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2 CHINA

Elegy Of A River DragonA NovelFang QiNorman Harry Rothschild and Meng Fanjun, Translators

With the tenacious pride and relentless ferocity of their murderous, totemic ancestor, the Immortal White Tiger, the Li family, led by stout-hearted Li Diezhu and his iron-willed wife, Tao Jiuxiang, ascend from migrant destitution to local eminence, only to have the War of Resistance Against Japan (WWII), inter-familial rivalries, political upheaval, and modernity unmake decades of endless toil. The shamanic chants of tragic hero Xia Qifa—a tireless benevolent presence ever willing to help the hardscrabble mountain folk perform rites, weather droughts, or capture ghosts and dragons—serve as the rhythmic, incantatory

soundtrack of the story. In the end, with a grim inevitability, the completion of the Three Gorges Dam inundates the rugged landscape that forged the descendants of the Tiger, submerging countless generations of love and pain, the endless triumphs and struggles that shaped the lore and history of a people, leaving the reader to wonder what remains.

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.

2016 488 pages978-1-937385-38-5 Paper $28.00978-1-937385-39-2 Cloth $45.00

“Fang Qi's Elegy of a River Shaman is an expansive novel born of anthropological fieldwork, folklore research, and historical investigation. It is centered on the Gate of the Thunderous One-Footed Dragon, Kuimen, at a key point of the remote, scenic Three Gorges on the upper part of the Yangtze River. Weaving daily life of the local people together with the legends and myths of the region, the author has created a rich tapestry of narrative, chant, and sheer learning. That the translators, Norman Harry Rothschild and Meng Fanjun, have been able to render all of this esoteric and exotic lore into graceful and felicitous English is itself an impressive achievement.”

—Victor H. Mair, University of Pennsylvania

Catalog Contents

China 2

Taiwan 7

Tibet 8

Korea 8

Japan 11

Japan-China 16

Index 18

Ordering Information 19

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China 1927Memoir of a DebacleZhu QihuaTranslated by Zhu HongForeword by John C. Ma

“. . . this memoir humanizes the revolutionary movement in a way no other document does.”

—Joseph Fewsmith, Boston University

“Few historical memoirs of the Nationalist Revolution of the 1920s were written at the time of the events they record. Zhu Qihua’s eyewitness account of the military and political fortunes of Communist and Nationalists forces on the Northern Expedition . . . reads with the ease of a contemporary record written by a guileless young man . . . A lively account of the political intrigues, military battles, occasional coups, forced marches, and desperate hunger that accompanied one wing of the Northern Expeditionary forces as they traipsed from Guangdong north through Jiangxi to Hubei and on to Henan, then back south through now desolate landscapes in Henan and deserted villages in Jiangxi to Fujian, and finally to Guangdong. . . Along the way Zhu offers memorable pen-portraits of his fellow journeymen and women, lending interest and coherence to the story.

—Journal of Asian Studies

March 2013 342 pages • map • photos • index

ISBN 978-1-937385-14-9 Paper $35.00ISBN 978-1-937385-15-6 Cloth $75.00

Mao’s Lost ChildrenThe Stories of Those Who Were Rusticated During the Cultural RevolutionEdited by Ou Nianzhong and Liang Yongkang Translated by Laura Maynard

“During decades of reading and reviewing books on China I have learned a great deal, even from those I didn’t like. Only a few have surprised me. Mao’s Lost Children is such a book, and those like me who believe that the Mao period was bad for China and the Chinese will also be surprised—although, as I note below, some of the surprise is negative. It starts with the cover, which shows laughing girls being drawn on an oxcart. Since I supposed that young middle school graduates, or zhiqing, “sent down to the countryside and up to the mountains” to “learn from the peasants” must have had a bad time, I thought initially that the cover was misleading. But in this book, most of the former zhiqing recall happy, or at least nostalgic, years of rustication . . .

“I found this collection fascinating . . .”—The New York Review of Books

2015, 398 pages, illustrated978-1-937385-67-5 Paper $28.00978-1-937-385-68-2 Cloth $65.00

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Shattered Families, Broken DreamsLittle-Known Episodes from the History of the Persecution of Chinese Revolutionaries in Stalin’s GulagSin-LinTranslated from the Russian by Steven I. Levine Foreword by Peter Reddaway

“These days in China it is said that there is 'History, and there is Permitted History' . . . Shattered Families, Broken Dreams is the real thing.”

—The New York Review of Books

2012, 425 pages, illustrated978-1-937385-18-7 Paper $35.00978-1-937385-19-4 Cloth $75.00

Past and Present in China’s Foreign PolicyFrom “Tribute System” to “Peaceful Rise”Edited with an Introduction by John E. Wills, Jr., University of Southern California (Emeritus)

“. . . to the experts on China’s international

interactions, this collection . . . offers both a comprehensive overview and a much-needed reconsideration of the conceptual and policy outlines of Beijing’s nascent global agency. To the beginners, it makes available an accessible, yet rigorous, analytical and empirical engagement with the dynamics of Chinese foreign policy.”

—The China Quarterly

“. . . what has been lacking in the field is a concise, accessible discussion of the pertinence of the past for China today, one that would give those who might all too easily promote historical simplifications some pause. Past and Present in China’s Foreign Policy goes a long way toward accomplishing this goal . . .

—The Journal of Asian Studies

“. . . For students of history, the book succinctly presents several useful theories of political science in ways that may be useful for their studies, while for students of political science, it summarizes many of the trends of historical writing in a way applicable to their own field.”

—The China Journal

2011, 150 pages • indexISBN 978-0-9836599-8-3 Paper $35.00

TattooThree NovellasSu TongTranslated by Josh Stenberg, University of British Columbia

“The three novellas collected here, written in the 1990s, are well selected and expertly translated. As always, Su Tong depicts bullying,

vengeance, and cruelty, but here he renders these acts deftly and without sensationalism. The effect is not melodrama, but visions of pervasive ugliness, squalor, and malodor . . .

