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An Asian Journey
Want to feel a continent on the move? Climb aboard one of Asia's great trains, suggests Pico Iyer
Map: Tracking the Continent
From Chaman to Wakkanai, Beijing to Moscow, writers for TIME gauge what preoccupies, ails and delights Asia
Dividing Lines
Through dust, fumes and choking heat, Andrew Marshall rolls to the brink in India and Pakistan
• Hell On Wheels: Going off the Tracks
In Search of the 'Other' India
Tim McGirk ventures into the darkly mysterious world of southern India—on a painfully slow train called the Guwahati Express
Doctor Bari, I Presume
Fifty years after his grandmother left it, Aparisim Ghosh goes searching for his ancestral home in Bangladesh
The Power Behind The Empire
Jan Morris recounts how, for the British Raj, the train was conqueror, employer and unifier all rolled into one
Fortune's Wake
From Burma to Vietnam, Nick Danziger finds poverty, greed and human sweetness
• A City with a View: Riding Bangkok's Skytrain
Stalking the Steam
ItŐs a peculiarly English disease that afflicts mostly men and has spread worldwide. As a lovestruck Ian Jack confesses, trainspotting is an incurable affair of the heart
Graphic: Old and Beautiful
What makes a train a 'classic' is history, luxury and mystique. Here is the rundown on five of Asia's most celebrated
To Get Rich Is Always Glorious
Far from everyone is aboard yet, but as William T. Vollmann relates, China is a juggernaut powering itself to prosperity
• Sales Drive: Pitching Consumerism
Brief Encounter
Along the silk route from western China to Kazakhstan, Simon Winchester is enraptured by an exquisite stranger with a penchant for 19th century novels
Flameout
Matthew Forney charts the rise and coming demise of China's steam trains
Making Tracks
China is embarking on a massive expansion of its railway network. Matthew Forney believes the country's economic future may depend on its new trains
Immigrant's Song
On the Trans-Siberian from Beijing to Moscow, Mike Meyer discovers the fears and hopes driving a young Chinese woman to a fresh life in a foreign land
Burdens of History
By rail, road and sea, Ed Leibowitz encounters a South Korea battling to bury the past and a Japan struggling to live up to it
Prose in Motion
At the end of the railway line, Paul Theroux arrives at a new beginning—because, after the journey, there's always a story to tell
From the Editor
Welcome Aboard the TIME Asian Journey Express
Contributors
Meet the writers and photographers for this special issue
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