Travels II in China and Japan

Summary information

Kazantzakis' impressions from his journey to China and Japan in 1935. Appeared in an early form in the Acropolis newspaper (9.6-19.10.1935). Editions from 1958 onwards include an epilogue by Eleni Kazantzakis on the last journey to Japan and China in 1957.

Greek editions

• Taxidevontas II. Iaponia - Kina [Travels II. Japan & China], Athens: Pyrsos 1938
• Taxidevontas II. Iaponia - Kina, Athens: Aetos 1942
• Taxidevontas II. Iaponia - Kina, edited by E. C. Kasdaglis, Athens: Difros 1956
• Taxidevontas II. Iaponia - Kina, edited by E. C. Kasdaglis, Athens: Difros 1958
• Taxidevontas II. Iaponia - Kina, Athens: (publisher unknown) 1962
• Taxidevontas II. Iaponia - Kina, Athens: Eleni Kazantzakis 1964 (and subsequent editions)

Foreign editions & translations

• Niko Kazantzakis, Et ustadigt hjerte, translated into Danish by Ole Wahl Olsen, Copenhagen: Steen Hasselbahs 1960 [anthologised excerpts]
• Nikos Kazantzakis. Japan, China. With an epilogue by Helen N. Kazantzakis, translated into English by George C. Pappageotes, New York: Simon and Schuster 1963. Oxford: Cassirer 1964. Berkeley: Creative Arts Book Co. 1982
• N. Kazantzakis, Travels in China and Japan. With an epilogue by Helen N. Kazantzakis, translated into English by George C. Pappageotes, Oxford: Cassirer 1964
• Nikos Kazantzakis, Voyages Chine-Japon, translated into French by Liliane Princet - Nikos Athanassiou, Paris: Plon 1971, 1980