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Voices of the Fourth Generation
China's Poets Today edited by Keming Liu An anthology of the outstanding work of China's so-called Fourth Generation of poets emerging from a vibrant and rapidly developing cultural scene, offered for the first time in bilingual format. |
Chrysanthemum Stones
The Story of Stone Flowers by Thomas S. Elias and Hiromi Nakaoji The first comprehensive work in English on the rare and highly prized chrysanthemum stones, including the geology of their formation, the history of their appreciation, and their various types, forms, and places of origin. |
The Real Musashi: Origins of a Legend
The Bushû Denraiki translated and annotated by William de Lange This earliest and most reliable record of the life and exploits of Miyamoto Musashi (c. 1584–1645) , the most revered and celebrated swordsman in Japanese history, is, after three centuries, for the first time finally available to the English reader. |
The Real Musashi: Origins of a Legend II
The Bukôden translated and annotated by William de Lange Toyoda Masanaga's informative record completed in 1755 of the later life and exploits of Japan's greatest swordsman, Miyamoto Musashi (c. 1584–1645), available for the first time in English. |
The Romance of Scholars’ Stones
Adventures in Appreciation by Kemin Hu One of the foremost experts on Chinese scholars’ stones discusses lessons learned over a lifetime of collecting and researching, revealing a depth and complexity of stone appreciation not touched upon in other publications. These perspectives are ultimately employed in the investigation of a stone possibly first collected in 120 BCE, during the reign of Emperor Wu of the Han dynasty. |
Modern Chinese Scholars' Rocks
A Guide for Collectors by Kemin Hu Introduces over 50 stone types, including mineral compositions, colors, hardness, where they are quarried, and the qualities for which they are valued, written for the novice or experienced stone connoisseur. |
China’s Intrepid Muse
The Cartoons and Art of Ding Cong by Marcia R. Ristaino Presents the life and work of China's most famous cartoonist and caricaturist, whose great popularity stemmed from an intellectual and artistic integrity that made the inept and corrupt of both right and left fair game for his barbed art, and who ranks as one of China’s great artists of the twentieth century. |
A Dictionary of Japanese Proverbs
by William de Lange Companion volume to the author’s comprehensive Dictionary of Japanese Idioms, providing English equivalents or translations of over 1000 Japanese proverbs, with extensive cross-referencing leading to related expressions. |
Acquisition
Art and Ownership in Edo-Period Japan edited by Elizabeth Lillehoj Considers how and why people bought, sold, donated, and received works of art in the Edo period (1600–1868), contributing to a fuller comprehension of the vital connections between Japanese art and its audiences. |
Famous Japanese Swordsmen
of the Two Courts Period by William de Lange From the author of the bestselling Famous Japanese Swordsmen of the Warring States comes more solid sword history in the guise of thrilling narrative set amidst a turning point in Japan's medieval era, when an unbridgeable rift appeared in the fragile fabric of Japanese feudal society. |
Heaven Has a Face; So Does Hell
The Art of the Noh Mask by Stephen E. Marvin An extended treatise on the history of Noh and the evolution of its masks, showcasing in full color over 140 of the finest examples with detailed information on their creation, character, and significance, as well as photos of their backs showing inscriptions and artists’ signatures. |
Famous Japanese Swordsmen
of the Warring States Period by William de Lange True stories of the two greatest sword heroes of the most destructive period in Japan’s history, when thousands of warriors either perished or persevered on the strength of their martial skills. |
Visiting Historic Beijing
A Guide to Sites and Resources by Robert L. Thorp A guided tour for the curious traveler, and a readable and reliable introduction to how Chinese culture is integrated into the architecture and urban planning of one of the world’s most magnificent capitals. |
Famous Japanese Swordsmen
The Period of Unification by William de Lange This third and final volume of the Swordsmen trilogy chronicles one of the great turning points in Japan's medieval era, when after more than two centuries of civil strife Japan finally found its way back to peace and order under three successive rulers: Oda Nobunaga, Toyotomi Hideyoshi, and Tokugawa Ieyasu. |
Visiting China’s Past
A Guide to Sites and Resources by Robert L. Thorp In 24 short essays, takes the reader on a tour of the most important archaeological discoveries in China of the last century, a readable and reliable introduction to Chinese archaeology. |
Tibetan Furniture
by Chris Buckley Readers will learn to: identify the main types of Tibetan furniture; appreciate their origin and their uses; identify and understand the most common designs; judge the quality of pieces; and derive increased pleasure from Tibetan furniture they have bought. |
Painting and Performance
Picture Recitation and Its Indian Genesis by Victor H. Mair Traces the global development over a thousand years of a genre of popular Buddhist folk literature, pointing out its origins in India as a form of oral storytelling using painting as a visual aid, and showing how that form has influenced performance and literary traditions in India, Indonesia, Japan, Central Asia, the Near East, Italy, France, and Germany. |
Images of the Gods
Khmer Mythology in Cambodia, Laos & Thailand by Vittorio Roveda Illustrated with over 1800 color images in text and on a supplementary CD, this monumental volume incorporates the author’s meticulous and comprehensive researches on the great Khmer monuments flung across Cambodia, Thailand, and Laos. |
Pars Japonica
The First Dutch Expedition to Reach the Shores of Japan by William de Lange The harrowing account of a voyage beset with treachery, betrayal, mutiny, and mayhem, but one that finally reached Japan the under command of William Adams, the real-life hero of James Clavell’s best-selling novel Shogun, and changed the course of history. |
The Tatar Whirlwind
A Novel of Seventeenth-Century East Asia by Shiba Ryotaro, translated by Joshua Fogel A sweeping epic of battles and international intrigue at the time of the Manchu invasion of China, by Japan’s most popular writer of historical fiction. |
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