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led to specific proposals or agreement on action to be taken. Still,
the ideas and strategies presented by the panelists and observers,
with their varied backgrounds, gave participants much to think
about, providing them with an excellent opportunity to reassess
their own views. The Asia Center staff certainly found the discussions relevant to the planning of their own programs.
During the nineties, art professionals concerned with Asian art
have been steadily forming an international network. This is a welcome development inasmuch as it facilitates more extensive understanding of Asian art, but there is a danger of the field becoming restricted to a narrow group of insiders . The study of Asian art needs
to be approached from a more long-term and global point of view.
Therefore , we believe that it is necessary to create more opportunities to obtain a broad range of opinion and seek ways to make useof it in our work. We believe that this symposium, "Asian Contemporary Art Reconsidered," provided a forum of this kind and, wehope, proved useful to all those who participated.
We would like to give special thanks to the panelists and to those
who worked behind the scenes to make this symposium a success. It
would have been impossible without their generous cooperation.
We would like to particularly recognize the contribution made by
Tatehata Akira and Mizusawa Tsutomu who were actively involved
from the earliest stages of planning.

r>1~3l;mt.lJi::it7:-'7-i:'.;,,j1- ::.:w1::1-r,t- - ,z-Furuichi Yasuko
ExhibitionCoordinatorof The JapanFoundationAsiaCenter

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Assistant Editor: Hoashi Aki
Japanese-EnglishTranslation:Stanley N. Anderson
English-JapaneseTranslation:Hoashi Aki, FujiharaErimi,
Shimasaki Yoshinobu, Tsuzuki Etsuko
Language Supervisor:Stanley N. Anderson
Symposium Photographer: Takei Taizo
Designer: Kondo Kazuya
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Editor: Furuichi Yasuko
Assistant Editor: Hoashi Aki
Japanese-English Translation: Stanley N. Anderson

English-JapaneseTranslation:Hoashi Aki, FujiharaErimi,
Shimasaki Yoshinobu, Tsuzuki Etsuko
Language Supervisor: Stanley N. Anderson
Symposium Photographer: Takei Taizo
Designer: Kondo Kazuya

Printed by: Nissha Printing Co., Ltd
Published by: The Japan Foundation Asia Center
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