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This book comprises stories from Southeast Asia, South Asia and East Asia, written especially for young adults. This specially curated anthology of short stories from Asia explores the human spirit and lives of the common man separated by time, space and culture, and yet united in the human spirit to overcome the difficulties that they face in life. It provides an insight into the rich and diverse landscape of Asia, as well as heritage and cultural practices. It also challenges pre-conceived notions of biases and beliefs about other cultures and opens up room for discussion on the differences that define the human race. A Tapestry of Colours 1 provides a platform for readers to develop global awareness of the landscape and the people of Asia.

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Publié par	Marshall Cavendish International
Date de parution	11 juin 2021
Nombre de lectures	0
EAN13	9789815009460
Langue	English

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2021 Marshall Cavendish International (Asia) Private Limited
Text Individual writers as credited in story
Published by Marshall Cavendish Editions
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National Library Board, Singapore Cataloguing in Publication Data
Names: Pillai, Anitha Devi, editor.
Title: A tapestry of colours. 1 : stories from Asia / Edited by Anitha Devi Pillai. Description: Singapore : Marshall Cavendish Editions, 2021
Identifiers: OCN 1247400046 | eISBN 978 981 5009 46 0
Subjects: LCSH: Short stories, English-Asia. | Short stories, Singaporean (English) Classification: DDC 823.0108-dc23
Printed in Singapore
Cover image: Shutterstock, by Marukopum
Contents
Foreword
Preface
Voices Anitha Devi Pillai
The Young Fan Raymund P Reyes
The Last Bullock Cart in Town Babitha Marina Justin
Mirror, Mirror Sachiko Kashiwaba Translated by Avery Fischer Udagawa
La Rangku - The Kite Prince Niduparas Erlang Translated by Annie Tucker
Finding Subi Janani Janarthanan
Mummee Kuah Asma Jailani
The Many Painted Faces of Chinese Opera Clara Mok
Itterasshai - Go Well and Come Back Maureen SY Tai
The Shadow of her Smile Tripat Narayanan
Children s Day Charlotte Hammond
Swimming Muthusamy Pon Ramiah
About the Writers
About the Editor
Foreword
The two-volume set of A Tapestry of Colours - Stories from Asia , edited by Dr Anitha Devi Pillai, offers teachers a uniquely valuable resource for classrooms and an extraordinary opportunity to help students discover for themselves what the reading of literature can offer to them in delight and in their expanded understanding of human experience. Of all the literary genres, the genre of the short story seems to me most suitable for classroom use. Short stories are, by definition, fiction that can be read in what used to be called one sitting. I love the idea of a sitting, and recently saw it defined as 20 minutes to an hour. In my own years as an elementary and secondary student, 20 minutes may have been the outer limit of my capacity to sit in one place. But a good story might hold me somewhat longer, and the stories in this volume promise to hold students long enough to be read, if not always in one sitting, surely in no more than two sittings and usually well within the time typically allotted in a classroom both for reading and for discussion of what was read.
The individual stories in these two volumes, moreover, are presented in a textual setting that is likely to promote and deepen the reflection and discussion that inevitably follows classroom reading - and certainly ought to follow reading, if students are to gain the full benefit from what they have read. The setting I am referring to for these stories is the apparatus provided in these volumes for every included story, whereby each story is prefaced by a short personal note from its writer about the cultural context in which the story was written, and followed by the writer s account of how the completed story came into being: what occasioned it, what problems it presented, what the writer was hoping to accomplish for the reader and so on. The effect of this framing material is, first, to enhance a reader s interest in the story, based on the reader s intensified sense of personal involvement with the writer, and second, to deepen a reader s understanding of the story, by ensuring that the reader understands the cultural references or historical moment, or personal circumstances that are the context for each individual story and writer.
We must remember that short stories are not specialized technical kinds of discourse (though they can take on new and unfamiliar forms and include entirely original features), but they represent the literary genre that is most natural to all human beings in every human society. They have their anthropological origins in dreams and gossip and myths and family adventures and personal experiences that are told in everyday life and are frequently worth re-telling. Every child and adult knows from living with other human beings how to listen to and respond to such stories. As teachers of literary short stories, we must build on rather than cancel out the competence of all our students as persons with extensive experience in hearing and enjoying stories.
And, given the excellent collection of stories presented here, with their illuminating introductions and intimate accounts of their generative occasions, almost no student will be able to resist the essential dimension of literary experience - that of becoming immersed in the story itself and thereby ready for rich conversation about what happened and why we care.
Sheridan Blau, PhD
Professor of Practice in the Teaching of English
Department of Arts and Humanities
Teachers College, Columbia University;
Emeritus Professor of English and Education
University of California, Santa Barbara
Preface
The short story is a very welcoming text type as its brevity and accessibility make it an excellent platform to explore unknown topics and difficult subjects. It also gives readers an insight into other worlds and lives of people across the world within a short period of time.
In fact, short story readers were found to be more thoughtful, creative and willing to consider competing viewpoints than nonfictional essay readers by Maja Djikic, Keith Oatley and Mihnea Moldoveanu from the University of Toronto. Short story readers were also found to be open to exploring unfamiliar territories which helped to broaden their minds and engage them in honest conversations about the lives and actions of others. In other words, short stories have been found to be effective in nurturing empathetic readers who are respectful of other cultures. As the prolific author Neil Gaiman once said, Fiction gives us empathy: it puts us inside the minds of other people, gives us the gifts of seeing the world through their eyes.
These two collections of short stories, A Tapestry of Colours 1 2 - Stories from Asia , aim to do just that by presenting stories from our neighbours in Asia and providing us with a means to understand them through narratives. This makes these collections of stories a valuable resource in the language and literature classroom as well.
Emeritus Professor Sheridan Blau, a well-renowned academic of English and Education at Teacher s College, Columbia University, illuminates the unique nature of these two books, which connects each short story to its setting and the writer and the importance of doing so. I am deeply grateful that Professor Blau s insightful comments captured the essence of the value of short stories to readers.
The contributing writers have captured the spirit and multiple facets of living and growing up in various parts of Asia (Singapore, Malaysia, Thailand, Philippines, Indonesia, China, Korea, Japan, Bangladesh and India). The writers have to be commended for their collective willingness to share notes on their craft as they add an important perspective. I am indebted to the writers for their support and am deeply grateful to them for helping to create a meaningful conversation about the different facets of Asia.
I am also grateful to the following educators and passionate fiction lovers who have helped to provide comments on the short stories to make them very relatable and meaningful for youths: Aileen Chai, Amanda Sarah Chin, Amala Rajan, Azeena Badarudeen, Bernice Xu, Geetha Creffield, John Praveen Raj, Dr Mary Ellis, Michelle Wong, Priyanka Chakraborty, Selvarani Suppiah, Shafiq Rafi, Shalini Damodaran and Tivona Low. Special thanks to Sumi Baby Thomas, the research assistant on this project.
Last but not least, I would like to thank the publishing team from Marshall Cavendish International: Melvin Neo, Mindy Pang and Anita Teo for bringing this set of books to life and to the public.
Anitha Devi Pillai
Voices
Anitha Devi Pillai

Some say writers are born talented and destined for great success from the start. Others say that if one is an avid reader, then one learns about what constitutes good text. It comes from the age-old belief that good writers are devoted students of the craft and hence read voraciously and indiscriminately. Yet, many avid readers do not become writers. Instead, they are content to sit amongst books in their favourite bookstore, library or the comforts of home marvelling over the worlds they read about and often escaping into these worlds.
I believe that writers are born in the writing classroom where they discover themselves and the power of crafting a narrative for an audience. The firs