Russell Leong

Russell Leong , a Chinese-American writer, is the editor of Amerasia Journal, published by UCLA's Asian American Studies Center. His poetry is included in The Open Boat. (Anchor Press, 1992).

Magazine Society & Environment

Whose Corruption and Whose Compassion?

Russell C. Leong takes a closer look at the Hsi Lai Temple controversy and asks: Are Asian Americans being singled out again?

By Russell Leong

Fall 2000

Landscapes of Wonder

By Bhikkhu Nyanasobhano

By Russell Leong

Winter 1998

What Does The Body Dream At Rest?

If the heat of one body restingEquals seventy lotus flowersWhat does the body dream at rest? The boy fell into the sea and it swept him awaySaid those who watched him tumble off the cliff;Of course, they could not feel what he feltAs his legs, like scissors, cut the waves. The boy entered the […]

By Russell Leong

Fall 1997

Magazine Arts & Culture

Mountains And Rivers Without End

Mountains And Rivers Without EndGary SnyderCounterpoint: Washington, D.C., 1996 165 pp., $20.00 (hardcover) Wet and covered with pine needles, Gary Snyder’s new book arrived at my door on a rare rainy day in Los Angeles. Perhaps this was a portent of things both remembered and yet to be read, as Mountains and Rivers without End […]

By Russell Leong

Spring 1997

Magazine Personal Reflections

Litany

Dharma, Diversity, and Race

By Russell Leong

Fall 1994

Magazine Arts & Culture

Unfolding Flowers, Matchless Flames

I “Tell me my name,” I asked Sifu, as ashes turn the City of Angels blue. Said he: “Wait until Gautama’s birthday.” Tip by singed fingertip, the ends of orange punk sticks tinge the burning days of L.A.— firefighters in bulletproof vests catapult through flames prod mini-malls to fall faster without falling upon the […]

By Russell Leong

Spring 1993