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Index of Far East Asian Literature
(Chinese - Japanese - Korean)
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Chinese Literature under Review
- See also: Internet Literature in China (B), Michel HOCKX
- See also: The Subplot: What China Is Reading and Why It Matters (B), Megan WALSH
- Loud Sparrows (-) - Contemporary Chinese Short-shorts
- (Anonymous): Master Incapable (-)
- (Anonymous): Top Graduate Zhang Xie (B+)
- A Yi: A Perfect Crime (B+)
- BAI Hua: The Remote Country of Women (A-)
- BI Feiyu: The Moon Opera (B)
- CAO Naiqian: There's Nothing I Can Do When I Think of You Late at Night (B+)
- CAO Xueqin:
- The Story of The Stone (A+)
- See also: Ideal and Actual in The Story of the Stone (B), Dore J. LEVY
- CHA, Louis:
- The Book and the Sword (B+)
- The Deer and the Cauldron (B+)
- Legends of the Condor Heroes
- A Hero Born (B)
- A Bond Undone (B)
- A Snake Lies Waiting (B)
- A Heart Divided (B)
- CHAN Koonchung: The Fat Years (B-)
- CHANG, Eileen: Little Reunions (B)
- 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)
- CHANG Yu-Ko: Whisper (B)
- CHEN Xiwo: The Book of Sins (B)
- CHEN Zijin: Bad Kids (B)
- CHI Ta-wei: The Membranes (A)
- CHU T'ien-hsin: The Old Capital (B+)
- DAI Sijie:
- DUNG Kai-Cheung: Atlas (B)
- FENG Jicai: The Three-Inch Golden Lotus (B)
- GAO Jianqun: Tongwan City (B)
- GAO Xingjian: The Case for Literature (B+)
- GE Fei:
- GUO Xiaolu:
- HAN Shaogong: A Dictionary of Maqiao (B+)
- HAN Song: Hospital (B+)
- HU Fayun: Such is this World@sars.come (B)
- HUANG Fan: Zero and Other Fictions (B)
- JIA Pingwa: Ruined City (A-)
- JIN Yong:
- The Book and the Sword (B+)
- The Deer and the Cauldron (B+)
- Legends of the Condor Heroes (B+)
- A Hero Born (B)
- A Bond Undone (B)
- A Snake Lies Waiting (B)
- A Heart Divided (B)
- KAO Ming: The Lute (B+)
- K'UNG Shang-jen: The Peach Blossom Fan (B+)
- LAO Ma: Individuals (B)
- LI Ang: The Lost Garden (B)
- LI Rui: Trees without Wind (B)
- LI Yu:
- A Couple of Soles (B)
- The Fragrant Companions (B+)
- LIU Cixin: The Three-Body Problem (B)
- LIU Sola: Chaos and All That (B+)
- LIU Xinwu: The Wedding Party (B)
- LÜ Tiancheng: The Embroidered Couch (C+)
- LU Xun:
- MAI Jia: Decoded (B)
- MO Yan:
- Change (B)
- Sandalwood Death (A)
- MURONG Xuecun: Leave Me Alone (B-)
- PU Songling: The Emperor of China in a House of Ill Repute (B+)
- QI Fanniu [?]: The Adventures of Ma Suzhen (B)
- QIAN Zhongshu: Humans, Beasts, and Ghosts (B+)
- QIU Miaojin:
- SHAN Sa:
- Alexander and Alestria (C)
- Empress (B)
- The Girl who Played Go (B+)
- SHEN Congwen: Border Town (B+)
- SU Shi: The Misadventures of Master Mugwort (-), with LU Cai and TU Benjun
