http://dir.salon.com/topics/asia/?source=rss&aim=asia en-us Copyright 2007 Salon.com. Tue, 16 Jun 2009 03:06:00 PDT By Laura Miller Tue, 16 Jun 2009 03:06:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/books/review/2009/06/16/east_west_sex/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/books/review/2009/06/16/east_west_sex/index.html?source=rss What is the deal with Western men's erotic obsession with the East? By Andrew Leonard Tue, 16 Jun 2009 03:06:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/tech/htww/2009/11/16/the_east_is_polluted/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/tech/htww/2009/11/16/the_east_is_polluted/index.html?source=rss Track the migration of carbon dioxide emissions via Google Maps. Hint: It's China-bound By Cary Tennis Tue, 16 Jun 2009 03:06:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/mwt/col/tenn/2009/07/23/wants_her_back/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/mwt/col/tenn/2009/07/23/wants_her_back/index.html?source=rss I showed up unannounced in Asia to try to reconcile: Now she wants no contact! By Andrew O'Hehir Tue, 16 Jun 2009 03:06:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/ent/movies/btm/feature/2009/06/25/asian_film/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/ent/movies/btm/feature/2009/06/25/asian_film/index.html?source=rss Nine years after the "Crouching Tiger" breakthrough, Asian cinema has virtually disappeared from American screens By Andrew Leonard Tue, 16 Jun 2009 03:06:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/books/review/2008/05/19/loving_china/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/books/review/2008/05/19/loving_china/index.html?source=rss 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 Cary Tennis Tue, 16 Jun 2009 03:06:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/mwt/col/tenn/2009/02/19/dogs/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/mwt/col/tenn/2009/02/19/dogs/index.html?source=rss Lucy got me through grad school, but I'm not sure she'd travel well. By Andrew Leonard Tue, 16 Jun 2009 03:06:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/tech/htww/2008/09/28/a_bailout_for_asia/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/tech/htww/2008/09/28/a_bailout_for_asia/index.html?source=rss 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 Tue, 16 Jun 2009 03:06:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/tech/htww/2008/04/21/age_of_the_asian_computer/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/tech/htww/2008/04/21/age_of_the_asian_computer/index.html?source=rss 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 Lynn Harris Tue, 16 Jun 2009 03:06:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/mwt/broadsheet/2008/01/30/global_news/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/mwt/broadsheet/2008/01/30/global_news/index.html?source=rss Feminists silenced in Iran, making noise in Mexico. By Matthew Fishbane Tue, 16 Jun 2009 03:06:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/mwt/food/eat_drink/2007/06/26/khmer_food/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/mwt/food/eat_drink/2007/06/26/khmer_food/index.html?source=rss 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 Andrew Leonard Tue, 16 Jun 2009 03:06:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/tech/htww/2007/05/09/china_stockmarket/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/tech/htww/2007/05/09/china_stockmarket/index.html?source=rss And now, another edition of "Mindblowing economic news from China" By Tracie McMillan Tue, 16 Jun 2009 03:06:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/mwt/food/eat_drink/2006/12/12/james_oseland/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/mwt/food/eat_drink/2006/12/12/james_oseland/index.html?source=rss 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 James Card Tue, 16 Jun 2009 03:06:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/books/literary_guide/2006/08/31/korea/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/books/literary_guide/2006/08/31/korea/index.html?source=rss 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 Kyoko Mori Tue, 16 Jun 2009 03:06:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/books/literary_guide/2006/08/28/japan/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/books/literary_guide/2006/08/28/japan/index.html?source=rss From 17th century haikus to the work of Kazuo Ishiguro, writing from this Far East nation reveals an obsession with beauty and discipline. By Nell Freudenberger Tue, 16 Jun 2009 03:06:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/books/literary_guide/2006/08/07/china/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/books/literary_guide/2006/08/07/china/index.html?source=rss 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 Andrew Leonard Tue, 16 Jun 2009 03:06:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/tech/htww/2006/06/30/china_textiles/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/tech/htww/2006/06/30/china_textiles/index.html?source=rss How badly is China hurting workers, everywhere? By Sarah Elizabeth Richards Tue, 16 Jun 2009 03:06:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/mwt/broadsheet/2006/05/15/skin_whiteners/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/mwt/broadsheet/2006/05/15/skin_whiteners/index.html?source=rss Asian skin-whitening trend brings health risks and illegal batches of bleaching creams. By Chalmers Johnson Tue, 16 Jun 2009 03:06:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/opinion/feature/2006/05/03/johnson/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/opinion/feature/2006/05/03/johnson/index.html?source=rss 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 Glen Helfand Tue, 16 Jun 2009 03:06:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/sex/galleries/2003/09/12/louie/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/sex/galleries/2003/09/12/louie/index.html?source=rss A search for cultural roots takes photographer Reagan Louie into Asia's sex industry. By Laura McClure Tue, 16 Jun 2009 03:06:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2002/12/19/population/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2002/12/19/population/index.html?source=rss 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 Suzy Hansen Tue, 16 Jun 2009 03:06:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/books/int/2002/03/25/asians/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/books/int/2002/03/25/asians/index.html?source=rss Singapore's ambassador to the U.N. talks about his controversial new book and the gulf between Western and Eastern minds. By Fiona Morgan Tue, 16 Jun 2009 03:06:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2000/04/28/fitzgerald/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2000/04/28/fitzgerald/index.html?source=rss 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 W. Madrigal Tue, 16 Jun 2009 03:06:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/travel/wlust/2000/04/27/vietnam/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/travel/wlust/2000/04/27/vietnam/index.html?source=rss The mysteries of a fleeting romance in Hanoi: He put his chicken in my soup. How should I respond? By Morris Dye Tue, 16 Jun 2009 03:06:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/travel/feature/2000/04/26/thailand/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/travel/feature/2000/04/26/thailand/index.html?source=rss In the unimpressive wake of "The Beach," a local director releases quite a different take on life in Thailand. By Gallaudet Howard Tue, 16 Jun 2009 03:06:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/travel/feature/2000/04/25/sari/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/travel/feature/2000/04/25/sari/index.html?source=rss Wearing a sari took me deeper into my adopted Indian home than I had ever imagined.