Reading List: subject to change at any time.
Like the subject says. I'll add and remove books with impunity as my interests change. This is sort of an archival post for personal reference, so if you're not interested in a long list of book titles, feel free to pass over it.
Key:
+ for books
- for articles, selections, short stories, comics (anything not a book. ^^)
Japan
+ Hirohito and the Making of Modern Japan
+ Above the Clouds: Status Culture of the Modern Japanese Nobility
+ Geisha
+ Kimono
+ On the Art of the Noh Drama
+ The World of the Shining Prince (2nd half)
+ Sugawara no Michizane and the Early Heian Court
- The Imperial House of Japan: chapter one
- The Aesthetics of Power: Politics in The Tale of Genji
- The Search for Things Past in the Genji Monogatari
- Spirit Possession in the Context of Dramatic Expressions of Gender Conflict . . .
- The Shogun's Consort: Konoe Hiroko ...
- Japanese Marriage Institutions in the Heian Period
China
+ The Art of War
+ 1587: A Year of No Significance
+ The Confusions of Pleasure: Commerce and Culture in Ming China
+ Passions of the Cut Sleeve (2nd half)
+ The Inner Quarters (finish)
+ The Cloudy Mirror
- Life and Immortality in the Mind of Han China
- . . . Ghosts in Traditional Chinese Prose Fiction
- Two Chapters in the Life of an Empress of the Later Han
- An Outline of the Central Government of the Former Han Dynasty
Egypt
+ Religion and Magic in Ancient Egypt
+ Akhenaten: King of Egypt
+ Life in Ancient Egypt
Judaism, Apocalypse, Mysticism, etc.
- The Assumption of Moses and the Revolt of Bar Kokba
- From Divine Shape to Angelic Being: The Career of Akatriel
+ Talmudic Stories
+ Jewish Mysticism: Antiquity
+ The Book of Formation
+ On the Kabbalah and its Symbolism
+ Josephus: The Jewish War
+ The Flying Camel (finish)
- Book of Tobit/Tobias
- New Testament and Hekhalot Literature . . .
- The Scroll of the War of the Sons of Light: chapter nine
- Three Sephardic Folktales from Salonika, Greece
- Saints and Piecemeal Supernaturalism ... Sephardim
- Josephus's Portrayal of the Disappearances...
- Judeo-Christian Polemics in the Zohar
Myths, Legends, etc. (a never-ending quest)
+ Egyptian Legends and Stories
+ Myths and Legends of China
+ Chinese Mythology
+ Chinese Fairytales and Fantasies
+ The Discontented Dervishes
+ Japanese Tales
+ A Collection of Tales From Uji
+ Celtic Myths and Legends
+ Norse Stories
+ The Norse Myths
+ Gabriel's Palace
+ The Shahnameh
Other
+ The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
+ A History of the Byzantine State and Society
+ A Middle East Mosaic
+ The Black Death
- Procopius: The Anecdota or Secret History (selection?)
- The Making of Orthodox Byzantium: 600-1025 (selection)
+ The Golden Dawn
+ San Francisco: Presidio, Port, and Pacific Metropolis
Fiction
- Preacher (comic, 3-10)
- The Plot (comic, Eisner)
+ Tigana
+ A Song of Ice and Fire (series)
+ A Wizard of Earthsea
+ The Tombs of Atuan
+ The Farthest Shore
+ The Snow Fox
+ Peony
+ Twelve Kingdoms: Sea of Shadow
+ Masks
+ Web of Angels
+ Nine Princes in Amber
+ Dante's Equation
+ The Crimson Petal and the White
+ The Name of the Rose
+ The Constant Princess
+ Wraeththu
+ Perdido Street Station
+ The Unfinished Tales
+ Banewreaker
+ Godslayer
+ The Children of Hurin
+ Dragons of the Dwarven Depths
+ Dragons of the Highlord Skies
+ Kitchen
+ Twelve Kingdoms: Sea of Wind
+ The DaVinci Code
+ Partners in Crime
Japanese Fiction
+ 彩雲国：隣の百合は白
+ 十二国記：華胥の幽夢
+ 陰陽の京
+ 銃姫
12.20.06: replaced/removed a few books, added list of articles.
12.27.06: added more articles.
01.13.07: added more fiction titles.
04.19.07: added stuff.
04.26.07: rearranged stuff and added a key.
05.10.07: added stuff, both finished and unread.
04.06.08: as usual.
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