- TAILING, W.: The Secret Tale of Tesur House (B)
- TONG Dik Sang: The Flower Princess (B+)
- TSERING Döndrup: The Handsome Monk (B)
- TSERING Yangkyi: Flowers of Lhasa (B)
- TURSUN, Perhat: The Backstreets (B)
- WANG Gang: English (B)
- WANG Meng: Bolshevik Salute (B)
- WANG Shuo:
- WANG Wen-Hsing:
- Backed Against the Sea (B)
- Family Catastrophe (B+)
- WANG Xiaobo: Wang in Love and Bondage (B)
- WU He: Remains of Life (B+)
- WU Ming-Yi: The Man with the Compound Eyes (B)
- WU Zhuoliu: Orphan of Asia (B+)
- XIAO Bai: French Concession (C)
- XIAO Hong: Ma Bo’le’s Second Life (B)
- XU Xing: 剩下都属于你 (B)
- XU Zechen: Running Through Beijing (B)
- YAN Geling: The Flowers of War (-)
- YAN Lianke:
- The Explosion Chronicles (B)
- The Four Books (B)
- Lenin's Kisses (B)
- Serve the People ! (B+)
- ZHANG Ailing: Little Reunions (B)
- ZHANG Guixing: My South Seas Sleeping Beauty (A-)
- ZHOU Haohui: Death Notice (B)
- ZHU Daotong [?]: The Adventures of Ma Suzhen (B)
- ZHU Wen:
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Japanese Literature under Review
- See also: Five Modern Japanese Novelists (B), Donald KEENE
- See also: The Tale of Genji: Translation, Canonization, and World Literature (B+), Michael EMMERICH
- See also: The Rise and Fall of Modern Japanese Literature (A-), John Whittier TREAT
- See also: Manga from the Floating World: Comicbook Culture and the Kibyōshi of Edo Japan (A-), Adam L. KERN
- One Hundred Poets, One Poem Each (the Ogura Hyakunin Isshu) (B+)
- The Tales of Ise (B+), tr. Peter MacMillan
- ABE Kazushige:
- Mysterious Setting (B+)
- Nipponia Nippon (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+)
- AOYAMA Michiko: What You are Looking For is in the Library (B)
- AOYAMA Nanae: A Perfect Day to Be Alone (B+)
- ARAI Akira: A Caring Man (C)
- ARAMAKI Yukio: The Sacred Era (B)
- ASAMATSU Ken: Kthulhu Reich (B)
- AYASE Maru: The Forest Brims Over (B)
- AYATSUJI Yukito: The Decagon House Murders (B-)
- AZUCHI Satoshi: Supermarket (B-)
- DAN Oniroku: Season of Infidelity (B-)
- DAZAI Osamu: A Shameful Life (B+)
- DURIAN Sukegawa: Sweet Bean Paste (B)
- EDOGAWA Rampo:
- ENDŌ Shūsaku:
- Deep River (B)
- Foreign Studies (B+)
- Scandal (A-)
- When I Whistle (B)
- ENJOE Toh: Harlequin Butterfly (B)
- EKUNI Kaori: Twinkle Twinkle (B)
- EROSHENKO, Vasily: The Narrow Cage (B+)
- FLAŠAR, Milena Michiko: I Called Him Necktie (B)
- FUJII Taiyo:
- Gene Mapper (B)
- Orbital Cloud (B)
- FUJINO Kaori: Nails and Eyes (B)
- FUJISAKI Shingo: Crystal Silence (B)
- FUNADO Yoichi: May in the Valley of the Rainbow (B)
- FURUKAWA Hideo:
- HAITANI Kenjiro: A Rabbit's Eyes (B)
- HANAWA Kanji: Backlight (B)
- HANMURA Ryō: The Sheltering Rain (B)
