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From The Editor
Essay | North Korea
North Korea: Absolute Power and Absolute Corruption Prominent defector Jang Jin-sung speaks from experience about the DPRK regime
Essay | Philippines
The Miserable Mrs Marcos Carla Camille L. Mendoza on how the first child of a second wife will always have issues.
Interview | India
Interview: Jeet Thayil
Interview | China
Interview: Wang Xiaofang
Non-fiction | Asia
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Non-fiction | Asia
Remembering a Friend of the Review - Gore Vidal Ilyas Khan on the American novelist
Non-fiction | Asia
Web Exclusives and Writing from the Archive Click on this heading for the latest news, reviews and Web Exclusives
Non-fiction | China
China: A Way Out of Corruption He Jiahong proposes a solution for corruption in China
Non-fiction | India
How a Maoist is Made Shashi Warrier shows how the rural poor can be driven into terrorism
Non-fiction | Pakistan
Pakistan: A Culture of Corruption? Farrukh Saleem exposes systemic corruption in Pakistan
Non-fiction | India
India: Decades in Convolution Dilip D'Souza on the Byzantine complexities of justuce in India
Non-fiction | Philippines
Give Up Tomorrow
Non-fiction | China
Mortal Taste Audra Ang visits unregulated factories in China
Non-fiction | Asia
Review: Bonded Labor by Siddharth Kara
Non-fiction | Asia
Review: Hanging Devils by He Jiahong
Non-fiction | Iran
Review: Joseph Anton by Salman Rushdie
Art | India
Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves Reloaded The classic adventurer is catapulted into the 21st century
Art | China
The Colour of Money In the colour of the 100 yuan note, the artist embarks on a project that will be impossible to complete: a portrait of each Chinese official convicted of corruption. 1600 done, many more to do.
India Delhi Durbar Krishna Partap Singh
Hong Kong A Day in the Life of Curly Jones, Lawyer John Burdett
Thailand Eyes of Karma Tew Bunnag
Philippines Smaller and Smaller Circles F. H. Batacan
Taiwan Private Eyes Chi Wei-Jan
Japan I'm Praising Him Right Now Prosper Anyalechi
China The Wind's Voice Mai Jia
John Wall Barger, Jeet Thayil, Gopilal Acharya, Sivakami Velliangiri, Reid Mitchell, Jéanpaul Ferro, Changming Yuan, Ma Yan


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