In its isolation – an archipelago surrounded by water – Medieval Japan was a world seemingly bizarre but coherent, receiving external interference with difficulty. Every event entering its natural boundaries, neighbouring seas and oceans, was at first regarded with distrust, then analysed and finally assimilated in the insular national manner. No matter if it...
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Sushma Joshi is a Nepali writer and filmmaker who was born in 1973 in Kathmandu. She has published The End of the World (2008), a collection of short stories, Art Matters (2008), a books of essays about contemporary art, and New Nepal, New Voices (co-editor, 2009), a selection of articles. In this interview...
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Alison Jean Lester is a Singapore-based American wrier and communication coach who was born in 1966 in Los Angeles. She is the author of one collection of short stories, Locked Out – Stories Far From Home (Monsoon Books, 2006), and two books of self-help published in 2009 by Marshall Cavendish. In this interview, Alison...
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Landlocked in the heart of South Asia between China and India, Nepal is a country known worldwide for its beautiful scenery and violent political struggles. Sushma Joshi, a Nepali writer and filmmaker based in the capital city of Katmandu, portrays in her collection of short stories, The End of the World, a world...
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I’ve been living abroad for eight years now, so I totally understand what it means to be “far away from home.” Although I made Thailand my home, I will never forget that my real, my first home is, from a geographical point of view, 7,000 kilometers to the West. Alison Jean Lester, the...
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Ever since I had spent ten months in the Middle East – as a teacher at an Islamic international school in Qatar -, I have taken an academic and journalistic interest in Islam. Although I have no intentions of converting, while in the Gulf, I was asked, almost daily, to do so by...
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People come to Thailand for various reasons: some follow the “tourist track” and visit the many white-sand beaches that Thailand has to offer, some embark on more or less successful business ventures, while others are interested in making contact with Thai Buddhism and its spirituality. Maybe one of the most famous farangs...
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Alan Van Every is a Bangkok-based artist and art teacher who has been living in Thailand since early 2008. Alan grew up in the north eastern US city of Buffalo, New York where he lived and worked the first 33 years of his life. He went to school at the State University Collage at...
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Caron Eastgate James (now Dann) is a journalist, novelist and researcher who lived in Thailand for four years in the 1990s, where she worked as a teacher and journalist, then researched and wrote her novel and, later, used that research as a starting point for her PhD thesis. She was born in Dunedin,...
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Caron Eastgate James (now Dann) is a journalist, novelist and researcher who lived in Thailand for four years in the 1990s, where she worked as a teacher and journalist, then researched and wrote her novel and, later, used that research as a starting point for her PhD thesis. She was born in Dunedin,...
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