—Jeffrey C. Kinkley in World Literature Today

2010, 212 pages978-0-9836599-0-7 Paper $23.00978-0-9836599-1-4 Cloth $45.00

Cell PhoneA NovelLiu ZhenyunTranslated by Howard Goldblatt

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 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. Beginning in 1968 in the protagonist’s childhood rural hometown, Liu’s fast-paced, contemporary tale takes us into the complicated family and social relationships of Yan Shouyi, telling a tale of friendship, love and betrayal. The cellphone becomes the “grenade” in this tale that dramatically “blows up” the life of the main character—a telling tale in a country which is the largest user of mobile phones in the world. The book closes with an epilogue set decades earlier when communications were primitive and unreliable, but with remarkable similarities to the problems and pitfalls of the communication age illustrated in Liu’s modern-day story.

The film adaptation of Cell Phone, a smashing success in China, was produced by filmmaker Feng Xiaogang and called his best film ever. The press fol-lowing the movie told stories of wives across China checking their husband’s cell phones after seeing the film. Readers will thoroughly enjoy Liu Zhenyun’s first novel for the English speaking market.

2011, 250 pagesISBN 978-0-9836599-2-1 Paper $23.00ISBN 978-0-9836599-3-8 Cloth $45.00

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Beijing WomenStoriesWang YuanTranslated by Shuyu Kong, Simon Fraser University, and Colin S. Hawes, Sydney University of Technology

“Wang Yuan reveals the moral and spiritual

complexities hidden within the mundane daily dramas of women’s lives in a huge metropolis . . . It is the ambiguity and fragility of individuals that makes her stories so memorable, captured from a unique women’s point of view.”

—Dai Jinhua, Peking University

This is sensitive and equivocal writing, elegantly translated, presenting the insecure lives of today’s Beijing women.”

—Richard King, University of Victoria2014, 194 pages978-1-937385-46-0 Paper $23.00978-1-937385-47-7 Cloth $45.00

Irina’s HatNew Short Stories from ChinaEdited with an Introduction by J osh Stenberg, University of British Columbia

This anthology gathers sto-ries from established and emerging writers in China.

Authors and stories: Bi Feiyu, “Sleeping” • Chen Jie, “When Are You Mov-ing Out?” • Fan Xiaoqing, “Where Did I Lose You” • Han Shaogong, “Anger” • He Yuru, “Three Cleaners” • Huang Fan, “Jin Guo’s Compass” • Li Han, “Late Stage” • Su Tong, “ The Most Desolate Zoo in the World” • Tie Ning, “Irina’s Hat” • Tsering Norbu, “Amerika” • Wang Baozhong,“The Ex-Husband” • Wang Shou, “How the Salesman Disappeared,” • Xiao Su, “Our Privacy” • Xu Yigua, “Colored Starling” • Zhu Shanpo, “The Bird Vanishes.”

Bi Feiyu (two-time winner of the Lu Xun Literary Prize), Su Tong (winner of the Man Asian Literary Prize), Han Shaogong (winner of the Newman Prize of Chinese Literature), and Tie Ning (chairman of the Chinese Writers’ Association) are well known abroad, but the other nine authors are here published in English translation for the first time.

The range and depth of this anthology gives a Chinese literary self-portrait in dramatic times.

Published in Cooperation with the Chinese Writers’ Association


Ripple On Stagnant WaterA Novel of Sichuan in the Age of Treaty PortsLiu JierenTranslated by Bret Sparling and Yin Chi

Li Jieren’s novel is populated with gangsters, prostitutes, farmers,

dilettantes, bureaucrats and Christian converts, all drawn from the author’s acquaintances. While giving an incomparably vivid account of the lives of commoners, it illuminates a complex balance of power at the end of the last dynasty, when Western powers were clashing with imperial troops in far-off Peking, and the under-ground fraternities of this provincial backwater were chafing at the activities of foreign missionaries. Li Jieren brought to this portrayal of his native province the expertise of a local, the critical eye of a foreigner, and the sympathetic wit of a humanist. He has long been under-appreciated, in part because his work is too uncompromising to fit easily into any ideological mold.2014, 338 pages978-1-937385-24-8 Paper $25.00978-1-937385-25-5 Cloth $65.00

South FukienMissionary Poems, 1925–1951William AngusEdited with an Introduction by David Andrews Foreword by David Angus

“William Angus’s South Fukien: Missionary Poems, 1925-1951,

reveals in unprecedented depth the spiritual and emotional bonds between the Gospel, the Chinese convert, and the Christian missionary. Writing with objectivity, sensitivity, compassion, and uncompromising directness, Angus does not pretend. The poems are both flattering and unflattering. This is not ‘A Nice Missionary’s Poetry.’ ‘Its spirituality . . . emerges from the discovery of moral certainties in mundane events—personal conflicts, doctrinal misinterpretations, unfairness, and everyday betrayals.’ A scholar and lover of books, Angus is a ‘reporter’ writing in verse. Although many authors express sympathy for the Chinese, rarely, perhaps never, have so many compelling truths been compressed into so few words.”

—Dr. Paul Vander Meer, Professor Emeritus, California State University–Fresno


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A Foreign Missionary on the Long MarchThe Unpublished Memoirs of Arnolis Hayman of the China Inland MissionArnolis HaymanEdited with an Introduction by Anne-Marie Brady, University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand

““. . . On the basis of this first-hand evidence, we are presented with a grim picture of life in a Red Army camp, with its incessant propaganda rallies to enlist the support of the local population, the plunder and exploitation of local communities, and the repeated violence against class enemies. There are frequent references to deliberate and brutal executions carried out summarily, with the bodies left to rot in full view. Needless to say, all such reportage has been carefully expunged from the official histories of this violent struggle.

“[Hayman's] searing experiences fully deserve the wider, if belated, exposure they gain through Brady’s helpful and scholarly edition”

—Pacific Affairs2010, 200 pages978-1-937385-00-2 Paper $32.00978-1-937385-01-9 Cloth $65.00

Missions to China’s HeartlandThe Letters of Hazel Todd of the China Inland Mission, 1920-1941

Edited with an Introduction by Robert Gardella, U.S. Merchant Marine Academy (Emeritus)

“This volume of Hazel Todd’s letters offers us . . . descriptions and narratives of the lives of ordinary rural Christians in these years. The tempo of rural missionary life is evident in these letters. Hazel . . . also . . . gives us a profile of the rural Christian communities which grew around the foreign missionaries and the mission station. Relations between missionary and pastors and elders within the church reveal unexpected complexities. Gardella has done a very competent job of editing and annotating this volume . . . Historians of Christian mission probably will find this work extremely valuable.”