- HAYASHI Fumiko: Floating Clouds (B+)
- HAYASHI Jyouji: The Ouroboros Wave (B)
- HEMMI Yo: Gush (B-)
- HIGASHINO Keigo:
- The Devotion of Suspect X (B-)
- Malice (B-)
- A Midsummer's Equation (B)
- The Name of the Game is a Kidnapping (B)
- Naoko (B)
- Newcomer (B+)
- Silent Parade (B)
- HINO Keizo: Isle of Dreams (B+)
- HIRAIDE Takashi: The Guest Cat (B)
- HIRANO Keiichirō:
- A Man (B)
- Eclipse (B+)
- The Transparent Labyrinth (B)
- HONDA Tetsuya:
- The Silent Dead (B)
- Soul Cage (B-)
- HORIE Toshiyuki: The Bear and the Paving Stone (B+)
- HOSAKA Kazushi: Plainsong (B)
- HOSHINO Tomoyuki:
- Lonely Hearts Killer (B)
- ME (B)
- We, the Children of Cats (B)
- ICHIKAWA Takuji: Monkey Man (B)
- II Naoyuki: The Shadow of a Blue Cat (B)
- IKEZAWA Natsuki: The Navidad Incident (B)
- IMAMURA Natsuko: The Woman in the Purple Skirt (B)
- INOUE Yasushi:
- Bullfight (A-)
- The Hunting Gun (B+)
- Life of a Counterfeiter (B+)
- Tun-Huang (B+)
- INUI Rokuro: Automatic Eve (B)
- ISAKA Kotaro:
- Bullet Train (B)
- Remote Control (B)
- Three Assassins (B+)
- (ISHIGURO, Kazuo:
- Never Let Me Go (A-)
- [Nocturnes]
- When we were Orphans (B+))
- ITŌ Hiromi: The Thorn Puller (B+)
- ITOH, Project: Harmony (B)
- IWAKI Kei: Farewell, My Orange (B)
- KANEHARA Hitomi: Snakes and Earrings (B-)
- KASHIMADA, Maki:
- KAWABATA Yasunari:
- Beauty and Sadness (B+)
- Dandelions (B+)
- The Lake (B)
- The Rainbow (B)
- Snow Country (A-)
- The Sound of the Mountain (B+)
- Thousand Cranes (A-)
- KAWAKAMI Hiromi:
- The Briefcase (B+) (UK title: Strange Weather in Tokyo)
- Dragon Palace (B+)
- Manazuru (B)
- The Nakano Thrift Shop (B+)
- Parade (B)
- People from My Neighborhood (B+)
- Record of a Night too Brief (B)
- The Ten Loves of Nishino (B+)
- Under the Eye of the Big Bird (B+)
- KAWAKAMI Mieko:
- All the Lovers in the Night (B+)
- Breasts and Eggs (B+)
- Heaven (B+)
- Ms Ice Sandwich (B+)
- KAWAMATA Chiaki: Death Sentences (B+)
- KAYAMA Shigeru:
- Godzilla (B-)
- Godzilla Raids Again (B-)
- KIRINO Natsuo:
- [The Goddess Chronicle]
- Grotesque (B)
- Out (B)
- Real World (B-)
- KISHI Yusuke: The Crimson Labyrinth (B)
- KITAHARA Aiko: The Budding Tree (B+)
- KITAKATA Kenzo:
- Ashes (B+)
- The Cage (B)
- City of Refuge (B+)
- Winter Sleep (B)
- KITANO Yusaku: Mr. Turtle (B)
- KIUCHI Kazuhiro:
- A Dog in Water (A-)
- Shield of Straw (B)
- KOBAYASHI Erika: Trinity, Trinity, Trinity (B)
- KOJIMA Nobuo: Embracing Family (B+)
- KUBO Misumi: Mikumari (B)
- KURAHASHI Yumiko: The Adventures of Sumiyakist Q (B)
- KURUMATANI Choukitsu: The Paradise Bird Tattoo (B+)
- KYOKUTEI Bakin: Eight Dogs, or "Hakkenden" (B+)
- LEVY Hideo: A Room Where the Star-Spangled Banner Cannot Be Heard (B)
