Asian Journey
Pico Iyer meditates on the special place trains have in Asia

South Asia
Andrew Marshall explores the explosive divide between India and Pakistan

Southeast Asia
From Burma to Vietnam, Nick Danziger finds poverty, greed and human sweetness

China
In the new China, as William T. Vollman relates, to get rich is always glorious

Korea and Japan
Ed Leibowitz encounters a Korea battling to bury the past and a Japan struggling to live up to it

Complete Table of Contents


Pakistan
by John Stanmeyer

Southeast Asia
by Patrick Zachmann

China
by Lise Sarfati

Korea
by Gueorgui Pinkhassov


Map: Tracking the Continent
Follow TIME's writers across Asia

Interactive: Old and Beautiful
What makes a train a "classic"? Check out five of Asia's most celebrated


India
by John Stanmeyer

Japan
by Gueorgui Pinkhassov


Asian Journey 2001
Asian Voyage: TIME Sets sail with Admiral Zheng He


Asian Journey 2000
On The Road: From Sapporo to Surabaya



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