Includes more than one hundred articles that show how a host of authors and literary movements have contributed to the general literary development of their respective countries. Comprehensive thematic essays introduce each geographical section with historical overviews and surveys of persistent themes in the literature examined. Following the thematic essays are the individual entries: over forty for China, over fifty for Japan, and almost thirty for Korea, featuring everything from detailed analyses of the works of Tanizaki Jun'ichiro and Murakami Haruki, to far-ranging explorations of avant-garde fiction in China and postwar novels in Korea.

This reference work includes entries on several specific Chinese and Japanese novels, and also includes overviews of the history of the novel as a genre in both countries.

Provides insight into Chinese history and culture today in nearly a thousand articles that include everything from Adoption and Banking to Wound Literature and the Zhou Dynasty.

From Abhidharma to Zurvan, this encyclopedia identifies and defines the principal concepts and individuals in Asian philosophy throughout the world.

Includes entries on Japanese and Chinese myth, and on intersections between religion and literature in the two countries.

This nine-volume reference contains over 10,000 articles exploring every aspect of Japanese society, history, politics, economy, thought and culture. The 50,000-item index is cross-referenced for easy location of facts.