- MARUYA Saiichi: Grass for My Pillow (B+)
- MATAYOSHI Naoki: Spark (B)
- MATSUMOTO Seichō:
- Point Zero (B)
- A Quiet Place (B)
- MATSUURA Hisaki: Triangle (B)
- MATSUURA Rieko: The Apprenticeship of Big Toe P (B)
- MIKAGE Eiji: Masquerade and the Nameless Women (B-)
- MINATO Kanae:
- Confessions (B-)
- Penance (B-)
- MISHIMA Yukio:
- The Frolic of the Beasts (B+)
- Life for Sale (B)
- Star (B+)
- See also: Persona: A Biography of Yukio Mishima (B+), INOSE Naoki
- See also: Five Modern Japanese Novelists (B), Donald KEENE
- MITSUSE Ryu: Ten Billion Days and One Hundred Billion Nights (B+)
- MIURA Shion: The Great Passage (B)
- MIURA Tetsuo: Shame in the Blood (B+)
- MIYABE Miyuki:
- All She was Worth (B)
- Crossfire (B)
- The Devil's Whisper (B)
- Shadow Family (B)
- The Sleeping Dragon (B)
- MIYAMOTO Teru:
- Kinshu (B+)
- Phantom Lights (B+)
- MIZUMURA Minae:
- The Fall of Language in the Age of English (B)
- An I-Novel (B+)
- Inheritance from Mother (B+)
- A True Novel (B+)
- MOCHIZUKI Aska: Spinning Tropics (B-)
- MORI Ogai: The Wild Geese (A-)
- MOTOYA Yukiko: The Lonesome Bodybuilder (B) (UK title: Picnic in the Storm )
- MURAKAMI Haruki:
- See the complete review's Murakami Haruki page
- 1Q84 (A)
- After Dark (A-)
- After the Quake (B+)
- Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman (B+)
- The City and its Uncertain Walls (A-)
- Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage (B+)
- End of the World and Hard-Boiled Wonderland (B)
- First Person Singular (B+)
- Hear the Wind Sing (B+)
- Kafka on the Shore (B+)
- Killing Commendatore (B)
- Men without Women (B)
- Norwegian Wood (A-)
- Novelist as a Vocation (B+)
- Pinball, 1973 (B)
- South of the Border, West of the Sun (B+)
- Sputnik Sweetheart (B+)
- The Strange Library (B+)
- Underground (B+)
- What I Talk About When I Talk About Running (B)
- Wind/Pinball: see Hear the Wind Sing and Pinball, 1973
- The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle (A-)
- See also: A Wild Haruki Chase (B) - Reading Murakami Around the World
- See also: Who We're Reading When We're Reading Murakami (B), David Karashima
- See also: Haruki Murakami and the Music of Words, Jay Rubin
- MURAKAMI Ryu:
- Audition (B)
- From the Fatherland, with Love (B)
- In the Miso Soup (B-)
- Piercing (B)
- Popular Hits of the Showa Era (B)
- 69 (B)
- Tokyo Decadence (B)
- MURASAKI Shikibu: The Diary of Lady Murasaki (B+)
- MURATA Sayaka:
- Convenience Store Woman (B+)
- Earthlings (B+)
- NAGAI Kafu: Rivalry (B)
- NAKAMURA Fuminori:
- The Boy in the Earth (B)
- Cult X (B)
- Evil and the Mask (B)
- The Gun (B)
- The Kingdom (B+)
- Last Winter, We Parted (B)
- My Annihilation (B+)
- The Rope Artist (B)
- The Thief (A-)
