CONTENTS

EDITORIAL

• SHIRLEY CHEW

FICTION

• CAN XUE, The Other Side of the Partition
  TRANSLATED FROM THE CHINESE BY KAREN GERNANT AND CHEN ZEPING
• Alison Frank, Dance Lesson

INTERVIEW

• HEE WAI-SIAM, Ho Wi-Ding: A Director Who Does Not Live For Film Festivals

ARTICLES

• FRANCES WOOD, China but also Cathay: Imagined and Explored by Western Writers from the Fifteenth to the Twentieth Century
• SAMARA CAHILL, Fancy That: Butterflies, Gardens, 'Japan China', and the Perfect Gentleman in Sir Charles Grandison
• SEAN GOLDEN, W.B. Yeats: From Sligo to Noh via Ernest Fenollosa
• SARAH DODD, The Real and the Unreal in Contemporary Chinese Short Fiction
• KEI KOGA, The Rise of Asia, Power Shifts, and Strategic Rivalries
• GITHA HARIHARAN, Retelling Asias
• GAIL JONES, 'I am Chinese': Of Bodies and Walls, Of Boundaries and their Dissolution
• BOEY KIM CHENG, 'Not the End of the World': U Win Pe

REVIEWS

• BY BÉNÉDICTE LEDENT, AND MELISSA DE VILLIERS

NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS