COTENTS

Editor's Corner
In Search of Happiness

Vietnamese Literature Special

Vietnamese Writer's Table Talk

When a Writer Acts Like a Writer, a Period Can Turn Into Literature

Convex Lens: Bao Ninh, An Intangible Tresure of Vietnam

Bao Ninh and The Sorrow of war ( Bang Hyun-seok / ROK)
Globalization Brings Back a Book(Vuong Tri Nhan / Vietnam)

Essay "Era of Motorcycle"
Novel: An Excerpt from The Sorrow of War

Short Story

Love Story Told on a Rainy Night(Nguyen huy Thiep / Vietnam)

Poems

The Two A-map Players and more (Thanh Thao/ Vietnam)
Motion of Beauty and more(Nguyen Quang Thieu / Vietnam)
First Love and more(Tran Quang Dao / Vietnam)

Essays

Some Features of the Vietnamese Culture of Economics From the Viewpoint of a Poet
(Thanh Thao/ Vietnam)
The Romanized Script and Vietnamese Literature (Bui Khanh The / Vietnam)

Writer's View

Out of the Bamboo Forest(Van Le / Vietnam)

Asia Through Fables-Vietnam

A Fisherman's Wife Becomes a  Stone (Nguyen Dong Chi / Vietnam)

Asia Through Myths-India

Indian Myths (Park Kyong-sook / ROK)
Rsha Shringar

Short Stories

Star of Dust (Lee Kyung / ROK)
A Tale of Thirdness Moushumi Kandali / India

History of Inter - Asian Exchange
The Interconnectedness of East Asian Civilizations: The Case of Korean Buddhism
(Robert Buswell / USA)

Article


The Asian Face of the Gloval Recession (c.p. Chandrasekhar & Jayati Ghosh / India)