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Kawashima has been depicted in numerous movies from 1932 until the present day by many actresses. She was also featured in the movie The Last Emperor, where she appeared as "Eastern Jewel", played by Maggie Han.
Anita Mui played Kawashima Yoshiko in a 1990 Hong Kong-produced film, The Last Princess of Manchuria.
She is a prominent character in the 2007 drama Ri Kouran, which tells the story of the life of Yoshiko Yamaguchi, also known as Li Xianglan (李香蘭). She was portrayed by Japanese idol Rei Kikukawa.
An eight-year-old Kawashima Yoshiko makes a cameo appearance in the PlayStation 2 game Shadow Hearts: Covenant, as Yoshiko Kawashima. A character in the previous game was also named Yoshiko Kawashima, though she was another person altogether and, in the second game, was portrayed as the namesake for the historical figure.
The Private Papers of Eastern Jewel, by Maureen Lindley, is a 2008 novel about the life of Yoshiko Kawashima (a.k.a. “Eastern Jewel”).
Meisa Kuroki portrays Kawashima in the 2008 Japanese drama "Dansō no Reijin ~Kawashima Yoshiko no Shōgai~".
Kawashima was featured as a character in Ian Buruma's novel The China Lover, released in 2008.
More scholarly and peer-reviewed research exists on Kawashima Yoshiko in English in Dan Shao's "Princess, Traitor, Soldier, Spy: Aisin Gioro Xianyu and the Dilemma of Manchu Idnentity" in Mariko Asano Tamanoi, ed. ''Crossed Histories: Manchuria in the Age of Empire. Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press, 2005.
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