Letter to America
by Joy Castro
The Little Painter
I am just a little painter, a painter of small things.
In the National Palace of Mexico, I saw that artist... Read More...
Wildlife Trafficking in Mongla
by Naomi Hellmann
Mongla (勐拉) lies on the border of the Xishuangbanna Dai Autonomous Prefecture in southwestern China and the Shan State in eastern Myanmar. Sit... Read More...
Existence: A Story
by David Hinton
The story of existence is a self-portrait, and it begins with a little-known Chinese landscape painting by Shih-t'ao.
This is the sto... Read More...
Four Poems by Wang Wei
Translated by David Hinton
Wang Wei (701-761 C.E.) is often spoken of, with his contemporaries Li Po and Tu Fu, as one of the three greatest poets in China’s 3,000-year po... Read More...
Eight Poems by Wang An-shih
Translated by David Hinton
These poems are excerpted from The Late Poems of Wang An-Shih translated by David Hinton (New Directions, 2015). They are reprinted by permissio... Read More...
Two Poems
by Allan Peterson
Click button above to play audio for this poem, or click here to download in .mp3 format.House House says it can see two trees twicein the doub... Read More...
Hong Kong through the Looking Glass:
Bodies Washed Up On the Shore
by Dante Archangeli
By Dante Archangeli "I remember the dead bodies of people from mainland China washing up on our shores when I was a child in Hong Kong during the 1960's," the Chinese man at the reception told me. "In 1967 or '68 my father was so worried that we'd be overrun by refugees escaping the Cultural Revolution that he sent me to live in Taiwan."
Review: A Tryst with Time
Michael G. Smith Reviews This Time Tomorrow, Poems by Matthew Thorburn This Time Tomorrow by Matthew Thorburn Waywiser Press, 2013 ISBN-13: 978-... Read More...
Odes to the Little Ones:
A Chapbook by Jeevan Narney
The poems in this online chapbook of poetry, images, and audio were inspired by Jeevan Narney's two-year stay in Dezhou, China. They reflect upo... Read More...
Dangerous Words: A Profile of Chinese People’s Historian Liao Yiwu (廖亦武)
I’m pleased to share with readers of Terrain.org, who may have caught my blog posts about my travels through East Asia last year, that two ver... Read More...
The Future of Coal
The December 2010 issue of The Atlantic features an article dedicated to the future of coal in meeting the world's energy needs. "Dirty Coal, Clean Fu... Read More...
West Meets East: Part 2 – Tea & Gluttony in Nantou, Taiwan
By Brian Awehali
I was taken on a lovely tour of the fog-wreathed high mountain tea country in Nantou County, in the central and only landlocked... Read More...
