Resultaten gefilterd op "Merwinasia"

A Black Kite

Kim Jong-Gil

• Hardcover | Engels
• 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... Lees meer

Commentary on the Song of Awakening

Kodo Sawaki

• Hardcover | Engels
• The Song of Awakening (chin. Cheng-tao ke, jap. Shōdōka), is a seminal text within early Chinese Chan (jap. Zen). Written in the seventh century by th... Lees meer

Pilgrimages to the Ancient Temples in Nara

Watsuji Tetsuro

• Hardcover | Engels
• Watsuji's Koji Junrei is a book of impressions of a trip he took in 1918 to Japan's ancient capital of Nara, where he saw a number of Buddhist temples... Lees meer

Scenes from Dutch Formosa

• Paperback | Engels
• Presented in four thematic sections, Scenes from Dutch Formosa brings together a variety of genres and historical essays to contextualise the Dutch Fo... Lees meer

Descent Into Hell

Ryukyu Shimpo

• Hardcover | Engels
• Concerned about the need to record and explain the experiences of Okinawans caught up in the Battle of Okinawa, in 1983 the local Ryukyu Shimpo newspa... Lees meer

Demon Capital Shanghai

Liu Jianhui

• Hardcover | Engels
• Even before the Japanese first ventured abroad in the modern era, they came to understand that Shanghai was the closest and easiest way to learn about... Lees meer

New Tales of Tono

Inoue Hisashi

• Hardcover | Engels
• This collection of nine short stories written by Inoue Hisashi (1934-2010) evokes the mysterious and uncanny tone of traditional folktales from rural ... Lees meer

Green Mountain

Yang Jian

• Paperback | Engels
• Green Mountain compiles a representative selection of lyrical poems by contemporary Chinese poet and painter Yang Jian, also a Buddhist, in Fiona Sze-... Lees meer

Soldier of God

Ray A Moore

• Paperback | Engels
• Soldier of God is a study of General Douglas MacArthur's effort to influence the religious life of Japan by suppressing native religions and enabling ... Lees meer

Past and Present in China's Foreign Policy

• Paperback | Engels
• Does our understanding of China's long and complex history of foreign relations help us to understand the rapidly changing involvement of China in the... Lees meer

A Foreign Missionary on the Long March

• Hardcover | Engels
• In China in the 1920s and 1930s, foreigners were frequently at risk of being captured by bandits and held for ransom. The phenomenon became so common ... Lees meer

Until Peonies Bloom

Kim Yeong-Nang

• Paperback | Engels
• Kim Yeong-nang (1903-1950) is highly reputed in Korea for the delicate lyricism of his poems. Yet in many ways he has remained little known, even in K... Lees meer

Descent Into Hell

Ryukyu Shimpo

• Paperback | Engels
• Concerned about the need to record and explain the experiences of Okinawans caught up in the Battle of Okinawa, in 1983 the local Ryukyu Shimpo newspa... Lees meer

The Crimson Thread of Abandon Stories

Terayama Shuji

• Paperback | Engels
• The crimson thread noted in the title of this book aptly describes the nature of Teriyama's stories and the interstitial webbing joining them together... Lees meer

Until Peonies Bloom

Kim Yeong-Nang

• Hardcover | Engels
• Kim Yeong-nang (1903-1950) is highly reputed in Korea for the delicate lyricism of his poems. Yet in many ways he has remained little known, even in K... Lees meer

Beijing Women

Wang Yuan

• Hardcover | Engels
• Beijing Women presents four short stories: "Lipstick," "Qipao," "Ginger," and "Beijing Women"--stories about how contemporary Chinese women must learn... Lees meer

Ballad of the Himalayas

Ma Yuan

• Hardcover | Engels
• In this collection of short stories, Ma Yuan tells enigmatic tales about an eponymous narrator's travels in Tibet that question the very meaning of "s... Lees meer

A China Scholar's Long March, 1978-2015

Charles Horner

• Paperback | Engels
• A China Scholar' Long March is a collection of fifty pieces written between 1978 and 2015 by Charles Horner, a China Scholar, a former U.S. government... Lees meer

Women in Japanese Cinema

Tamae Prindle

• Hardcover | Engels
• By studying Japanese films and their associated literature, this book reveals the covert stories of Japanese women of various statuses and time period... Lees meer

Time to Eat Lobster

Bang Hyun-Seok

• Paperback | Engels
• In his novellas Time to Eat Lobster and Forms of Being and the short story “Rice and Soup”, Bang Hyun-seok narrates the experiences of post-Cold W... Lees meer

The Life We Longed for

Laura Lynn Neitzel

• Paperback | Engels
• The Life We Longed For examines high-rise housing projects called danchi that were built during Japan's years of "high speed economic growth" (1955-19... Lees meer

The Moving Fortress

Hwang Sunwon

• Hardcover | Engels
• This novel offers a panorama of Korea and Koreans coming to terms with the confrontation of tradition with modernity. Contemporary events, such as the... Lees meer

Tibetan Soul

Alai Alai

• Paperback | Engels
• Alai has said that he seeks to demystify Tibet and to depict the Tibetan reality--the "noun" rather than the "adjectivized" Tibet offered by some outs... Lees meer

Books and Boats

Oba Osamu

• Paperback | Engels
• This volume looks in detail at trade between the Qing dynasty and the Edo shogunate primarily in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. While touch... Lees meer