Magazine of Asian Literature

ASIA

VOL. 2, NO. 1, SPRING 2007

Contents

[Editor's Corner]
Asian Women, "Alive and Kicking"  Jeon Seung-hee£üROK

[Special Focus: A Pen of One's Own - Asian Women Writers 1]
Convex Lens: Sahar Khalifeh£üPalestine
Introduction  Kim Jae-yong£üROK
Novel: An Excerpt from "The Inheritance"
Essay "My Life, My Literature and the World"

Short Stories
Woman  L. Ulziitugs£üMongolia
Flower Season  Li-ang£üTaiwan
One Afternoon  Sebnem Isiguzel£üTurkey
Flowers  Pu Hee-ryoung£üROK

Poems
Standing on the Shore, A Poem and more  Kishwar Naheed£üPakistan
First Aunt¡¯s Solitudes and more  Leong Liew Geok£üSingapore
Following Behind the Rabbit-Truck, I Listen and more  Yoo An-jin£üROK
Raising a Child  Ryeom Hyeong-mi£üDPRK
An Evening for Soupbone Boiling and more  Kim Seon-wu£üROK

What It Means to Live as a Writer in Asia
What the Motherland Means to Me  Park Wan-seo£üROK

Essays
My Footprints  Oh Young-jae£üDPRK
The History of Kazakhstan¡¯s Literature  Satimjan Sanbayev£üKazakhstan

Viewpoint
Current Issues in the Korean Economy  Chung Un-chan£üROK

Beyond Japanese Asian Expansionism 3: The Truth of the Massacre in Singapore  
Japan's View of the War, Fifty Years Later  Chua Ser Koon£üSingapore

Reviews from Overseas  
A Home for Imagination and Memory  Harry Garuba£üNigeria
Asian Literature and Our Common Journey  Harry Aveling£üAustralia

*ASIA receives generous support by the POSCO TJ Park Foundation.