Wherever I am, the world comes after me.
It offers me its busyness. It does not believe that I do not want it.
Now I understand 
why the old poets of China went so far
and high 
into the mountains, then crept into the pale mist.
"The Old Poets of China" by Mary Oliver

The latest issue of Asian Studies: Journal of Critical Perspectives on Asia, and the first for 2014, is now available online. Volume 50, Number 1 features four full-length articles, four commentaries, two reviews, and two poems, all of which can be downloaded here separately as PDFs. You may also click on the cover to do so.