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Kara Monogatari - Tales of China
Ward Geddes
Paperback - $29.95
This work includes a study and a complete, annotated translation of the late twelfth- or early thirteenth-century Japanese tale collection, the Kara monogatari (Tales of China). The twenty-seven tales are interesting as stories, literate as short wri ...
Lafcadio Hearn's Japan : An Anthology of His Writings on the Country and Its People
Lafcadio Hearn
Paperback - $27.95
The Jin Yong Phenomenon : Chinese Martial Arts Fiction and Modern Chinese Literary History
Ann Huss
Hardcover - $243.95
This pioneering book is the first English-language collection of academic articles on Jin Yongs works. It introduces an important dissenting voice in Chinese literature to the English-speaking audience. Jin Yong is hailed as the most influential mart ...
The Granta Book of India
Ian Jack
Paperback - $24.95
"The Granta Book of India" brings together evocative, personal and informative writings on modern India, drawn from the pages of the world's leading literary magazine. Here are eighteen contemporary voices sketching one of the world's most dynamic pl ...
Kannani and Document of Flames : Two Japanese Colonial Novels
Yuasa Katsuei
Paperback - $45.95
This volume makes available for the first time in English two of the most important novels of Japanese colonialism: Yuasa Katsuel's Kannani and Document of Flames. Born in Japan in 1910 and raised in Korea, Yuasa was an eyewitness to the ravages of t ...
Modern Japanese Lit.
Donald Keene
Paperback - $26.95
Modern Japanese Literature is Donald Keene's critically acclaimed companion volume to his landmark Anthology of Japanese Literature. Now considered the standard canon of modern Japanese writing translated into English, Modern Japanese Literature incl ...
The Columbia Anthology of Traditional Chinese Literature
Victor H. Mair
Paperback - $94.95
Including works of varied genres from fiction and poetry to folk stories and elegies, travelogues and jokes to criticism and theory, this wide-ranging collection brings together more than two thousand years of great works in one portable volume.
The Shorter Columbia Anthology of Traditional Chinese Literature
Victor H. Mair
Paperback - $71.95
This shorter anthology retains the characteristics of the original in that it is arranged according to genre rather than chronology and interprets "literature" very broadly to include not just literary fiction, poetry, and drama, but folk and popular ...