CONTENTS

Editor¡¯s Corner: Guest Essay
Asia¡¯s New Modern Age in the 21st Century
Ko Un | ROK

Conversations Among Three Asian Poets
Ko Un | ROK
W.S. Rendra | Indonesia
Jose F. Lacaba | Philippines

Focus: Asia, a Story of Extinction Becomes a Story of Creation
Preservation of a Human Values
Bao Nihn | Vietnam
The Internal Scenery in Urban Growth Era
A.J.Thomas | India
My Taiwanese Writing
Chu Tienwen | Taiwan

Echo
A Still Imagined Praja: The Representation of the Nation in the Indian Novel in English
Cielo G. Festino | Brazil

Poems
Language and more
Qassim Haddad | Bahrain
Choked and more
Huu Thinh | Vietnam
Bag and more
Moon In-soo | ROK

What It Means to Live as a Writer in Asia
New Plights of Survival in Asia and Liternature
Yan Lianke | China

Short Stories
Rudali
Mahasweta Devi | India
The Spell
Joginder Paul | Pakistan
Jellyfish-Medusa
Kwon Lee | ROK

Convex Lens: Oda Makoto, A Peace-loving Man
Stomping on ¡®Aboji¡¯
Oda Makoto | Japan
Oda Makoto As I Knew Him:
Some Thoughts About His Epic Masterpiece The River
Hyun Soon-hye | ROK
Revisiting the Enigma of Oda Makoto
Roman Rosenbaum | Australia

Arabian Nights of 21st Century-Midnight¡¯s Maps
The Pillars of the Temple in Olympia-Athenae
Ali Bader | Iraq

Asia Through Fables-Vietnam
The Origin of a Watermelon
Nguyen Dong Chi | Vietnam