What is the deal with Western men's erotic obsession with the East?
By Laura Miller Jun 16, 2009
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I showed up unannounced in Asia to try to reconcile: Now she wants no contact!
By Cary Tennis
July 23, 2009
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Nine years after the "Crouching Tiger" breakthrough, Asian cinema has virtually disappeared from American screens
By Andrew O'Hehir
June 25, 2009
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Congress says it has a deal with a little bit of everything mixed in. New York markets breathe a sigh of relief. And Hong Kong, Shanghai, Tokyo ...
By Andrew Leonard
September 28, 2008
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Eccentric scholar Joseph Needham devoted his life to documenting the brilliant innovations of Chinese civilization -- and the mystery of why the West eclipsed it.
By Andrew Leonard
May 19, 2008
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Lucy got me through grad school, but I'm not sure she'd travel well.
By Cary Tennis
February 19, 2009
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No recession yet for sales of personal computers in China and India. That's good, because we could all benefit from their increased productivity
By Andrew Leonard
April 21, 2008
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Feminists silenced in Iran, making noise in Mexico.
By Lynn Harris
January 30, 2008
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Thai restaurants are a dime a dozen, but 30 years after Pol Pot, Khmer cuisine is still hard to find in the U.S. Why hasn't it become the next big thing? Plus: A recipe to try at home
By Matthew Fishbane
June 26, 2007
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And now, another edition of "Mindblowing economic news from China"
By Andrew Leonard
May 9, 2007
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James Oseland, editor in chief of Saveur magazine, talks about culinary colonialism, his love of home cooking and why Malaysian cuisine may be the next big thing.
By Tracie McMillan
December 12, 2006
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The "black hole" of Asia and its estranged brother to the south are revealed in books from a political refugee, an American mountain man and a war veteran.
By James Card
August 31, 2006
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From 17th century haikus to the work of Kazuo Ishiguro, writing from this Far East nation reveals an obsession with beauty and discipline.
By Kyoko Mori
August 28, 2006
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To understand the last century of this vast Far Eastern country, look to the moving stories of Lu Xun, a celebrated memoir of the Cultural Revolution and an engaging, concise history.
By Nell Freudenberger
August 7, 2006
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How badly is China hurting workers, everywhere?
By Andrew Leonard
June 30, 2006
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Asian skin-whitening trend brings health risks and illegal batches of bleaching creams.
By Sarah Elizabeth Richards
May 15, 2006
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Convinced of our superiority, Americans keep trying to impose freedom on the rest of the world. It's arrogant, immoral -- and it hasn't worked.
By Chalmers Johnson
May 3, 2006
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A search for cultural roots takes photographer Reagan Louie into Asia's sex industry.
By Glen Helfand
September 12, 2003
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At a United Nations conference in Bangkok, the U.S. shocks more than 30 Asian countries with a condemnation of premarital sex, contraception and abortion.
By Laura McClure
December 19, 2002
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Singapore's ambassador to the U.N. talks about his controversial new book and the gulf between Western and Eastern minds.
By Suzy Hansen
March 25, 2002
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Frances FitzGerald, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of "Fire in the Lake," says Americans still get Vietnam wrong because we can't stop looking at our collective American navel.
By Fiona Morgan
April 28, 2000
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The mysteries of a fleeting romance in Hanoi: He put his chicken in my soup. How should I respond?
By W. Madrigal
April 27, 2000
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In the unimpressive wake of "The Beach," a local director releases quite a different take on life in Thailand.
By Morris Dye
April 26, 2000
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Wearing a sari took me deeper into my adopted Indian home than I had ever imagined.
By Gallaudet Howard
April 25, 2000
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A little-visited village illuminates the fabled island's mundane treasures.
By Jack Goldfarb
April 19, 2000
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