Guest Editor: Ronald G. Knapp,
State University of New York at New Paltz

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Feature Articles

• Read the Landscape, Read the People: The Role of Geography in Teaching China
  by C. L. Salter
  
  
• The Environmental Degradation of Kathmandu: Losing Shangri-La?
  by Nanda R. Shrestha
  
  
• Geographic Dimensions of Indonesia’s Importance in the World
  by Chris Drake
  
  
• The Three Gorges Dam: Energy, the Environment, and the New Emperors
  by Patience Berkman
  
  
• Central Asia and "Levels" of Development
  by Kurt Engelmann
  
  

Resources and Essays

• Geography’s Importance to Japan’s History
  by Patrick Grant
  
  
• Geographic Gateways to Seeing and Understanding Korea
  by David Nemeth
  
  
• "Have Fun in China," She Said as I Left for Japan
  by Roman Cybriwsky
  
  
• Building the Great Wall
  by Patricia Burleson with Kurt Jacobs
  
  
• Short-Term Programs in Japan: The Outlook for the Future
  by Peter Oblas
  
  
• Web Gleanings: Asian Geography WWW Sites
  by Judith Ames
  

. . . plus numerous book and film reviews, and facts about Asia