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To get a taste of what's in ALR36, start with our selection of free-to-view articles on the ALR36 Contents page. A good place to begin is From the EditorsZen Hae's Introduction places this issue's focus in the context of contemporary Indonesian writing and the rest of the issue provides a selection of fiction from some of the country's most interesting writers. You can read them all here on the Web site, and through our online eBook reader in Preview.

Fiction | Gus tf Sakai

 

This is my biggest chance. The words seemed to make every cell in Dani’s brain seize up. Trembling all over, he followed the shopkeeper upstairs. The stairs were of solid boards, old ones which made an odd squeaking sound when stepped on. On the top floor in the gloom he was greeted by the sight of a doorway into an ancient burial cave, the staring eyes of tau-tau effigies looking like they were soaring upwards towards death...

Fiction | Azhari Aiyub

 

At that time, the ship that brought me from Lamuri had just docked. From the Malabar harbour I was to continue my journey to Istanbul by land. My father, the harbourmaster of Lamuri, doubted his sixteen-year-old child could proceed with the journey alone. A colleague of his, Hamzah by name, would be waiting for me at the harbour and would guide me until I was ensured a safe arrival at the gate of the School of Navigation in Istanbul...

Fiction | Ae-ran Kim
 
My mother and father were seventeen when they had me.
I turned seventeen this year.
I have no idea if I will live to see eighteen or nineteen.
That isn't something I can decide.
All I can be sure of is: there isn't a lot of time.
Children grow bigger and bigger.
And I grow older and older...
Fiction | Ae-ran Kim

 

The first thing I learned at piano school was how to find Do. It’s the first note, so you use the first finger to play Do. I pressed the key, and Do barely cried, ‘Do. . . .’ To remember the Do I’d just played, I pressed the key once more. Do, taken by surprise, made its ‘Do. . . .’ sound again and I watched the line its name drew as it travelled across the air....

Pearl River Poem Art Festival: including Eddie Tay, Kit Kellen, Duo Duo, Zheng Danyi, Martin Alexander, Wang Xiaoni, Shu Ting.
Non-fiction | Zheng Danyi

 

IT WAS A TIME of deep disaffection and despair. Those who had experienced the agony of the Cultural Revolution were filled with uncertainty about the future of China.

News & Events | ALR
 
What It's Like - Theophilus Kwek
Contrast - Tammy Ho
Beating Dickheads - Miguel Syjuco
 
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More jewels from the archive:
No Country for Old Women - Sandip Roy - ALR16, Summer 2010
 
Non-fiction | Yu Xiaobo

 

As a mainlander in Hong Kong, I constantly feel the prejudice and ill will against us but also understand the helplessness that underlies these feelings. For many years, I have lived with the awkwardness of being stuck between two worlds; but tonight I picked a side. Tonight I stand by you, because you are doing what I never dared to dream.

'What you have now – your courage and hope, solidarity and discipline – are so precious. You have no idea how people in the dark corners of the world, me included, covet it.'

more...

Poetry | Liu Xiaobo

 

'for my wife, who waits every day

 

Nothing remains in your name, nothing

but to wait for me, together with the dust of our home'

 
News & Events | ALR
 
4 October 2014
 
The past week has seen a turning point in the shaping of Hong Kong's identity and its relationship to the rest of China.
Here are some of the articles we've published about it.
 
THEY by Sreedhevi Iyer
A Coming of Age in Hong Kong by Martin Alexander
Hong Kong's Grinch by Phillip Kim
Glory, Repentance by Tammy Ho
Non-fiction | Jan Morris

 

China! It rings grand, and big, and sonorous, like a great copper gong, but to my mind there is something mysteriously discordant to it, as though the alloy is defective. 

Non-fiction | Tammy Ho

 

Liu Xiaobo is dead. That’s a fact. And that his death was at least indirectly caused by the cruelty and immorality of the Chinese government is obvious to anyone who has access to information about Liu and his imprisonment.

Read Liu's poem to his wife, Liu Xia: You Wait For Me With Dust.

 
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In this Issue

 
To get a taste of what's in ALR36, start with our selection of free-to-view articles on the ALR36 Contents page. A good place to begin is From the EditorsZen Hae's Introduction places this issue's focus in the context of contemporary Indonesian writing and the rest of the issue provides a selection of fiction from some of the country's most interesting writers. You can read them all here on the Web site, and through our online eBook reader in Preview.

 

The Asia Literary Review is delighted to present this supplementary issue focused exclusively on Indonesian stories, produced with the assistance of the Lontar Foundation, an independent, non-profit organisation based in Jakarta whose primary aim since 1987 has been to promote Indonesian literature and culture through the translation of Indonesian literary works.

 

This is my biggest chance. The words seemed to make every cell in Dani’s brain seize up. Trembling all over, he followed the shopkeeper upstairs. The stairs were of solid boards, old ones which made an odd squeaking sound when stepped on. On the top floor in the gloom he was greeted by the sight of a doorway into an ancient burial cave, the staring eyes of tau-tau effigies looking like they were soaring upwards towards death...

Media

Video | Liu Xiaobo

The Nobel laureate's love poem to his wife.

You Wait For Me With Dust was first published in the Asia Literary Review in December 2010. It was translated from...

Video | Liu Xiaobo

The Nobel laureate's love poem to his wife.

You Wait For Me With Dust was first published in the Asia Literary Review in December 2010. It was translated from...

Video | Liu Xiaobo

The Nobel laureate's love poem to his wife.

You Wait For Me With Dust was first published in the Asia Literary Review in December 2010. It was translated from...

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Audio | ALR

Hong Kong launch for ALR30 - RTHK Radio 4's Morning Call on 2016-05-13 - presenter ...

Audio | ALR

Hong Kong launch for ALR30 - RTHK Radio 4's Morning Call on 2016-05-13 - presenter ...

Audio | ALR

Hong Kong launch for ALR30 - RTHK Radio 4's Morning Call on 2016-05-13 - presenter ...

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