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なぜハン・ガンは、アジア人女性として初めて、ノーベル文学賞を受賞したのか？大きな話題を呼んだ原著に、この2年、激動する韓国文学の重要作の解説を加筆、40頁増の新版登場！ 韓国文学は、なぜこんなにも面白く、パワフルで魅力的なのか。

2024年1月、中国と日本・アメリカを巻き込むアジア最大のイベント「台湾総統選挙」。筆者は前哨戦となった2022年の台湾統一地方選挙をはじめ、李登輝、陳水扁時代にさかのぼる「民主化の奇跡」の足跡と現在をルポ。

・私たちの先人は朝鮮半島で何をしたのか？・朝鮮にかかわったのが大失敗だった！・残酷すぎる日韓関係の真実、併合時代にすべての問題の原因がある

2025年にGDPが日本を超えることが確実視されているインドと、経済力に翳りが見えてきたと囁かれている中国。
人口の多さに共通点がある両国だが、日本にとってインドは中国の「代わり」になるのか――

・IT大国の背景に

中国共産党に忠実で、清く正しい人々。ゴミ一つ落ちておらず、スリもいない完璧な町。だが、この地のウイグル人たちをよく観察してみると、何かがおかしい。若い男性は相対的に少なく、老人たちに笑顔が見られない。観光客に接する女性たちの表情は妙に硬い。

習近平“赤い王朝”は崩壊する運命にある！?「歴史上、王朝を滅亡に導いた皇帝たちの行状の一つひとつを丹念に見ていくうちに、大変面白いことに気がついた。“亡国の君”たちが持つ人間性や性格上の欠陥、愚昧(ぐまい)さと狂気さ……それらのもののすべてが、習近平その人に集約されていたのだ」暴君・愚君・狂君・蕩君・暗君・無徳・無能……中国王朝が滅ぶ法則はこれだ！

累計70万部突破著者が、華やかなエンタメの裏にある「本当の韓国」を、最新ニュースとともに鋭利に分析！

China's leader, Xi Jinping, is one of the most powerful individuals in the world—and one of the least understood. Much can be learned, however, about both Xi Jinping and the nature of the party he leads from the memory and legacy of his father, the revolutionary Xi Zhongxun (1913–2002).

The magnificent follow-up to Wild Swans, the multimillion copy, internationally bestselling sensation that traces the history of modern China through the true stories of three generations of courageous women in one family. “AT THE AGE OF FIFTEEN MY GRANDMOTHER became the concubine of a warlord...

台湾統一（併合）か現状維持か――。中台関係の緊張が続き、軍事衝突への危機感が高まっている。ひとたび「有事」となれば、日本経済は壊滅的な打撃を受けるだろう。ビジネスパーソンにも「台湾リスク」の全容を知ってほしい。

アジアや東欧の民主化の先駆けとなったピープルパワー革命から約40年．国を追われた独裁者の息子が大統領となり，父の戒厳令下での人権侵害や蓄財の記憶が消されようとしている．

China and Japan have cultural and political connections that stretch back 1,500 years. But today, their relationship is strained. China's military buildup deeply worries Japan, while Japan's brutal occupation of China in World War II remains an open wound. In recent years, less than 10 percent of each population had positive feelings toward the other, and both countries insist that the other side must deal openly with its history before relations can improve. Ezra Vogel's China and Japan examines key turning points in Sino-Japanese history.

A “gripping and scrupulously reported” (The Washington Post) investigation into the battle over identity in China, chronicling the state oppression of those who fail to conform to Xi Jinping’s definition of who is “Chinese,” from an award-winning NPR correspondent. “Emily Feng’s...

Spies and Lies a groundbreaking expose of elite influence operations by China's little-known Ministry of State Security. Revealing for the first time how the Chinese Communist Party has tasked its spies to deceive the world, it challenges the conventional account of China's past, present, and future.

The Sino-American contest is driven by clashing geopolitical interests and a stark ideological dispute over whether authoritarianism or democracy will dominate the twenty-first century. But both history and China's current trajectory suggest that this rivalry will reach its moment of maximum danger in the 2020s. The Chinese challenge will most likely prove more manageable than many pessimists currently believe—but during the 2020s, the pace of Sino-American conflict will accelerate, and the prospect of war will be frighteningly real.

Shinzo Abe entered politics burdened by high expectations: that he would change Japan. In 2007, seemingly overwhelmed, he resigned after only a year as prime minister. Yet, following five years of reinvention, he masterfully regained the premiership in 2012, and now dominates Japanese democracy as no leader has done before. Abe has inspired fierce loyalty among his followers, cowing Japan's left with his ambitious economic program and support for the security and armed forces. 

This program is read by the author. Taiwan expert Kerry Brown sums up the history of Taiwan and the danger of a Chinese takeover in this succinct and authoritative book. When the bloody Chinese Civil War concluded in 1949, two Chinas were born. Mao’s Communists won and took China’s mainland...

Once described by Mao Zedong as a "needle inside a ball of cotton", Deng was the pragmatic yet disciplined driving force behind China's radical transformation in the late 20th century. He confronted the damage wrought by the Cultural Revolution, dissolved Mao's cult of personality, and loosened the policies that had stunted China's growth. Obsessed with modernization, Deng opened trade relations with the West, which lifted hundreds of millions out of poverty. Yet he also answered to his authoritarian roots, most notably when he ordered the crackdown in 1989 at Tiananmen Square.

More than twenty years after teaching English to China's first boom generation at a small college in Sichuan Province, Peter Hessler returned to teach the next generation. At the same time, Hessler's twin daughters became the only Westerners in a student body of about two thousand in their local...

東南アジアの地で西欧列強の波に抗い、700年にわたり独自の独立と秩序を守り抜いた王権と仏教の壮大な歴史ドラマがここにあります。朝の通勤電車の中や静かな夜の知的探求の時間に、単なる観光地という表層を越えた...