Volume 1, Number 2, Summer 2000
Features
  Stage for Dreams
by Kazukiyo Matsuba
Museums designed by Tadao Ando are under construction in Fort Worth and Saint Louis. Asahi Shimbun architecture critic Kazukiyo Matsuba reflects on Andos latest work in Japan, and on his career.
A Requiem for Portuguese Macau
by Jonathan Porter
After over four centuries of Portuguese control, the sleepy city was handed over to China last December. How will Chinese rule affect its unique cultural heritage?
Living on the Edge
by Nu Nu Yiy
A young widow infected with HIV, the mother of an undernourished child, and a homeless old womanBurmese author Nu Nu Yiys portraits of three of her compatriots.
Nu Nu Yiy
by Anna Allott
Profile of the Burmese novelist and short story writer.
On-site: The Alien Home
by Pico Iyer
Sort of at home in suburban Japan. Reflections on "the global soul."
Fiction
Snakes Weep, Flowers Smile
by Suwanee Sukhontha
A Thai short story of love and loss.
Donkey Avenue
by Mo Yan
An excerpt from The Republic of Wine, a literary tour-de-force by the author of Red Sorghum.
A Talk with Chinese Novelist Mo Yan
by Jeffrey C. Kinkley
The experimentalist who has reinvented the vocabulary of Chinese fiction.
Departments
City Scan Hanoi, Kathmandu, Taipei, Tokyo
Gleanings
Worth Repeating
ART
The Legacy of Absence: Cambodian artists confront the past
by Sarah Stephens
MUSIC
East Meets West: Indias fusion musicians
by Deepali Nandwani
FILM
Dark Dreams, Bright Dreams: The Terrorist and The Cup
by L. Somi Roy
BOOK REVIEWS
Archipelago, The Islands of Indonesia: From the Nineteenth-Century Discoveries of Alfred Russel Wallace to the Fate of Forests and Reefs in the Twenty-First Century by Gavin Daws and Marty Fujita, reviewed by Vaudine England
Gods and Goblins: Japanese Folk Paintings from Otsu by Meher McArthur, reviewed by Lorrie Bunker
A Boy Called H: A Childhood in Wartime Japan by Kappa Senoh, reviewed by Peter Siegenthaler
Ward Four: A Novel of Wartime China by Ba Jin, reviewed by Tony Giffone
A Thousand Moons on a Thousand Rivers by Hsiao Li-Hung, reviewed by Eva Shan Chou
Waiting by Ha Jin, reviewed by Timothy Tung Tournament of Shadows: The Great Game and the Race for Empire in Central Asia by Karl E. Meyer and Shareen Blair Brysac, reviewed by Morris Rossabi
The Encyclopedia of Tibetan Symbols and Motifs by Robert Beer, reviewed by Valrae Reynolds
The Dragon in the Land of Snows: A History of Modern Tibet Since 1947 by Tsering Shakya, reviewed by John M. Lundquist
Moth Smoke by Mohsin Hamid, reviewed by Elizabeth White
The Romantics by Pankaj Mishra, reviewed by Andrea Kempf
POETRY
Fall and Find
by Nguyen Duy
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