Sep 1979
VOLUME 10 - NUMBER 9
An Asian University’s Museum
Royal Balinese Wedding
Haunting, Haunted Mergui
Imperial Carpenters’ City
La Naval de Manila
Bazaar: Kashmiri Papier-Mache
Cover. A Tang dynasty (618-906 A.D. ) glazed earthenware amphora. Height 29.3 cm. This is one of the splendid objets d’art in the growing collection of Malaysia’s Muzium Seni Asia, the university of Malaya’s museum for the arts of Asia. The new museum’s curator is the eminent Oriental Art expert, Professor William Willetts, who writes on the importance of a “university museum in providing an alternative path to learning” while providing students a chance to experience the “pleasurable exercise of the sense of beauty…” (Photo, copyright W. Willetts)
FEATURES
F. Lisa Beebe. A Cruise to Ayutthaya
Rene Q. Bas. La Naval de Manila
Craig Storti. Fiji: Bend in Time
Harvey Stockwin. Malaysia: The Credits Far Outweigh the Debit (II)
Dino J. Caterini. Mergui: First Town of the South Seas
Victor Dove. Takayama: Graceful City of Imperial Carpenters
William Willetts. An Asian University’s Museum of Art
Marcus Brooke. Royal Balinese Wedding
Donna Vos. Kashmiri Papier-Mache
Nancy Nash. Guns of Pakistan
Barbarine Rich. Preecha and the Gravity of Light
PREVIEWS & REVIEWS
Gerry and Hilde Leisham. Up and Down Pagoda Country
Nigel Cameron. Book Review: Hong Kong: Stability and Change by Henry Lethbridge
VOLUME 10 - NUMBER 9
An Asian University’s Museum
Royal Balinese Wedding
Haunting, Haunted Mergui
Imperial Carpenters’ City
La Naval de Manila
Bazaar: Kashmiri Papier-Mache
Cover. A Tang dynasty (618-906 A.D. ) glazed earthenware amphora. Height 29.3 cm. This is one of the splendid objets d’art in the growing collection of Malaysia’s Muzium Seni Asia, the university of Malaya’s museum for the arts of Asia. The new museum’s curator is the eminent Oriental Art expert, Professor William Willetts, who writes on the importance of a “university museum in providing an alternative path to learning” while providing students a chance to experience the “pleasurable exercise of the sense of beauty…” (Photo, copyright W. Willetts)
FEATURES
F. Lisa Beebe. A Cruise to Ayutthaya
Rene Q. Bas. La Naval de Manila
Craig Storti. Fiji: Bend in Time
Harvey Stockwin. Malaysia: The Credits Far Outweigh the Debit (II)
Dino J. Caterini. Mergui: First Town of the South Seas
Victor Dove. Takayama: Graceful City of Imperial Carpenters
William Willetts. An Asian University’s Museum of Art
Marcus Brooke. Royal Balinese Wedding
Donna Vos. Kashmiri Papier-Mache
Nancy Nash. Guns of Pakistan
Barbarine Rich. Preecha and the Gravity of Light
PREVIEWS & REVIEWS
Gerry and Hilde Leisham. Up and Down Pagoda Country
Nigel Cameron. Book Review: Hong Kong: Stability and Change by Henry Lethbridge
VOLUME 10 - NUMBER 9
An Asian University’s Museum
Royal Balinese Wedding
Haunting, Haunted Mergui
Imperial Carpenters’ City
La Naval de Manila
Bazaar: Kashmiri Papier-Mache
Cover. A Tang dynasty (618-906 A.D. ) glazed earthenware amphora. Height 29.3 cm. This is one of the splendid objets d’art in the growing collection of Malaysia’s Muzium Seni Asia, the university of Malaya’s museum for the arts of Asia. The new museum’s curator is the eminent Oriental Art expert, Professor William Willetts, who writes on the importance of a “university museum in providing an alternative path to learning” while providing students a chance to experience the “pleasurable exercise of the sense of beauty…” (Photo, copyright W. Willetts)
FEATURES
F. Lisa Beebe. A Cruise to Ayutthaya
Rene Q. Bas. La Naval de Manila
Craig Storti. Fiji: Bend in Time
Harvey Stockwin. Malaysia: The Credits Far Outweigh the Debit (II)
Dino J. Caterini. Mergui: First Town of the South Seas
Victor Dove. Takayama: Graceful City of Imperial Carpenters
William Willetts. An Asian University’s Museum of Art
Marcus Brooke. Royal Balinese Wedding
Donna Vos. Kashmiri Papier-Mache
Nancy Nash. Guns of Pakistan
Barbarine Rich. Preecha and the Gravity of Light
PREVIEWS & REVIEWS
Gerry and Hilde Leisham. Up and Down Pagoda Country
Nigel Cameron. Book Review: Hong Kong: Stability and Change by Henry Lethbridge