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Index of Far East Asian Literature
(Chinese - Japanese - Korean)
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Chinese Literature under Review
- Loud Sparrows (-) - Contemporary Chinese Short-shorts
- CAO Xueqin:
- The Story of The Stone (A+)
- See also: Ideal and Actual in The Story of the Stone (B), Dore J. LEVY
- CHANG Hsi-Kuo :
- The City Trilogy (B)
- I. Five Jade Disks (B)
- II. Defenders of the Dragon City (B-)
- III. Tale of a Feather (B-)
- The City Trilogy (B)
- CHANG Ta-Chun:
- My Kid Sister (B+)
- Wild Child (B)
- See also: Wild Kids (B)
- CHU T'ien-hsin: The Old Capital (B+)
- DAI Sijie:
- GAO Xingjian: The Case for Literature (B+)
- GUO Xiaolu: A Concise Chinese-English Dictionary for Lovers (B)
- HAN Shaogong: A Dictionary of Maqiao (B+)
- LIU Sola: Chaos and All That (B+)
- LÜ Tiancheng: The Embroidered Couch (C+)
- SHAN Sa:
- Empress (B)
- The Girl who Played Go (B+)
- WANG Shuo:
- WANG Wen-Hsing:
- Backed Against the Sea (B)
- Family Catastrophe (B+)
- WANG Xiaobo: Wang in Love and Bondage (B)
- WU Zhuoliu: Orphan of Asia (B+)
- XU Xing: Shengxia de dou shuyu ni (B)
- YAN Lianke: Serve the People ! (B+)
- ZHANG Guixing: My South Seas Sleeping Beauty (A-)
- ZHU Wen: I Love Dollars (B)
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Japanese Literature under Review
- See also: Five Modern Japanese Novelists (B), Donald KEENE
- One Hundred Poets, One Poem Each (the Ogura Hyakunin Isshu) (B+)
- ABE Kobo: The Face of Another (B+)
- AKASAKA Mari: Vibrator (B)
- AKUTAGAWA Ryunosuke:
- Cogwheels (B+)
- A Fool's Life (B+)
- Hell Screen (B+)
- Kappa (B+)
- Mandarins (B+)
- Rashomon (B+)
- EKUNI Kaori: Twinkle Twinkle (B)
- FUNADO Yoichi: May in the Valley of the Rainbow (B)
- HAITANI Kenjiro: A Rabbit's Eyes (B)
- HIGASHINO Keigo: Naoko (B)
- (ISHIGURO, Kazuo:
- Never Let Me Go (A-)
- When we were Orphans (B+))
- KANEHARA Hitomi: Snakes and Earrings (B-)
- KIRINO Natsuo:
- KISHI Yusuke: The Crimson Labyrinth (B)
- KITAKATA Kenzo:
- Ashes (B+)
- The Cage (B)
- Winter Sleep (B)
- KOJIMA Nobuo: Embracing Family (B+)
- MARUYA Saiichi: Grass for My Pillow (B+)
- MIURA Tetsuo: Shame in the Blood (B+)
- MIYABE Miyuki:
- All She was Worth (B)
- Crossfire (B)
- Shadow Family (B)
- MIYAMOTO Teru: Kinshu (B+)
- MURAKAMI Haruki:
- See the complete review's Murakami Haruki page
- After Dark (A-)
- After the Quake (B+)
- Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman (B+)
- Kafka on the Shore (B+)
- Norwegian Wood (A-)
- South of the Border, West of the Sun (B+)
- Sputnik Sweetheart (B+)
- Underground (B+)
- The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle (A-)
- See also A Wild Haruki Chase (B) - Reading Murakami Around the World
- See also: Haruki Murakami and the Music of Words, Jay Rubin
- MURAKAMI Ryu:
- In the Miso Soup (B-)
- Piercing (B)
- 69 (B)
- MURASAKI Shikibu: The Diary of Lady Murasaki (B+)
- NAGAI Kafu: Rivalry (B)
- NATSUME Soseki:
- Botchan (B+)
- Inside my Glass Doors (B)
- NONAMI Asa::
- The Hunter (B-)
- Now You're One of Us (B)
- NOZAKA Akiyuki: The Pornographers (B)
- OGAWA Yoko: The Diving Pool (B+)
- OOKA Shohei: The Shade of Blossoms (B)
- OSAWA Arimasa: Shinjuku Shark (C+)
- SAKURAI Ami: Innocent World (B)
- SASAKI Joh: Zero Over Berlin (B)
- SENA Hideaki: Parasite Eve (B)
- SUZUKI Koji:
- Dark Water (B)
- Loop (B-)
- Ring (B)
- Spiral (B-)
- TAKAGI Nobuko: Translucent Tree (B-)
- TAKAHASHI Genichiro: Sayonara, Gangsters (B+)
- TAKAMI Koushun: Battle Royale (B)
- TAWADA Yoko: Facing the Bridge (B)
- TEZUKA Osamu:
- Apollo's Song (B)
- MW (B)
- TSUTSUI Yasutaka:
- Hell (B)
- Salmonella Men on Planet Porno (B)
- UEDA Akinari: Tales of Moonlight And Rain (A-)
- UNO Koji: Love of Mountains (B)
- (WU Zhuoliu: Orphan of Asia (B+))
- YAMADA Taichi: Strangers (B)
- YOKOMORI Rika: Tokyo Tango (B-)
- YU Miri: Gold Rush (B)
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Korean Literature under Review
- See also:: Han Sorya and North Korean Literature (B), Brian MYERS
- HWANG Sok-Yong: The Guest (B+)
- KIM Young-ha: I Have the Right to Destroy Myself (B+)
- KO Un:
- The Three Way Tavern (B+)
- Traveler Maps (B+)
- LEE Seung-U: The Reverse Side of Life (B+)
- YI Ch'ongjun: Your Paradise (B+)
- YI Mun Yol:
- Our Twisted Hero (A-)
- The Poet (B+)
- YOM Sang-seop: Three Generations (B+)
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