Foreword vii
Acknowledgments xi
Interpretative Critique: "Reading the Wind" / Timothy J. Lomperis
Introduction: The Shoals of Yin and Yang 3
1. The Keynote: "Artistic Resolution, Societal Resolution" 13
2. The High Tide of Passion: The Impact of the Literature 25
Essay: The Crybaby Veterans 36
3. Down the Slippery Slope: Tensions Between Fact and Fiction 41
Essay: What Are the Facts? 55
4. The Great Lost Fact: The Asians 63
Essay: Reading the Asian Wind 74
5. Truth—Whither Goest Thou? The Role of Literature in Understanding the
War 83
Essay: The Iliad and the Kieu: Building Understanding 93
Conclusion: America's Future in Asia (and at Home) 101
Bibliographic Commentary: "From the Fiction, Some Truths" / John Clark
Pratt 115
Author/Title List for the Bibliographic Commentary 155
Bibliography of the Interpretative Critique 159
List of Named Participants 165
Conference Program 168
Index 171
