The Asia Literary Review is the first magazine of its kind in the Asian literary world. An exciting new English language quarterly devoted to reportage, documentary photography, travel writing, fiction and memoir, it is set to become essential reading around the world for anyone with a serious interest in Asia and the best writing from and about the region. The Review follows the tradition of successful literary journals published in Europe and the USA by providing a view of the world that combines new fiction with eyewitness accounts and polemic. Addressing the needs of intelligent readers, every quarterly issue extends to at least 200 pages and contains the work of celebrated and established writers as well as new voices from Karachi to Beijing. In this edition: Cambodia's forgotten children in their own words Palani Mohan; Inside North Korea with the New York Philharmonic Deborah Kan; Ma Jian speaks out on Tiananmen Square and his Beijing Coma; Pearl S. Buck and the Chinese Novel; Xiaolu Guo's letters to a City of Illusion and Hope; Incident in Honhot: Girl on fire Wayne Mclennan; Arthur Rimbaud's Java Odyssey Jamie James.