—The China Quarterly

2009, 195 pages • photos • map • bibliography

ISBN 978-0-9836599-9-0 Paper $45.00

Edited with an Introduction by Anne-Marie Brady

A Foreign Missionary

On The

LongMaRCH

The Memoirs of Arnolis Hayman ofthe China Inland Mission

“Hiding the Tip”Gateway to Chinese CalligraphyWen Xing, Dartmouth

“Hiding the Tip” is the basic brush technique used by calligraphy beginners. As a gate-

way to Chinese calligraphy, this book introduces this basic technique in the context of traditional Chinese culture and, in particular, in the context of the argument that Chinese calligraphy is a cosmolo-gy. As an expert on ancient Chinese calligraphy and manuscripts, the author selectively includes recently discovered excavated manuscripts of Chinese callig-raphy. Thus, instead of conventional rubbings, illus-trated here are ancient examples of Chinese calligra-phy—original ink masterpieces that have never been available in previous works on calligraphy.

2014, 208 pages, illustrated978-1-937385-64-4 Paper $28.00978-1-927385-65-1 Cloth $45.00

Stephen Girard’s Trade with China, 1787–1824The Norms Versus the Profits of TradeJonathan Goldstein, University of West Georgia

“. . . Goldstein’s book looks at Girard’s encounter with China,

tracking the full arc of his China trading from entry through withdrawal, noting Girard’s careful study and trade risk assessment from start to end. This book will be welcomed by scholars in various topics in American, Asian and European history. Its treatment of current popular topics such as cultural differences and perceptions, drugs and smuggling, and issues of national sovereignty and solvency will have popular appeal as well.”

—Frederic Delano Grant, Jr., University of Leiden

“. . . Overall, Stephen Girard’s Trade with China makes a useful contribution to the literature devoted to the early commerce of the United States with China. It leaves the field open for a study of the importance of his own involvement in the China trade to Stephen Girard, and his place within that trade.”

—International Journal of Maritime History

2011, 143 pages • illustrations • bibliography • index

ISBN 978-0-98336599-6-9 Paper $35.00ISBN 978-0-98336599-7-6 Cloth $65.00

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How to Leap a Great Wall in ChinaThe China Adventures of a Cross-Cultural Trouble-ShooterDen LeventhalForeword by Carolyn L. Brehm, Proctor & Gamble

“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, Freeman Professor of East Asian Studies, Wesleyan University

“Den Leventhal hits the mark with his personable memoir that presents B-School quality case studies for market entry development in the international arena . . . I feel certain that any businessman seeking to act on an international business opportunity will find golden nuggets in this engaging read about 30 adventurous years of opening business in China.”

—Chip Brittingham, CFP, President, Bayview Investment Counsel, Inc.

During a 30-year career as a China business devel-opment specialist, Den Leventhal climbed a steep learning curve from cross-cultural engagement to intercultural understanding and significant com-mercial achievement. His stories are presented with a levity that will engage neophytes and seasoned pro-fessionals alike.


TAIWAN

Scenes from Dutch FormosaStaging Taiwan’s Colonial PastEdited by Llyn Scott, Aletheia University, Taipei

“This volume is a brilliantly inspired history of drama featuring dramas about history . . . A valuable reminder of Taiwan’s inter-

cultural past as staged then and now, how Dutch colonizers viewed the inhabitants of Taiwan and how they viewed themselves, and how Taiwan’s past has been represented and misrepresented. International, interdisciplinary and intercultural, there is something here for every scholar, student and artist interested in how the stage is used to depict society, history and the Other and the Self. This volume is a model for modern cultural studies, both in structure and content.”

—Kevin J. Wetmore, Jr., Professor and Chair of Theatre Arts, Loyola Marymount University

2014, 346 pages , illustrated978-1-937385-28-6 Paper $35.00978-1-937385-29-3 Cloth $75.00

The Peasant Movement and Land Reform in Taiwan, 1924-1951Shih-shan Henry Tsai, University of Arkansas, Emeritus

Taiwan’s peasant movement in the 1920s and 1930s was intimately intertwined with that of

the Third International (Comintern) and Japan’s tenant unionism and, to a lesser extent, to the peasant uprisings in China. During the ten-year span between 1924 and 1934, leaders of the peasant union helped to awaken peasants’ social/economic consciousness. 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.

This book quantifies and analyzes the agitation and disputation that the labor and peasant unions helped to generate during this period. It also documents that whenever Taiwanese union leaders were arrested by the Japanese police and tried in court, Japanese lawyers, were dispatched to help defend their Taiwanese counterparts.

2015, 272 pages978-1-937385-80-4 Cloth $65.00

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Tibetan SoulStoriesAlaiTranslated by Karen Gernant and Chen Zeping

. . . Alai brings his myriad of experiences as a Tibetan to this collection of short stories. He combines elements of traditional folklore with

modern life, giving a rich portrait of the varied culture in his homeland.”

—World Literature Today

“. . . The twelve short stories collected here are mostly set in Tibetan villages and reveal a distinct and striking vision of Tibetan realities. Realistic yet graceful, Alai’s writings introduce his readers to life and death, love and hatred, compassion and alienation, courage and ambition, belief and quest in that mysterious and alluring region, words that transverse the expanse of space and touch our hearts.”

—Renditions


Ballad of the HimalayasStories of TibetMa YuanTranslated by Herbert BattIntroduction by Yang Xiaobin

“Traveling through Tibet, a narrator questions meaning and 'story,' nodding to Tibetan

Buddhism’s idea of cosmos as illusion. From a tongue-in-cheek allegory of China and Tibet to the playful account of a young Tibetan in the throes of love, Ma Yuan breaks with tradition and helps move Chinese literature into the twenty-first century.”



A Black KiteThe Poems Of Kim Jong-GilKim Jong-GilTranslated by Brother Anthony of Taizé

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. The collection exemplifies the simple human dignity to which Korean writers attach such great importance.

