"This remarkable anthology of... plays is a harbinger of a new age in Japanese theatre studies and will be considered a pivotal work in the future.... The closing essay by editor Karen Brazell on 'the nature of noh' is a gem of insight and information."―Monumenta Nipponica
"A noh collection to surpass all others... the first major collection of translations which includes both necessary annotations and the necessary book on noh."―Japan Times

Twelve Plays of the Noh and Kyōgen Theaters (Cornell East Asia Series) (Cornell East Asia Series, 50)

Humor & Entertainment

Cornell East Asia Series

A generous selection of poems by one of Korea’s most honored and highly regarded poets. Kim Namjo published her first book of poems, Life (Moksum), in 1953. In the years since then, in another ten collections of poems, she has explored in her books, an intensely experienced religious faith, and a passionate affirmation of life. This is the first collection of poems by a Korean woman writer to be published in English language translation.

Selected Poems of Kim Namjo (Cornell East Asia Series) (Cornell East Asia Series, 63)

Literature & Fiction

Kim, Namjo

Poetry

"Translations of 19 nô and nine kyôgen plays seeking to ‘produce English poetry which reproduces the "texture of the Japanese"’ . . . an experiment in translating the ‘untranslatable’ word play which provides so much of the effect of nô in the original." ―Journal of the Association of Teachers of Japanese

Pining Wind: A Cycle of Nō Plays (Cornell East Asia Series) (Cornell East Asia Series, 17)

Dramas & Plays

First printed in 1979, this series of illuminating letters was written between April and August, 1949, describing Nanking before, during and immediately after the Communist takeover. The author was in China on a research fellowship at the time of the takeover. The result is a fresh and lively close-up of this crucial phase in the Chinese Revolution. This collection is of considerable value because it contains an eye-witness account of the Chinese revolution. Such original sources are rare and especially useful for teaching purposes.

Nanking Letters 1949 (Cornell East Asia Series) (Cornell East Asia Series, 23)

History

Biggerstaff, Knight

Asia

This book provides a valuable introduction to historical and sociological studies of family change in Japan. The author discusses the organization and assumptions of the academic disciplines, introduces resources for cross-cultural research on family change, and summarizes research results in areas such as infanticide, preindustrial mobility, family size and structure, family relations, mate selection, and the elderly. Summaries of Japanese studies and translated tables and graphs are integrated with materials from relevant English language publications from the perspective of life course theory. The book points out difficulties in cross-cultural research but stresses the vital contributions of such insights for the understanding of family change.

Family Change and the Life Course in Japan (Cornell East Asia Series) (Cornell East Asia Series, 44)

Long, Susan Orpett

Parenting & Relationships

This small handbook is designed primarily as a reference tool for students of classical Japanese (bungo) who possess a working knowledge of the modern language. The first of its two main sections discusses suffixes attached to each of the verbal bases recognized by Japanese grammarians; the second treats important particles and miscellaneous parts of speech in alphabetical order. A table lists suffixes and their bases in alphabetical order, with cross references to the first section; three others show modern and classical verb and adjective categories and their bases. There are also short sections on grammatical patterns, respect verbs, sound changes, and traditional kana usage. Now includes a six-page index compiled by John Wallace, University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Bungo Manual: Selected Reference Materials for Students of Classical Japanese (Cornell East Asia Series) (Cornell East Asia Series, 48)

Reference

McCullough, Helen Craig

Foreign Language Study & Reference

A brief introduction to the history, philosophy, and techniques of the Japanese avant-garde dance movement, Ankoku Buto. Evoking images of grotesque beauty, revelling in the seamy underside of human behavior, Buto dance groups such as Sankai Juku and Dai Rakuda-kan have performed to wide critical and popular acclaim, making Buto one of the most influential new forces in the dance world today. The monograph traces the development of Buto from its birth in the bleak post-war landscape of 1950s Japan, and then addresses the question of Buto as a post-modern phenomenon, before going on to examine the influence of traditional Japanese performance on Buto techniques. The last chapter analyzes a specific dance (Niwa - The Garden) by Muteki-sha, to show how these techniques are used concretely. Includes translations of four essays on Butō by contemporary Japanese dance critics.

Ankoku Buto: The Premodern and Postmodern Influences on the Dance of Utter Darkness (Cornell East Asia Series) (Cornell East Asia Series, 49)

Klein, Susan Blakeley

Coming from the country where short, concise poetry is celebrated, Hara Shiro’s Ode to Stone is an unusually lengthy contribution to modern Japanese poetry. A recent winner of the Gendai Shijin Sho, this poem is regarded by some as having an epic quality that rivals some the great poetry of the twentieth-century West. The "narrator," stone, takes us to locations as diverse as Nagasaki, Paris, and Cairo, and to various times in history. It also directs us through a world of language, where style need not be that which is fashionable, unusual, or abstruse, but can be as ordinary and inconspicuous as the astonishing underside of the Nagasaki Eyeglasses Bridge.

Ode to Stone (Cornell East Asia Series) (Cornell East Asia Series, 52)

Hara, Shiro

Perhaps the most daring TV documentary series ever produced in mainland China, which directly affected the thinking of Chinese youth on the eve of the 1989 democracy movement. This richly-annotated translation of the original filmscript by Su Xiaokang and Wang Luxiang puts the series in its intellectual and artistic context and is suitable for use in classes on Chinese culture and contemporary China, with or without the videotape.

Deathsong of the River: A Reader's Guide to the Chinese TV Series "Heshang" (Cornell East Asia Series) (Cornell East Asia Series, 54)

Su, Xiaokang

Wang, Luxiang

Religion & Spirituality

A historical and bibliographical study of the reception and interpretation of Freud’s ideas in China and an analysis of the use of these ideas in literature and literary criticism. Combining original historical research with a sensitivity to the interpretive issues raised by both fictional and expository texts, this study covers a wide range of Chinese translations, popularizations, and critical materials about psychoanalysis as well as many fictional works from the period.

Psychoanalysis in China: Literary Transformations, 1919–1949

Zhang, Jingyuan

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