Volume III, Number 3, Winter 2003

Features

TIMELESS HUMOR
Two Chinese master cartoonists, Liao Bingxiong and Fang Cheng, bemoan the fading of tradition.
by John A. Lent and Xu Ying

JAPANESE DEVILS
The perperators of wartime atrocities in China tell their stories, in a new documentary film.
by Linda Hoaglund

On-Site: A MONTH IN TOKYO
Encounters with stasis and change.
by Lawrence Rogers

Fiction

MAHARAJA
The enigmatic Sikandar Khan of Calcutta's Chandni Chawk Street.
by Eugene Datta

Departments

WORTH REPEATING
Bike Envy
by Geremie R. Barmé

EXHIBITION HIGHLIGHTS

CITY SCAN - Bangalore, Bangkok, Jakarta, Kyoto, Taipei

FILM
The Perils of Teenage Life in Japan: Shunji Iwai's All about Lily Chou Chou
by Mark Schilling

Evening the Score: Lagaan, a period film with an anti-imperial narrative
by Veena Naregal

BOOK REVIEWS
Five Past Midnight in Bhopal by Dominique Lapierre and Javier Moro, reviewed by David Vinjamuri
Frontiers of Fear: Tigers and People in the Malay World 1600-1950 by Peter Boomgaard, reviewed by John Day
The Girl from the Coast by Pramoedya Ananta Toer, reviewed by Andrea Kempf
Gold Rush by Miri Yu, reviewed by Robert J. Fouser
Great Leap Forward: Harvard Design School Project on the City edited by Chuihua Judy Chung, Jeffrey Inaba, Rem Koolhaas, and Sze Tsung Leong, reviewed by Shana J. Brown
The Impressionist by Hari Kunzru, reviewed by Arshia Sattar
The Lens within the Heart: The Western Scientific Gaze and Popular Imagery in Later Edo Japan by Timon Screech, reviewed by Elizabeth Semmelhack
Mavo: Japanese Artists and the Avant-Garde, 1905-1931 by Gennifer Weisenfeld, reviewed by Claire Cuccio
Memories of Wind and Waves: Self-Portrait of Lakeside Japan by Dr. Junichi Saga, reviewed by Michael Guest
Tokyo Stories: A Literary Stroll translated and edited by Lawrence Rogers, reviewed by Ronald Suleski
The Trouser People: Colonial Shadows in Modern-Day Burma by Andrew Marshall, reviewed by Adrienne Mong