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• Asia, Central -- Social life and customs
• Asia -- Social life and customs -- Fiction
• Asia, Central -- Fiction
• Social life and customs -- Fiction

• The Adventures of a Special Correspondent Among the Various Races and Countries of Central Asia: Being the Exploits and Experiences of Claudius Bombarnac of "The Twentieth Century" (Akron, OH: MacLellan-N-Y-Company, n.d.), by Jules Verne (Gutenberg text)
• The Special Correspondent: or, The Adventures of Claudius Bombarnac (New York: Lovell, Coryell and Co., c1894), by Jules Verne
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

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• Starina i byt Sredneĭ Azīi (Izd. T-va "Obrazovanīe", 1917), by Milīĭ Dostoevskīĭ (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Ocherki i kartiny vostochnykh nravov (Tip. T-va "Obshchestvennai︠a︡ polʹza", 1877), by Ármin Vámbéry (page images at HathiTrust)

• Stories of the East (Richmond, UK: L. and V. Woolf at the Hogarth Press, 1921), by Leonard Woolf, illust. by Dora de Houghton Carrington
  • Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only
• Tales of The East: Comprising The Most Popular Romances of Oriental Origin, and The Best Imitations By European Authors; With New Translations, and Additioal Tales, Never Before Published (3 volumes; Edinburgh: J. Ballantyne and Co., 1812), ed. by Henry Weber (page images at HathiTrust)

• Chinese Tales: or, The Wonderful Adventures of the Mandarin Fum-Hoam, Related by Himself to Divert the Sultana, Upon the Celebration of Her Nuptials (second edition, with some added thoughts on transmigration; London: Printed for J. Osborn, 1740), by Thomas-Simon Gueullette, trans. by Thomas Stackhouse, contrib. by Joseph Addison (page images at HathiTrust)
• Strange Stories From a Chinese Studio (2 volumes; London: T. De la Rue and Co., 1880), by Songling Pu, ed. by Herbert Allen Giles
  • Volume I: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume II: multiple formats at archive.org
  • both volumes: Gutenberg text
• Strange Stories From the Lodge of Leisures (Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Co., 1913), by Songling Pu, trans. by G. Soulié de Morant
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • Gutenberg text
• Selected Stories of Lu Hsun, by Lu Xun, trans. by Yang Xianyi and Gladys Yang (illustrated HTML at ibiblio.org)
• China in legend and story (F. H. Revell, 1907), by C. Campbell Brown (page images at HathiTrust)
• Nine stories of China. (Lea and Blanchard, 1842), by T. H. Sealy, John Leech, and Lea & Blanchard (page images at HathiTrust)
• Choh Lin, the Chinese boy who became a preacher (Presbyterian Board of Publication, 1884), by John A. Davis (page images at HathiTrust)
• Eastern shame girl. : [Stories] (Priv. Print, 1929), by G. Soulié de Morant (page images at HathiTrust)
• Chinese playmates (L.C. Page, 1911), by Norman Hinsdale Pitman and Faxiang Sun (page images at HathiTrust)
• 聊齋志異 (in Chinese), by Songling Pu (Gutenberg ebook)
• Eastern Shame Girl, trans. by G. Soulié de Morant (Gutenberg ebook)