- NAKAYAMA Shichiri: Nocturne of Remembrance (B)
- NATSUKI, Shizuko: Murder at Mt. Fuji (B)
- NATSUME Sōseki:
- Botchan (B+)
- The Gate (A-)
- I am a Cat (B+)
- Inside my Glass Doors (B)
- Kokoro (B+)
- Kusamakura (B+)
- Light and Dark (B+)
- The Miner (B+)
- Sanshirō (A-)
- See also: Sōseki (B), John NATHAN
- NONAMI Asa:
- The Hunter (B-)
- Now You're One of Us (B)
- NOZAKA Akiyuki: The Pornographers (B)
- NOZAWA Hisashi: Deep Red (B)
- ŌE Kenzaburō:
- 治療塔 (B)
- Death by Water (A-)
- さようなら、私の本よ! (B+)
- OGAWA Yoko:
- 沈黙博物館 (B+)
- The Diving Pool (B+)
- 人質の朗読会 (B+)
- Hotel Iris (B)
- The Housekeeper and the Professor (B+)
- 琥珀のまたたき (B+)
- 凍りついた香り (B+)
- ことり (B+)
- The Memory Police (A-)
- Mina's Matchbox (B+)
- 猫を抱いて象と泳ぐ (B+)
- Revenge (A-)
- やさしい訴え (B)
- 余白の愛 (B+)
- ŌHARA Mariko: Hybrid Child (B)
- OKUDA Hideo: Lala Pipo (B+)
- ONDA Riku:
- OOKA Shohei: The Shade of Blossoms (B)
- OSAWA Arimasa: Shinjuku Shark (C+)
- OTANI Akira: The Night of Baba Yaga (B)
- OYAMADA Hiroko:
- The Factory (B)
- The Hole (B)
- SAIHATE Tahi: Astral Season, Beastly Season (B)
- SAITO Sanki: The Kobe Hotel (B)
- SAKURABA Kazuki: Red Girls (B+)
- SAKURAI Ami: Innocent World (B)
- SAKURAZAKA Hiroshi: All You Need is Kill (B+)
- SASAKI Joh: Zero Over Berlin (B)
- SENA Hideaki: Parasite Eve (B)
- SHIBASAKI Tomoka: Spring Garden (B)
- SHIBUSAWA Tatsuhiko: Takaoka's Travels (B+)
- SHIMADA Masahiko: Dream Messenger (B)
- SHIMADA Soji: One Love Chigusa (B)
- SHIRAISHI Kazufumi:
- SUGAWARA no Takasue no Musume: The Sarashina Diary (B+)
- SUZUKI Koji:
- Dark Water (B)
- Loop (B-)
- Promenade of the Gods (B-)
- Ring (B)
- Spiral (B-)
- TAGUCHI Randy: Fujisan (B)
- TAKAGI Akimitsu:
- The Informer (B+)
- The Noh Mask Murder (B)
- The Tattoo Murder Case (B)
- TAKAGI Nobuko: Translucent Tree (B-)
- TAKAHASHI Genichiro: Sayonara, Gangsters (B+)
- TAKAMI Koushun: Battle Royale (B)
- TAKAMURA Kaoru:
- Lady Joker (I) (-)
- Lady Joker (II) (B)
- TAKANO Kazuaki: Genocide of One (B-)
- TAKEDA Izumo (et al.): Sugawara and the Secrets of Calligraphy (B+)
- TAKEMOTO Novala: Kamikaze Girls (B-)
- TANAKA Yasuo: Somehow, Crystal (B)
- TANIGAWA Nagaru: The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya (B)
- TANIZAKI Jun'ichirō:
- Devils in Daylight (B+)
- The Gourmet Club (B+)
- In Black and White (B)
- In Praise of Shadows (B+)
- Longing and Other Stories (B)
- The Maids (B)
- Red Roofs & Other Stories (B)
- The Siren's Lament (B)
- TAWADA Yoko:
- The Emissary (B) (UK title: The Last Children of Tokyo)
- Facing the Bridge (B)
- Memoirs of a Polar Bear (B+)
- The Naked Eye (B+)
- Portrait of a Tongue (B+)
- Time Differences (B)
- TERAYAMA Shūji: The Crimson Thread of Abandon (B)
- TEZUKA Osamu:
- Apollo's Song (B)
- Ayako (B-)
- Message to Adolf (B-)
- MW (B)
- See also: The Osamu Tezuka Story: A Life in Manga and Anime, Ban Toshio
- TOGAWA Masako: The Master Key (B)
- TSUTSUI Yasutaka:
- Bullseye ! (B)
- The Girl Who Leapt Through Time (B)
- Hell (B)
- The Maid (B)
- Paprika (C)
- Salmonella Men on Planet Porno (B)
- UEDA Akinari: Tales of Moonlight And Rain (A-)
- UNO Koji: Love of Mountains (B)
- USAMI Rin: Idol, Burning (B+)
- WATANABE Kazuo: Labor Relations (C)
- (WU Zhuoliu: Orphan of Asia (B+)
- YAGI Emi: Diary of a Void (B+)
- YAGISAWA Satoshi: Days at the Morisaki Bookshop (B)
- YAMADA Taichi:
- YAMAMOTO Hiroshi: MM9 (B)
- YOKOMIZO Seishi:
- YOKOMORI Rika: Tokyo Tango (B-)
- YOKOYAMA Hideo:
- YOSHIDA Atsuhiro: Goodnight Tokyo (B)
- YOSHIDA Shuichi:
- YOSHIMOTO Banana:
- Goodbye Tsugumi (B)
- The Lake (B)
- Moshi Moshi (B)
- The Premonition (B)
- YOSHIMURA Akira: Shipwrecks (B)
- YOSHIYUKI Junnosuke: The Dark Room (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
- See also: Reading North Korea (B), Sonia RYANG - An Ethnological Inquiry
- (Anonymous): The Story of Hong Gildong (A-)
- (Anonymous): The Tale of Cho Ung (B)
- BAE Myung-hoon:
- Launch Something ! (B)
- Tower (B)
- BAE Suah:
- A Greater Music (B)
- Nowhere to Be Found (A-)
- BANDI: The Accusation (B)
- CH'AE Man-Sik: Turbid Rivers (B)
- CH'OE In-ho: Another Man's City (B)
- CH'OE Yun: Mannequin (A-)
- CHOI In-Hun: The Square (B+)
- CHOI Jin-young: To the Warm Horizon (B+)
- HAÏLJI: The Republic of Užupis (B)
- HAN Kang:
- The Vegetarian (B+)
- The White Book (B+)
- HWANG Sok-Yong:
- At Dusk (B)
- Familiar Things (B)
- The Guest (B+)
- HWANG Sun-mi: The Hen Who Dreamed She Could Fly (B)
- HWANG Yeo Jung: The Specters of Algeria (B+)
- JANG Eun-jin: No One Writes Back (A-)
- JANG Jung-il: When Adam Opens his Eyes (B)
- JO Kyung-ran: Tongue (B-)
- JUNG Young-moon:
- KIM In-Suk: The Long Road (B)
- KIM Man-jung: The Nine Cloud Dream (B+)
- KIM Sagwa: Mina (B)
- KIM Un-su:
- The Cabinet (B)
- The Plotters (B+)
- KIM Young-ha:
- KO Un:
- The Three Way Tavern (B+)
- Traveler Maps (B+)
- KWON Yeo-sun: Lemon (B+)
- LEE Hyoseok: Endless Blue Sky (B)
- LEE Ki-Ho: At Least We Can Apologize (B+)
- LEE Seung-U:
- PAEK Nam-nyong: Friend (B)
- PARK Min-gyu: Pavane for a Dead Princess (B+)
- PYUN Hye-Young:
- City of Ash and Red (B+)
- The Hole (B)
- SHIN Kyung-sook:
- YI Ch'ongjun: Your Paradise (B+)
- YI Mun Yol:
- An Appointment with my Brother (B)
- Our Twisted Hero (A-)
- The Poet (B+)
- Son of Man (A-)
- Twofold Song (B)
- YI T'aejun: Eastern Sentiments (B)
- YOM Sang-seop: Three Generations (B+)
- YUN Ko-eun: The Disaster Tourist (B)
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