Fall 2017, ca. 120 pages978-1-937385-19-4 Paper $22.50978-1-937385-20-0 Cloth $45.00

Fall 2010Coming 2017

A Black KiteThe Poems Of Kim Jong-Gil

Kim Jong-Gil

Translated by Brother Anthony of Taizé

COMING IN 2017

9KOREA

The Moving FortressA NovelHwang SunwŏnTranslated by Bruce Fulton, University of British Columbia, and Ju-Chan Fulton

Hwang Sunwŏn’s The Mov-ing Fortress (1972) is a pan-

orama of Korea and Koreans coming to terms with the confrontation of tradition with modernity. In this sense it echoes such novels as Tanizaki Junichiro's The Makioka Sisters. By turns hard-boiled and lyri-cal, rooted in the workaday lives of slum-dwellers as well as the bizarre dreams of the affluent, alive with vibrant images of the metropolis of Seoul as well as the immemorial countryside, the novel epitomizes the rich variety of Hwang Sunwŏn's art.

To capture this variety Hwang employs a cine-matic style, cutting rapidly from one scene to the next. Contemporary events, such as the demolition of a squatter neighborhood, as well as flashbacks to the Korean War, help to set the social and historical context of the novel.


How in Heaven’s NameA Novel of World War TwoCho ChŏngnaeTranslated from the Korean by Bruce Fulton, University of British Columbia, and Ju-Chan Fulton

“No event in the twentieth century had as much of

a global impact as World War II. Cho Chŏngnae is revered as one of Korea’s greatest writers, and his newest novel doesn’t disappoint. Following soldiers’ stories from both the Axis and Allies, How in Heaven’s Name explores the many tragic truths about World War II.“


Based on the true story of several Korean youths who in the late 1930s were lured into the Japanese Imperial Army and by a process of almost unbelievable serendipity were among those captured by the Americans who landed at Omaha Beach on D-Day—soldiers in German Wehrmacht uniforms who had Asian features and spoke a language no one understood.


The Muslim ButcherA NovelSon Hong-kyuTranslated by Yu Youngnan

Several decades after the Korean War, the unnamed narrator, an orphan in his early teens, is taken in by an aged Turk, a veteran of

the Korean War. Uncle Hassan makes a living as a butcher in a Seoul slum. The narrator is a precocious troubled boy, who wonders who his parents are, why they abandoned him, what life is all about. In this neighborhood, the narrator befriends a number of people, all poor and downtrodden—Dickensonian characters including a caring aunt, a Greek veteran who is a compulsive liar, a sensitive stammering boy, a talkative smart aleck. a war veteran who lost his memory during the war, and a drunken locksmith,. As the narrator gets to know them, he finds his path, realizing what human community is all about and what love means.


Farewell ValleyA NovelIm Ch’ŏruTranslated by Jennifer M. Lee, Konkuk University Glocal Campus, and Jonathan Ross Bagley

Farewell Valley is divided into four seasons each represented by a different character. It takes place in a

remote village in Kangwŏn Province, where Farewell Valley Station is located.

Farewell Valley is about ordinary people who are emotionally and physically scarred. Death is a recurring motif and historical events are central to the story. The book deals with universal themes of isolation, trauma, and the often intangible nature of hope.


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Time to Eat LobsterContemporary Korean Stories on Memories of the Vietnam WarBang Hyeon-seokTranslated by Seung-Hee Jeon, Yonsei University Afterword by Lee Kyung-jae

“In Bang Hyeon-seok’s Forms of Being and Time to Eat Lobster, there are Koreans who neither impose their own ideals on the Vietnamese nor detach themselves from them or exclude them from their lives. Koreans in his works find the values, which they had in the past but lost along the way, in Vietnam. This reality makes Vietnam a meaningful standard for contemporary Korean lives, as Koreans can acknowledge uniquely Vietnamese qualities while maintaining their own Korean identities, as shown in the translation scene in Forms of Being. This attitude is the kind of ethical ideal that Bang Hyeon-Seok, who has always written for the underprivileged and marginalized since the 1980s, finds in our contemporary age of multiculturalism.”

—From the Afterword by Lee Kyung-jae


Two Stories from Korea“The Wounded” and “The Abject”Yi Cheong-JunTranslated by Jennifer Lee, Konkuk University Glocal Campus, Grace Jung, Writer/Producer, New York

Two of [Yi’s] short stories are presented here . . . in

excellent English translation that catches the in-ternalized moods and psychological trauma of the protagonists. Both stories delve into the depths of human endurance. In ‘The Wounded,’ two brothers cope with psychological pain. In ‘The Abject,” a woman suffers terrible loss and is inconsolable. The spiritual comforts of religion fail her; the moral and value of humankind also fail.”

—Korean Quarterly

Published in 1985, “The Abject” was adapted for the screen in 2007 by Lee Chang-dong as Secret Sunshine, starring Jeon Do-yeon and Song Kang-ho. At the 2007 Cannes Film Festival, the film was nominated for the Palme d’Or and Jeon won Best Actress.


Kim In-SukA Novel

THE LONG ROADThe Long RoadA NovelKim In-SukTranslated by Stephen J. Epstein, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand

“In-Suk Kim is one of the best of the new breed of socially- and politically-conscious writers to come

out of Korea. She has an intense, internalized style of writing, with strong narrative skills. A short novel, The Long Road has many characteristics of a play, with the three main characters articulating their disappointments, disillusionments, anger and grief. Her characters are in turmoil, unable to reconnect or to reconcile. Life is not what they expected or hoped. Choices made are not free and clear; any decision made has consequences. The future is bleak . . .

“Kim writes in a particularly strong social and political voice. Her stories resonate with inner conflicts of the main characters, who carry with them the effects of modern Korea’s upheavals—dictatorships, secret police and torture, and student uprisings. She describes cultural incompatabilities—be they social and class divisions, economic and political boundries, or gender differences . . .“

—Korean Quarterly

2010, 120 pages978-1-937385-05-7 $23.00 pbk978-1-937385-06-4 $45.00 cloth

Until Peonies BloomThe Complete Poems of Kim Yeong-nangKim Yeong-nangTranslated by Brother Anthony of TaizéIntroduction by Kim Seon-tae, Mokpo UniversityAfterword by Harold

Kim Hyeon-cheol

“Reading Kim’s poems in Korean and English in this bilingual book is a . . . joy for me. Young-nang Kim is one of the most beautiful and important Korean poets in the first half of the 20th century. I recommend this book to anyone who is interested in Korean literature and poetry.”

