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S.A. THORNTON is Assistant Professor of History at Arizona State University. A specialist in popular rehearsals of history, she teaches courses on premodern Japanese and Asian history, comparative oral tradition, and film.

This anthology focuses on autobiographical works by Wang Anyi, the most prolific and critically acclaimed woman writer in contemporary China, highlighting a personal and emotional dimension of her writing that is essential to a deeper understanding of her creativity and productivity. The three pieces selected for this volume-"A Woman Writer's Sense of Self, " "Utopian Verses, " and "Years of Sadness"-explore some of the most fundamental and co...

Metaphorical Circuit argues that the division of knowledge between literature and science in the modern university produced a necessity to choose that became a central, animating tension for Japanese intellectuals in the early 20th century. Each chapter begins with a point in an author's work where mathematical representation becomes an issue in negotiating the boundary, and follows the analysis to a wall, or a point of indeterminacy, that lea...

MARK PETERSON is Professor of Korean Studies at Brigham Young University. Within Korean studies he researches and publishes in the areas of social history, contemporary Korean society, and classic Korean novels.

Kubo Sakae's Land of Volcanic Ash (Kazanbaichi) is recognized as the major socialist realist drama of pre-war Japan. The play, which describes the struggles of a reform-minded intellectual in the Hokkaido countryside, is based on events surrounding the famine of 1934. It has been described "not only as Kubo Sakae's most representative work, but as the finest realist drama of the pre-war period.

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

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Carsten Holz, Associate Professor of Social Science at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, was awarded the 2001 Gordon White Prize for Economic Reforms and State Sector Bankruptcy in China, see The China Quarterly (June 2001, No. 166).

Nobuo Okawara is Professor in the Faculty of Law at Kyushu University.

RICHARD W. BODMAN and PIN P. WAN teach Chinese language, literature, and Asian studies at St. Olaf College in Minnesota.

Susan Orpett Long is professor of anthropology at John Carroll University.

Translations of 19 noh and nine kyogen plays seeking to produce English poetry which reproduces the 'texture of the Japanese'... an experiment in translating the 'untranslatable' word play which provides so much of the effect of noh in the original.

This remarkable anthology of . . . plays is a harbinger of a new age in Japanese theatre studies and will be considered a pivotal work in the future. . . . The closing essay by editor Karen Brazell on 'the nature of noh' is a gem of insight and information. --Monumenta NipponicaA noh collection to surpass all others . . . the first major collection of translations which includes both necessary annotations and the necessary book on noh. --Japan...

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 ...

John W. Hall is Assistant Professor of U.S. Military History in the Department of History at University of Madison-Wisconsin.

Susan Orpett Long is professor of anthropology at John Carroll University.

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 c...

This anthology focuses on autobiographical works by Wang Anyi, the most prolific and critically acclaimed woman writer in contemporary China, highlighting a personal and emotional dimension of her writing that is essential to a deeper understanding of her creativity and productivity. The three pieces selected for this volume-"A Woman Writer's Sense of Self, " "Utopian Verses, " and "Years of Sadness"-explore some of the most fundamental and co...

Kim Ch'un-Su is one of the most original poets in modern Korean poetry. He was influenced by Rilke for a while, but embarked on a series of his own poetic experiments culminating in what he calls "the poetry of meaning." An avowed purist, he would not believe in ideas, ideologies, or even history. His poems, in consequence, tend to present only moments of vivid sensations and fantasies refracted through his consciousness. The translator, Kim J...