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Exploring North Korean Arts

Published on the occasion of the eponymous international symposium at the MAK Vienna, 3-4 September 2010 in the context of the MAK exhibition Flowers for Kim Il Sung, May 19-September 19, 2010.

The Tibetan Book of the Dead: The Great Liberation by Hearing in the Intermediate States

Contains a translation of the key Buddhist text that follows a Buddhist priest and student as they guide a deceased person into afterlife, chronicling the progress of the soul through death and rebirth in three stages.

Refracted Visions: Popular Photography and National Modernity in Java

In the 1950s, young women posed in a convertible roaring through a tropical landscape. A university student dodges police batons to snap a picture at a political demonstration in 1998. This title argues that the photographic practices such as these…

The Kitchen God's Wife

Winnie and Helen have kept each other's worst secrets for more than fifty years. Now, because she believes she is dying, Helen wants to expose everything. And Winnie angrily determines that she must be the one to tell her daughter, Pearl, about the…

Read Chinese

Book II and Book III. Intermediate-level textbook containing reading selections from plays, short stories, diaries, speeches, essays and travelogues, with English/chinese vocabulary. Comes with pamphlet "One Thousand Basic Chinese Characters…

[Title in Khmer]

Information about kites in Cambodia. In Khmer

[Title in Japanese]

Biography of the artist Tomihiro Hoshina, an artist who although is paralyzed from the neck down, paints with his mouth.