—Korean Quarterly

Bilingual: English/Korean


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Old Crimes, New ScenesA Century of Innovations in Japanese Mystery FictionCharles Exley & Michael Stone Tangman, eds., various translators

By the late nineteenth century, Japanese readers had access to translations of many of Europe and America’s best mystery writers. The popularity of the genre led to Japanese writers honestly translating these stories into Japanese; or to modifying the story according to the Japanese author’s taste; and, sometimes to outright plagiarism of Western stories to be passed off as works by Japanese authors. The popularity of mysteries was ensured in Japan, and the ensuing century-plus has seen remarkable examples of Japanese literary innovation.

This volume highlights some of Japan’s most creative responses to the mystery genre. Some of the works are innovative because they were written by authors (or, in one case, a poet) who did not normally write mysteries. Others are innovative for their variations on standard elements detective fiction, or for using mystery tropes to interrogate social norms such as social media in an effort to explain the meaning of the text in its time—and to demonstrate that the text gives a fairly accurate picture of the ancestors of the Japanese people.standing, or gender roles. Some works play on technological innovations as keys to the mystery. Some of the works are meta-fictive explorations of the mystery, using detective fiction to investigate detective fiction.

Scholars, students and mystery readers alike will find this volume full of surprises.

Fall 2017, ca 356 pagesISBN 978-1-937385-17-0 Paper $32.50ISBN 978-1-937385-18-7 Cloth $55.00


Old Crimes, New ScenesA Century of Innovations in Japanese Mystery FictionCharles Exley & Michael Stone Tangman, eds., various translators

COMING IN 2017

“The Life We Longed For"Danchi Housing and the Middle Class Dream in Postwar JapanLaura Lynn Neitzel, Columbia University

“If Japan's postwar provided the occasion for implementing a new democratic ethos, Laura Neitzel's new study demonstrates how its material structure was supplied by the construction of new danchi apartment complexes for a striving middle class delegated to reinforce the political endowment and reconfigure its everyday life. This is the 'life we longed for' and its narrative Neitzel perceptively addresses and elegantly details. By portraying an everyday imaginary fueled by desire for comfort and consumption, she has realized an eloquent and brilliantly conceived social history composed of how the danchi's present indexed its historical moment and a nostalgic yearning for its lost promise that came from the future.”—Harry Harootunian, Max Palevsky Professor

of History, Emeritus, University of Chicago.

“More than a history of public housing, The Life We Longed For is a cultural history of postwar Japan’s middle class.”

—Jordan Sand, Georgetown University

A Study of The Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia University

2016, 188 pages, illus., index978-1-937385-87-3 Paper $32.00978-1-937385-86-6 Cloth $65.00

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Siebold’s DaughterA NovelAkira YoshimuraTranslated by Richard Rubinger, Indiana UniversitySet against the dramatic political transformation of Japan in the nineteenth century, Siebold’s Daughter tells the story of the German physician Siebold, his Japanese mistress, and their daughter who was born on Dejima during the years of Japan’s national seclusion. Because mixed blood children were unwanted at the time, Siebold’s daughter, Ine, became the first child of mixed blood permitted to live a full life.

Her story is one of great persistence and courage. Ine had to overcome resistance from her mother to pursuing a career, discrimination against her, rape by one of her teachers, the birth of an unwanted child at an early age, and a devastating breakup in her relationship with her famous father. Yet she persevered, becoming Japan’s first Western trained female physician, and the attending physician at the birth of the Meiji Emperor’s first child. Based on extensive research, Yoshimura tells the compelling personal story of one woman’s unique challenges during Japan’s transition to a modern state.

2016, 566 pages978-1-937385-95-8 Cloth $45.00

Diminishing Conflict, Fostering ReconciliationEssays in Honor of Hilary ConroyJonathan Goldstein and Wayne Patterson. Eds.Foreword by Lee CassanelliUniversity of Pennsylvania East Asian History Professor Francis Hilary Conroy (1919-2015) sought to diminish conflict and foster reconciliation in his academic research, publication, teaching, service to the historical profession, and personal conduct. This anthology by his students and colleagues reflects his values and goes beyond the extensive memorializations already tendered to Professor Conroy by his professional organization, the Association for Asian Studies. This book is intended as an enduring tribute in a scholarly medium he would have appreciated.

Fall 2017, ca 250 pages978-1-937385-23-1 Cloth $45.00


Diminishing Conflict, Fostering ReconciliationEssays in Honor of Hilary ConroyJonathan Goldstein and Wayne Patterson. Eds.Foreword by Lee Cassanelli

COMING IN 2017

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MiraclesA NovelSono AyakoTranslated by Kevin Doak, Georgetown UniversityMiracles is a work of travel fiction in the best tradition of the “I-novel” genre of Japanese literature. Closely mirroring the author’s own travels in the early 1970s throughout Poland and Italy in pursuit of the miracles ascribed to St. Maximilian Kolbe, the work takes the reader on a geographical and spiritual journey of immense riches. Sono’s narrator sensitively explores cultural differences, religious faith, science and the question of miracles, and the atrocity of Auschwitz where St. Kolbe offered up his life in exchange for a condemned prisoner.

Already described as a “minor classic” of Japanese literature before it was translated into English, Doak’s translation makes available this remarkable work by one of postwar Japan’s most talented writers to a broader international audience.

A novel for all seasons, Miracles is sure to leave the reader profoundly moved.


The Japanese Colonial Legacy in Korea, 1 910–1945A New PerspectiveGeorge Akita, University of Hawai'i, Emeritus, and Brandon Palmer, Coastal Carolina University

Foreword by Kevin A. Doak, Georgetown University

“Some readers may find this essay on the historiography of Japanese colonialism in Korea enlightening, and some may find it annoying, but they will surely come away with a deeper understanding of the debate on this contentious subject."

—Peter Duus, William H. Bonsal Professor of Japanese History, Emeritus, at Stanford University;

Senior Fellow at The Hoover Institution

2015, 232 pages, Index978-937385-70-5 Paper $38.00978-937385-71-2 Cloth $75.00

Soldier of GodMacArthur’s Attempt to Christianize JapanRay A. Moore, Amherst College, Emeritus

“. . . offers a rare analysis of how the Japanese actually used Christianity to work in their favour and effectively defeat what the Americans wanted in the first place . . .”

