FROM SOUTHWEST CHINA TO APPALACHIA
by L. Somi Roy
Introducing regional filmmakers from Yunnan and Sichuan to the Appalshop media collective in Whitesburg, Kentucky.

WOMEN IN THE WAVES
by Jane Handel
The archetypal feminine in the work of Masami Teraoka.

A SMALL START
by Ingrid Muan
Artist and Khmer Rouge survivor Vann Nath plans for an old people's home in Battambang, Cambodia.

On-Site:IN THE SHADOW OF THE DAM
by Peter Hessler
Life in a river town on the Yangtze, three hundred miles upstream from the Three Gorges Project.

Fiction
THE GOAT MEAT SPECIAL
by Ho Anh Thai
A morality tale from Vietnam.

LEAVING THE GOLDEN LAND
by Amitav Ghosh
An excerpt from The Glass Palace.

INTERVIEW WITH AMITAV GHOSH
by Biswarup Sen
The award-winning Bengali writer talks about his life and work.

Departments
CITY SCAN - Bangkok, Hong Kong, Medan, New Delhi, Osaka, Seoul

GLEANINGS

WORTH REPEATING

ART
Part Circus, Part Sacred Space: Chinese paper cutting as fine art in the work of Lu Shengzhong
by Alexa Olesen

FILM
Chunhyang: Bringing a classic Korean art form to film
by Helen H. Koh

BOOKS
Nature Books
In Search of Painted Sweetlips, Wispy Waspfish, and the Bornean Bristlehead: A selection of recent nature books on Asia
by John Day

Book Reviews
Shanghai by Riichi Yokomitsu, reviewed by Andrea Kempf
Sputnik Sweetheart by Haruki Murakami, reviewed by Susan J. Napier
Our Twisted Hero by Yi Munyol, reviewed by George Kallander
Wild Kids: Two Novels about Growing Up by Chang Ta-chun, reviewed by Eva Shan Chou
The River Below by Francois Cheng, reviewed by Tony Giffone
Ladder to the Clouds: Intrigue and Tradition in Chinese Rank, reviewed by John R. Finlay
Model Rebels: The Rise and Fall of China's Richest Village by Bruce Gilley, reviewed by W.K. Cheng
Who Are the Jews of India? by Nathan Katz, reviewed by Lawrence Cohen
Grown Long, Blessed Night: Love Poems from Classical India translated and edited by Martha Ann Selby, reviewed by Meena Alexander
The Death of Vishnu by Manil Suri, reviewed by Arshia Sattar

POETRY
Golden Dragon Temple
by Luo Fu