Prologue: Orientlism as a literary tradition -- Part one -- Emerson -- Thoreau -- Whitman -- Part two -- Yankee pilgrims in Japan -- Fenollosa -- Hearn -- Part three -- Babbitt -- O'Neill -- Eliot -- Pound -- Epilogue The beat generation: Salinger, Kerouac, and Snyder.

In the pond : a novel / Ha Jin.

A factory worker in China revenges himself on party bosses when they pass him up for promotion because he won't kow-tow to them. The worker, Shao Bin, creates a political cartoon in a provincial newspaper and it becomes an instant success. A satire on China by the author of Ocean of Words.