Selected Bibliography
(Mostly) Twentieth Century Oriental Fantasy
China
Bramah, Ernest, The Wallet of Kai Lung (1900)
Kai Lung's Golden Hours (1922)
Kai Lung Unrolls His Mat (1928)
Chin, M. Lucie, The Fairy of Ku-She (1988)
Cooney, Eleanor, Deception: A Novel of Murder and Madness in T'Ang China (1993)
Cooney, Eleanor & Daniel Altieri, The Court of the Lion (1988)
Finney, Charles G., The Magician out of Manchuria (1968)
Hearn, Lafcadio, Some Chinese Ghosts (1887)
Hughart, Barry, Bridge of Birds (1984)
The Story of the Stone (1988)
Eight Skilled Gentlemen (1991)
Larsen, Jeanne, Silk Road (1989)
Bronze Mirror (1991)
Manchu Palaces (1996)
Norton, Andre and Susan Shwartz, Imperial Lady: A Fantasy of Han China (1990)
Russell, Sean, Gatherer of Clouds (1992)
The Initiate Brother (1995)
Salmonson, Jessica Amanda, Ou Lu Khen and the Beautiful Madwoman (1985)
Wingrove, David, Chung Kuo
The Middle Kingdom (1990)
The Broken Wheel (1991)
The White Mountain (1992)
The Stone Within (1993)
Beneath the Tree of Heaven (1996)
White Moon, Red Dragon (1996)
Days of Bitter Strength (1997)
Japan
Dalkey, Kara, The Nightingale (1988)
Hearn, Lafcadio, Kwaidan (1904)
Miller, Sasha, Ladylord (1996)
Salmonson, Jessica Amanda, Tomoe Gozen (1981)
The Golden Naginata (1982)
Thousand Shrine Warrior (1984)
Polynesia
Goldberry, Steven, Maui the Demigod (1984)
Goonan, Kathleen Ann, The Bones of Time (1996)
Severance, Carol, Demon Drums (1992)
Storm Caller (1993)
Sorcerous Sea (1993)
India
Tibet
Cooney, Eleanor & Daniel Altieri, Shangri-la (1996)
Hilton, James, Lost Horizon (1933)
Scarborough, Elizabeth Ann, Nothing Sacred (1991)
Shwartz, Susan, Silk Roads and Shadows (1988)
Arabia
Beckford, William, Vathek (1786)
Crawford, F. Marion, Khaled (ca. 1900)
Lee, Tanith, Tales from the Flat Earth
Night's Master (1978)
Death's Master (1979)
Delusion's Master (1981)
Delirium's Mistress (1986)
Meredith, George, The Shaving of Shagpat (1855)
Australia
Roessner, Michaela, Walkabout Woman (1988)
Wrightson, Patricia, The Ice is Coming (1977)
The Dark Bright Water (1978)
Journey Behind the Wind (1981)
Miscellany
Ball, Margaret, Changeweaver (1993) - imaginary country between China and India
Hambly, Barbara, Bride of the Rat God (1994) - "Forget it, Jake, it's Chinatown."
Norton, Andre and Susan Shwartz, Empire of the Eagle (1993) - Roman and Hindu lore
Rohmer, Sax - 14 novels set in London and the inscrutable but rather vague East
The Insidious Dr. Fu Manchu (1913), followed by:
Drums, Bride, Hand, Mask, Return, Trail, Daughter, Shadow, Island [of Fu Manchu]
Tarr, Judith - ancient Egypt
Throne of Isis (1994)
Pillar of Fire (1995)
King and Goddess (1996)
Yarbro, Chelsea Quinn, Path of the Eclipse (1989) - vampire novel set in China and India
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