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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...

A twentieth-century Japanese Zen Master's Commentary on Shdöka (Cheng tao ke), the famous poem by the great seventh-century Chinese Ch'an master, Yka Genkaku (Yung-chia Hsuan-chueh)

It is rare indeed to find so many important themes in U.S.-China relations addressed with both humor and analytical verve. No American businessman can afford to sit down at the negotiating table without having perused this book! It will delight professionals and general readers alike.” — Vera Schwarcz , Wesleyan University, USA

Reformed Church missionary observer William Angus witnessed and recording mankind in its venality and glory, men and women at their heroic best. Rev. Angus' vital poetry combines historical reportage and folktale with a sharp edge of moral ambiguity. Written from actual incidents, the verse is as vital as the Chinese people, its true subject.

A twentieth-century Japanese Zen Master's Commentary on Shdöka (Cheng tao ke), the famous poem by the great seventh-century Chinese Ch'an master, Yka Genkaku (Yung-chia Hsuan-chueh)

It is rare indeed to find so many important themes in U.S.-China relations addressed with both humor and analytical verve. No American businessman can afford to sit down at the negotiating table without having perused this book! It will delight professionals and general readers alike.” — Vera Schwarcz , Wesleyan University, USA

Shimada Kenji (1917-2000) was one of the great scholars of Chinese history and culture of the twentieth century. This volume brings to English a number of his scholarly writings, introductions to his two principle books, an autobiographical interview given late in life, and a lengthy round- table discussion by former students and disciples.

Reformed Church missionary observer William Angus witnessed and recording mankind in its venality and glory, men and women at their heroic best. Rev. Angus' vital poetry combines historical reportage and folktale with a sharp edge of moral ambiguity. Written from actual incidents, the verse is as vital as the Chinese people, its true subject.

Shimada Kenji (1917-2000) was one of the great scholars of Chinese history and culture of the twentieth century. This volume brings to English a number of his scholarly writings, introductions to his two principle books, an autobiographical interview given late in life, and a lengthy round- table discussion by former students and disciples.

In the small market town of Heaven's Turn on the Chengdu Plain, a simple-minded shopkeeper has married a beautiful village girl who is determined to rise above her station. Li Jieren's novel is populated with gangsters, prostitutes, farmers, dilettantes, bureaucrats and Christian converts, all drawn from the author's familiar acquaintance. While giving an incomparably vivid account of the lives of commoners, it illuminates a complex balance of...

This collection of nine short stories written by Inoue Hisashi (1934-2010) evokes the mysterious and uncanny tone of traditional folktales from rural Tohoku, Japan, while reflecting the playful approach of this major satirist of modern Japanese literature.

In the small market town of Heaven's Turn on the Chengdu Plain, a simple-minded shopkeeper has married a beautiful village girl who is determined to rise above her station. Li Jieren's novel is populated with gangsters, prostitutes, farmers, dilettantes, bureaucrats and Christian converts, all drawn from the author's familiar acquaintance. While giving an incomparably vivid account of the lives of commoners, it illuminates a complex balance of...

Based on the author's experiences and materials used in teaching Chinese calligraphy for over a decade at elite universities in the United States, this text features the basic brush techniques and selected masterpieces from the history of Chinese calligraphy and is useful for beginners to learn and practice with or without an instructor.

Features the learning of basic brush techniques and illustrations of selected masterpieces from the history of Chinese calligraphy - useful for beginners to learn with or without an instructor.

Drawing on recent scholarship this study effectively re-examines Japan's policies in Korea from 1910 to 1945 and contributes to the growing field of historical revisionism in Korean colonial history.

Drawing on recent scholarship this study effectively re-examines Japan's policies in Korea from 1910 to 1945 and contributes to the growing field of historical revisionism in Korean colonial history.

A collection of memoirs from more than fifty zhiqings or young Chinese who suffered under the reign of Mao Zedong during the 1960s and 1970s.

A collection of memoirs from more than fifty zhiqings or young Chinese who suffered under the reign of Mao Zedong during the 1960s and 1970s.

In his novellas Time to Eat Lobster and Forms of Being and the short story "Rice and Soup”, Bang Hyun-seok narrates the experiences of post-Cold War South Koreans and Vietnamese coming to terms with their own recent traumatic pasts at the same time as they form unusual bonds of love, friendship, and understanding.

Presents two stories by Yi Chong-jun. Worm Story was originally published in 1985, and was adapted for the screen in 2007 by Lee Chang-dong as Secret Sunshine. "Abject” is a compelling first-person narrative about two brothers—one a doctor, the other a painter—marred by trauma. The older brother, haunted by a war trauma starts writing a novel set during the Korean War.