... books Hessler had written dealing with China. I asked one of the customer service people if they had River Town in stock. He smiled and promptly led me to the Travel section, which had all three of Hessler's “China books.” This got me thinking. Classifying Hessler as a popular writer of books on China...

...Edward Gunn Literary Authority and the Modern Chinese Writer: Ambivalence and Autobiography . By Wendy Larson . Durham and London : Duke University Press , 1991 . 208 pp. $34.95. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1993 1993 BOOK REVIEWS CHINA AND INNER ASIA 147...

...Robert H. Brower Japanese Literature in Chinese. Vol. I: Poetry and Prose in Chinese by Japanese Writers of the Early Period . Translated by Burton Watson . New York : Columbia University Press (Translations from the Oriental Classics), 1975 . 130 pp. Appendix. $9.00. Japanese...

...Victoria Vernon Nakagawa Rabbits, Crabs, Etc.: Stories by Japanese Women . Edited and translated by Phyllis Birnbaum . Honolulu : University of Hawaii Press , 1982 . ix, 147 pp. $15 (cloth), $7.95 (paper). This Kind of Woman: Ten Stories by Japanese Women Writers, 1960–1976 . Edited...

..., Hayashi Shihei, Hirata Atsutane, and Tokugawa Nariaki. 30 Satō, “Aikoku hyakunin isshu shōron” [“A Short Discussion of the Aikpku Hyakunin Isshu ”], Kaizō , XXV ( 06 1943 ), 81 . 31 See Hideki Ozaki , “ Daitōa bungakusha taikai ni tsuite ” [“The Greater East Asia Writers...

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... Maarif, former chairman of Indonesia's Muslim organization Muhammadiyah, dubs Minangkabau a “factory of wise words,” because many of Indonesia's greatest writers and intellectuals hailed from there, including, among others, Agus Salim (diplomat), Tan Malaka (writer and activist), Chairil Anwar (poet...

...Elizabeth Boody Schumpeter Industrial Japan: Aspects of recent economic changes as viewed by Japanese writers . New York : Institute of Pacific Relations , 1941 . x, 230 p. $2.00. Copyright © Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1942 1942 200 THE FAR EASTERN QUARTERLY friction...

... the actual victims, “only give tragic scences of burning and massacre and condemn the unorthodox and vulgar nature of the institutions and writings [of the rebels]. INTERPRETATIONS OF THE TAIPING TIEN-KUO BY NONCOMMUNIST CHINESE WRITERS* VINCENT YU-CHUNG SHIH University of Washington VARIOUS interpretations...

...Francine S. Weinbaum Leaving Home: Towards a New Millennium; A Collection of English Prose by Pakistani Writers . Edited by Muneeza Shamsie . Karachi and Oxford : Oxford University Press , 2001 . xxiv , 434 pp. $18.00 (cloth). Copyright © Association for Asian Studies 2004 2004...

...Rebecca L. Copeland The Outsider Within: Ten Essays on Modern Japanese Women Writers . Edited by Tomoko Kuribayashi and Mizuho Terasawa . Lanham, Md. : University Press of America , 2002 . xxiv, 229 pp. $59.00 (cloth). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2003 2003...

...Samuel Hideo Yamashita So Lovely a Country Will Never Perish: Wartime Diaries of Japanese Writers . By Donald Keene . New York : Columbia University Press , 2010 . 216 pp. $24.95 (cloth) Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2012 2012 Donald Keene was one...

...Martin W. Huang The Inner Quarters and Beyond: Women Writers from Ming through Qing . Edited by Grace S. Fong and Ellen Widmer . Leiden : Brill , 2010 . xiv, 431 pp. $185.00 (cloth). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2012 2012 The volume under review...

...Xueping Zhong Chinese Women Writers and the Feminist Imagination, 1905–1948 . By Yan Haiping . New York : Routledge , 2006 . xx , 299 pp. $150.00 (cloth). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2008 2008 The Chinese saying shi nian mo yi jian , “taking ten...

...Guohe Zheng A Sheep's Song: A Writer's Reminiscences of Japan and the World . By Katō Shūichi Translated and annotated by Chia-ning Chang . Berkeley .: University of California Press , 1999 . xiv, 470 pp. $50.00 (cloth); $19.95 (paper). Copyright © The Association for Asian...

...Frederick P. Brandauer The Romantic Generation of Modern Chinese Writers . By Leo Ou-fan Lee . Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press , 1973 . Harvard East Asian Series 71. xiv, 365 pp. Bibliography, Glossary, Index. $12.50. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc...

...D. W. Fokkema Copyright © Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1977 1977 The Chinese Literary Scene: A Writer's Visit to the People's Republic . By Kai-yu Hsu . New York : Vintage Books , 1975 . 269 pp. $3.95 550 JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES turn tends to overgeneralization...

... the important figures of modern Chinese literature have remained in the People's Republic of China,” their works are therefore proscribed for political reasons. Cut off from their mainland base, the disinherited young Taiwanese writers, having no native idols to emulate and anxious to create a tradition...

...Leslie A. Flemming Asian and Western Writers in Dialogue: New Cultural Identities . Edited by Guy Amirthanayagam . Hong Kong : Macmillan , 1982 . xii, 220 pp. Index. $24. (Distributed by Humanities Press.) Indian-English Novelists: An Anthology of Critical Essays . Edited...

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