Books from East Asia Program, Cornell University
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Charisma and Community Formation in Medieval Japan: The Case of the Yugyō-ha (1300-1700)
By Sybil Anne ThorntonThe Yugyo-ha achieved success by basing its religious authority on a combination of Pure Land mysticism and the practices of fundraising hijiri. Between 1300 and 1700, the Pure Land Buddhist...
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Asian Regionalism
By Peter J. KatzensteinRegionalism is of growing relevance to the political economy of Asia-Pacific. In the wake of the Asian financial crisis, this timely volume investigates in four different chapters the dynamics of...
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The Gods Come Dancing: A Study of the Japanese Ritual Dance of Yamabushi Kagura
By Irit AverbuchThe Gods Come Dancing: A Study of the Japanese Ritual Dance of Yamabushi Kagura
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Five Plays
By Kunio KishidaFive Plays
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Contradictions
By 양귀자Yang Gui-ja is one of Korea's major literary figures of the last generation, with a succession of literary prizes and best-sellers to her credit. Her most representative early work, the...
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Dragonflies: Fiction by Chinese Women in the Twentieth Century
By Shu-ning Sciban, Fred EdwardsDragonflies is an anthology containing twelve selections ranging from short stories to novellas, and spans the century from the May Fourth Movement to the 1990s. The eleven authors represented are...
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In Little Need of Divine Intervention: Takezaki Suenaga's Scrolls of the Mongol Invasions of Japan
By Thomas Conlan, Suenaga TakezakiIn Little Need of Divine Intervention: Takezaki Suenaga's Scrolls of the Mongol Invasions of Japan
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Day-shine: Poems
By Hyŏn-jong ChŏngPowerfully inventive poems of love in contemporary life by Chong Hyon-jong, one of the most respected poets writing in Korea. The novelty of his poetic language with its narrative lyricism...
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The Naked Tree
By Wan-sŏ PakA coming-of-age novel set during the Korean War, by Pak Wan-Suh, one of Korea's leading contemporary writers. The award-winning author of more than twenty novels, and numerous short stories and...
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Han Sŏrya and North Korean Literature: The Failure of Socialist Realism in the DPRK
By Brian MyersThis first and only study of North Korean literary history by a Western scholar deals with the crucial role played by Han Sōrya, chairman of the D.P.R.K.'s Federation of Literature...
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Dance of the Butterflies: Chinese Poetry from the Japanese Court Tradition
By Timothy Roland Bradstock, Judith N. RabinovitchThe composition of Chinese poetry (kanshi) in the Japanese court dates to the mid-seventh century. During the Heian age (794-1185), kanshi emerged as one of two preeminent poetic genres employed...
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1956: Mao's China and the Hungarian Crisis
By Dandan ZhuIn Mao Zedong's words, 1956 was a year of "big events," both at home and abroad. The "secret speech" delivered by Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev to the Communist Party of...
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The Last Biwa Singer: A Blind Musician in History, Imagination and Performance
By Hugh de FerrantiThis work is an exposition of the traditions of Japanese blind singers who accompanied themselves on the biwa, and of the complex identity of Yamashika Yoshiyuki (1901-1996), a man widely...
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The Economic Transformation of South China: Reform and Development in the Post-Mao Era
By Victor Nee, Thomas P. LyonsThe emergence of the South China regional economy, comprised of the southeastern coastal provinces of China, Taiwan and Hong Kong, is analyzed in this timely and important collection of essays....
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Principles of Poetry
By 萩原朔太郎This work comprises the first complete English translation of Shi no Genri, one of the most important attempts at a theory of literature written in the modern period. Hagiwara Sakutaro...
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The Lioness Roars: Shrew Stories from Late Imperial China
By Yenna WuThis anthology offers translations of seven stories and one novella from the 17th and 18th centuries, with a critical introduction and bibliography. To date there are no translations from the...
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Dragons, Tigers, and Dogs: Qing Crisis Management and the Boundaries of State Power in Late Imperial China
By Jane Kate Leonard, Robert J. AntonyDragons, Tigers, and Dogs is a tightly-focused collection of studies that explores how Qing governing institutions and strategies worked in actual practice to address the practical problems and needs of...
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Negotiated Power in Late Imperial China: The Zongli Yamen and the Politics of Reform
By Jennifer M. RudolphNegotiated Power in Late Imperial China: The Zongli Yamen and the Politics of Reformexplores the nature and functioning of reform during the nineteenth century of China's Qing dynasty (1644-1911). By...