Oryx Press, Mansell/London, 1980. Chapters on Chinese Language material, Japanese Language material and Southeast Asian: Burma, Thailand, Cambodia, Laos, Vietnam, Malaysia, Singapore, Indonesia, Phillipines, Brunei and Papua New Gui
The author, a young Vietnamese-American man, shares the story of his solo bicycle journey around the Pacific Rim to Vietnam, and discusses his search for cultural identity in the Vietnam of his childhood.
"Colette Merklen and Wang Weiping created a New Music where the west goes and meets Asia. Next to the European piano of Colette Merklen, Wang Weiping improvise a Chinese music with the lute Pipa. Those two instruments are getting on together…