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Edward GUNN is Professor of Modern Chinese Literature, Asian Studies department, Cornell University.

Coming from the country where short, concise poetry is celebrated, Hara Shiro's Ode to Stone is an unusually lengthy contribution to modern Japanese poetry. A recent winner of the Gendai Shijin Sho, this poem is regarded by some as having an epic quality that rivals some the great poetry of the twentieth-century West. The "narrator, " stone, takes us to locations as diverse as Nagasaki, Paris, and Cairo, and to various times in history. It als...

Yi Ch'¿ng-Jun was born in 1939 and graduated from the department of German language and literature at Seoul National University in 1966. He has long been recognized as one of Korea's most prolific and demanding authors. Since his debut in 1965, he has enjoyed consistent critical and commercial success. His characters are ordinary people-writers, farmers, photographers and artisans-all struggling to survive in an increasingly materialistic and ...

Richard W. Bodman and Pin P. WAN teach Chinese language, literature, and Asian studies at St. Olaf College in Minnesota.

A coming-of-age novel set during the Korean War, by Pak Wan-Suh, one of Korea's leading contemporary writers. The award-winning author of more than twenty novels, and numerous short stories and essays, Park often deals with the themes of Korean War tragedies, middle-class values, and women's issues. The novel is rich with scenes of cultural clashes, racial prejudice, and the kinds of misunderstandings that many American soldiers and Koreans ex...

Samuel L. Leiter is distinguished professor of theatre at Brooklyn College, City University of New York, and also teaches at The Graduate Center, City University of New York.

MAE SMETHURST is Professor of Classics and East Asian Languages and Literatures at the University of Pittsburgh. Her other publications include The Artistry of Aeschylus and Zeami: A Comparative Study of Greek Tragedy and Noh (Princeton 1989), and The Noh Ominameshi: A Flower Viewed from Many Directions.

Although he has been touted as Japan's finest prewar playwright, few of Kishida Kunio's works have been translated into English. This volume brings together for the first time representative plays that span the entire course of Kishida's career, including in this expanded edition, a new translation of his maiden work, Autumn in the Tyrols. The plays collected in this anthology are the ones critics have regarded as Kishida's best and that the d...

Adapted from the movie and screenplay of the same name by director Xie Tieli, this intermediate-advanced Chinese language film guide/reader helps students make the difficult transition from the simplified and fully explicated language of the textbook to the unglossed world of Chinese print culture. The authors have expanded on the traditional film guide by embedding the transcript of the film's dialog in a narrative. Designed especially with t...

Kenneth Alan Grossberg did the research for this work while at Princeton and Tokyo Universities, and completed it while a Harvard Junior Fellow. He has since been involved in international banking, management consulting, and is currently a professor at the Institute of Asia-Pacific Studies of Waseda University in Tokyo.

Regionalism is of growing relevance to the political economy of Asia-Pacific. In the wake of the Asian financial crisis, this timely volume investigates in four different chapters the dynamics of Asian regionalism during the 1980s and 1990s. Specifically, it focuses on Japanese and Chinese business networks in Northeast and Southeast Asia and the effects of economic, monetary and financial policies on regional cooperation. Asian regionalism is...

Thomas P. Lyons is Associate professor of Economics at Cornell University. His current research concerns the economic development of Fujian province.

Edward GUNN is Professor of Modern Chinese Literature, Asian Studies department, Cornell University.

Hua's riveting account of Truman's eight years from 1945 to 1953. Hua is a born storyteller.... He confers depth and sharpness on his writing by placing events within historical context." -China Review International "Demonstrates a deep understanding of the conflicts and divisions within the 'big four'... a thoroughly researched account that acknowledges the complexities of the issues... Hua's study challenges many assumptions about the postwa...

This book is an introduction to the kyôgen genre and includes translations of eight plays about the mountain priest character, as well as the history of the acting tradition and an analysis of kyôgen in performance.

Translations of six shura (battle)-Noh that have for the main character the ghost of a warrior whose story is told in the Tale of Heike. Each Noh has a detailed introduction and footnotes.

Knight Biggerstaff (2/28/1906 - 5/13/2001) was Professor of Chinese History and Asian Studies at Cornell University.

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During the period of national isolation, a mathematical tradition called wasan flourished in Japan. Its practitioners produced results comparable to those of mathematicians of the European Enlightment. This companion volume to Unger's earlier translation of solutions by Aida Yasuaki (1747-1817), focuses on problems that he likely used as a teacher.

Hayashi Fumiko, one of the most popular prose writers of the Showa era, began writing as a down-and-out poet wandering the streets of 1920s Tokyo. In these translations of her first poetry collection, I Saw a Pale Horse (Aouma wo mitari) and Selected Poems from Diary of a Vagabond (H¿r¿ki), Fumiko's literary origins are colorfully revealed. Little known in the west, these early poetic texts focus on Fumiko's unconventional early life, and her ...