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The Journey Home
As Pico Iyer writes, home is no longer simply a destination, but whatever moves you

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Ghost Town
Jessica Hagedorn is haunted by her Manila childhood

The Outsider
Wendy Law-Yone discovers exile is deliverance

Into Thin Air
Monique Truong is caught between countries



Tokyo Popped
Karl Taro Greenfeld returns to a changed Japan

A Vanished Place
Chien-Chi Chang faces the march of progress

We Are Family
Chang-rae Lee learns there's no barrier to family



There's No Place Like...
How Asian homes have changed

The Asian Diaspora
A history of migration

Our Voyagers
Meet 15 writers of the Asian diaspora


A House Divided
Ved Mehta closes the door on his ancestral home

The Pathos of Exile
Mohsin Hamid feels the pull of family ties

Basic Instinct
Pankaj Mishra settles in a place outside history

Coming Out
For Shyam Selvadurai, home is being oneself

Home Free
Hamid Karzai's real journey is only just beginning



Time Bends
Chien-Chi Chang makes his first trip home

River Town Redux
Peter Hessler goes back to the Yangtze

An Exile Returns
Amid tradition and change, the most important constant is family

Outside History
Life in Mashobra goes on unpreturbed by the course of current events

More Photo Essays


Changing Course
Peter Hessler returns to the Yangtze

Racial Profiling
Gish Jen ponders the meaning of Chineseness

Unsafe Havens
Ma Jian gets over his Beijing fixation





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FROM THE AUGUST 18 — AUGUST 25, 2003 ISSUE OF TIME MAGAZINE; POSTED MONDAY, AUGUST 11, 2003


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