But one day, a brave young man sends a kite across the tall mountain, with a special message for whoever lives on the other side. With this sweet story, little ones will learn how a bit of magic can overcome even the tallest obstacles. — Hardcover ISBN: 9781649961730 // eBook ISBN: ...
I now represent books from China, Taiwan, Korea, Japan, Australia, Italy, France and Scandinavia, with a special focus on the Asian territories. You run a rights agency, and offer international services. What does this involve? Could you give an example of the journey of a book, showing...
Ariyoshi Sawako was a Japanese novelist, short-story writer, and playwright who reached a popular audience with serialized novels of social realism that chronicled domestic life in Japan. Ariyoshi studied literature and theatre at the Tokyo Women’s Chri
Fu Yunlong was one of the pioneers who hunted the Chinese ancient books from the oveseas. He saw many rare books when he travelled in Japan. He did textual research on the part of the ancient books, and even published some. All the ancinet books he had saw in Japan were written in ...
There has been quite a long history of translating Chinese books into Japanese in Japan, and it has reached its peak in modern times. A great number of Chinese works on the world history and Opium War were brought to Japan and very quickly reprinted, translated and widely distributed. This ...
Hosokawa, who nows heads Eisei Bunko, a Tokyo-based private archive and museum, was in Beijing for the 40th anniversary of the signing of the Treaty of Peace and Friendship between China and Japan on Tuesday, when he also donated 4,175 copies of ancient bo...
“The Happy Little Yellow Box” was first introduced ina pop-up book of oppositesby that name in 2012. For the Books On Books Collection, the box’s return in this pop-up alphabet makes it the one to add to all the other abecedarieshere. The box is also a happy reminder of the ite...
He focuses on a "heyday of Egyptology" bookmarked by two epoch-making events: the decipherment of hieroglyphics, thanks to the Rosetta Stone, in 1822 and the discovery of Tutankhamun's tomb a century later. Our interview with Toby on Ancient Egypt is one of our most-read interviews on ...
Japan Library Jarrolds Jaso Jatiya Grantha Prakashan Jawaharlal Nehru Memorial Fund Jayaprints Jayasree Prakashan Jaypee Publications Jbd Book Distributor Jeevan Arts Jeevan Urja Utthan Kendra Jeremy P. Tarcher Putnam Jessica Kingsley Publishers Jessica Kingsley Publushers Jindal Art Foundation Jnanada ...
Strange as it sounds to the Western ear, writing came before the alphabet. And like the alphabet, that ancient writing has inspired artists’ books. Two of them in the Books On Books collection are Helen Malone’sAlphabetic Codes(2005) and Cari Ferraro’sThe First Writing(2004). ...