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  • Figuring Korean Futures

    Children’s Literature in Modern Korea

    by Dafna Zur ...
    This book is the story of the emergence and development of writing for children in modern Korea. Starting in the 1920s, a narrator-adult voice began to speak directly to a child-reader. This child audience was perceived as unique because of a new concept: the child-heart, the perception that the child's body and mind were transparent and knowable, and that they rested on the threshold of culture. ... Read more

    $78.99 CAD

  • Emotions, Affect, and Narrative in Korean History and Culture

    by Dr. Dafna Zur, Gregg Brazinsky, United through Separation Hyaeweol Choi, John Song Pae Cho, Jungwon Kim, Suzy Kim ...
    Series series Hawai‘i Studies on Korea
    This collection of eleven essays explores emotions and affect in Korean culture across a broad temporal span, from the Koryŏ dynasty (918–1392) to the present. Drawing on a diverse array of sources—including memoirs, diplomatic letters, newspapers, films, video diaries, photographs, and ethnographic interviews—the volume examines how emotions intervene in public discourse and how affect is shaped, ... Read more

    $33.99 CAD

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  • From the Soil

    The Foundations of Chinese Society

    by Xiaotong Fei ...
    This classic text by Fei Xiaotong, China's finest social scientist, was first published in 1947 and is Fei's chief theoretical statement about the distinctive characteristics of Chinese society. Written in Chinese from a Chinese point of view for a Chinese audience, From the Soil describes the contrasting organizational principles of Chinese and Western societies, thereby conveying the essential ... Read more

    $21.99 CAD

  • The Columbia Companion to Modern Chinese Literature

    Edited by Kirk Denton ...
    The Columbia Companion to Modern Chinese Literature features more than fifty short essays on specific writers and literary trends from the Qing period (1895–1911) to the present. The volume opens with thematic essays on the politics and ethics of writing literary history, the formation of the canon, the relationship between language and form, the role of literary institutions and communities, the ... Read more

    $51.99 CAD

  • Dangerous Women

    Gender and Korean Nationalism

    Edited by Elaine H. Kim, Chungmoo Choi ...
    Dangerous Women addresses the themes of Korean nationalism and gender construction, as well as various issues related to the colonialization and decolonialization of the Korean nation. The contributors explore the troubled category of "woman," placing it in the specific context of a marginalized and colonized nation. But Korean women are not merely configured here as metaphors for an emasculated ... Read more

    $97.99 CAD

  • Masculinities in Chinese History

    by Bret Hinsch ...
    Series series Asia/Pacific/Perspectives
    Masculinities in Chinese History is the first historical survey of the many ways men have acted, thought, and behaved throughout China’s long past. Bret Hinsch introduces readers to the basic characteristics of historical Chinese masculinity while highlighting the dynamic changes in male identity over the centuries. He covers the full span of Chinese history, from the Zhou dynasty in distant ... Read more

    $54.99 CAD

  • Lies That Bind

    Chinese Truth, Other Truths

    by Susan D. Blum ...
    This provocative book explores the ideology of truth and deception in China, offering a nuanced perspective on social interaction in different cultural settings. Drawing on decades of fieldwork in China, Susan D. Blum offers an authoritative examination of rules, expectations, and beliefs regarding lying and honesty in society. Blum points to a propensity for deception in Chinese public ... Read more

    $61.99 CAD

  • Modern Chinese Literary and Cultural Studies in the Age of Theory

    Reimagining a Field

    by Harry Harootunian, Masao Miyoshi, Charles A. Laughlin, Rey Chow, PhD ...
    Series series Asia-Pacific: Culture, Politics, and Society
    These groundbreaking essays use critical theory to reflect on issues pertaining to modern Chinese literature and culture and, in the process, transform the definition and conceptualization of the field of modern Chinese studies itself. The wide range of topics addressed by this international group of scholars includes twentieth-century literature produced in Taiwan, Hong Kong, and mainland China; ... Read more

    $39.99 CAD

  • Borders of Chinese Civilization

    Geography and History at Empire's End

    by Rey Chow, Harry Harootunian, Masao Miyoshi, Douglas Howland ...
    Series series Asia-Pacific: Culture, Politics, and Society
    D. R. Howland explores China’s representations of Japan in the changing world of the late nineteenth century and, in so doing, examines the cultural and social borders between the two neighbors. Looking at Chinese accounts of Japan written during the 1870s and 1880s, he undertakes an unprecedented analysis of the main genres the Chinese used to portray Japan—the travel diary, poetry, and the ... Read more

    $33.99 CAD

  • Codes of Modernity

    Chinese Scripts in the Global Information Age

    by Uluğ Kuzuoğlu ...
    Honorable Mention, 2026 Joseph Levenson Prize (China, post-1900), Association for Asian StudiesIn the late nineteenth century, Chinese reformers and revolutionaries believed that there was something fundamentally wrong with the Chinese writing system. The Chinese characters, they argued, were too cumbersome to learn, blocking the channels of communication, obstructing mass literacy, and impeding ... Read more

    $36.99 CAD

  • China Unbound

    Evolving Perspectives on the Chinese Past

    by Paul A. Cohen ...
    Series series Asia's Transformations/Critical Asian Scholarship
    This volume contains a number of articles on modern Chinese history and historiography written by one of the leading academic experts on the subject. The author provides a critique of older approaches to nineteenth-century history and offers powerful reinterpretations of such key events in the recent history of China as the boxer rebellion, Mao's ascension to power in 1949, and the process of ... Read more

    $150.99 CAD

  • The Han

    China's Diverse Majority

    by Agnieszka Joniak-Luthi ...
    Series series Studies on Ethnic Groups in China
    Open-access edition: DOI 10.6069/9780295805979This ethnography explores contemporary narratives of “Han-ness,” revealing the nuances of what Han identity means today in relation to that of the fifty-five officially recognized minority ethnic groups in China, as well as in relation to home place identities and the country’s national identity. Based on research she conducted among native and migrant ... Read more

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