollmer, reviewed by Lee Kavaljian
Tales of Tibet: Sky Burials, Prayer Wheels, and Wind Horses edited and translated by Herbert Batt, reviewed by Patricia Schiaffini
Twinkle, Twinkle by Kaori Ekuni, reviewed by Eileen B. Mikals-Adachi
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