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  • Telling Details

    Chinese Fiction, World Literature

    by Jiwei Xiao ...
    Series series Literary Criticism and Cultural Theory
    What is a detail? How is it different from xijie, its Chinese counterpart? Is "reading for the details" fundamentally different from "reading for the plot"? Did xijie xiaoshuo, the Chinese novel of details, give the world its earliest form of modern fiction? Inspired by studies of vision and modernity as well as cinema, this book gazes out on the larger world through the small aperture of the ... Read more

    $91.99 CAD

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  • 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

  • An Anatomy of Chinese

    Rhythm, Metaphor, Politics

    by Perry Link ...
    During the Cultural Revolution, Mao exhorted the Chinese people to “smash the four olds”: old customs, old culture, old habits, and old ideas. Yet when the Red Guards in Tiananmen Square chanted “We want to see Chairman Mao,” they unknowingly used a classical rhythm that dates back to the Han period and is the very embodiment of the four olds. An Anatomy of Chinese reveals how rhythms, conceptual ... Read more

    $59.99 CAD

  • Eileen Chang

    by Hong Kong University Press ...
    Eileen Chang (19201995) is arguably the most perceptive writer in modern Chinese literature. She was one of the most popular writers in 1940s Shanghai, but her insistence on writing about individual human relationships and mundane matters rather than revolutionary and political movements meant that in mainland China, she was neglected until very recently. Outside the mainland, her life and ... Read more

    $28.99 CAD

  • From Eileen Chang to Ang Lee

    Lust/Caution

    Edited by Peng Hsiao-yen, Whitney Crothers Dilley ...
    Series series Academia Sinica on East Asia
    In 2007, Ang Lee made an espionage thriller based on the short story "Lust, Caution" by Eileen Chang, China’s most famous female author of the twentieth century. The release of the film became a trigger for heated debates on issues of national identity and political loyalty, and brought unexpectedly harsh criticism from China, where Ang Lee was labelled a traitor in scathing internet critiques, ... Read more

    $104.99 CAD

  • Lu Xun's Revolution

    by Gloria Davies ...
    Recognized as modern China’s preeminent man of letters, Lu Xun (1881–1936) is revered as the nation’s conscience, a writer comparable to Shakespeare or Tolstoy. Gloria Davies’s vivid portrait gives readers a better sense of this influential author by situating the man Mao Zedong hailed as “the sage of modern China” in his turbulent time and place. ... Read more

    $39.99 CAD

  • Obscene Things

    Sexual Politics in Jin Ping Mei

    by Naifei Ding ...
    In Obscene Things Naifei Ding intervenes in conventional readings of Jin Ping Mei, an early scandalous Chinese novel of sexuality and sexual culture. After first appearing around 1590, Jin Ping Mei was circulated among some of China’s best known writers of the time and subsequently was published in three major recensions. A 1695 version by Zhang Zhupo became the most widely read and it is this ... Read more

    $45.99 CAD

  • Chinese Fiction of the Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries

    Essays by Patrick Hanan

    by Patrick Hanan ...
    Series series Masters of Chinese Studies
    It has often been said that the nineteenth century was a relatively stagnant period for Chinese fiction, but preeminent scholar Patrick Hanan shows that the opposite is true: the finest novels of the nineteenth century show a constant experimentation and evolution. In this collection of detailed and insightful essays, Hanan examines Chinese fiction before and during the period in which Chinese ... Read more

    $78.99 CAD

  • Red Is Not the Only Color

    Contemporary Chinese Fiction on Love and Sex between Women, Collected Stories

    by Patricia Sieber, Chen Ran, Chen Xue, He An, Hong Ling, Liang Hanyi, Wang Anyi, Wong Bikwan, Zhang Mei ...
    Series series Asian Voices
    The first English-language anthology of its kind, Red Is Not the Only Color offers a window into the uncharted terrain of intimate relations between Chinese women. As urban China has undergone rapid transformation, same-sex relations have emerged as a significant, if previously neglected, touchstone for the exploration of the meaning of social change. The short fiction in this volume highlights ... Read more

    $54.99 CAD

  • Taiwan Film Directors

    A Treasure Island

    by Emilie Yueh-yu Yeh, Darrell William Davis ...
    Series series Film and Culture Series
    Focusing on the work of four contemporary filmmakers—Ang Lee, Edward Yang, Hou Hsiao-hsien, and Tsai Ming-liang—the authors explore how these filmmakers broke from tradition, creating a cinema that is both personal and insistent on examining Taiwan's complex history. Featuring stills, anecdotes, and close readings of films, the authors consider the influence of Hong Kong and martial arts films, ... Read more

    $35.99 CAD

  • Why Fiction Matters in Contemporary China

    by David Der-wei Wang ...
    Series series The Mandel Lectures in the Humanities at Brandeis University
    Contemporary discussions of China tend to focus on politics and economics, giving Chinese culture little if any attention. Why Fiction Matters in Contemporary China offers a corrective, revealing the crucial role that fiction plays in helping contemporary Chinese citizens understand themselves and their nation. Where history fails to address the consequences of man-made and natural atrocities, ... Read more

    $39.99 CAD

  • Chinese Modern

    The Heroic and the Quotidian

    by Xiaobing Tang, Stanley Fish, Fredric Jameson ...
    Series series Post-Contemporary Interventions
    Chinese Modern examines crucial episodes in the creation of Chinese modernity during the turbulent twentieth century. Analyzing a rich array of literary, visual, theatrical, and cinematic texts, Xiaobing Tang portrays the cultural transformation of China from the early 1900s through the founding of the People’s Republic, the installation of the socialist realist aesthetic, the collapse of the idea ... Read more

    $45.99 CAD