MOTIBA'S TATTOOS
by Mira Kamdar
An Indian-American woman's journey to her grandmother's village in rural Kathiawar.

GAO XINGJIAN
by Mabel Lee
The translator of Soul Mountain on the first Chinese winner of the Nobel Prize in literature.
Excerpt from Soul Mountain by Gao Xingjian
The Reaction in China by Eric Shepherd

UNDERGROUND
by Haruki Murakami
Japan's internationally acclaimed novelist interviews survivors of the Aum poison gas attack.

On-Site: LETTER FROM JAKARTA
by Amir Sidharta
Indonesia's capital post-Suharto: Actors, artists, rascals, restoration.

Fiction
NIGHT CITY
by Shaukat Siddiqi
The world that good families try to keep outside their doors when they lock up at night.

Shaukat Siddiqi
by Sagaree Sengupta
Pakistan's venerable man of letters.

Departments

CITY SCAN Bombay (Mumbai), Kuala Lumpur, Manila, Shanghai, Shizuoka City

GLEANINGS

WORTH REPEATING

MUSIC The King's Witch: Memory and redemption in a chamber opera from Indonesia
by Suzanne Charlé

FILM
In the Mood for Love, reviewed by Karen Fang
Gohatto (Taboo), reviewed by Christine L. Marran

BOOK REVIEWS

The Tale of Murasaki by Liza Dalby, reviewed by Robert Omar Khan
Norwegian Wood by Haruki Murakami, reviewed by Helen Mitsios
A Lost Paradise by Junichi Watanabe, reviewed by Andrea Kempf
The Mekong: Turbulent Past, Uncertain Future by Milton Osborne, reviewed by Sara Stephens
Against the Flood by Ma Van Khang, reviewed by Kim Ninh
Aching for Beauty: Footbinding in China by Wang Ping, reviewed by Alan Baumler
Planet Hong Kong: Popular Cinema and the Art of Entertainment by David Bordwell, reviewed by S. Louisa Wei
The Lily Theatre: A Novel of Modern China by Lulu Wang, reviewed by Tony Giffone
Representing the Japanese Occupation of Indonesia: Personal Testimonies and Public Images in Indonesia, Japan, and the Netherlands edited by Remco Raben, reviewed by Tracy Steele

POETRY
Like the Wind Leaving the Lotus
by So Chongju

© 2001 Contemporary Asian Culture, Inc.