What are good Japanes or chiense books. All advice?

Question

I already have memioers of a giehia , sorry if I spelt it wrong , but any other great books , and books about princesses. Thanks.

Answer 1

It's hard to top "Memoirs of a Geisha". "The Girl Who Played Go" by Shan Sa is a good but depressing but. The ending is rather unsatisfying though. Amy Tan's "Joy Luck Club" is great. I like all her books I've read so far. "Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China" by Jung Chang is a biography of her, her mother and her grandmother living through a tumultuos period of Chinese history. Laura John Rowland has written some good samurai mysteries. Sorry I can't help you with princesses.

Good luck and good reading.

Answer 2

Have you read "The Good Earth"? It is fantastic. No pricesses, but this will definitely keep you hooked. I wasn't a fan of much of Buck's other writings excepts for "The Living Reed" (which was about Koreans). The rest of the series following "The Good Earth" got progressively more disappointing.

For another great Japanese novel, try "Shogun". There's an old movie version too, but I haven't seen it. It is long, but very interesting to learn the history.

Answer 3

'the recent Penguin Atlas of Medieval historic past' - will show you how to get a typical grounding of the foremost gamers in terms of land administration. 'a distant reflect' - Barbara Tuchman 'A historic past of the Crusades' (3 vols) - S. Runciman 'a international Lit in simple terms with the aid of hearth' - W. Manchester. 'The 365 days one thousand' - R. Lacey 'Cathedral,Forge and Waterwheel:technologies and Invention interior the middle a protracted time' - F. Gies 'The Wars of the Roses' - Alison Weir 'Upity women human beings of Medieval situations' - V. Leon 'Terry Jones' Medieval Lives' - Terry Jones 'The Canterbury memories' - G. Chaucer 'The Decameron' - G. Boccaccio 'The Divine Comedy' - A. Dante 'The Alexiad' - Anna Comnena 'The Cambridge Illustrated historic past of the middle a protracted time' (3 vols) - R. Fossier 'The Oxford Illustrated historic past of the Vikings' - P. Sawyer 'The artwork of war interior the middle a protracted time' at the same time as stable,the Oxford Histories have a tendency to be aimed in direction of tutorial pupils,so could be somewhat dry/heavy getting into case you at the instant are not that way vulnerable.

Answer 4

The Good Women of China by Xinran
Balzac and the little chinese seamstress. Not sure of the author

Answer 5

"The Tale of Genji" is Japanese and is considered to be the world's first novel. It is about court life in Japan during the 11th c. and is by Murasaki Shikibu.