Fighting Angel: Portrait of a Soul is Pearl S. Buck’s profoundly touching memoir of her zealous Southern Presbyterian missionary father, Absalom ...

Pinyin Riji Duanwen is a collection of short stories and essays in Mandarin Chinese by Zhang Liqing (1936–2010). Zhang was a Mandarin teacher ...

Destination Chungking is the fictionalized autobiography of best-selling writer Han Suyin. It tells the love story of a young Chinese couple during ...

A gripping, vital account of one man's imprisonment by Taiwan's police state early in the Cold War. In 1954 Tehpen Tsai was arrested by the Kuomintang ...

This book studies less-frequently visited aspects of the mid-20th century conflict between China and Japan. Without denying the importance of the more ...

A tragic - and largely forgotten - event following the liberation of Korea occurred on Jeju Island in 1948. An event now called 'The Jeju Massacre'. ...

"Has all the ingredients of the best memoirs: an exotic setting, quirky characters, and cultural discord ultimately redeemed by love and acceptance." ...

A distinguished group of authoritative scholars, officals, and policy experts here express their first-hand insights, their ambitions, and their cautions ...

In Limpid Dream  presents a group of seventeenth-century Chinese personal essays which explores how we perceive our existence in remembered fragments. ...

Vibrant, modern, and drenched in history from centuries as a gateway to China, this garden city of two million is a hidden gem. When the author, Robert ...