...Leonard Casper Origins and Rise of the Filipino Novel: A Generic Study of the Novel Until 1940 . By Resil B. Mojares . Quezon City : University of the Philippines Press , 1983 . ix, 389 pp. Appendix, Bibliography, Index. $18.00 (cloth); $13.50 (paper). (Distributed by University of Hawaii...

...Horace Z. Feldman Abstract From a purely objective point of view, the study of the political novel in any period of history is useful because of the inherent value of that particular type of novel – portrayal of the political ideology of its time and presentation of its authors' political opinions...

...Andrea S. Goldman The Novel and Theatrical Imagination in Early Modern China . By Mei Chun . Leiden : Brill , 2011 . xii, 277 pp. $132.00 (cloth). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2013  2013 “All the world's a stage” was a sentiment that animated thought...

...Stephen Filler Detective Fiction and the Rise of the Japanese Novel, 1880–1930 . By Satoru Saito . Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Asia Center , distributed by Harvard University Press, 2012 . 308 pp. $39.95 (cloth). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2014...

...Angela Ki Che Leung Novel Medicine: Healing, Literature, and Popular Knowledge in Early Modern China . By Andrew Schonebaum . Seattle : University of Washington Press , 2016 . viii, 283 pp. ISBN: 9780295995182 (cloth, also available in paper and as e-book). Copyright ©...

...Christopher Smith Licentious Fictions: Ninjō and the Nineteenth-Century Japanese Novel . By Daniel Poch . New York : Columbia University Press , 2020 . 290 pp. ISBN: 9780231193702 (cloth). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc., 2020 2020 Licentious Fictions...

.... The novel is fast paced and well constructed and might find a place in the classroom, especially when paired with texts by the historical Hong Chenzhou, which are presented in Lynn Struve's Voices from the Ming-Qing Cataclysm: China in Tigers’ Jaws . 2 Southern Rain explores issues such as gender...

...Luciana Sanga The Earth Writes: The Great Earthquake and the Novel in Post-3/11 Japan . By Koichi Haga . Lanham, Md. : Rowman & Littlefield , 2019 . 129 pp. ISBN: 9781498569033 (cloth). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2020 2020 In the first English...

...Vincent Y. C. Shih The Evolution of a Chinese Novel: Shui-hu-chuan . By Richard Gregg Irwin . Cambridge : Harvard University Press , 1953 . ix, 223 . Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1954 1954 102 FAR EASTERN QUARTERLY included in the text on pp. 206-7). However...

...Robert A. Rupen Abstract Leading characters in this novel are “Zhamtso,” head of the Mongolian Scientific Committee; “Andreἴ Makarovich Turanov,” a Russian geographer, “Roy Webster,” leader of an American expedition in the Gobi Desert; and “Nakamura,” a Japanese officer spying in Outer Mongolia...

.... 4 In Kinko bungei onchi sōsho [Heritage of Modern Literary Arts: A Collectanea ], V (Tokyo, 1892 ), 183 . 5 Yukihiko Nakamura , Kinsei shōsetsu-shi no kenkyū [Studies in the History of the Modern Novel] ( Tokyo , 1961 ), pp. 245 – 260 . 6 Fumoto...

...C. T. Hsia The Hsi-yu Chi. A Study of Antecedents to the Sixteenth-Century Chinese Novel . By Glen Dudbridge . New York : Cambridge University Press , 1970 . xii, 219 pp. Plates, Bibliography, Index. $25.00. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1971 1971 BOOK REVIEWS...

...Y. W. Ma Abstract In China, as in the West, fiction is a late development in the literary scene and serious fiction criticism is correspondingly a recent endeavor. The similarity goes further in the case of the historical novel, which critics of Chinese and Western fiction alike have either...

...Judith A. Berling Journey to the North: An Ethnohistorical Analysis and Annotated Translation of the Chinese Folk Novel Pei-yu chi . By Gary Seaman . Berkeley and Los Angeles : University of California Press , 1987 . xiv , 236 pp. $30.00. Copyright © The Association for Asian...

...Janet A. Walker Approaches to the Modern Japanese Novel . Edited by Kinya Tsuruta and Thomas E. Swann . Tokyo : Sophia University , 1976 . ii, 244 pp. Notes on Contributors. $6.00 Modern Japanese Writers and the Nature of Literature . By Makoto Ueda . Stanford : Stanford...

...Dennis T. Hu Abstract Wei-ch'eng ; (hereafter referred to by the translated title Fortress Besieged ) by Ch'ien Chung-shu (1910?—) has been hailed as the most “carefully wrought novel in modern Chinese literature” and “perhaps also its greatest.” Despite such distinction, however, neither this work...

...Firdaus Azim BOOK REVIEWS SOUTH ASIA 1035 Bengal Nights: A Novel. By MlRCEA ELIADE. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1994. 176 pp. $9-95 (paper). // Does Not Die: A Romance. By M A I T R E Y I D E V I . Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1994. 264 pp. $10.95 (paper). Originally published...

...Karine Schomer Girirāj Kiśor's Yātrāem: A Hindi Novel Analyzed . By Theo Damsteegt . Edited by H. W. Bodewitz . Gonda Indological Studies Series, Vol. VI . Groningen : Egbert Forsten , 1997 . xiv, 354 pp. Fl. 110 (cloth). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1999...

...Marshall R. Pihl Encounter: A Novel of Nineteenth-Century Korea . By Hahn Moo-Sook . Translated by Ok Young Kim Chang . Berkeley : University of California Press , 1992 . xxiii, 325 pp. $45.00. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1995 1995 BOOK REVIEWS KOREA 577...

...William H. Frederick The Novel in Javanese: Aspects of its Social and Literary Character . By George Quinn . Leiden : KITLV Press . 1992 . $29.00. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1994 1994 648 THE JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES the text). His discussion of recent...