Interview | Asia Ian Buruma Ben Naparstek Even though in China it’s difficult to grasp, there are many, and not just Japanese, who were involved in Japan’s imperial adventure of the 1930s and 1940s who were genuinely idealistic and thought that it was their role to liberate Asia from western imperialism.
Fiction | Kashmir The Recruit Justine Hardy We have lost the language of poetry that we used to speak here. This is what I have been told, so many times, that it has gone, but I cannot mourn something that I do not remember. More than anything else, I would like to take my cousin to Shalimar Bagh, to lie with her under the trees and trace the shadows of her body with my hands. Is that poetry?
Non-fiction | China Woman From Shanghai Xianhui Yang At Jiabiangou, we were turned into weed-eating animals, our excrement like goat droppings. Often, in the latrine, we’d help each other out. One person would lie on his stomach with his butt in the air. Another would squat behind him, digging. For this we used a special tool – a long wooden spoon made from a red willow twig.
