Beyond good and evil? : essays on the literature and culture of the Asia-Pacific region

At the end of 2003, the tenth symposium on literature and culture in the Asia-Pacific region was held at the University of Western Australia. For twenty years the venue has alternated between Perth and the National University of Singapore. This curiously and complicatedly titled book, Beyond Good and Evil? Essays on the Literature and Culture of the Asia-Pacific Region, is a selection from papers given at the latest symposium. Let’s reverse the usual order of reviewing procedures for conference collections and begin—not with the over-arching concept of the book and the symposium, but with an address to some of the individual offerings.