This book draws extensively on the Victoria & Albert Museum's collection of inro, one of the finest and most comprehensive in the world. Traditional Japanese dress did not include pockets....
A collection of 121 verse translations of Chinese classical poems....
"A searing piece of work, resonant and beautifully structured."
—Time Out
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Author Liu Sola pushed her way into Chinese culture with multimedia installations, rock operas (that always seemed to get cancelled), and stories about, well, self-indulgent artists that raise the ire...
The academic study of Burma, especially the study of its cultural history, has been unfortunately neglected over the last 50 years -- but the conference papers published here together form a major con...
A satirical masterpiece from occupied Korea, this novel picks out a day in the life of a whiny, entitled landlord, Master Yun, and his family....
Based on the novella Early Spring by Rou Shi, the film follows an idealistic youth to a remote village as he attempts to escape social injustice....
