Contents

Asians Reflecting on Asia and its Future

Editor's Corner
In Sa Pa
Bang Hyun-seok  | ROK


East and West
Rabindranath Tagore  l India

A Treatise on Peace in the East
Ahn Jung-geun  l ROK

The Prospects and Future of Alternative Discourses in Asia
Syed Farid Alatas  l Singapore

The Beginning of Asian Literature l the non-nationalistic Decolonization of Tagore¡¯s literature
Kim Jae-yong  l ROK

Convex Lens
Hikmet, Poetic witness to Fateful Times

Concerning Death and more
Nazim Hikmet  l Turkey

Letters to Memet Fuat from Prison
Nazim Hikmet  l Turkey

Enduring Grief: Autobiography as 󰡒Poetry of Witness" in the Work of Nazim Hikmet
Azade Seyhan  l Turkey

Echo
Walking a Tightrope: From Lightness To Heaviness쭰Akazome Akiko's The Anonymous Tip of a Virgin
Lee Jee-hyung  l ROK

Contributions
Shin Dong-yeop as Seen from the Watchtower of Asia
Ko Myeong-cheol  l ROK

Short Stories
Mozel
Saadat Hassan Manto  l India
A Nine-Year Old¡¯s Sigh
Kim Jong-gwang  l ROK
Knowing His Secret
Sharifah al ̵Shamlan  l Saudi Arabia

Poems
I Will Show My Empty Hands and more
Shin Gyeong-rim  l ROK
Black Map
Bei Dao  l China
Instant
Lin Mang  l China