The Reincarnated Giant

• Paperback | Engels | Weatherhead Books on Asia
• A new wave of Chinese science fiction is here. This golden age has not only resurrected the genre but also subverted its own conventions. Going beyond... Lees meer

Table for One

Ko-Eun Yun

• Hardcover | Engels | Weatherhead Books on Asia
• An office worker who has no one to eat lunch with enrolls in a course that builds confidence about eating alone. A man with a pathological fear of bed... Lees meer

Sachiko

Shūsaku Endō

• Hardcover | Engels | Weatherhead Books on Asia
• In novels such as Silence , Endō Shūsaku examined the persecution of Japanese Christians in different historical eras. Sachiko , set in Nagasaki in th... Lees meer

Courtesans and Opium

• Paperback | Engels | Weatherhead Books on Asia
• In his preface, the anonymous author of Courtesans and Opium describes his book as an act of penance for thirty years spent patronizing the brothels o... Lees meer

Light and Dark

Sōseki Natsume

• Paperback | Engels | Weatherhead Books on Asia
• Light and Dark , Natsume Soseki's longest novel and masterpiece, although unfinished, is a minutely observed study of haute-bourgeois manners on the e... Lees meer

Sunset

Manshik Ch'ae

• Paperback | Engels | Weatherhead Books on Asia
• Ch'ae Manshik is one of the most accomplished modern Korean writers yet is underrepresented in English translation because of the challenges posed by ... Lees meer

Dust and Other Stories

T'Aejun Yi

• Paperback | Engels | Weatherhead Books on Asia
• Yi T'aejun was one of twentieth-century Korea's true masters of the short story--and a man who in 1946 stunned his contemporaries by moving to the Sov... Lees meer

Table for One

Ko-Eun Yun

• Paperback | Engels | Weatherhead Books on Asia
• An office worker who has no one to eat lunch with enrolls in a course that builds confidence about eating alone. A man with a pathological fear of bed... Lees meer

A Catalog of Such Stuff as Dreams Are Made on

Kai-Cheung Dung

• Hardcover | Engels | Weatherhead Books on Asia
• Dung Kai-cheung's A Catalog of Such Stuff as Dreams Are Made On is a playful and imaginative glimpse into the consumerist dreamscape of late-nineties ... Lees meer

Azaleas

Kim Sowol

• Paperback | Engels | Weatherhead Books on Asia
• Available for the first time in English, Azaleas is a captivating collection of poems by a master of the early Korean modernist style. Published in 19... Lees meer

Horses, Horses, in the End the Light Remains Pure

Hideo Furukawa

• Paperback | Engels | Weatherhead Books on Asia
• "As we passed from the city center into the Fukushima suburbs I surveyed the landscape for surgical face masks. I wanted to see in what ratios people ... Lees meer

River of Fire and Other Stories

Chŏnghŭi O

• Paperback | Engels | Weatherhead Books on Asia
• O Chonghui crafts historically-rooted yet timeless tales imagining core human experiences from a female point of view. Since her debut in 1968, she ha... Lees meer

Meeting with My Brother

Mun-Yol Yi

• Hardcover | Engels | Weatherhead Books on Asia
• Yi Mun-yol's Meeting with My Brother is narrated by a middle-aged South Korean professor, also named Yi, whose father abandoned his family and defecte... Lees meer

Sachiko

Shūsaku Endō

• Paperback | Engels | Weatherhead Books on Asia
• In novels such as Silence , Endō Shūsaku examined the persecution of Japanese Christians in different historical eras. Sachiko , set in Nagasaki in th... Lees meer

Kiku's Prayer

Shūsaku Endō

• Hardcover | Engels | Weatherhead Books on Asia
• Kiku's Prayer is told through the eyes of Kiku, a self-assured young woman from a rural Japanese village who falls in love with Seikichi, a devoted Ca... Lees meer

The Frontier Within

Kōbō Abe

• Paperback | Engels | Weatherhead Books on Asia
• Abe Kobo (1924-1993) was one of Japan's greatest postwar writers, widely recognized for his imaginative science fiction and plays of the absurd. Howev... Lees meer

The Handsome Monk and Other Stories

Tsering Dondrup

• Hardcover | Engels | Weatherhead Books on Asia
• Tsering Döndrup is one of the most popular and critically acclaimed authors writing in Tibetan today. In a distinct voice rich in black humor and iron... Lees meer

The Columbia Anthology of Modern Chinese Drama

Xiaomei Chen

• Hardcover | Engels | Weatherhead Books on Asia
• The first of its kind in English, this anthology translates twenty-two popular Chinese plays published between 1919 and 2000, accompanied by a critica... Lees meer

Overcoming Modernity

• Hardcover | Engels | Weatherhead Books on Asia
• In the summer of 1942 Japan's leading cultural authorities gathered in Tokyo to discuss the massive cultural, technological, and intellectual changes ... Lees meer

The Handsome Monk and Other Stories

Tsering Dondrup

• Paperback | Engels | Weatherhead Books on Asia
• Tsering Döndrup is one of the most popular and critically acclaimed authors writing in Tibetan today. In a distinct voice rich in black humor and iron... Lees meer

Who Ate Up All the Shinga?

Wan-Suh Park

• Paperback | Engels | Weatherhead Books on Asia
• Park Wan-suh is a best-selling and award-winning writer whose work has been widely translated and published throughout the world. Who Ate Up All the S... Lees meer

The Narrow Cage and Other Modern Fairy Tales

Vasily Eroshenko

• Paperback | Engels | Weatherhead Books on Asia
• Vasily Eroshenko was one of the most remarkable transnational literary figures of the early twentieth century: a blind multilingual Esperantist from U... Lees meer

Beasts Head for Home

Kōbō Abe

• Paperback | Engels | Weatherhead Books on Asia
• In the aftermath of World War II, Kuki Kyūzō, a Japanese youth raised in the puppet state of Manchuria, struggles to return home to Japan. What follow... Lees meer

Light and Dark

Sōseki Natsume

• Hardcover | Engels | Weatherhead Books on Asia
• Light and Dark , Natsume Soseki's longest novel and masterpiece, although unfinished, is a minutely observed study of haute-bourgeois manners on the e... Lees meer