Watsuji's Koji Junrei is a book of impressions of a trip he took in 1918 to Japan's ancient capit...

This collection of nine short stories written by Inoue Hisashi (1934-2010) evokes the mysterious ...

From the author of Wives and Concubines (titled Raise the Red Lantern in the acclaimed 1991 Oscar...

Novelist Liang Xiaosheng's Confessions of a Red Guard relates minor, intensely personal incidents...

Several decades after the Korean War, the unnamed narrator, an orphan in his early teens, is take...

A collection of memoirs from more than fifty zhiqings or young Chinese who suffered under the rei...

Drawing on recent scholarship this study effectively re-examines Japan’s policies in Korea from 1...

Even before the Japanese first ventured abroad in the modern era, they came to understand that Sh...

Missions to China's Heartland

In the small market town of Heaven's Turn on the Chengdu Plain, a simple-minded shopkeeper has ma...

This volume looks in detail at trade between the Qing dynasty and the Edo shogunate primarily in ...

Worm Story was originally published in 1985, and was adapted for the screen in 2007 by Lee Chang-...