No comments about Japanese biographies: Life histories, life cycles, life stages (Beitrage zur Kultur- und Geistesgeschichte Asiens).

1 comments about Floating World in Japanese Fiction (Select Bibliographies Series).

1. A detailed scholarly book devoted to "The Floating World" A great read too! Description on training, politics, fashions, artists, and more. Great many things are explained in regards to famous Japanese literary pieces, prints, festivals, and movies. A great addition to your Japanese culture library

No comments about Irish Writing on Lafcadio Hearn & Japan: Writer, Journalist & Teacher.

No comments about TV Autobiography - Farewell My Love Japanese Language Book.

5 comments about The Naked Island.

1. The author went through some really horrific situations but at the same time can describe the strength of the human spirit. The author also has a great sense of humor. I think books like this are rare these days in our politically correct world. Well worth the read.



2. The Naked Island

   The autobiography of a young australian soldier who spent long years in captivity as prisoner of war of the Japanese.
   The first part is the description of the military life in Malaya before the attack of the Japanese with many ironical notes on that tedious life from the point of view of a soldier.
   The second part is the description of the useless fight of the Australian and British troops against the overwhelming enemy and then the attempt to escape the capture.
   Then the third, and most interesting part, is the description of the life during three long years of captivity in the different prisons where the writer was imprisoned and in the jungle camps where all prisoners were forced to work without food, facing malaria, beri beri and death for starvation.
   A book I would really recommend.
   Are you looking for another absolutely interesting book about a similar experience?
   Read the famous "Behind bamboo" by Rohan Rivett




3. One of my first introductions to Australian and Far East reading of WW11, thoroughly enjoyable, could not put it down until it was finished. Would recommend this book to all generations. Has given me the taste to find out more about the Far East and familiarise myself with further Australian literature. Thought only John Pilger could write riveting literature, I was wrong!



4. This is an unforgettable book: informative, educational, poignant and often delightfully humorous. It is a tribute to the British and Australian Forces used as slave labour in the construction of the Burma/Siamese Railway and their ability to live with dignity, compassion and decency under the most deplorable conditions imaginable. This book leaves an indelible impression on the reader and should be required reading for each successive generation.



5. it is amazing that with all the hardship that these guys went thru, human nature can still make the best of an awful situation.

No comments about Embracing the Firebird: Yosano Akiko and the Rebirth of the Female Voice in Modern Japanese Poetry.

No comments about Samurai Trails: A Chronicle Of Wanderings On The Japanese High Road (1918).

No comments about Kano Eitoku (Japanese Arts Library).

3 comments about Bold Plum: with the Guerillas in China's War against Japan.

1. "Bold Plum" is a unique contribution to an understanding of Chinese
   Communist organization, methods and policies during the "Anti-Japanese
   War" years 1939-1945. As a retired Chinese-language-trained Foreign
   Service Officer, I particularly value first-person accounts of
   experiences in China that are written objectively. Hsiao-li Lindsay tells
   of her experiences living in Communist-controlled villages
   dispassionately - a rare virtue when too many first-person accounts are written
   with "an agenda". While her husband, Lord Michael Lindsay,
   was working with the Communists to improve their radio communications
   in the struggle against the Japanese occupiers, Hsiao-li
   observed the daily life of the villages in which they lived.
   "Bold Plum" is not only a unique contribution to the literature for the
   specialist, it is also fascinating for the general reader. (In 1955 Lord Lindsay published
   "China and the Cold War" (Michael Lindsay: Melbourne Univ. Press),
   a dissection of the increasingly irrational aspects of Chinese Communist
   policies after the end of World War II).



2. The book is a first hand history of the war against the Japanese by Mao Tse Tung and the Chinese during WWII. It was fascinating, could not put it down. Imagine being a young newly wed walking many miles, enduring attacks and hardships, giving birth and suffering hunger in a distant place. Very unique story.



3. The wartime China from 1937-1949 has not been sufficiently discussed in both the academic and popular realms. Bold Plum provides an alternative narrative from the official history-- one that is told by a Chinese woman whose lived an extraordinaray life during the time -- that will surely deepen our understanding of the rising power of the Communist China in rural northern China in the 1940s.
   
   It is my fortune to come across the publication of Bold Plum; it has given me so much information about the wartime China. I bought a copy of it and coudln't put it down. The story is a personal account of the argubly most important time of modern China, a nation was transforming into a socialist state. I highly recommand it to all students and reserachers of the history of (modern) China.

No comments about Shredding the Tapestry of Meaning: The Poetry and Poetics of Kitasono Katue (1902-1978) (Harvard East Asian Monographs).