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An enchanting and fascinating insight into Japanese landscape, culture, history and future. Originally written in Japanese, this passionate, vividly personal book draws on the …

'A revelation' Sunday Times, Books of the Year 2018The first Penguin anthology of Japanese haiku, in vivid new translations by Adam L. Kern. Now a global poetry, the haiku was …

Listed in the best books of 2023 by The Economist"Invigorating debut . . . [a] full-throated rallying cry." —Publishers WeeklyOne of Ms. Magazine's "most-anticipated feminist books …

Environment, Modernization and Development in East Asia critically examines modernization's long-term environmental history. It suggests new frameworks for understanding as …

The Tang dynasty is often called China’s “golden age,” a period of commercial, religious, and cultural connections from Korea and Japan to the Persian Gulf, and a time of …

In this succinct yet ample work, Zhao Tingyang, one of China’s most distinguished intellectuals, provides a profoundly original philosophical interpretation of China’s story and …

'Dreamy, immersive and evocative' TLS'Darkly beautiful' Frances Cha'Strange and gripping' GuardianSan is twenty-two and alone when she happens upon a job at a flower shop in …

august 1934 tar et bombefly av fra Alaska på vei mot Japan. Lasten er en dødbringende tredje atombombe. Men flyet blir skutt ned, styrter i havet og forsvinner med sin dystre …

Can you solve the puzzle of the Noh Mask Murder? Death and madness have haunted the Chizui family for years. Now a strange figure has been seen wandering their mansion at night, …

For South Koreans, the twenty years from the early 1960s to late 1970s were the best and worst of times—a period of unprecedented economic growth and of political oppression that …