Asian Fiction
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The Tale Of Genji
by Murasaki Shikibu
The Tale of Genji is a classic work of Japanese literature attributed to the Japanese noblewoman Murasaki Shikibu in the early eleventh century, around the peak of the Heian Period. It is sometimes called the world's first novel, the first modern novel, the first psychological novel or the first novel still to be considered a classic, though this issue is a matter of debate. The first partial translation of Genji Monogatari into English was by Suematsu Kenchō.
Three Kingdoms
by Guanzhong Luo
Subtitle from p. 4 of cover.
Title on t.p. also in Chinese characters.
Title on t.p. also in Chinese characters.
Journey To the West - Vol I, II and IIi
by Wu Cheng'En
Colophon in Chinese, v. 4.
Translation of: Xi you ji.
Translator's afterword (v.4, p. 2321-2344).
Text notes at the end of each vol.
Translation of: Xi you ji.
Translator's afterword (v.4, p. 2321-2344).
Text notes at the end of each vol.
Empress Orchid
by Anchee Min
Empress Orchid (2004) is a novel by Anchee Min which was first published in Great Britain in 2004. It is written in first person and is a sympathetic account of the life of Empress Dowager Cixi - from her humble beginnings to her rise as the Empress Dowager. Names within the story are different in spelling but retain the same pronunciation - allowing the reader to identify each relevant character to his or her real life counterpart.
And the Rain My Drink
by Suyin Han
And the Rain My Drink is a novel by Han Suyin. It is set against a backdrop of the Malayan Emergency of the late 1940s and 1950s. It describes the methods used by the British colonial authorities and the left-wing rebels, and how individual lives were affected.
First They Killed My Father
by Loung Ung
First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers is a 2000 nonfiction book written by a Cambodian author and survivor of the Pol Pot regime Loung Ung. It is a personal account of her experiences during the Khmer Rouge years.
The Sound Of the Mountain
by Yasunari Kawabata
Yasunari Kawabata was born in Osaka in 1899. In 1968 he became the first Japanese writer to receive the Nobel Prize for Literature. One of Japan’s most distinguished novelists, he published his first stories while he was still in high school, graduating from Tokyo Imperial University in 1924. His short story “The Izu Dancer,” first published in 1925, appeared in The Atlantic Monthly in 1955. Kawabata authored numerous novels, including Snow Country (1956), which cemented his reputation...
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A Many-Splendoured Thing
by Han W/Intro By Malcolm MacDonald Suyin
A Many-Splendoured Thing is a novel by Han Suyin. It was made into the 1955 film Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing, which also inspired a famous song. In her autobiographical work "My House Has Two Doors" she clearly dissociates herself from the film and had no interest in even watching it in Singapore where it ran for several months.
Asian Fiction Books & Ephemera
A Gesture Life
by Lee, Chang-Rae
A Gesture Life is a novel written by Chang-Rae Lee which takes the form of a narrative of an elderly physician who remembers treating Korean comfort women for the Japanese Imperial Army during World War II.
The Tale of Genji
by Shikibu, Murasaki
Knopf, 1978. Paperback. G+. 6x2x9. GOOD-PLUS TRADE-PAPERBACK. VERY-GOOD EXCEPT MODERATE READING WEAR.
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SGD 6.89
Empress Orchid
by Min, Anchee
Wilmington, Massachusetts, U.S.A.: Mariner Books, 2005 Book. Very Good. Trade Paperback. First Edition/First Printing. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. first edition/first printing book is tight with no markings, some tanning to page edges, wraps have some rubbing and light soiling.
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SGD 22.06SGD 16.54
Empress Orchid - 1st Edition/1st Printing
by Min, Anchee
Boston: Houghton Mifflin. Fine+ in Fine+ dust jacket. 2004. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. 0618068872 . A handsome first printing of this first edition copy in unread Very Fine condition in alike dustjacket, SIGNED by author Anchee Min with her unique signature directly on the title page; A novel of high drama and lyricism and the first volume of a trilogy about the life of one of the most important women in history. Diabolical reputation on one side -- a woman who seized power through...
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SGD 124.08
Empress Orchid
by Anchee Min
Bloomsbury , UK, 2007. Edition Unstated. Softcover. Very Good Condition/No Dust Jacket. Size: Octavo (standard book size). 352 pages. Text body is clean, and free from previous owner annotation, underlining and highlighting. Binding is tight, covers and spine fully intact. All edges clean, neat and free of foxing. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilogram. Category: Fiction; ISBN: 074757992X. ISBN/EAN: 9780747579922. All our pictures shown here are of the actual item, not stock...
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SGD 21.59
Reworlding: The Literature of the Indian Diaspora
by Nelson, Emmanuel S
NY: Praeger, 1992. Hardcover. Very good. Hardcover. xvi, 177pp+ index. Very good hardback bound in publisher's gray cloth and issued without a jacket.
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SGD 34.47
The Song of Youth
by Yang Mo
Beijing: Foreign Languages Press, 1978. Hardcover. Very good. Hardcover. Third Edition. Very good hardback in a lightly rubbed jacket.
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SGD 34.47
The Plum in the golden Vase or Chin P'ing Mei Volume Two: The Rivals
by Roy, David Tod
Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2001. Hardcover. Very good. Hardcover. lxix, 604pp+ index. Remainder mark to top edge of textblock, else a very good hardback in a jacket that is slightly trimmed halfway across the top edge of the front panel.
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SGD 68.94
Empress Orchid (Wheeler Large Print Book Series)
by Min, Anchee
Paperback. Good.
