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.

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.

A collection of ten short stories which have for guiding the evocation of a magician installed in the heart of the Taipei market. The narrator, a young child, searches for all those who may have had contact with this character to collect their testimony. Good book award 2012.

160 micro-fictions of less than a page in which humor and poetry, real and imaginary intermingle. The Taiwanese writer offers a succession of stories and dramas drawn from his readings, his intimate experiences, his observation of things and people but also from the Chinese tradition linked in particular to the martial arts.

A history teacher and a young intellectual lead a quiet but dreary existence, drowning in their solitude despite the presence, real or fantasized, of those around them. They do not know that each is imagining the life of the other. This is the author's first novel.