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From the author of Wives and Concubines (titled Raise the Red Lantern in the acclaimed 1991 Oscar-nominated film by Zhang Yimou), Rice and many other major works of contemporary Chinese fiction comes a new collection of novellas that ranges from mystery in swinging prewar Shanghai to the violent gangs of the Cultural Revolution. In The Gardener's Art, a family dispute ends in the disappearance of a wealthy dentist. As his wife and children plu...

In this collection of short stories, Ma Yuan tells enigmatic tales about an eponymous narrator's travels in Tibet that question the very meaning of "story" and our assumptions about meaning itself. Yang Xiaobin's introduction explores Ma Yuan's role as China's first postmodernist author. Ma Yuan's stories and novellas develop metafiction in synergy with Tibetan Buddhism's notion of the cosmos as an illusion. Ma Yuan is of interest for his cloa...

In this collection of short stories, Ma Yuan tells enigmatic tales about an eponymous narrator's travels in Tibet that question the very meaning of "story" and our assumptions about meaning itself. Yang Xiaobin's introduction explores Ma Yuan's role as China's first postmodernist author. Ma Yuan's stories and novellas develop metafiction in synergy with Tibetan Buddhism's notion of the cosmos as an illusion. Ma Yuan is of interest for his cloa...

By studying Japanese films and their associated literature, this book reveals the covert stories of Japanese women of various statuses and time periods in an exegesis of their story versus orthodox history. Fifteen films are studied to bring this theme into focus. The five chapters represent categories the public used to code Japanese women in the pre-feminist age.

By studying Japanese films and their associated literature, this book reveals the covert stories of Japanese women of various statuses and time periods in an exegesis of their story versus orthodox history. Fifteen films are studied to bring this theme into focus. The five chapters represent categories the public used to code Japanese women in the pre-feminist age.

In this remarkable memoir of a pivotal year in modern Chinese history, young communist activist Zhu Qihua gives an extraordinary account of his experiences in the National Revolutionary Army under the Republican government from the fall of 1926 to the fall of 1927.

In 1983, concerned about the need to record and explain the experiences of Okinawans caught up in Battle of Okinawa, the Ryukyu Shimpo carried out several hundred interviews with survivors.Talking in detail about their experiences and visiting the caves and shelters where they spent weeks on end as the US bombardment destroyed everything above ground was a cathartic experience for those who told their stories. Descent into Hell is the story of...

The crimson thread noted in the title of this book aptly describes the nature of Teriyama's stories and the interstitial webbing joining them together thematically by the metaphorical twisting together of unrequited love, abandonment, irremediable separation, and disappointment. Told in the manner of fantasy and magic realism, the stories are populated with characters who face the vagaries of fortune, happiness always just out of their reach.

Beijing Women presents four short stories: Lipstick, Qipao, Ginger, and Beijing Women—stories about how contemporary Chinese women must learn to survive in China's new market economy, and their inner struggles in a society full of moral ambiguity.

Presented in four thematic sections, Scenes from Dutch Formosa brings together a variety of genres and historical essays to contextualise the Dutch Formosan colonial era between 1625 and 1663. The collection examines diverse Dutch, Italian, Chinese, Japanese, and Taiwanese dramatic-dialogic interpretations of the Dutch East India Company's presence in Taiwan.

Presented in four thematic sections, Scenes from Dutch Formosa brings together a variety of genres and historical essays to contextualize the Dutch Formosan colonial era between 1625 and 1663, for an audience of postcolonial, culture, and performance studies readers. The collection examines diverse Dutch, Italian, Chinese, Japanese, and Taiwanese dramatic-dialogic interpretations of the Dutch East India Company's presence in Taiwan. Introducto...

Beijing Women presents four short stories: Lipstick, Qipao, Ginger, and Beijing Women—stories about how contemporary Chinese women must learn to survive in China's new market economy, and their inner struggles in a society full of moral ambiguity.

In 1983, concerned about the need to record and explain the experiences of Okinawans caught up in Battle of Okinawa, the Ryukyu Shimpo carried out several hundred interviews with survivors.Talking in detail about their experiences and visiting the caves and shelters where they spent weeks on end as the US bombardment destroyed everything above ground was a cathartic experience for those who told their stories. Descent into Hell is the story of...

This anthology gathers stories from established and emerging writers in China and is projected to be the first in a series. It includes writing by Bi Feiyu, Chen Jie, Fan Xiaoqing, Han Shaogong, He Yuru, Huang Fan, Li Han, Su Tong, Tie Ning, Tsering Norbu, Aang Baozhong, Wang Shou, Xiao Su, Xu Yigua, and Zhu Shanpo.

Takashi Yoshida provides a historical analysis of war and peace museums from the late nineteenth century to the present and traces the historical development of a pacifist discourse in postwar Japan that centered on Japan's war crimes and responsibility during the so-called Fifteen Year War, which began in 1931 with Japan's invasion of Manchuria and ended in 1945 with the nation's defeat. Prior to the defeat, a culture of war gripped the Japan...

This anthology gathers stories from established and emerging writers in China and is projected to be the first in a series. It includes writing by Bi Feiyu, Chen Jie, Fan Xiaoqing, Han Shaogong, He Yuru, Huang Fan, Li Han, Su Tong, Tie Ning, Tsering Norbu, Aang Baozhong, Wang Shou, Xiao Su, Xu Yigua, and Zhu Shanpo.

Takashi Yoshida provides a historical analysis of war and peace museums from the late nineteenth century to the present and traces the historical development of a pacifist discourse in postwar Japan that centered on Japan's war crimes and responsibility during the so-called Fifteen Year War, which began in 1931 with Japan's invasion of Manchuria and ended in 1945 with the nation's defeat. Prior to the defeat, a culture of war gripped the Japan...

In this remarkable memoir of a pivotal year in modern Chinese history, young communist activist Zhu Qihua gives an extraordinary account of his experiences in the National Revolutionary Army under the Republican government from the fall of 1926 to the fall of 1927.

Modern Japanese women writers as artists as cultural critics is a subject that has not received adequate attention from Japan specialists in North America. Translated and discussed here are critical essays by three of the most innovative, outspoken, and provocative women writers in recent Japanese literary history: Yuriko Miyamoto (1899-1951), Saegusa Kazuko (1929- ), and Minako Oba (1930-2007) with the objective of, one, presenting a Japan th...