May 1980
VOLUME 11 - NUMBER 5
Arthur C. Clarke’s Ceylon
Yapahuwa, the Khmer Connection?
Sailing Burma’s Irrawaddy
Chinese Fan Paintings
Japanese Drawings
Mithila’s Peasant Printers
Cover. A Chinese fan painting of a finch preening its feathers, perched on a blossoming plum branch; ink and colors on silk; attributed to Lin Chun, active late 12th century. The subject matter, the composition and the meticulous treatment of the bird are characteristic of Song dynasty painting.
“Arthur C. Clarke’s Ceylon” is based upon an interview with the illustrious writer of science fiction whose most recent novel is set in his adopted homeland. While Clarke’s mysteries evolve in the future, the mystery of Yapahuwa’s connection with Cambodia’s Khmer civilization takes the reader back to the 13th century. Caroline Courtauld traveled the Irrawaddy River on a tour of Burma’s monuments.
Jack hillier, the renowned London-based specialist in the field of Japanese painting and prints, has previewed the exhibition of “Japanese Drawings of the 18th and 19th Centuries” in New York. Harold Wong grew up in a family of connoisseurs with a special fondness for the Chinese fan painting as an artistic medium. Mithila’s peasant painters continue a long tradition of folk art in Bihar, India. Wucius Wong, our PORTFOLIO artist, is fast becoming Hong Kong’s most eminent painter in the unique role of an avowed abstractionist seeking themes from the realism of Chinese landscape printing.
Vyvyan Tenorio-Miller has been researching the lives and times of women in Olongapo in the Philippines for over two years, in preparation for a documentary film on the subject. Her SPECIAL REPORT is based on numerous interviews with the “street people” of the city and with staff members of the Pearl S. Buck Foundation.
Fred S. Armenttout
FEATURES
Paul H. Kratoska. In Search of 17th-Century Pattani
Anita B. Feleo. Merchant of Prayer
Caroline Courtauld. Slowly Down the Irrawaddy
Peter Aiken. Arthur C. Clarke’s Ceylon
Harold Wong. Chinese Fan Paintings
Jack Hillier. Japanese Drawings of the 18th and 19th Centuries
Betty Gosling. Yapahuwa: Sri Lanka’s Khmer Connection?
Mathias Tugores. Women Painters of Mithila
PREIVEWS & REVIEWS
Vyvyan Tenorio-Miller. Olongapo’s “R&R” Industry
Canal trips through Thailand on two dollars a day
Nigel Cameron. Book Review: The Tarter Khan’s Englishman by Gabriel Ronay
INTERVIEWS
Fred S. Armentrout. The Inscapes of Wucius Wong
VOLUME 11 - NUMBER 5
Arthur C. Clarke’s Ceylon
Yapahuwa, the Khmer Connection?
Sailing Burma’s Irrawaddy
Chinese Fan Paintings
Japanese Drawings
Mithila’s Peasant Printers
Cover. A Chinese fan painting of a finch preening its feathers, perched on a blossoming plum branch; ink and colors on silk; attributed to Lin Chun, active late 12th century. The subject matter, the composition and the meticulous treatment of the bird are characteristic of Song dynasty painting.
“Arthur C. Clarke’s Ceylon” is based upon an interview with the illustrious writer of science fiction whose most recent novel is set in his adopted homeland. While Clarke’s mysteries evolve in the future, the mystery of Yapahuwa’s connection with Cambodia’s Khmer civilization takes the reader back to the 13th century. Caroline Courtauld traveled the Irrawaddy River on a tour of Burma’s monuments.
Jack hillier, the renowned London-based specialist in the field of Japanese painting and prints, has previewed the exhibition of “Japanese Drawings of the 18th and 19th Centuries” in New York. Harold Wong grew up in a family of connoisseurs with a special fondness for the Chinese fan painting as an artistic medium. Mithila’s peasant painters continue a long tradition of folk art in Bihar, India. Wucius Wong, our PORTFOLIO artist, is fast becoming Hong Kong’s most eminent painter in the unique role of an avowed abstractionist seeking themes from the realism of Chinese landscape printing.
