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 eye-witness 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 Shanghai to Mumbai. This edition includes: "Kindred Spirits": Inner Mongolias nomads; Ian Burama on Japan, China and his new novel; Life and Death in a Chinese labour camp; New fiction by Justine Hardy and Hwang Sok-Yeung; An old Elgar record takes Kin Cheng Boey back to his Singapore childhood; Food for thought: Julian Baggini samples the philosophical fare in Seoul; Fiction by: Uma Anyar, Chartvut Bunyarak, Eugenia Kim, Andrew Lam, Nighat Majid, Marshall Moore, Renee Melchert Thorpe; Poetry by: Michelle Cahill, Marjorie Evasco, Kavita Jindal, Liu Hongbin, Madeleine Marie Slavick, Maxine Syjuco.