Asian Books That Should Be More Known to Western Audiences?

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Are there any Asian language books that you think should be more well known to Western audiences? Maybe a particular life and death series from the 1950s, a biography book, or game commentary collection?

For example, Time & Wind - Hashimoto Utaro Life and Death Masterpiece Selection Vols. 1-3 (風と刻―橋本宇太郎詰碁名作選〈上中下〉) (1993-94)

[oren]

I would say all the classics. John Fairbairn did a nice job of bringing "Gateway to all Marvels" to Kindle but there is still Gokyo Shumyo, Guanzi Pu, Igo Hatsuyoron, and others.

[karaklis]

I don't have it, but I'd say the Segoe Tesuji Dictionary.

[tchan001]

hmmm, maybe this link might lead to some good ones?

http://www.gobooks.info/jasiek/

[RobertJasiek]

maybe this link might lead to some good ones?
http://www.gobooks.info/jasiek/

Since undoubtably you have all those books, what is your opinion?:)

Apart from the classical and neo-classical problem collections, the link leads also to a good pecentage of the exceptions among Asian books worth reading. However, they are mostly teaching by examples only and those that are not real dictionaries or problem books have little or relatively little topical contents. So part of them qualifies for "should be known more", but "good" would be an exaggeration or requires specification of the described aspect.

[tchan001]

RJ, undoubtedly your reviews are an excellent public source of information for Asian books which are not well known to the Western audience. I unfortunately do not read Korean nor do I own all those books. Of the ones I do have, yes they are mainly for learning by examples because I can't read the text. But with the help of your reviews, I can at least figure out what each collection is about so I can study a specific topic and have some food for thought. Unfortunately not everyone is as capable as yourself in learning go via an intensive study of structured go theory. For example, young kids may be better suited to learn by examples rather than theory. I must also add that I doubt a kyu player such as myself could provide dan players with much useful insights as to how these books could be helpful in their study of the game.