Vyvyan Tenorio-Miller has been researching the lives and times of women in Olongapo in the Philippines for over two years, in preparation for a documentary film on the subject. Her SPECIAL REPORT is based on numerous interviews with the “street people” of the city and with staff members of the Pearl S. Buck Foundation.
Fred S. Armenttout
FEATURES
Paul H. Kratoska. In Search of 17th-Century Pattani
Anita B. Feleo. Merchant of Prayer
Caroline Courtauld. Slowly Down the Irrawaddy
Peter Aiken. Arthur C. Clarke’s Ceylon
Harold Wong. Chinese Fan Paintings
Jack Hillier. Japanese Drawings of the 18th and 19th Centuries
Betty Gosling. Yapahuwa: Sri Lanka’s Khmer Connection?
Mathias Tugores. Women Painters of Mithila
PREIVEWS & REVIEWS
Vyvyan Tenorio-Miller. Olongapo’s “R&R” Industry
Canal trips through Thailand on two dollars a day
Nigel Cameron. Book Review: The Tarter Khan’s Englishman by Gabriel Ronay
INTERVIEWS
Fred S. Armentrout. The Inscapes of Wucius Wong
VOLUME 11 - NUMBER 5
Arthur C. Clarke’s Ceylon
Yapahuwa, the Khmer Connection?
Sailing Burma’s Irrawaddy
Chinese Fan Paintings
Japanese Drawings
Mithila’s Peasant Printers
Cover. A Chinese fan painting of a finch preening its feathers, perched on a blossoming plum branch; ink and colors on silk; attributed to Lin Chun, active late 12th century. The subject matter, the composition and the meticulous treatment of the bird are characteristic of Song dynasty painting.
“Arthur C. Clarke’s Ceylon” is based upon an interview with the illustrious writer of science fiction whose most recent novel is set in his adopted homeland. While Clarke’s mysteries evolve in the future, the mystery of Yapahuwa’s connection with Cambodia’s Khmer civilization takes the reader back to the 13th century. Caroline Courtauld traveled the Irrawaddy River on a tour of Burma’s monuments.
Jack hillier, the renowned London-based specialist in the field of Japanese painting and prints, has previewed the exhibition of “Japanese Drawings of the 18th and 19th Centuries” in New York. Harold Wong grew up in a family of connoisseurs with a special fondness for the Chinese fan painting as an artistic medium. Mithila’s peasant painters continue a long tradition of folk art in Bihar, India. Wucius Wong, our PORTFOLIO artist, is fast becoming Hong Kong’s most eminent painter in the unique role of an avowed abstractionist seeking themes from the realism of Chinese landscape printing.
Vyvyan Tenorio-Miller has been researching the lives and times of women in Olongapo in the Philippines for over two years, in preparation for a documentary film on the subject. Her SPECIAL REPORT is based on numerous interviews with the “street people” of the city and with staff members of the Pearl S. Buck Foundation.
Fred S. Armenttout
FEATURES
Paul H. Kratoska. In Search of 17th-Century Pattani
Anita B. Feleo. Merchant of Prayer
Caroline Courtauld. Slowly Down the Irrawaddy
Peter Aiken. Arthur C. Clarke’s Ceylon
Harold Wong. Chinese Fan Paintings
Jack Hillier. Japanese Drawings of the 18th and 19th Centuries
Betty Gosling. Yapahuwa: Sri Lanka’s Khmer Connection?
Mathias Tugores. Women Painters of Mithila
PREIVEWS & REVIEWS
Vyvyan Tenorio-Miller. Olongapo’s “R&R” Industry
Canal trips through Thailand on two dollars a day
Nigel Cameron. Book Review: The Tarter Khan’s Englishman by Gabriel Ronay
INTERVIEWS
Fred S. Armentrout. The Inscapes of Wucius Wong