No Longer Human Condition:Like New and thought-provoking introduction to both

and thought-provoking introduction to both

when the first wave of Chinese immigrants arrived in Los Angeles in the wake of the 1849 California gold rush

Lauded by authorities

market values have crowded out nonmarket norms in almost every aspect of life—medicine

With his usual wit

No Longer Human Condition:Like New and thought-provoking introduction to bothOsamu Dazai's No Longer Human, this leading postwar Japanese writer's second novel, tells the poignant and fascinating story of a young man who is caught between the breakup of the traditions of a northern Japanese aristocratic family and the impact of Western ideas. In consequence, he feels himself "disqualified from being human" (a literal translation of the Japanese title). Donald Keene, who translated this and Dazai's first novel, The Setting Sun,