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From Yalta to Panmunjom: Truman's Diplomacy and the Four Powers, 1945-1953 by Qingzhao Hua
RRP: $10.31Booksplease Price: $9.47"Hua's riveting account of Truman's eight years from 1945 to 1953. Hua is a born storyteller.... He confers depth and sharpness on his writing by placing events within historical context." -China... -
Informal Empire in Crisis: British Diplomacy and the Chinese Customs Succession, 1927-1929 by Martyn Atkins
RRP: $20.63Booksplease Price: $18.24The Inspector-General of the Chinese Maritime Customs Service was, without doubt, the highest-ranking foreigner in the Chinese Government. His position at the heart of China's fiscal, commercial and... -
Still Hear the Wound: Toward an Asia, Politics, and Art to Come-Selected Essays by Rebecca Jennison
RRP: $28.37Booksplease Price: $24.23Still Hear the Wound: Towards an Asia, Politics, Art To Come introduces English language readers for the first time to work by an emerging group of critics and artists addressing the legacies of... -
In Search of the Free Individual: The History of the Russian-Soviet Soul by Svetlana Alexievich 9781501726903
Booksplease Price: $6.49"I love life in its living form, life that's found on the street, in human conversations, shouts, and moans." So begins this speech delivered in Russian at Cornell University by Svetlana Alexievich,... -
Japan's Renaissance: The Politics of the Muromachi Bakufu by Kenneth Alan Grossberg 9781885445087
RRP: $20.63Booksplease Price: $17.25First published in 1981, Japan's Renaissance is a detailed and exhaustively researched account of the regime of Japan's second shogunate, and also an agile comparative analysis of the political... -
![Deathsong of the River: A Reader's Guide to the Chinese TV Series "Heshang" by Xiaokang Su 9780939657544](https://cdn11.bigcommerce.com/s-zkx5lhzlf8/images/stencil/444x444/products/1640876/5178212/9780939657544__46720.1724029035.jpg?c=1 "Deathsong of the River: A Reader's Guide to the Chinese TV Series "Heshang" by Xiaokang Su 9780939657544")
Deathsong of the River: A Reader's Guide to the Chinese TV Series "Heshang" by Xiaokang Su 9780939657544
RRP: $10.31Booksplease Price: $9.47Perhaps the most daring TV documentary series ever produced in mainland China, which directly affected the thinking of Chinese youth on the eve of the 1989 democracy movement. This richly-annotated... -
The Naked Tree: A Novel by Wan-Suh Park
RRP: $18.05Booksplease Price: $16.23A coming-of-age novel set during the Korean War, by Pak Wan-Suh, one of Korea's leading contemporary writers. The award-winning author of more than twenty novels, and numerous short stories and... -
Transformation, Miracles, and Mischief: The Mountain Priest Plays of Kyogen by Morley 9780939657629
RRP: $20.63Booksplease Price: $18.50This book is an introduction to the kyogen genre and includes translations of eight plays about the mountain priest character, as well as the history of the acting tradition and an analysis of kyogen... -
To Achieve Security and Wealth: The Qing Imperial State and the Economy, 1644-1911 by Jane Kate Leonard 9780939657568
RRP: $10.31Booksplease Price: $9.47The studies in this collection re-examine the role of the Qing state in the private economy. They show in a variety of cases how the interaction between the two helped the state achieve its goals of... -
Five Plays by Kishida Kunio by Kunio Kishida 9781885445513
RRP: $18.05Booksplease Price: $16.23Although he has been touted as Japan's finest prewar playwright, few of Kishida Kunio's works have been translated into English. This volume brings together for the first time representative plays... -
Charisma and Community Formation in Medieval Japan: The Case of the Yugyo-ha (1300-1700) by S. A. Thornton 9781885445025
RRP: $19.34Booksplease Price: $17.25The Yugyo-ha achieved success by basing its religious authority on a combination of Pure Land mysticism and the practices of fundraising hijiri. Between 1300 and 1700, the Pure Land Buddhist... -
More Than A Momentary Nightmare: The Yokohama Incident and Wartime in Japan by Janice Matsumura
Booksplease Price: $20.23This work anayzes events surrounding the Yokohama incident (1942-1945), which led to the arrest of dozens of journalists and researchers in Japan during the Pacific War period. Utilizing government... -
Day-Shine: Poems by Hyon-Jong Chong
Booksplease Price: $15.04Powerfully inventive poems of love in contemporary life by Chong Hyon-jong, one of the most respected poets writing in Korea. The novelty of his poetic language with its narrative lyricism and... -
