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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.

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.

This novel offers a panorama of Korea and Koreans coming to terms with the confrontation of tradition with modernity. Contemporary events, such as the demolition of a squatter neighbourhood, as well as flashbacks to the Korean War, help to set the social and historical context of the novel.

Examines high-rise housing projects called danchi that were built during Japan's years of "high speed economic growth" (1955-1972) to house aspiring middle-class families migrating to urban areas.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

This anthology by the students and colleagues of University of Pennsylvania East Asian History Professor Francis Hilary Conroy reflects his values and goes beyond the extensive memorializations already tendered to Professor Conroy by his professional organisation, the Association for Asian Studies. This book is intended as an enduring tribute in a scholarly medium he would have appreciated.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

The historic movement, the emotional speeches, the underground publications, and the famous legal battles all helped the islanders to learn about many hitherto totally alien concepts of socialism and Western democracy, including surplus value, historical materialism, the eight-hour working day, the right to strike, the consent of the governed, popular elections, suffrage, and home rule.

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.

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.

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.

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.

"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