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  • Ecology without Culture

    Aesthetics for a Toxic World

    by Christine L. Marran ...
    Cultures have long defined themselves through biological elements to prove their strength and longevity, from cherry blossoms in Japan to amber waves of grain in the United States. In Ecology without Culture, Christine L. Marran introduces the concept of biotropes—material and semiotic figures that exist for human perception—to navigate how and why the material world has proven to be such an ... Read more

    $28.99 CAD

  • Mechademia 6

    User Enhanced

    by Thomas Lamarre, Brian Bergstrom, Christine L. Marran ...
    Manga and anime inspire a wide range of creative activities for fans: blogging and contributing to databases, making elaborate cosplay costumes, producing dôjinshi (amateur) manga and scanlations, and engaging in fansubbing and DIY animation. Indeed, fans can no longer be considered passive consumers of popular culture easily duped by corporations and their industrial-capitalist ideologies. They ... Read more

    $28.99 CAD

  • Ishimure Michiko's Writing in Ecocritical Perspective

    Between Sea and Sky

    by Toyosato Mayumi, Iwaoka Nakamasa, Ikezawa Natsuki, Christine Marran, Livia Monnet, Karen Thornber, Watanabe Kyoji, Patrick D. Murphy ...
    Series series Ecocritical Theory and Practice
    This collection of ecocritical essays is focused on the work of Japan’s foremost writer on environment and culture, Ishimure Michiko. Ishimure is known for her pioneering trilogy that exposed the Minamata Disease incident and the nature of modern industrial pollution. She is also regarded by many critics as Japan’s most original and important literary writer. Ishimure has written over 50 volumes ... Read more

    $136.99 CAD

  • Ecocriticism in Japan

    by Alex Bates, Koichi Haga, Ursula Heise, Daisuke Higuchi, Ronald Loftus, Margherita Long, Christine Marran, Kyoko Matsunaga, Livia Monnet, Marjorie Rhine, Shuji Takazawa, Toshiya Ueno, Caroline Wake, Doug Slaymaker ...
    Series series Ecocritical Theory and Practice
    What can ecocriticism do when engaging with Japanese literature and culture? This edited volume Ecocriticism in Japan attempts to answer this question. The contributors place themselves inside the domestic fields of production of works of art and express their concerns and ideas for the English-speaking spheres of the world. Taking up subjects ranging from the eleventh-century novel The Tale of ... Read more

    $57.99 CAD

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    by Bangqing Han ...
    Translated by Eileen Chang, Eva Hung ...
    Series series Weatherhead Books on Asia
    Desire, virtue, courtesans (also known as sing-song girls), and the denizens of Shanghai's pleasure quarters are just some of the elements that constitute Han Bangqing's extraordinary novel of late imperial China. Han's richly textured, panoramic view of late-nineteenth-century Shanghai follows a range of characters from beautiful sing-song girls to lower-class prostitutes and from men in ... Read more

    $41.99 CAD

  • Wild Kids

    Two Novels About Growing Up

    Translated by Michael Berry ...
    by Ta-chun Chang ...
    Series series Modern Chinese Literature from Taiwan
    These two searingly funny and unsettling portraits of teenagers beyond the control and largely beneath the notice of adults in 1980s Taiwan are the first English translations of works by Taiwan's most famous and best-selling literary cult figure. Chang Ta-chun's intricate narrative and keen, ironic sense of humor poignantly and piercingly convey the disillusionment and cynicism of modern Taiwanese ... Read more

    $29.99 CAD

  • ART/WORK

    Everything You Need to Know (and Do) As You Pursue Your Art Career

    by Heather Darcy Bhandari, Jonathan Melber ...
    The definitive, must-have guide to pursuing an art career—the fully revised and updated edition of Art/Work, now in its fourteenth printing, shares the tools artists of all levels need to make it in this highly competitive field.Originally published in 2009, Art/Work was the first practical guide to address how artists can navigate the crucial business and legal aspects of a fine art career. But ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD

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  • The Old Capital

    A Novel of Taipei

    by T'ien-hsin Chu ...
    Translated by Howard Goldblatt ...
    Series series Modern Chinese Literature from Taiwan
    Chu T'ien-hsin's The Old Capital is a brilliant evocation of Taiwan's literature of nostalgia and remembrance. The novel is centered on the question, "Is it possible that none of your memories count?" and explores the reliability of remembrances and the thin line that separates fact from fantasy.Comprised of four thematically linked stories and a novella, The Old Capital focuses on the cultural ... Read more

    $33.99 CAD

  • My Drunk Kitchen

    A Guide to Eating, Drinking, and Going with Your Gut

    by Hannah Hart ...
    NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLEROne day, sad cubicle dweller and otherwise bored New York transplant Hannah Hart decided, as a joke, to make a fake cooking show for her friend back in California. She turned on the camera, pulled out some bread and cheese, and then, as one does, started drinking. (Doesn't everyone cook with a spoon in one hand and a bottle of wine in the other?) The video went viral and ... Read more

    $14.99 CAD

  • What Is Modernity?

    Writings of Takeuchi Yoshimi

    Translated by Richard Calichman ...
    by Yoshimi Takeuchi ...
    Series series Weatherhead Books on Asia
    Regarded as one of the foremost thinkers in postwar Japan, Takeuchi Yoshimi (1910-1977) questioned traditional Japanese thought and radically reconfigured an understanding of the subject's relationship to the world. His works were also central in drawing Japanese attention to the problems inherent in western colonialism and to the cultural importance of Asia, especially China. Takeuchi's writings ... Read more

    $31.99 CAD

  • The Tattoo Chronicles

    by Kat Von D ...
    The Tattoo Chronicles is an illustrated diary that offers an intimate look at a crucial year in the personal and professional life of Kat Von D, the charismatic, no-holds-barred tattooer and star of LA Ink.When Kat does a tattoo, she writes an entry about it in her journal, reflecting not only on the significance of the tattoo for the person who is receiving it but also on how the experience of ... Read more

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  • Sources of Japanese Tradition

    1600 to 2000

    Edited by Carol Gluck, Arthur Tiedemann, Wm. Theodore De Bary ...
    Series series Introduction to Asian Civilizations
    Since it was first published more than forty years ago, Sources of Japanese Tradition, Volume 2, has been considered the authoritative sourcebook for readers and scholars interested in Japan from the eighteenth century to the post-World War II period. Now greatly expanded to include the entire twentieth century, and beginning in 1600, Sources of Japanese Tradition presents writings from modern ... Read more

    $109.99 CAD