The Exquisite Corpse of Asian America addresses this central question: if race has been settled as a legal or social construction and not as biological fact, why do Asian American artists, authors, and performers continue to scrutinize their body parts? Engaging novels, poetry, theater, and new media from both the U.S. and internationall—such as Kazuo Ishiguro’s science fiction...(展开全部)

The Exquisite Corpse of Asian America addresses this central question: if race has been settled as a legal or social construction and not as biological fact, why do Asian American artists, authors, and performers continue to scrutinize their body parts? Engaging novels, poetry, theater, and new media from both the U.S. and internationall—such as Kazuo Ishiguro’s science fiction...(展开全部)

是作者的一段无疾而终的恋情。 以分手的那一天为界，从那一天之前92天写起， 准确地说是以摄影图片（都是真实的）来表现， 一直到那一天之后99天。

《远走高飞》的案件发生一年后，罗德警官因解决案件的功绩受到赞扬，获得晋升的机会。但知道案件别有真相的罗德警部为是否应当接受晋升机会而苦恼，与彭斯博士商量。彭斯博士见罗德警官苦恼不堪的样子，为了让他散心，邀请他参加亿万富翁诺曼·特里特举办的派对。 派对地点是在哈德逊河中的孤岛上建筑的无忧城堡（Careless Castle），聚集了钢琴家、作曲家等著名音乐相关人士。但派对从一开始就充满阴沉的气氛，起因是一名参加的大学教授在渡河来城堡时，在船中死于非命。船的客舱里只有教授一个人，在别无人踪的情况下中毒而死。由于被害者有喝过放在客舱里的咖啡的迹象，调查了壶里残留的咖啡，但未检出毒药。 遗憾的是，由于被害者用过的咖啡杯已经碎裂散落，无法进行检查。教授是他杀还是自杀，抑或是事故，完全找不到头绪。如此过了数日，终于出现了第二名死者。 钢琴家埃瑞克·斯塔恩因为准备...(展开全部)

Hui-shu Lee is an associate Prof. in Art History at UCLA. She received her doctorate degree in Chinese art history from Yale University in 1994 after first studying at National Taiwan University and working in the National Palace Museum. Her field of specialization is Chinese painting and visual culture, with a particular focus at this time on imperial patronage of the Song dyn...(展开全部)

The stakes are wildly high in Sigizmund Krzhizhanovsky’s fantastic and blackly comic philosophical fables, which abound in nested narratives and wild paradoxes. This new collection of eleven mind-bending and spellbinding tales includes some of Krzhizhanovsky’s most dazzling conceits: a provincial journalist who moves to Moscow finds his existence consumed by the autobiography o...(展开全部)

He was young-maybe twenty or so-and he must once have been a good-looking kid. Kinsey could see that. But now his body was covered in scars, his face half-collapsed. It saddened Kinsey and made her curious. She could see he was in a lot of pain. But for three weeks, as Kinsey'd watched him him doggedly working out at the local gym, putting himself through a grueling exercise ro...(展开全部)

The stakes are wildly high in Sigizmund Krzhizhanovsky’s fantastic and blackly comic philosophical fables, which abound in nested narratives and wild paradoxes. This new collection of eleven mind-bending and spellbinding tales includes some of Krzhizhanovsky’s most dazzling conceits: a provincial journalist who moves to Moscow finds his existence consumed by the autobiography o...(展开全部)

He was young-maybe twenty or so-and he must once have been a good-looking kid. Kinsey could see that. But now his body was covered in scars, his face half-collapsed. It saddened Kinsey and made her curious. She could see he was in a lot of pain. But for three weeks, as Kinsey'd watched him him doggedly working out at the local gym, putting himself through a grueling exercise ro...(展开全部)

L to R (Western Style). Two short novels, including the title story and Black Fairy Tale, plus a bonus short story. Summer is a simple story of a nine-year-old girl who dies while on summer vacation. While her youthful killers try to hide the her body, she tells us the story—from the POV of her dead body—of the boys' attempt to get away murder. Black Fairy Tale is classic J-hor...(展开全部)