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Several decades after the Korean War, the unnamed narrator of this story is taken in by an aged Turk, Uncle Hassan, a veteran of that conflict who ...

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 accidently leaves hi...

A Twentieth-century Japanese Zen Masters Commentary on Shdöka (Cheng tao ke), the famous poem by the Great Seventh-century Chinese Chan master, Yka...

Unlike other accounts of the Cultural Revolution, novelist Liang Xiaoshengs Confessions of a Red Guard relates minor, intensely personal incidents ...

In Elegy of a River Shaman, Fang Qi has elegantly woven folk songs and shamanic chants into an intricate, beautiful, and wrenchingly powerful narra...

In Elegy of a River Shaman, Fang Qi has elegantly woven folk songs and shamanic chants into an intricate, beautiful, and wrenchingly powerful narra...

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

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

Based on the author's experiences and materials used in teaching Chinese calligraphy for over a decade at elite universities in the United States, ...

By the late nineteenth century, Japanese readers had access to translations of many of Europe and Americas best mystery writers. The popularity of ...

The historic movement, the emotional speeches, the underground publications, and the famous legal battles all helped the islanders to learn about m...

Set against the political drama of Japan's nineteenth-century transition to a modern state, Yoshimura Akira tells the compelling story of the first...

Hwang Sunw?ns The Moving Fortress (1972) is a panorama of Korea and Koreans coming to terms with the confrontation of tradition with modernity. Con...

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 ...

Worm Story was originally published in 1985, and was adapted for the screen in 2007 by Lee Chang-dong as Secret Sunshine starring Jeon Do-yeon and ...

An autobiography by celebrated Japanese writer/television show host/journalist Kurihara Miwako, Where Are the Sunflowers depicts the failure of two...

By studying Japanese films and their associated literature, this book reveals the covert stories of Japanese women of various statuses and time per...