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Human Jungle
Retelling the Ramayana
The Great Encounter of China and the West, 1500-1800
Empire of Emptiness
The Unknown Craftsman
Readings in classical Chinese philosophy
Subjectivity in Asian children's literature and film
Writing and authority in early China
The arts of Thailand
Arts of India, 1550-1900
Chinese symbolism and art motifs
The art of Islam
The Afro-Asian states and their problems
Chinese women writers and the feminist imagination
Modern Chinese writers
Tirukkur̲aḷ
Zen poetry
Poetry, politics, and culture
The peony pavilion =
Shibori
Sleepless nights
A New Vision of Reality
One thousand and one-second stories
The Woman Warrior
Korean food made simple
The father-daughter plot
Tales of moonlight and rain
Fate of a cockroach
End of an era
Garden of Marvels
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