• The Pool in the Desert, by Sara Jeannette Duncan (Gutenberg text)
• Love and Life Behind the Purdah (London: Freemantle and Co., 1901), by Cornelia Sorabji, contrib. by Harriot Georgina Blackwood Dufferin and Ava and Baron Arthur Hobhouse (illustrated HTML at Celebration of Women Writers)
• Broken Ties and Other Stories (c1925), by Rabindranath Tagore (text at Gutenberg Australia)
• Desmond's Daughter (Edinburgh and London: W. Blackwood and Sons, 1916), by Maud Diver (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Siddhartha: An Indian Tale, by Hermann Hesse, trans. by Gunther Olesch, Anke Dreher, Amy Coulter, Stefan Langer, and Semyon Chaichenets (Gutenberg text)
• Hindupore : a peep behind the Indian unrest : an Anglo-Indian romance (Luzac, 1909), by Siddha Mohana Mitra (page images at HathiTrust)
• The East India sketch-book: comprising an account of the present state of society in Calcutta, Bombay, & c. (Richard Bentley, 1832) (page images at HathiTrust)
• The revolt of Sundaramma (Fleming H. Revell company, 1911), by Maude Elmore, Helen Barrett Montgomery, and Gertrude H. B. Hooker (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Story of the Gadsbys. (Doubleday, Page, for Review of Reviews, 1913), by Rudyard Kipling (page images at HathiTrust)
• Indian tales. (U. S. Book Co., 1890), by Rudyard Kipling and United States Book Company (page images at HathiTrust)
• "East of Suez" : sketches of India and Ceylon (Publications Department, National Board, Young Womens Christian Associations, 1918), by Helen M. A. Taylor and Young Women's Christian Association of the U.S.A. National Board (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Great Indian Epics : The Stories of the Ramayana and the Mahabharata, contrib. by John Campbell Oman and Vālmīki (Gutenberg ebook)
• The Woman in the Bazaar, by Alice Perrin, illust. by J. Dewar Mills (Gutenberg ebook)
• Ahnaat paadet ynnä muita kertomuksia (in Finnish), by Rabindranath Tagore, trans. by J. A. Hollo (Gutenberg ebook)
• Siddhartha: A Poem of India, by Hermann Hesse, trans. by David Wyllie (Gutenberg ebook)
• In Kali's Country: Tales from Sunny India, by Emily Churchill Thompson Sheets, illust. by Elma McNeal Childs (Gutenberg ebook)
• Mashi, and Other Stories, by Rabindranath Tagore (Gutenberg ebook)
• Stories from Tagore, by Rabindranath Tagore (Gutenberg ebook)
• The Poison Tree: A Tale of Hindu Life in Bengal, by Baṅkimacandra Caṭṭopādhyāẏa, trans. by Miriam S. Knight (Gutenberg ebook)

• The Bustan of Sadi (London: John Murray, 1911), by Sa'di, trans. by A. Hart Edwards (HTML with commentary at sacred-texts.com)
• The Gulistan, by Sa'di (HTML at Internet Classics)
• The Gulistan, by Sa'di, trans. by James Ross (HTML at Fordham)
• The Gulistan of Sa'di, by Sa'di, trans. by Edward Rehatsek (HTML at Wayback Machine)

• Kottō: Being Japanese Curios, With Sundry Cobwebs (New York and London: Macmillan, 1910), by Lafcadio Hearn, illust. by Genjiro Yeto
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only
• The Cannery Boat, by Takiji Kobayashi, and Other Japanese Short Stories (New York: International Publishers, c1933), contrib. by Takiji Kobayashi, Seikichi Fujimori, Takiji Kobayashi, Denji Kuroshima, Sanji Kishi, Teppei Kataoka, Naoshi Tokunaga, and Fusao Hayashi (page images at HathiTrust)
• Kwaidan: Stories and Studies of Strange Things, by Lafcadio Hearn (Gutenberg text)
• Mosume sets yo : or woman's sacrifice (privately printed, 1905), by Kentarō Kaneko (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Hana : a daughter of Japan (Hochi Shimbun, 1904), by Gensai Murai, Kwason Suzuki, and Unkici Kawai (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The Honorable Miss Moonlight, by Onoto Watanna (Gutenberg ebook)
• Kotto: Being Japanese Curios, with Sundry Cobwebs, by Lafcadio Hearn, illust. by Genjiro Yeto (Gutenberg ebook)

• Nínay (Costumbres Filipinas) (in Spanish: Madrid: Impr. de Fortanet, 1885), by Pedro Alejandro Paterno (page images at HathiTrust)
• In the early days : Philippine sketches (Broadway Publishing Company, 1914), by Charles Elliott Currier and Broadway Publishing Co (page images at HathiTrust)
• Anting-Anting Stories, and Other Strange Tales of the Filipinos, by Sargent Kayme (Gutenberg ebook)

• "East of Suez" : sketches of India and Ceylon (Publications Department, National Board, Young Womens Christian Associations, 1918), by Helen M. A. Taylor and Young Women's Christian Association of the U.S.A. National Board (page images at HathiTrust)

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