—Pacific Affairs

“Ray Moore, one of America’s Preeminent Japanologists . . . has written a highly readable, short popular history on an interesting sidelight of Douglas MacArthur’s approach as Supreme Commander of the Allied Powers to the task of reforming Occupied Japan: his advocacy of Christianity . . . There are challenges enough for students of modern Japanese history that once in a while, it is pleasant to pick up such as Soldier of God that is not overly profound or too deeply researched but still is informative and also enjoyable to read.”



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Descent into HellCivilian Memories of the Battle of OkinawaRyukyu ShimpoTranslated by Mark Ealey and Alastair Mclauchlan

“What we learn from this profoundly disturbing and enlightening book is that tens of thousands of misled Okinawans died for nothing."

—The New York Review of Books

In 1983, concerned about the need to record and ex-plain the experiences of Okinawans caught up in the Battle of Okinawa, the local Ryukyu Shimpo newspa-per carried out several hundred interviews with sur-vivors. With explanatory comment added, this was published first in serial form, then later as a book.

Tens of thousands of Okinawans were killed in the relentless bombardment by American forces, ten of thousands more local recruits died in Home Guard units, thousands of starvation and malaria in places away from the fighting, hundreds of young students died in the Blood and Iron Student Corps or as nurse's aides tending to wounded soldiers in hos-pital caves, and hundreds of evacuees lost their lives in ships sunk by U.S. submarines or aircraft. Descent into Hell is the story of this apocalyptic struggle as told by those Okinawans who survived.


Typhoon of SteelAn Okinawan Schoolboy’s Quest for Martyrdom in the Battle of OkinawaA NovelAkira YoshimuraTranslated by Mark Ealey

“In Japan, often the only way to deal with history is

to forget it . . . Akira Yoshimura's novel about the American campaign to capture Okinawa deftly reflects the quandary faced by many postwar Japanese whose detestation of the savagery of American troops in the Pacific War was matched only by a sense of betrayal and shame at the conduct of Japanese imperial forces. The solution for many has been self-imposed amnesia . . . Yoshimura's powerful novel reminds us that any effort to whitewash the past is futile, and that history, as Okinawans know better than most, is indelible.”

—The Japan Times

2009, 244 pages978-1-937385-07-1 Paper $23.00

The Crimson Thread of AbandonStoriesTerayama ShūjiTranslated with an Introduction by Elizabeth L. Armstrong, Bucknell University

“Framed as innocently as classic fairy tales, the stories in The Crimson

Thread of Abandon weave together the real and the imagined. Shūji’s characters focus on a seemingly traditional quest for love yet emerge as unorthodox players in unsettling scenarios. Each story begins as a cliché yet proceeds to move the reader into disbelieving shock.”



New Tales of TonoInoue HisashiTranslated with an Introduction by Christopher A. Robins

“These lively stories are fun to read and hold universal appeal, portraying unusual aspects of rural Japanese culture. This collection, written by the bestselling

author Inoue Hisashi, referred to as ‘Japan’s Shakespeare,’ provides a window on the uncanny, earthy, and humorous aspects of northern Japan’s culture with its rich storytelling tradition. Christopher Robins’ superb translation of Inoue Hisashi’s New Tales of Tono also presents a fresh perspective on the inaugural work of Japanese folklore: The Legends of Tono by Yanagita Kunio.”

—Ronald A. Morse, translator of Yanagita Kunio’s

The Legends of Tono

This collection of nine short stories by Inoue Hisashi evokes the mysterious and uncanny tone of traditional folktales from rural Tohoku, Japan, while reflecting the playful approach of this major satirist of modern Japanese literature.

Inoue specializes in Edo-style puns, wordplay, ar-chaic language from early eras, and often uses multi-ple dialects within the same work in an effort to sub-vert conventions of literature while highlighting the cultural and linguistic diversity of Japan.


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Women in Japanese CinemaAlternative PerspectivesTamae Prindle, Colby College

By studying Japanese films and their associated literature, Tamae Prindle reveals the covert stories of Japanese women ver-

sus orthodox history. Fifteen films bring this theme into focus: Imamura Shōhei’s The Ballad of Naray-ama, Naruse Mikio’s Mother, Idemitsu Mako’s Great Mother, Kinugasa Teiinousuke’s Gate of Hell, Kuro-sawa Akira’s No Regrets for Our Youth, Kuwabata Kagenobu’s Love and Lie, Toyoda Shirō’s The Mis-tress, Kumai Kei’s Sandakan Brothel No. 8, Takahashi Banmei’s A New Love in Tokyo, Nishikawa Katsumi’s A Dancing Girl in Izu, Obayashi Nobuhiko’s Chizuko’s Younger Sister, Ichikawa Jun’s Tsugumi, Mizoguchi Kenji’s Life of Oharu, Itami Jūzō’s Tampopo, and Ishi-kawa Jun’s Grass Fish on a Tree.


Modern Japanese Women Writers as Artists as Cultural CriticsMiyamoto,Ōba, SaegusaMichiko Niikuni Wilson, University of Virginia

“The first translations of ground-breaking essays

by three postwar Japanese women writers who expanded the field of literature to embrace criticism of Japanese society and culture. A deeply researched introduction provides an historical context for these trenchant essays, which challenge established views on the woman question and argue for the creation for the equality and partnership of the genders as the basis for the creation of a better society. An indispensable guide to rethinking the relation of the genders in Japan, and in the world.”

—Janet A. Walker, Rutgers University

“. . . Her exploration is jargon-free and therefore accessible to specialists and non-specialists alike. Her translations of Myamoto’s, Oba’s, and Saegu-sa’s critical essays will serve as important primary sources both for scholars and for graduate and undergraduate students in the fields of Japanese literature and history and gender studies.’

—Japanese Language and Literature


Pilgrimages to the Ancient Temples in NaraWatsuji TetsurōTranslated with an Introduction by Hiroshi Nara, University of Pittsburgh

Hiroshi Nara has performed a valuable

service in making this volume available in English, with ample explanatory notes.”

—The Japan Times

“Hiroshi Nara now brings us an English translation in an elegant book complemented by beautiful photographs that bring Watsuji’s descriptions to life.”


