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This selection from Kim Jong-Gil's work contains just over 50 poems, written throughout his career and chosen by himself. The poems are those by which he wishes to be remembered. The topics are personal, often the result of a journey back to a place familiar in childhood, or of a moment of insight. Occasionally the poems evoke visits to places far from Korea. The collection exemplifies the simple human dignity to which Korean writers attach su...

This selection from Kim Jong-Gil's work contains just over 50 poems, written throughout his career and chosen by himself. The poems are those by which he wishes to be remembered. The topics are personal, often the result of a journey back to a place familiar in childhood, or of a moment of insight. Occasionally the poems evoke visits to places far from Korea.

By the late nineteenth century, Japanese readers had access to translations of many of Europe and America's best mystery writers. This volume highlights some of Japan's most creative responses to the mystery genre. Scholars, students and mystery readers alike will find this volume full of surprises.

By the late nineteenth century, Japanese readers had access to translations of many of Europe and America's best mystery writers. This volume highlights some of Japan's most creative responses to the mystery genre. Scholars, students and mystery readers alike will find this volume full of surprises.

Even before the Japanese first ventured abroad in the modern era, they came to understand that Shanghai was the closest and easiest way to learn about the wider world. They sent a series of missions abroad, most to Europe and several to Shanghai specifically. Virtually all of the European voyages called at Shanghai coming and going. Liu Jianhui shows what the Japanese saw in Shanghai and how they interacted with the Chinese.

In Elegy of a River Shaman, Fang Qi has elegantly woven folk songs and shamanic chants into an intricate, beautiful, and wrenchingly powerful narrative of the destruction and erasure of the traditional culture along the rugged, remote gorges surrounding the Yangzi River.

In Elegy of a River Shaman, Fang Qi has elegantly woven folk songs and shamanic chants into an intricate, beautiful, and wrenchingly powerful narrative of the destruction and erasure of the traditional culture along the rugged, remote gorges surrounding the Yangzi River.

Even before the Japanese first ventured abroad in the modern era, they came to understand that Shanghai was the closest and easiest way to learn about the wider world. They sent a series of missions abroad, most to Europe and several to Shanghai specifically. Virtually all of the European voyages called at Shanghai coming and going. Liu Jianhui shows what the Japanese saw in Shanghai and how they interacted with the Chinese.

Several decades after the Korean War, the unnamed narrator, an orphan in his early teens, is taken in by an aged Turk, a veteran of the Korean War. Uncle Hassan makes a living as a butcher in a Seoul slum. The narrator is a precocious, troubled boy, who wonders who his parents are, why they abandoned him, what life is all about. In this neighborhood, the narrator befriends a number of people, all poor and downtrodden--Dickensian characters inc...

Several decades after the Korean War, the unnamed narrator of this story is taken in by an aged Turk, Uncle Hassan, who makes a living as a butcher in a Seoul slum. The novel begins with "my adoptive father's blood flows in my body” and ends with an echo, "my adoptive father's blood is still flowing in my body.” In between, the narrator is healed by flawed but sympathetic characters.

Farewell Valley is divided into four seasons each represented by a different character. It takes place in a remote village in Kangw?n Province, where Farewell Valley RR Station is located.

Farewell Valley is divided into four seasons each represented by a different character. It takes place in a remote village in Kangw?n Province, where Farewell Valley RR Station is located.

Set against the political drama of Japan's nineteenth-century transition to a modern state, Yoshimura Akira tells the compelling story of the first Western trained female physician in Japan and the obstacles she faced as a mixed blood child in pre-modern Japan.

Watsuji's Koji Junrei is a book of impressions of a trip he took in 1918 to Japan's ancient capital of Nara, where he saw a number of Buddhist temples. By then, Watsuji had already published influential, groundbreaking books on Nietzsche, Schopenhauer, Kierkegaard and the book Gūzū saikō (Resurrection of Idols). Koji Junrei is significant in that it began a modern literary trend of "travel writing" about ancient temples and shrines in Japan an...

The Long Road is the sole work of Korean literature in English that treats the Korean diaspora experience in Australia.

Kim Yeong-nang (1903-1950) is highly reputed in Korea for the delicate lyricism of his poems. Yet in many ways he has remained little known, even in Korea, limited to a small number of often anthologized poems. Although he was a resolute opponent of Japanese colonial rule, he did not suffer frequent imprisonment, or death, so his role as a champion of Korean independence has largely been ignored. Killed in bombing near the start of the Korean ...

In 1930 there were an estimated twenty-five missionaries in China being held by Communist groups. The foreigners suffered great deprivations in captivity, some were tortured and a small number were killed. A Foreign Missionary on the Long March is a previously unpublished eyewitness account of a New Zealand-born missionary who was captured and held hostage for 413 days by the CCP from 1934 to 1935.

In 1930 there were an estimated twenty-five missionaries in China being held by Communist groups. The foreigners suffered great deprivations in captivity, some were tortured and a small number were killed. A Foreign Missionary on the Long March is a previously unpublished eyewitness account of a New Zealand-born missionary who was captured and held hostage for 413 days by the CCP from 1934 to 1935.

Popular TV host Yan Shouyi has it all: A great job, a loyal wife and a beautiful young lover. It all begins to unravel when he accidentally leaves his cellphone at home one fateful day. Cell Phone is part comedy, part romance and part social commentary on the changing nature of Chinese society and the impact of technology on relationships.

Popular TV host Yan Shouyi has it all: A great job, a loyal wife and a beautiful young lover. It all begins to unravel when he accidentally leaves his cellphone at home one fateful day. Cell Phone is part comedy, part romance and part social commentary on the changing nature of Chinese society and the impact of technology on relationships.