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  • Asian Diaspora Poetry in North America

    by Benzi Zhang ...
    Series series Literary Criticism and Cultural Theory
    Presenting a new way of reading that helps us discern some previously unnoticed or unnoticeable features of Asian diaspora poetry, this volume highlights how poetry plays a significant role in mediating and defining cross-cultural and transnational positions.Asian diaspora poetry in North America is a rich body of poetic works that not only provide valuable material for us to understand the lives ... Read more

    $100.99 CAD

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  • The Tales of the Heike

    by Burton Watson, Haruo Shirane ...
    Translated by Burton Watson ...
    Series series Translations from the Asian Classics
    The Tales of the Heike is one of the most influential works in Japanese literature and culture, remaining even today a crucial source for fiction, drama, and popular media. Originally written in the mid-thirteenth century, it features a cast of vivid characters and chronicles the epic Genpei war, a civil conflict that marked the end of the power of the Heike and changed the course of Japanese ... Read more

    $30.99 CAD

  • Like a Yeti Catching Marmots

    A Little Treasury of Tibetan Proverbs

    by Pema Tsewang Shastri ...
    The Yeti, or Dremo in Tibetan, is a dim-witted mythical beast said to feed only on marmots. It sees a marmot, grabs the hapless creature, and then sits on it, saving the delicious morsel for later. And then the Yeti sees another marmot and leaps up to snatch it while the first marmot makes a quick break for freedom. An image of bumbling, foolish effort.This enchanting little book contains 108 ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD

  • Romancing the East

    A Literary Odyssey from the Heart of Darkness to the River Kwai

    by Jerry Hopkins ...
    Profiling individual, legendary authors, best-selling author Jerry Hopkins combines his research and his own experiences as a longtime expatriate with an intimate knowledge of Asia and offers us a unique perspective on the impact of Eastern culture in Western literature.From the time of Marco Polo's trek across the Central Asian desert to the empire of the mighty Kahn, no other place on earth, not ... Read more

    $9.99 CAD

  • River of Fire and Other Stories

    Translated by Ju-Chan Fulton, Bruce Fulton ...
    by Chŏnghŭi O ...
    Series series Weatherhead Books on Asia
    O Chonghui crafts historically-rooted yet timeless tales imagining core human experiences from a female point of view. Since her debut in 1968, she has formed a powerful challenge to the patriarchal literary establishment in Korea, and her work has invited rich comparisons with the achievements of Joyce Carol Oates, Alice Munro, and Virginia Woolf.These nine stories range from O Chonghui's first ... Read more

    $23.99 CAD

  • Long Narrative Songs from the Mongghul of Northeast Tibet

    Texts in Mongghul, Chinese, and English

    by Dechun Li, Gerald Roche ...
    Series Book 8 - World Oral Literature Series
    Containing ballads of martial heroism, tales of tragic lovers and visions of the nature of the world, Long Narrative Songs from the Mongghul of Northeast Tibet: Texts in Mongghul, Chinese, and English is a rich repository of songs collected amongst the Mongghul of the Seven Valleys, on the northeast Tibetan Plateau in western China. These songs represent the apogee of Mongghul oral literature, and ... Read more

    $4.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Literature of Pre-Islamic Iran

    Companion Volume I

    Edited by Ronald E. Emmerick, Maria Macuch ...
    Series series History of Persian Literature
    Persian literature is the jewel in the crown of Persian culture. It has profoundly influenced the literatures of Ottoman Turkey, Muslim India and Turkic Central Asia and been a source of inspiration for Goethe, Emerson, Matthew Arnold and Jorge Luis Borges among others. Yet Persian literature has never received the attention it truly deserves."A History of Persian Literature" answers this need and ... Read more

    $138.19 CAD

  • Once Iron Girls

    Essays on Gender by Post-Mao Chinese Literary Women

    Edited by Hui Wu ...
    Available in English for the first time, Once Iron Girls: Essays on Gender by Post-Mao Chinese Literary Women brings together twenty-five essays by seven critically acclaimed writers, whose fiction and poetry have become classics in modern Chinese literature. Poetic, metaphoric, and sometimes playful and satiric, the essays discuss the material reality wherein Chinese women live and function. ... Read more

    $62.99 CAD

  • The Columbia Sourcebook of Literary Taiwan

    Edited by Sung-sheng Yvonne Chang, Michelle Yeh, Ming-ju Fan ...
    This sourcebook contains more than 160 documents and writings that reflect the development of Taiwanese literature from the early modern period to the twenty-first century. Selections include seminal essays in literary debates, polemics, and other landmark events; interviews, diaries, and letters by major authors; critical and retrospective essays by influential writers, editors, and scholars; ... Read more

    $88.99 CAD

  • The Orphan of Zhao and Other Yuan Plays

    The Earliest Known Versions

    Edited by Wilt Idema, Stephen H. West ...
    Series series Translations from the Asian Classics
    This is the first anthology of Yuan-dynasty zaju (miscellaneous comedies) to introduce the genre to English-speaking readers exclusively through translations of the plays' fourteenth-century editions. Almost all previous translations of Yuan-dynasty zaju are based on late-Ming regularized editions that were heavily adapted for performance at the Ming imperial court and then extensively revised in ... Read more

    $78.99 CAD

  • Translating Maternal Violence

    The Discursive Construction of Maternal Filicide in 1970s Japan

    by Alessandro Castellini ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This book provides the first full-length, English-language investigation of the multiple and often contradictory ways in which mothers who kill their children were portrayed in 1970s Japan. It offers a snapshot of a historical and social moment when motherhood was being renegotiated, and maternal violence was disrupting norms of acceptable maternal behaviour. Drawing on a wide range of original ... Read more

    $83.99 CAD

  • Courtesans and Opium

    Romantic Illusions of the Fool of Yangzhou

    by Anonymous ...
    Translated by Patrick Hanan ...
    Series series Weatherhead Books on Asia
    In his preface, the anonymous author of Courtesans and Opium describes his book as an act of penance for thirty years spent patronizing the brothels of Yangzhou. Written in the 1840s, his story is filled with vice and dark consequence, portraying the hazards of the city's seedy underbelly and warning others against the example of the Fool.Chinese literature's first true "city novel," Courtesans ... Read more

    $36.99 CAD