2012, 252 pages, illus., index978-1-937385-10-1 Paper $35.00978-1-937385-11-8 Cloth $65.00

From Cultures of War to Cultures of PeaceWar and Peace Museums in Japan, China, and South KoreaTakashi Yoshida, Western Michigan University

"Highly Recommended"—Choice

“The overall picture of Japanese war memories that emerges from Yoshida’s careful empirical analysis is one of complexity, where competing narratives coexist uneasily with each other, vying for mainstream acceptance . . . Yoshida’s book will prove to be highly valuable for scholars and students of all levels and disciplines, particularly history and political science. It is a timely and valuable addition to the literature.”

—Pacific Affairs



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Patriots and TraitorsA Japanese Cultural CasebookSorge and OzakiEdited with an Introduction by J. Thomas Rimer, University of Pittsburg, Emeritus

A study of the most celebrated spy case in postwar Japan, involving the relationship between the Sovi-et spy Richard Sorge and his Japanese collaborator, Ozaki Hotsumi, and its impact for several generations involved in many important aspects of Japan’s cultur-al scene, ranging from a collection of Ozaki’s letters from prison and several films concerning the case to a complete translation of the famous play on the subject by Kinoshita Junji, one of the most distinguished of postwar Japanese dramatists. Contributors: J. Thom-as Rimer, Hiroshi Nara, Keiko McDonald, Lawrence Rogers .

A Pacific Basin Institute Book

2009, 208 pages, llus.978-1-937385-02-6 Paper $35.00

Where Are the Sunflowers?A Media Celebrity’s Depiction of Her Tragic Encounters with Anti-Korean and Anti-Buraku Prejudice in JapanKurihara MiwakoTranslated with an Introduction by Alastair Andrew McLauchlan

Protagonist Kyōko Igarashi’s fear of her parents’ prejudice toward buraku ancestry eventually de-stroys her short marriage to Tarō Kaiji, a wonder-fully warm and sympathetic man of buraku origin. The other man she wanted to marry, much earlier, was a third-generation Korean. That relationship was doomed because the man’s father continued to despise the Japanese for their historic mistreatment of his people and thus insisted that he marry a Kore-an woman. Thus are two of Japan’s most destructive social taboos, buraku heritage and Korean ancestry, introduced in a manner which is within easy reach of any reader.


Reading the “Treatise on the People of Wa” in the Chronicle of The Kingdom of WeiThe World’s Earliest Written Text on JapanSaeki Arikyo

Translated with an Introduction by Joshua A. Fogel, York University

The “Treatise on the People of Wa,” which appears in the Chronicle of Wei, is the oldest written text that we have about that place now known as Japan. Just over 2000 characters in length, it was to set the tone for subsequent writing on Japan for centuries. A work by Chinese who never visited Japan and based on evi-dence much older, it often describes events and cus-toms now difficult to understand or properly place historically. It has produced thousands of books and articles in Japanese over the years, trying to decipher the text. Saeki Arikiyo takes a straightforward phil-ological approach, analyzing the text character by character in comparison to countless of other early texts, inscriptional materials, and other media in an effort to explain the meaning of the text in its time—and to demonstrate that the text gives a fairly accu-rate picture of the ancestors of the Japanese people.

Fall 2017, ca 356 pagesISBN 978-1-937385-18-7 Paper $32.00ISBN 978-1-937385-17-0 Cloth $55.00

Asia for the AsiansChina in the Lives of Five Meiji JapanesePaula Harrell, Georgetown University

“Each of Harrell’s biographies is a masterful interweaving of the familiar and the new. She revisits Chinese and Japanese

events through the eyes her five sujects, creating unanticipated versions of what we thought we understood, seen now in unexpected perspectives , and intermixed with the personal experiences, interests, challenges, and viepoint of her subjects.”

—Journal of Japanese Studies




Reading the “Treatise on the People of Wa” in the Chronicle of The Kingdom of WeiThe World’s Earliest Written Text On JapanSaeki Arikyo

COMING IN 2017

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Shimada KenjiScholar, Thinker, Reader: Selected Writings on the Intellectual History of Modern ChinaTranslated with an Introduction by Joshua A. Fogel, York University

Shimada Kenji (1917–2000) was one of the

great scholars of Chinese history and culture of the twentieth century. His major works have all been translated into Chinese, and select writings have appeared in Korean, German, and English. Nevertheless, the full impact of his ideas about Chi-nese intellectual history has not as yet become widely known outside East Asia.

These essays were chosen to give a cross-section of his scholarly pursuits, especially in the field of Confucianism and comparative Sino-Japanese intel-lectual history.


Books and BoatsSino-Japanese Relations and Cultural Transmission in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth CenturiesŌba OsamuTranslated with an Introduction by Joshua A. Fogel, York University

“This book makes two ma-jor contributions to the field of Edo-period foreign relations. First, when the bakufu was wrestling with the arrivals of Westerners from 1853 onwards, the fashion amongst even scholars of the period has been to see Western studies as paramount, when in fact, as Oba masterfully points out, Kanga-ku, or Chinese Studies, was at least if not more important to those wishing to gain a more thorough understanding of the nineteen-century world . . . Secondly, when there has been an overwhelming emphasis on the role that the Dutch played in the bakufu’s knowledge of the outside world, the Chinese role was much more important . . .

“Professor Fogel has provided the scholarly community with an eminently readable English translation of a classic of Edo–period history in which Professor Oba’s often humorous anecdotes, mixed in with his immense knowledge of his subject, make this important work a pleasure to read.”



Demon Capital ShanghaiThe “Modern” Experience of Japanese IntellectualsLiu Jianhui,Translated by Joshua A. Fogel, York University

“Shanghai’s eventful treaty-port era has been

the subject of so many popular and scholarly publications that it is hard to imagine coming across a new book that has a genuinely fresh approach to the place. What a wonderful surprise, then, to read an advance copy of Demon Capital, which begins with Liu Jianhui reminiscing about the fascination the storied city held for him during his north China boyhood and then moves into a in-sightful exploration of the fantasies the metropolis inspired among Japanese intellectuals decades before that. I have only one complaint about this publication, which is now the latest in a long line of graceful translations from Japanese into English by Joshua Fogel: that I didn’t have it at hand to draw from and quote when I was writing my own book about Shanghai!”

—Jeffrey Wasserstrom, University of California, Irvine

The modern development of Japan is effectively un-thinkable without the intermediary role played by Shanghai. This is a whole new approach to this topic.


