Resultaten gefilterd op "Stone Bridge Press"

Japanese Girl at the Siege of Changchun

Homare Endo

• Paperback | Engels
• Over 150,000 innocents died of starvation in Changchun, northeastern China, after the end of WW2 when Mao's army laid siege during the Chinese Civil W... Lees meer

Shinto Meditations for Revering the Earth

Stuart D B Picken

• Paperback | Engels
• These devotions inspired by ancient Shinto rituals are a series of calls-and-response that directly address the awesome power of the natural world to ... Lees meer

The Fourth String

Janet Pocorobba

• Paperback | Engels
• The word sensei in Japanese literally means "one who came before," but that's not what Janet Pocorobba's teacher wanted to be called. She used her fir... Lees meer

Kanji Starter 1

Daiki Kusuya

• Paperback | Engels
• With just these two books, students can learn a quarter of the two thousand characters designated for "daily use" by the Japanese government. Volume 1... Lees meer

The Silver Spoon

Kansuke Naka

• Paperback | Engels
• Perhaps the most admired childhood memoir ever written in Japan, The Silver Spoon is a sharp detailing of life at the end of the Meiji period (1912) t... Lees meer

The Heron Catchers

David Joiner

• Paperback | Engels
• 2023 American Writing Awards Finalist 2023 Foreword Indies Awards Finalist Joiner's second novel set in the fabled Kanazawa area is an intimate yet un... Lees meer

A Tractate on Japanese Aesthetics

Donald Richie

• Paperback | Engels
• Sure to be a classic, Donald Richie's concise, profound insights into the mysteries of Japanese Lees meer

Easy and Fun Hiragana

Kiyomi Ogawa

• Paperback | Engels
• A complete handbook for learning to read and write Japanese hiragana, the syllabary that is the first of Japan's three writing systems introduced to a... Lees meer

The Cape and Other Stories from the Japanese Ghetto

Kenji Nakagami

• Paperback | Engels | Stone Bridge Fiction
• Explosive stories of the little-known burakumin from one of Japan's great postwar literary masters. Lees meer

Foundations of Chinese Civilization

Jing Liu

• Paperback | Engels | Understanding China Through Comics | nr. 1
• Who founded China? Are Chinese people religious? What is Chinese culture and how has it changed over time? The accessible and fun Understanding China ... Lees meer

The Thorn Puller

Hiromi Ito

• Hardcover | Engels
• Introducing Hiromi Ito, an award-winning Japanese author who has been compared to Haruki Murakami and Yoko Tawada. Lees meer

Naikan

Gregg Krech

• Paperback | Engels
• Drawing on Eastern tradition, Naikan ("nye-kahn") is a structured method for intensely meditating on our lives, our interconnections, our missteps. Th... Lees meer

Basho's Narrow Road

Matsuo Basho

• Paperback | Engels | Rock Spring Collection of Japanese Literature
• Matsuo Basho (1644-94) is considered Japan's greatest haiku poet. Narrow Road to the Interior (Oku no Hosomichi) is his masterpiece. Ostensibly a chro... Lees meer

Being Japanese American

Gil Asakawa

• Paperback | Engels
• This entertaining compendium is a celebration of Japanese American history and heritage. While detailing favorite foods, customs, words, games, and ho... Lees meer

Wind and Stone

Masaaki Tachihara

• Paperback | Engels | Rock Spring Collection of Japanese Literature
• In detailing the affair between a garden designer and his client's wife, this Japanese novel explores the roots of passion. Lees meer

Native American in the Land of the Shogun

Frederik L Schodt

• Hardcover | Engels
• How Japan, after 250 years of self--imposed isolation, began the process of modernization is in part the story of Ranald MacDonald. In 1848 this half-... Lees meer

Forty-Seven Samurai

Hiroaki Sato

• Paperback | Engels
• A remarkable and true tale of loyalty, vengeance, and ritual suicide. . . . In the spring of 1701, the regional lord Asano Naganori wounded his superv... Lees meer

On God's Radar

Robert Schoen

• Paperback | Engels
• After the death of his 96-year-old father, a World War II veteran, Robert Schoen set off on a coast-to-coast journey. On a beautiful Southern Californ... Lees meer

The Flower Shop

Leonard Koren

• Paperback | Engels
• If beauty is defined as a quality encompassing both extraordinary sensoriality and exemplary human behavior, then possibly the most beautiful flower s... Lees meer

Off the Beaten Tracks in Japan

John Dougill

• Paperback | Engels
• 2023 Foreword Indies Awards Finalist Observations on the people, culture, and history of Japan from a long-time resident riding the rails along the le... Lees meer

The Thorn Puller

Hiromi Ito

• Paperback | Engels
• Introducing Hiromi Ito, an award-winning Japanese author who has been compared to Haruki Murakami and Yoko Tawada. Lees meer

Dragon Palace

Hiromi Kawakami

• Hardcover | Engels
• Included in The New Yorker's Best Books of 2023 Stories from a Japanese master of transformative fiction, where reality, myth, and human foibles meet ... Lees meer

Basic Patterns of Chinese Grammar

Qin Xue Herzberg, Larry Herzberg

• Paperback | Engels
• Here is a concise guide to supplement any course of study and help with homework, travel, and test preparation. Topics include word order, time, nouns... Lees meer

The Pearl Jacket and Other Stories

• Paperback | Engels
• "Modern Chinese fiction . . . looks to have made a great leap towards the bookshelves of [Western] readers."-- Guardian Hugely popular in China, flash... Lees meer