The Lioness Roars: Shrew Stories from Late Imperial China by Yenna Wu
RRP: $24.50Booksplease Price: $21.25This anthology offers translations of seven stories and one novella from the 17th and 18th centuries, with a critical introduction and bibliography. To date there are no translations from the... -
Across the Perilous Sea: Japanese Trade with China and Korea from the Seventh to the Sixteenth Centuries by Charlotte Verschuer
RRP: $64.50Booksplease Price: $52.95Originally published as Le commerce exterieur du Japon des origines au XVIe siecle in 1988, this new edition of the landmark French study chronicles Japan's transformation from an importer of... -
![Early One Spring: An Intermediate Chinese Reader to Accompany the Film Video "February" by Wang](https://cdn11.bigcommerce.com/s-zkx5lhzlf8/images/stencil/444x444/products/1345888/1345473/9781885445124__27429.1695297079.jpg?c=1 "Early One Spring: An Intermediate Chinese Reader to Accompany the Film Video "February" by Wang")
Early One Spring: An Intermediate Chinese Reader to Accompany the Film Video "February" by Wang
Booksplease Price: $10.50Adapted from the movie and screenplay of the same name by director Xie Tieli, this intermediate-advanced Chinese language film guide/reader helps students make the difficult transition from the... -
Kojiki-den by Motoori Norinaga 9781885445872
RRP: $19.34Booksplease Price: $17.25Motoori Norinaga (1730-1801) believed that the intersection of time, language, meaning, and culture in the Kojiki had the power ro reveal the voice of archaic Japan. Japan's self-image was changed... -
Annotated Japanese Literary Gems: Stories by Natsume Soseki, Tomioka Taeko, and Inoue Yasushi by Kyoko Selden
RRP: $24.50Booksplease Price: $21.25This is the second volume of Annotated Japanese Literary Gems, which makes available representative examples of Japanese short stories and novellas from Meiji to the present. This multi-volume set of... -
Twelve Plays of the Noh and Kyogen Theaters by Karen Brazell 9780939657001
RRP: $19.34Booksplease Price: $17.49"This remarkable anthology of... plays is a harbinger of a new age in Japanese theatre studies and will be considered a pivotal work in the future.... The closing essay by editor Karen Brazell on... -
Land of Volcanic Ash: A Play in Two Parts by Sakae Kubo 9780939657834
RRP: $21.92Booksplease Price: $19.23Kubo Sakae's Land of Volcanic Ash (Kazanbaichi) is recognized as the major socialist realist drama of pre-war Japan. The play, which describes the struggles of a reform-minded intellectual in the... -
International Perspectives on Yanagita Kunio and Japanese Folklore Studies by J. Victor Koschmann 9780939657377
RRP: $15.47Booksplease Price: $12.45A collection of essays by North American and Japanese scholars on the life, work and influence of Yanagita Kunio (1875-1962), the founder of Japanese Folklore Studies. In addition to providing... -
Warrior Ghost Plays from the Japanese Noh Theater by Chifumi Shimazaki 9780939657605
RRP: $20.63Booksplease Price: $18.24Translations of six shura (battle)-Noh that have for the main character the ghost of a warrior whose story is told in the Tale of Heike. Each Noh has a detailed introduction and footnotes.About the... -
Takeuchi Yoshimi: Displacing the West by Richard F. Calichman 9781885445209
RRP: $21.92Booksplease Price: $19.23This work focuses on the writings of the postwar Japanese thinker and sinologist Takeuchi Yoshimi (1910-1977). It presents itself less as an intellectual biography than as a series of explorative... -
Playing with Fire: A Novel by Chong-Rae Cho 9781885445858
RRP: $18.05Booksplease Price: $16.23In this work, the smoldering hatred of the Korean War period resurfaces decades later in the form of a ruthless quest for justice. The main character, a successful Seoul businessman, has a secret... -
Kitahara Hakushu: His Life and Poetry by Margaret Benton Fukusawa 9780939657650
RRP: $10.31Booksplease Price: $9.47The first full-length work in English on Kitahara Hakushu (1885-1942), a leading poet of modern Japan. In addition to a thorough recounting of the poet's life and times, the author provides numerous... -
Backed against the Sea: A Novel by Wang 9780939657674
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $11.44Written as the ludicrous and disturbing ramblings of an errant, pseudo-intellectual urbanite secluding himself from the underworld in an impoverished coastal village of Taiwan in the early 1960s,... -
The Prophet and Other Stories by Chong-Jun Yi 9781885445018
