7 Editor¡¯s CornEr
How Does a City Become Literature?
Jeon Sung-tae£üROK

special Focus
Asian Cities and Writers

My Home, My City
22 Where Ghosts Haunt :
Lukang
Li Ang£üTaiwan

38 A Distant Home
¡ª Tibet
Tsering Wangmo Dhompa£üTibet

51 The Aesthetic of the Fake and the Banal
¡ª Jakarta
Ayu Utami£üIndonesia

58 Memory and My Literature
¡ª Hanoi
Bao Ninh£üVietnam

68 Me and My Writing
¡ª Samut Sakhon
Chart Korbjitti£üThailand

73 The Village of My Childhood:
The Origin of Everything Mine
¡ª Surkhandarya
Eshkobil Shukur£üUzbekistan

78 Alayku, Home that Made Me a Poet
¡ª Alayku
Kojogeldi Kuluev£üKyrgyzstan

88 On the Borders of Ramallah
¡ª Ramallah
Adania Shibli£üPalestine

104 The Tigris-Nationalism of River and Place: A Suicidal Nation
¡ª Baghdad
Ali Bader£üIraq

Asia from the Outside
120 Passage to More than India
¡ª Re-reading E. M. Forster¡¯s A Passage to India through
Indian Perspectives
Makarand R. Paranjape£üIndia

Asia from the Inside
128 Lu Xun(ÒÍãö) and Lao She(ÖÕÞì) in Beijing
Xu Kun£üChina

Asia As Seen by a Korean Writer
142 Manholes in Ulaanbaatar
¡ª Ulaanbaatar
Jeon Seong-tae£üROK

151 Stories Seoul Told Me
¡ª Seoul
Kim Mi-wol£üROK

Poetry
162 Floral Tribute Song and more
Jung Hee Sung£üKorea

168 Order and more
Oh Eun£üROK

Asian Author Kwon Yeo-sun
182 How I Write
Kwon Yeo-sun£üROK

190 Spring Night
Kwon Yeo-sun£üROK

221 A Plot of Love, A Triumph of Plot
Yang Yun-eui£üROK

K-Fiction Hwang Jung eun
229 Kong¡¯s Garden
Hwang Jung-eun£üROK

230 Writer¡¯s Note ¡°Yang, Like This¡±
Hwang Jung-eun£üROK

258 Whether a Tunnel Exists, or Not
Lee Kyung-jae£üROK

The Ku Sang Young Writer¡¯s Award Winner
266 Execution
Park Hye-ji£üROK

Book Reviews
286 Extremely Difficult ¡°Revolution¡± towards
¡°Independence¡±
¡ª Parinoush Saniee, The Book of Fate
Ko In-hwan£üROK

294 Prove Yourself!
¡ª Sasaki Ataru, This Intense Helplessness!
Lee Kyung-jae£üROK

Asia Correspondence
302 India and Mahabharata
Son Seon-gyeong

307 Mongolian Literary Festival ¡®Bolor tsom ¡ª30¡¯
N. Mend£üMongolia

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