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SGD 3.65
The Past We Share: The Near Eastern Ancestry of Western Folk Literature.
by E.L. Ranelagh
New York, NY Quartet Books, 1984. Paperback First Ed thus, so stated. First Ed thus, so stated. Very Good in Wraps: shows indications of very light use: light wear to extremities; mild rubbing to wrapper covers; binding shows slight spine lean, but remains perfectly secure; text clean. Not far from 'As New'. NOT a Remainder, Book-Club, or Ex-Library. 8vo. 278pp. Trade Paperback.
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SGD 6.48
Kiyomoto-bushi: Narrative music of the Kabuki theatre
by Tokita, Alison
Basel: Barenreiter Kassel, 1999. Paperback. Very Good. Paperback. 400pp. Internally fine with clean text that has no underlining, highlighting or notes.
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SGD 103.40
The Piano Tuner
by Naishan, Cheng
SF: China Books and Periodicals, 1989. Hardcover. Very good. Hardcover. First American edition. Very good hardback in a slightly tanned jacket.
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SGD 34.47
Market Street: A Chinese Woman in Harbin
by Hong, Xiao
Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1986. Hardcover. Very good. Hardcover. xvii, 133pp. Light foxing to edges of textblock, else a very good hardback in a slightly tanned jacket.
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SGD 48.25
The Classical Poetry of the Japanese
by Chamberlain, Basil Hall
Boston: J.R.Osgood, 1880. Hardcover. Very Good. Hardcover. xii, 227pp. Spine ends just lightly worn, small ripple to the bottom of the front board, otherwise very good in publisher's brown cloth.
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SGD 206.80
Three Kingdoms, A Historical Novel: Complete and Unabridged: v. 2
by Guanzhong, Luo
Paperback. Very Good.
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SGD 27.97
Schoolmaster Hi Huan Chih
by Sheng-tao, Yeh
Beijing: Foreign Languages Press, 1978. Hardcover. Very good. Hardcover. Second Edition. Very good hardback in a darkened and rubbed jacket.
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SGD 34.47
Journey to the West (hardcover) (Hardcover)(Chinese Edition)
by WU CHENG EN
Yuelu Tract Society; 1 (January 1. 2006), 2000-01-01. hardcover. New. Ship out in 2 business day, And Fast shipping, Free Tracking number will be provided after the shipment.Language:Chinese.Hardcover . Pages Number: 681 Publisher: Yuelu Tract Society; 1 (January 1. 2006). Journey to the West mainly describes the Monkey King Paul Tang Seng Buddhist sutras. after Hong eighty-one difficult story. monk learn from history on a real thing. about thirteen hundred years ago. the first year of Emperor Zhen...
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SGD 72.40
The Conterfeiter
by Inoue, Yasushi
London: Peter Owen, 1989. Hardcover. Very good. Hardcover. First UK Edition. Very good hardback in a jacket that has faint sticker ghost on the front panel.
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SGD 20.68
The Tale of Genji
by Shikibu, Murasaki
Createspace Independent Publishing Platform, 2011. Paperback. Good. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.
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SGD 8.60
Dawn to the West: Japanese Literature in the Modern Era
by Keene, Donald
NY: Holt Rinehart Winston, 1984. Hardcover. Very good. Hardcover. First Edition. 638pp+ index. . Very good hardback in a jacket that is sunned on the spine.
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SGD 34.47
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Three Kingdoms: A Historical Novel [4 volume set]
by Luo Guanzhong
London: The Folio Society, 2013. First Folio Society Edition. Hardcover. Fine. 28 x 18.5 cm. Four volume set in slipcase. Bound into decorative teal satin covered boards. Translated and with an introductory essay by Ross Roberts, introduction by Ma Jian. Follows the text of the 1991 University of California Press edition. Hundreds of illustrations from the 1883 edition by Zhuye shuwu. Light shelf wear to slipcase.
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SGD 689.35
A Selective Guide to Chinese Literature 1900-1949 Volume 4: The Drama
by Eberstein, Bernd
Leiden: E.J. Brill, 1990. Hardcover. Very good. Hardcover. xi, 339pp. Foxing to edges of textblock, else a very good hardback in a very good dustjacket.
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SGD 68.94
Three Kingdoms
by Guanzhong Luo
Foreign Languages Press, 1994. Hardcover. New. First Edition thus, as good as new. Three Kingdoms by Guanzhong Luo. Published by Foreign Languages Press in 1994. Hardcover ISBN:9787119016665. Collectible item in excellent condition.
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SGD 199.91
The Analects
by Confucius
Beijing: Foreign Languages Press, 1999. Hardcover. As new. Hardcover. As new in publisher's shrinkwrap.
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SGD 34.47
Three Kingdoms: A Historical Novel
by Luo Guanzhong
Morning Glory Publishers, 1997. Paperback. Good. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.
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SGD 26.17
The Tale of Genji (Modern Library)
by Murasaki, Shikibu
Modern Library, 1993. First Thus. Hardcover. Like New/Like New. First Edition Thus, First Printing. Not price-clipped ($22.00 price intact). Published by Modern Library, 1993. Octavo. Gray cloth boards stamped in gold with illustrated endpapers. Book is like new; clean with no writing or names. Sharp corners and spine straight. Binding tight and pages crisp. Dust jacket is like new with light shelf wear. 1325 pages. ISBN: 9780679424673. 100% positive feedback. 30 day money back guarantee. NEXT DAY...
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SGD 62.04
