“Balanced on the fulcrum of politics, self-interest, tradition, and desire, the novel presents a distinctively original perspective on the political struggles that turned China upside down during the Cultural Revolution.”
—Carlos Rojas, Duke University

“Endo writes with force and stylistic verve about the vexing experience of living at the intersection between cultures, religions, and belief systems. This novel is a touching, deftly handled character study that traces out the process by which Kiku achieves self-understanding and some measure of spiritual reconciliation.”
—Dennis Washburn, Dartmouth University

“Dung Kai-cheung's Atlas: The Archeology of an Imaginary City is a most unusual work in the history of modern Chinese literature: part fiction, part history, part theory—all in the service of the author’s unique method of fictional ‘archaeology,’ an endeavor that has unearthed a wealth of materials—streets, buildings, personalities, names and signs, and marvels and legends—about this ‘vanished’ city, the traces of which constitute the sum total of Hong Kong's cultural memory.”
—Leo Ou-fan Lee, author of City Between Worlds: My Hong Kong

"[The essays] are not for beginners, but will intrigue, challenge, and inform students of modern Japanese intellectual history and cultural studies. . . Highly recommended."
—Choice

“So long as wit and satire, insightfully imagined characterization, and unmatched erudition matter in literature, Qian Zhongshu's writing will have a place, and this translation of his work is among the most significant renderings from Chinese.”
—Ron Egan, University of California, Santa Barbara

“An inventive, startling novel that casts light on a suppressed moment in history. Kim Sok-pom, one of the foremost zainichi (Japanese resident) Korean writers of the postwar period, explores the troubled boundaries between south and north Korea, colonialism and postcolonialism, history and its haunted memories.”
—Haruo Shirane, Columbia University, editor of The Demon at Agi Bridge and Other Japanese Tales

The Columbia Anthology of Modern Chinese Drama is a great piece of historical and analytical scholarship, evincing a breadth of history and depth of ideological critique hard to find in critics preoccupied with body and performance. The plays are not simply material for historical survey; their line-up forms an argument on China's pursuit of modernity, social justice, and equality.”
—Ban Wang, Stanford University

”Yi T'aejun is one of the foremost modernist writers of colonial Korea. In elegant and readable prose, this translation captures his elegiac contemplation.”
—JaHyun Kim Haboush, Columbia University

”Who Ate Up All the Shinga? is a major work, being both a rare account of a woman coming of age in colonial Korea and the first book-length memoir in English by a Korean writer resident in and writing about Korea."
—Bruce Fulton, University of British Columbia

“Courtesans and Opium is an unsung gem of nineteenth-century Chinese fiction. Patrick Hanan's translation is simply stunning. An enduring piece of literature.”
—Keith McMahon, University of Kansas

“The best thing about these stories, aside from the realistic depiction of a world none of us wants to visit and few of us can imagine, is their almost lyrical presentation of human poverty, depravity, and occasional comradeship and mutual warmth.”
—Michael Duke, University of British Columbia

”For fans of one of Japan's greatest novelists (Kokoro, Kusamakura) this volume of his literary criticism offers insights into his fiction as well as some prescient ideas about realism and multiculturalism.”
—Bill Marx, Public Radio International's The World

“Joshua Fogel's translation is excellent—faithful to the original, responsive to the Mongolian background, and clear, clean, and easy to read. He has captured not only the meaning but also the nuances and tone of the Japanese.”
—Martin Collcutt, professor of history and East Asian studies, Princeton University

“Ch'oe is a versatile writer who cloaks stark perceptions of individual and social trauma with elegant craft, poignant metaphor, and occasional, sardonic flashes of humor.”
—Barbara Lloyd McMichael, Seattle Times

“A beautifully constructed cyclical narrative. . . . The manner in which character types and events recur against the city's shifting backdrop is impossible to forget.”
—Publishers Weekly (Starred Review)

“The book is not only essential reading for scholars of Japanese intellectual and political history, but also of interest to anyone concerned with the crisis of modernity and various reactions to it.”
—Viren Murthy, Social History

"Brilliant. . . . Wonderful.... I Love Dollars is a publication that's not to be missed."
—Bradley Winterton, Taipei Times

“This book is essential reading for anyone interested in Korea and Poetry.”
—Manoa: A Pacific Journal of International Writing

“Beautiful and thought-provoking... A breeze of aesthetic freedom flows through all of them, making them fun to read.”
—Susan Salter, Los Angeles Times