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During the Japanese occupation of Korea, young intellectuals like Se-dŏk Ham, eager to transform the traditional Korean ways, introduced Western arts, philosophy, and technology and styled...

In late July, 2006, Yu Shyi-kun, chairman of the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP), addressed the party's 12th congress and offered an "apology" (daoqian) for the DPP's failure "to meet the...

River of Life, River of Hope is the first substantial survey in English of the work of one of Korea's most revered and influential modern poets, Pak Tu-jin. Pak helped free modern Korean literature...

Giacomo Puccini's opera Madame Butterfly has enjoyed tremendous popularity in Europe and America since its debut in 1904. It has also inspired a global-level debate about whether the tragic heroine...

This volume presents, for the first time in English translation, the poetry of contemporary Japanese writer and social critic Ōba Minako. Acclaimed for her works of fiction, a number of which...

This volume is the only global analysis of each individual Korean President, from Syngman Rhee to Roh Moo Hyun, as well as the only current assessment of the success of the institution of the Korean...

The genre of stories presented in this fascinating collection evolved over several millennia from the ancient tradition of oracle bone divinations, some of which dealt with the subjects of law and...

Missionaries in China engaged in a fascinating variety of occupations in their quest to make converts. The portraits of the six missionaries presented here attest to the astonishing range of their...

On May 17, 1951, Dwight Rugh -- a Yale-in-China representative for twenty years and one of the last Americans remaining in China after the Communist Revolution -- was taken from his home in Changsha...

From the children of a dwarf whose house is torn down by the government to a young man selling his blood for money, the first-person narrators of the stories collected in The Voice of the...

This critical study of three intrepid travelers to Southeast Asia--Bird (1831-1904), Dauthendey (1867-1918), Wu (1904-1992)--combines detailed analysis of travel literature with carefully researched...

The Three Gorges enjoy the reputation of being a world-famous art gallery, providing inexhaustible source material for poets, dramatists, and historians. Men of letters and famous calligraphers have...

"I love freedom and I will long for the freedom of the soul and the dignity of being a human being for the rest of my life. I'm not the first nor am I the last to suffer or even to sacrifice a life...

West Bengal and Bangladesh -- nowhere else on earth is so much poverty concentrated and nature so demanding. To the Mouths of the Ganges deals with the ecology and culture of the lower Ganges delta,...