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Middle Kingdom Underground Short Stories From the Peoples Republic Of by Haliterature Review "Middle Kingdom Underground is a daring publication, and a needed one. It reaches a spot amongst the often sugarcoated portrayals of China... it will stand there as a mockery, laughing and pointing at its naive neighbors." Kirsti Jonson, Shanghai Talk... (read more) Your price: $14.00 New - Trade Paper 
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Anth. of Japanese Lit. (UNESCO Collection of Representative Works: European) by Donald Keene Synopsis The sweep of Japanese literature in all its great variety was made available to Western readers for the first time in this anthology. Every genre and style, from the celebrated No plays to the poetry and novels of the seventeenth century, find a place in... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price: $7.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Izu Dancer & Other Stories by Yasunari Kawabata Synopsis Originally published in The Atlantic Monthly, in 1958, The Izu Dancer, a story about a young man's travels through the Izu Peninsula, introduced Kawabata's prodigious talent to the West. Since its first printing, Kawabata, winner of the 1968 Nobel Prize,... (read more) Your price: $2.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Japanese Women Writers (Japan in the Modern World) by Norika M Lippit Publisher Comments "Here are Japanese women in infinite and fascinating variety -- ardent lovers, lonely single women, political activists, betrayed wives, loyal wives, protective mothers, embittered mothers, devoted daughters. ... a new sense of the richness of Japanese... (read more) List Price $28.95 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Loud Sparrows: Contemporary Chinese Short-Shorts (Weatherhead Books on Asia) by Aili Mu Publisher Comments Extremely short stories-known as short-shorts-have become a global phenomenon, but nowhere have they been embraced as enthusiastically as in mainland China, Hong Kong, and Taiwan. The form's artistic and aesthetic freedoms allow authors to capture the... (read more) List Price $75.00 Your price: $4.50 Sale - Hardcover
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The Modern Murasaki: Writing by Women of Meiji Japan (Translations from the Asian Classics) by Rebecca Copeland Publisher Comments The first collection of its kind, "The Modern Murasaki" brings the vibrancy and rich imagination of women's writing from the Meiji period to English-language readers. Along with traditional prose selections, the anthology features short stories, plays... (read more) List Price $27.00 Your price: $13.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Chairman Mao Would Not Be Amused by Howard Goldblatt Publisher Comments This book is a showcase for twenty writers from the new literary generation in China. Hard-core realism, experimental prose, and black humor; exoticism and eroticism; shocking tales of brutality, tender evocations of love, and engrossing mysteries all... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price: $4.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Voices from Asia #12: Tokyo Stories: A Literary Stroll by Lawrence Rogers Publisher Comments This anthology of translated short stories by Japanese writers captures the city of Tokyo through most of the twentieth century--a period of war, bombing, urbanization, and modernization, in short, constant change that has altered and continues to alter... (read more) List Price $31.95 Your price: $7.50 Used - Trade Paper
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A Ready-Made Life: Early Masters of Modern Korean Fiction by Chong-Un Kim Publisher Comments A Ready-Made Life is the first volume of early modern Korean fiction to appear in English in the U.S. Written between 1921 and 1943, the sixteen stories are an excellent introduction to the riches of modern Korean fiction. They reveal a variety of... (read more) List Price $19.00 Your price: $16.86 Google eBooks - Electronic
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Vintage Book of Indian Writing 1947 1997 by Salman Rushdie Synopsis An anthology of the work of the most important and influential Indian writers of the last 50 years. This volume is published to coincide with the anniversary of India's independence.... (read more) Your price: $8.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Silenced Voices: New Writing from Indonesia (Manoa 12:2) by Frank Stewart Synopsis This volume features Indonesian authors who have struggled for freedom of speech, a symposium on translating poetry from Asian languages, and much more.... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Modern Korean Fiction: An Anthology by Bruce Fulton Publisher Comments To represent the past century of Korean fiction, this definitive collection extends beyond familiar writers, challenges cultural norms, and crosses political borders. By including stories from neglected female, North Korean, and wlbuk writers (those who... (read more) List Price $40.95 Your price: $19.95 Used - Trade Paper
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China's Avant-Garde Fiction-PB by Jing Wang Publisher Comments Filled with mirages, hallucinations, myths, mental puzzles, and the fantastic, the contemporary experimental fiction of the Chinese avant-garde represents a genre of storytelling unlike any other. Whether engaging the worn spectacle of history... (read more) List Price $28.95 Your price: $7.50 Used - Trade Paper
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One Story, Thirty Stories (10 Edition) by Zohra Saed Publisher Comments "An admirable achievement. . . . This is a literature haunted by catastrophe. . . . [These] writers . . . are taking that crucial first step toward absorbing the unique experience of Afghan Americans into the universal themes that inform human experience... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $13.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Loud Sparrows: Contemporary Chinese Short-Shorts (Weatherhead Books on Asia) by Aili Mu Publisher Comments Extremely short stories-known as short-shorts-have become a global phenomenon, but nowhere have they been embraced as enthusiastically as in mainland China, Hong Kong, and Taiwan. The form's artistic and aesthetic freedoms allow authors to capture the... (read more) List Price $32.50 Your price: $9.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Rabbits, Crabs, Etc: Stories by Japanese Women by Phyllis Birnbaum Publisher Comments "The delicacy of language and skillful use of detail are consistently outstanding in this slim, exquisite volume of meticulously rendered stories." --Publishers Weekly"An extremely illuminating collection. Each story is compelling--spare in style but... (read more) List Price $12.99 Your price: $11.53 Google eBooks - Electronic
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Stories from Contemporary China: Zhou Yu's Train by Bei Cun, the Sprinkler by Xu Yigua, the Crime Scene by Li Er by Bei Cun Publisher Comments Zhou Yu's Train After her husband's accidental death, Zhou Yu finally discovers the secret he kept from her and the nature of the love she feels for his memory is thrown into doubt. The Sprinkler After her husband inexplicably disappears, a sprinkler... (read more) List Price $22.95 Your price: $10.50 Used - Trade Paper
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The Vintage Book of Contemporary Chinese Fiction (Vintage Originals) by Carolyn Choa Publisher Comments David Su Li-Qun and Carolyn Choa introduce nineteen of China's most enthralling writers-to date largely unknown outside their native land. From Shanghai to Beijing, we meet people whose lives have been transformed by their country's turbulent recent... (read more) List Price $18.00 Your price: $4.95 Used - Trade Paper
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A Ready-Made Life: Early Masters of Modern Korean Fiction by Kim Chong Un Synopsis A Ready-Made Life is the first volume of early modern Korean fiction to appear in English in the U.S. Written between 1921 and 1943, the sixteen stories are an excellent introduction to the riches of modern Korean fiction. They reveal a variety of... (read more) List Price $19.00 Your price: $9.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Women Writing in India: Six Hundres B.C. to the Present, the 20th Century (Women Writing in India Vol. II) by Susie Tharu Publisher Comments These ground-breaking collections offer 200 texts from 11 languages, never before available in English or as a collection, along with a new reading of cultural history that draws on contemporary scholarship on women and on India. This extraordinary body... (read more) List Price $39.95 Your price: $6.95 Used - Trade Paper
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