Guest Editor: Joan Ericson, Colorado College

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Features

• Stories of Crime and Detection:
  Using the Mystery Formula as an Introduction to Asian Literature and Cultures
  by Joan Cook Wilson
  
  

• HER: An Indonesian Short Story
  by Titis Basino. Translated by Florence Lamoreux
  
  

• A Teacher's Guide to Her
  by Tammy Sakato and Florence Lamoreux
  
  

• Reading Indian Short Stories as Texts in Creative Writing Classes
  by Stephen Alter
  
  

• Growing up in Japan
  by June Kushida
  
  

• From Creation Myths to Marriage Alliances
  Shakespeare's The Tempest and Murasaki's Akashi Chapter
  by Fay Beauchamp
  
  

• Teaching the "Geisha" as Cultural Criticism
  by Sarah J. Pradt and Terry Kawashima
  

• Teaching Asian Fiction with the Psychograph
  Shipwrecks
  by Richard Booth
  

Resources and Essays

• Using Modern Asian Literature on Gender in Social Science Courses:
  Reinforcing or Dismantling Stereotypes
  by Jana Everett
  
  

• Lesson Plan: Acting Out History and Literature—Japan:
  A Story about the Origins of Japan or Creation Myth
  by Marianna McJimsey
  
  

• Four Ways to Use Literature in Chinese History Courses
  by Timothy Cheek
  
  

• Literature in the Japanese Classroom
  by Steven J. Ericson
  
  

• Teaching About Southeast Asian Transition Economies:
  Burma (Myanmar), Cambodia, Laos, Vietnam, and East Timor
  by R. L. Curry, Jr.
  
  

• Japan's Motives for Bombing Pearl Harbor, 1941
  by Jeffrey Hackler
  
  
  . . . plus numerous book and film reviews, and facts about Asia