Oct 1977
VOLUME 8 - NUMBER 10
Borobudur Restoration
Go East: Seoul & Environs
Lovely, Medieval Bhutan
Country Report: India
Hung Hsien Era Porcelain
Cover. Restoration work on one of the greatest artistic religious monuments, the Borobudur Buddhist shrine built in 800 A. D. in Central Java near Jogjakarta, is proceeding smoothly – with the help of donors from all over the world and an Indonesian and international team of archaeologists, scientists and construction engineers. The photograph by Frank Fischbeck of a detail of a bas-relief panel awaiting restorative treatment shows an example of the quiet beauty and tenderness of Borobudur.
FEATURES
T. S. Thirumalai. The Love of a Devadasi
Ashok Perakumbar. After Gandhi, Marx
Seoul: Moon City of the Han River
Bhutan: Rose-scented Valleys of Shangrila
Michael Kaynes. Porcelain of the Grand Constitutional Era
The Resurrection of Borobudur
Jose Maceda. Philippine Music: The Well-tempered Kulintang and Other Inverntions
Cantonese Roast Suckling Pig
PREVIEWS & REVIEWS
Norma A. Harteam. Destination: Fascinatingly Varied Seoul
The Second Asian Arts Festival of Hongkong
Nigel Cameron. Book Review: Mongkut The King of Siam
NEWS
Discoveries
VOLUME 8 - NUMBER 10
Borobudur Restoration
Go East: Seoul & Environs
Lovely, Medieval Bhutan
Country Report: India
Hung Hsien Era Porcelain
Cover. Restoration work on one of the greatest artistic religious monuments, the Borobudur Buddhist shrine built in 800 A. D. in Central Java near Jogjakarta, is proceeding smoothly – with the help of donors from all over the world and an Indonesian and international team of archaeologists, scientists and construction engineers. The photograph by Frank Fischbeck of a detail of a bas-relief panel awaiting restorative treatment shows an example of the quiet beauty and tenderness of Borobudur.
FEATURES
T. S. Thirumalai. The Love of a Devadasi
Ashok Perakumbar. After Gandhi, Marx
Seoul: Moon City of the Han River
Bhutan: Rose-scented Valleys of Shangrila
Michael Kaynes. Porcelain of the Grand Constitutional Era
The Resurrection of Borobudur
Jose Maceda. Philippine Music: The Well-tempered Kulintang and Other Inverntions
Cantonese Roast Suckling Pig
PREVIEWS & REVIEWS
Norma A. Harteam. Destination: Fascinatingly Varied Seoul
The Second Asian Arts Festival of Hongkong
Nigel Cameron. Book Review: Mongkut The King of Siam
NEWS
Discoveries
VOLUME 8 - NUMBER 10
Borobudur Restoration
Go East: Seoul & Environs
Lovely, Medieval Bhutan
Country Report: India
Hung Hsien Era Porcelain
Cover. Restoration work on one of the greatest artistic religious monuments, the Borobudur Buddhist shrine built in 800 A. D. in Central Java near Jogjakarta, is proceeding smoothly – with the help of donors from all over the world and an Indonesian and international team of archaeologists, scientists and construction engineers. The photograph by Frank Fischbeck of a detail of a bas-relief panel awaiting restorative treatment shows an example of the quiet beauty and tenderness of Borobudur.
FEATURES
T. S. Thirumalai. The Love of a Devadasi
Ashok Perakumbar. After Gandhi, Marx
Seoul: Moon City of the Han River
Bhutan: Rose-scented Valleys of Shangrila
Michael Kaynes. Porcelain of the Grand Constitutional Era
The Resurrection of Borobudur
Jose Maceda. Philippine Music: The Well-tempered Kulintang and Other Inverntions
Cantonese Roast Suckling Pig
PREVIEWS & REVIEWS
Norma A. Harteam. Destination: Fascinatingly Varied Seoul
The Second Asian Arts Festival of Hongkong
Nigel Cameron. Book Review: Mongkut The King of Siam
NEWS
Discoveries