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...Sheldon H. Lu Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1998 1998 Traditional Chinese Fiction and Fiction Commentary: Reading and Writing Between the Lines . David L. Rolston . Stanford : Stanford University Press , 1997 . xiii, 428 pp. $55.00. 836 THE JOURNAL OF ASIAN...

... placed on the activities of the Communist Party, but, as we shall see, leftist authors still have their following. FICTION IN POST-WAR JAPAN JOSEPH K. YAMAGIWA* University of Michigan IN the years following the Manchurian adventure, literature in Japan became more and more nationalistic; it fell...

... in his fiction as a writer. We see him at work—pressed to meet a deadline, interrupted by the visits of literary friends, smoking and sipping tea over a hibachi , or at a desk cluttered with books, papers, pens and pencils, brushes and inkstone. We go with him on a holiday or to a rendezvous; we follow...

..., these tales deviated considerably from the detective genre. In chapter 6, we arrive at the usual starting point of discussions of Japanese detective fiction: Edogawa Ranpo. Saito demonstrates how Ranpo's supposed movement from “healthy” to “unhealthy” (focusing on abnormal sexuality) crime fiction...

...John L. Bishop Abstract One wonders what the general reading public has made of the translations of traditional Chinese fiction which have recently appeared in bookstores, in several instances in paper-bound series usually devoted to up-to-date novels of violence and vampires. Chinese colloquial...

...Chih-Tsing Hsia The Communist Program for Literature and Art in China . By Chao Chung . Hong Kong : The Union Research Institute , 1955 . 157 . Fiction in Communist China 1949–1953 . By Albert Borowitz . Cambridge, Mass. : Center for International Studies, Massachusetts...

...Heekyoung Cho Reading Colonial Korea through Fiction: The Ventriloquists . By Kim Chul . Translated by Yoon Hye-Joon . Lanham, Md. : Lexington Books , 2018 . xix, 129 pp. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2019  2019 Reading Colonial Korea through Fiction...

... Fiction . By John W. Morrison . Salt Lake City : University of Utah Press , 1955 . xiii, 230 . Appendixes, Bibliography, Index. $3.75. BOOK EEVIEWS 307 tions are marked with the familiar Japanese reading symbols, which facilitates their grammatical analysis for one who has a minimum knowledge...

.... Jörgensen (Shanghai: Pei-hsin shu-chü, 1949), pp. 150–162. 1 Yao Wang , Lu Hsün yü Chung-kuo wen-hsüeh ( Shanghai : P'ing-min ch'u-pan she , 1952 ). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1957 1957 The Heroes and Heroines of Modern Chinese Fiction: From Ah Q...

...Herbert Passin The Floating World in Japanese Fiction . By Howard Hibbett . New York : Oxford University Press , 1959 . xiii, 232 . Notes, Index, Illustrations. $6.50. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1960 1960 346 JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES somersault over...

... Bahng's “Cruel Optimism of Asian Futurity and the Reparative Practices of Sonny Liew's Malinky Robot ,” a queer-globalist reading of Liew's comic series depicting the science fictionalized margins of neoliberalized Singapore. Belonging to the second section of the book, Bahng's essay effortlessly...

...Matthieu Felt Plucking Chrysanthemums: Narushima Ryūhoku and Sinitic Literary Traditions in Modern Japan . By Matthew Fraleigh . Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Asia Center , 2016 . 498 pp. ISBN: 9780674425224 (cloth). The Japanese Discovery of Chinese Fiction: The Water Margin...

...Daniel Poch The Awakening of Modern Japanese Fiction: Path Literature and an Interpretation of Buddhism . By Michihiro Ama . Albany : State University of New York Press , 2021 . 342 pp. ISBN: 9781438481418 (cloth). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2022 2022...

...Jan Bardsley Fukushima Fiction: The Literary Landscape of Japan's Triple Disaster . By Rachel DiNitto . Honolulu : University of Hawai‘i Press , 2019 . ix, 240 pp. ISBN: 9780824877972 (cloth). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2022 2022 A landmark study...

...Ikuho Amano The Metabolist Imagination: Visions of the City in Postwar Japanese Architecture and Science Fiction . By William O. Gardner . Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press , 2020 . viii, 223 pp. ISBN: 9781517906245 (cloth, also available in paper and as e-book). Copyright...

...Chun-Jo Liu A History of Modern Chinese Fiction 1917–1957 . C. T. Hsia . New Haven : Yale University Press , 1961 . xii, 662 . Appendix, Bibliography, Glossary, Notes, Index. $8.50. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1961 1961 80 JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES...

... of academic literature on Japan contributes to more complete, if still preliminary, answers to these longstanding, vexing questions. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2017  2017 Holy Ghosts: The Christian Century in Modern Japanese Fiction . By Rebecca Suter...

... would be just that a quibble with a modern master of intercultural translation. JOHN BERTHRONG University of Toronto Realism and Allegory in the Early Fiction of Mao Tun. By Y U - S H I H C H E N . Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1986. viii, 262 pp. $24.95. Mao Tun (1896-1981), novelist, critic...

...Munibur Rahman Studies in the Urdu Ġazal and Prose Fiction . Edited by Muhammad Umar Memon . Madison : University of Wisconsin (Center for South Asian Studies, No. 5), 1979 . xiv, 284 pp. $5. Copyright © Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1982 1982 BOOK REVIEWS SOUTH ASIA 389...