Commentary on The Song of Awakening A Twentieth Century Japanese Zen Master’s Commentary on the Seventh Century Poem by the Chinese Ch’an Master Yung-chia Hsüan-chüehKōdō Sawaki

Foreword by Shohaku Okumura English translation by Tonen O’Connor

“Readers from backgrounds other than Soto Zen may not always want to follow Kodo Sawaki Roshi’s arguments, but they will still enjoy his wit and strong determination to awaken his audience to perceive the true way. Kodo Sawaki’s standpoint is clear and is never obscured, which makes it easy to follow him and his explanations, even if you have a different point of view.”

—Primary Point


18 INDEX

IndexA Black Kite

Kim Jong-Gil ............................................................... 8A Foreign Missionary on the Long March

Arnolis Hayman.......................................................... 6Asia for the Asians

Paula Harrell ..............................................................16Ballad of the Himalayas

Ma Yuan ....................................................................... 8Beijing Women

Wang Yuan .................................................................. 5Books and Boats

Ōba Osamu ................................................................17Cell Phone

Liu Zhenyun ................................................................ 4China 1927

Zhu Qihua ................................................................... 3Commentary on The Song of Awakening

Kōdō Sawaki ..............................................................17The Crimson Thread of Abandon

Terayama Shūji ..........................................................14Demon Capital Shanghai

Liu Jianhui ..................................................................17Descent into Hell

Ryukyu Shimpo .........................................................14Elegy of a River Shaman

Fang Qi ........................................................................ 2Farewell Valley

Im Ch’ŏru ..................................................................... 9From Cultures of War to Cultures of Peace

Takashi Yoshida, ...........................................................15Hiding the Tip

Wen Xing ..................................................................... 6How in Heaven’s Name

Cho Chŏngnae ........................................................... 9How to Leap a Great Wall in China

Den Leventhal ............................................................ 7Diminishing Conflict, Fostering Reconciliation

Jonathan Goldstein &Wayne Patterson. Eds. .....12Irina’s Hat

Josh Stenberg, ed. .................................................... 5The Japanese Colonial Legacy in Korea,

1910–1945Akita, George & Palmer, Brandon .........................13

The Life We Longed ForLaura Lynn Neitzel .....................................................11

The Long RoadKim In-Suk ..................................................................10

Mao’s Lost ChildrenOu Nianzhong & Liang Yongkang, eds. ............... 3

MiraclesSono Ayako ................................................................13

Missions to China’s HeartlandRobert Gardella, ed. .................................................. 6

Modern Japanese Women Writers as Artists as Cultural CriticsMichiko Niikuni Wilson ............................................15

The Moving FortressHwang Sunwŏn .......................................................... 9

The Muslim ButcherSon Hong-kyu ............................................................ 9

New Tales of TonoInoue Hisashi .............................................................14

Old Crimes, New ScenesCharles Exley & Michael Stone Tangman, eds....11

Past and Present in China’s Foreign PolicyJohn E. Wills, Jr. ......................................................... 4

Patriots and TraitorsSorge and Ozaki .......................................................16

Pilgrimages to the Ancient Temples in NaraWatsuji Tetsurō ..........................................................15

The Peasant Movement and Land Reform in Taiwan, 1924-1951Shih-shan Henry Tsai ...............................................17

Reading the “Treatise on the People of Wa” in the Chronicle of The Kingdom of WeiSaeki Arikyo ...............................................................16

Ripple On Stagnant WaterLiu Jieren ..................................................................... 5

Scenes from Dutch FormosaLlyn Scott, ed. ............................................................. 7

Shattered Families, Broken DreamsSin-Lin .......................................................................... 4

Siebold’s DaughterAkira Yoshimura ........................................................12

Shimada KenjiShimada Kenji ..........................................................17

Soldier of GodRay A. Moore .............................................................13

South Fukien Missionary PoemsWilliam Angus............................................................. 5

Stephen Girard’s Trade with China, 1787-1824Jonathan Goldstein ................................................... 6

TattooSu Tong ........................................................................ 4

Tibetan SoulAlai ................................................................................ 8

Time to Eat LobsterBang Hyeon-seok .....................................................10

Two Stories from KoreaYi Cheong-Jun ..........................................................10

Typhoon of SteelAkira Yoshimura ........................................................14

Until Peonies BloomKim Yeong-nang........................................................10

Where Are the Sunflowers?Kurihara Miwako .......................................................16

Women in Japanese CinemaTamae Prindle ...........................................................15

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The Moving FortressHwang Sunwŏn .......................................................... 9

The Muslim ButcherSon Hong-kyu ............................................................ 9

New Tales of TonoInoue Hisashi .............................................................14

Old Crimes, New ScenesCharles Exley & Michael Stone Tangman, eds....11

Past and Present in China’s Foreign PolicyJohn E. Wills, Jr. ......................................................... 4

Patriots and TraitorsSorge and Ozaki .......................................................16

Pilgrimages to the Ancient Temples in NaraWatsuji Tetsurō ..........................................................15

The Peasant Movement and Land Reform in Taiwan, 1924-1951Shih-shan Henry Tsai ...............................................17

Reading the “Treatise on the People of Wa” in the Chronicle of The Kingdom of WeiSaeki Arikyo ...............................................................16

Ripple On Stagnant WaterLiu Jieren ..................................................................... 5

Scenes from Dutch FormosaLlyn Scott, ed. ............................................................. 7

Shattered Families, Broken DreamsSin-Lin .......................................................................... 4

Siebold’s DaughterAkira Yoshimura ........................................................12

Shimada KenjiShimada Kenji ..........................................................17

Soldier of GodRay A. Moore .............................................................13

South Fukien Missionary PoemsWilliam Angus............................................................. 5

Stephen Girard’s Trade with China, 1787-1824Jonathan Goldstein ................................................... 6

TattooSu Tong ........................................................................ 4

Tibetan SoulAlai ................................................................................ 8

Time to Eat LobsterBang Hyeon-seok .....................................................10

Two Stories from KoreaYi Cheong-Jun ..........................................................10

Typhoon of SteelAkira Yoshimura ........................................................14

Until Peonies BloomKim Yeong-nang........................................................10

Where Are the Sunflowers?Kurihara Miwako .......................................................16

Women in Japanese CinemaTamae Prindle ...........................................................15

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