RRP: $10.31Booksplease Price: $9.47Yi Ch'ong-Jun was born in 1939 and graduated from the department of German language and literature at Seoul National University in 1966. He has long been recognized as one of Korea's most prolific... -
The Prophet and Other Stories by Chong-Jun Yi 9781885445612
RRP: $20.63Booksplease Price: $18.50Yi Ch'ong-Jun was born in 1939 and graduated from the department of German language and literature at Seoul National University in 1966. He has long been recognized as one of Korea's most prolific... -
Japan's National Security: Structures, Norms and Policy Responses in a Changing World by Peter J. Katzenstein 9780939657582
RRP: $20.63Booksplease Price: $17.25Japan's National Security offers a detailed examination of Japan's distinctive security policy. It traces in considerable detail the evolution of Japan's approach to the economic, political and... -
Pining Wind: A Cycle of No Plays by Royall Tyler 9780939657179
RRP: $10.31Booksplease Price: $9.47Translations of 19 noh and nine kyogen plays seeking to produce English poetry which reproduces the 'texture of the Japanese'... an experiment in translating the 'untranslatable' word play which... -
The Fukushima Nuclear Power Plant Disaster and the Future of Renewable Energy by Naoto Kan 9781501726934
Booksplease Price: $6.49In a speech delivered in Japanese at Cornell University, Naoto Kan describes the harrowing days after a cataclysmic earthquake and tsunami led to the meltdown of three reactors at the Fukushima... -
Sending the Ship Out to the Stars: Poems of Park Je-chun by Chang Soo Ko
RRP: $15.47Booksplease Price: $13.43Park Je-chun is a major poet in Korea today. His works are marked by a poetic imagination and a sensibility which draw largely on Korean Buddhist and Taoist traditions, as well as Korean classical... -
Ode to Stone by Shiro Hara
RRP: $10.31Booksplease Price: $9.47Coming from the country where short, concise poetry is celebrated, Hara Shiro's Ode to Stone is an unusually lengthy contribution to modern Japanese poetry. A recent winner of the Gendai Shijin Sho,... -
Family Change and the Life Course in Japan by Susan Orpett Long
RRP: $10.31Booksplease Price: $9.47This book provides a valuable introduction to historical and sociological studies of family change in Japan. The author discusses the organization and assumptions of the academic disciplines,... -
Psychoanalysis in China: Literary Transformations, 1919-1949 by Zhang
RRP: $18.05Booksplease Price: $16.23A historical and bibliographical study of the reception and interpretation of Freud's ideas in China and an analysis of the use of these ideas in literature and literary criticism. Combining original... -
Farmers' Dance: Poems by Shin Kyong-Nim by Kyong-Nim Shin
RRP: $10.31Booksplease Price: $9.47Shin Kyong-Nim's first volume of poems, Farmers' Dance (Nong-mu), marked a major new step in the development of modern Korean poetry when it was published in 1973. The life of Korea's oppressed rural... -
Dramatic Representations of Filial Piety: Five Nohs in Translation by Mae J. Smethurst 9781885445971
RRP: $15.47Booksplease Price: $13.43This volume of five noh translations (containing an introduction, translations, short commentaries and a glossary) differs from most others in that none of the plays are of the mugenno type, but are... -
The Naked Tree: A Novel by Wan-Suh Park 9781885445735
RRP: $24.50Booksplease Price: $19.65A coming-of-age novel set during the Korean War, by Pak Wan-Suh, one of Korea's leading contemporary writers. The award-winning author of more than twenty novels, and numerous short stories and... -
!["I Saw A Pale Horse" and Selected Poems from "Diary of a Vagabond" by Fumiko Hayashi 9781885445865](https://cdn11.bigcommerce.com/s-zkx5lhzlf8/images/stencil/444x444/products/1631333/1630912/9781885445865__29227.1706388550.jpg?c=1 ""I Saw A Pale Horse" and Selected Poems from "Diary of a Vagabond" by Fumiko Hayashi 9781885445865")
"I Saw A Pale Horse" and Selected Poems from "Diary of a Vagabond" by Fumiko Hayashi 9781885445865
RRP: $18.05Booksplease Price: $17.00Hayashi Fumiko, one of the most popular prose writers of the Showa era, began writing as a down-and-out poet wandering the streets of 1920s Tokyo. In these translations of her first poetry... -
Transforming the Clunky Organization: Pragmatic Leadership Skills for Breaking Inertia by Samuel B. Bacharach 9781501710032
RRP: $18.05Booksplease Price: $16.23Organizations, like people, get stuck! They get ensnared in routines and processes, and they fall back into old habits. This is the dangerous period of inertia, the period that precedes failure, when...