South Korea, April 16, 2014, the  Sewol sinks off the southwest coast. 304 people died in this shipwreck, most of them teenagers on a school trip.

The author, advisor at the Korean Cultural Center in Paris, offers a guide to discover and understand Korean customs. He underlines the subtleties of their personality and the risks of misunderstanding during meetings with French people. Many examples and anecdotes illustrate his words.

At the request of the Russian Turkish consul, a Kurdish Sunni mullah describes the main aspects of social organization and Kurdish traditions: the structure of the family and villages, the place of women, the rules of conduct, the celebrations and ceremonies, religion and beliefs.

General introduction to Indian languages and literatures and presentation of each of them: Bengali, Hindi, Kannada, Malayalam, Marathi, Urdu, Punjabi, Tamil and Telugu. Each language corresponds to a choice of authors whose extracts of texts are proposed as well as a bibliography of books published in French translation. The work ends with a panorama of theater in India.

Arborescences is the first work in the new “Abécédaire de l’imaginaire” collection. It includes three short stories: “Le nid” by Chi Hui (translated from Chinese), “Une fluctuation dans le vide” by Aiki Mira (translated from German) and “Marginalia” by luvan, as well as illustrations by art students from the Haute école des arts du Rhin. This work, the first in the collection, has the thematic title Arborescences. The works that follow will have thematic titles taken from the letters of the alphabet.

This study devoted to the Mämiminbin epic is part of a cycle of investigations among the Palawan, blowpipe hunter-hunter, who live in the mountains of an island in the Philippine archipelago. Text of the song followed by an interpretative analysis of the epic. With photos and documents relating to music.

A medical student, Marie Laurane, was recruited by Doctor Kern to watch over the living head, separated from its trunk, from Professor Dowell ... A novel about the relationship of mind to body published in 1926.

A researcher based in Taiwan is faced with the discovery of a funeral tablet in an abandoned house. His life and conscience are turned upside down: the spirits and ghosts of Taiwan and China visit him, surround him and testify of their history.

In T-city futuristic underwater city, Momo is a young beautician suffering from a serious illness, who lives by proxy by applying to her patients an M-Skin, a membrane that protects the skin against external aggressions, and transmits their carnal experiences to the young woman without their knowledge. In this artificial world, identities and sexes are transformed and reinvented ...

Collection of short stories from major authors of the contemporary Taiwanese scene offering a portrait of the city of Taipei, its architecture, its colors, its flavors and its scents.