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“makoto ueda”

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  • Far Beyond the Field

    Haiku by Japanese Women

    Edited by Makoto Ueda ...
    Far Beyond the Field is a first-of-its-kind anthology of haiku by Japanese women, collecting translations of four hundred haiku written by twenty poets from the seventeenth century to the present. By arranging the poems chronologically, Makoto Ueda has created an overview of the way in which this enigmatic seventeen-syllable form has been used and experimented with during different eras. At the ... Read more

    $37.99 CAD

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  • The Song of Everlasting Sorrow

    A Novel of Shanghai

    by Wang Anyi ...
    Translated by Michael Berry, Susan Chan Egan ...
    Series series Weatherhead Books on Asia
    The classic story of a woman in post-World War II China. "[A] complex and penetrating portrayal . . . that best displays [Anyi's] gifts as a novelist."— The New York TimesInfatuated with the glitz and glamour of 1940s Hollywood, Wang Qiyao—a girl born of the longtang, the crowded, labyrinthine alleys of Shanghai's working-class neighborhoods—seeks fame in the Miss Shanghai beauty pageant. This ... Read more

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  • The Story of Stone

    Intertextuality, Ancient Chinese Stone Lore, and the Stone Symbolism in Dream of the Red Chamber, Water Margin, and The Journey to the West

    by Jing Wang ...
    Series series Post-contemporary interventions
    In this pathbreaking study of three of the most familiar texts in the Chinese tradition—all concerning stones endowed with magical properties—Jing Wang develops a monumental reconstruction of ancient Chinese stone lore. Wang’s thorough and systematic comparison of these classic works illuminates the various tellings of the stone story and provides new insight into major topics in traditional ... Read more

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  • There a Petal Silently Falls

    Three Stories by Ch'oe Yun

    by Ch'oe Yun ...
    Translated by Ju-Chan Fulton, Bruce Fulton ...
    Series series Weatherhead Books on Asia
    Ch'oe Yun is a Korean author known for her breathtaking versatility, subversion of authority, and bold exploration of the inner life. Readers celebrate her creative play with fantasy and admire her deep engagement with trauma, history, and the vagaries of remembrance.In this collection's title work, There a Petal Silently Falls, Ch'oe explores both the genesis and the aftershocks of historical ... Read more

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  • Figures of Resistance

    Language, Poetry, and Narrating in The Tale of the Genji and Other Mid-Heian Texts

    by Richard H. Okada, Stanley Fish, Fredric Jameson ...
    Series series Post-Contemporary Interventions
    In this revisionist study of texts from the mid-Heian period in Japan, H. Richard Okada offers new readings of three well-known tales: The Tale of the Bamboo-cutter, The Tale of Ise, and The Tale of Genji. Okada contends that the cultural and gendered significance of these works has been distorted by previous commentaries and translations belonging to the larger patriarchal and colonialist ... Read more

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  • The Cambridge Companion to Modern Japanese Culture

    Edited by Yoshio Sugimoto ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Culture
    This Companion provides a comprehensive overview of the influences that have shaped modern-day Japan. Spanning one and a half centuries from the Meiji Restoration in 1868 to the beginning of the twenty-first century, this volume covers topics such as technology, food, nationalism and rise of anime and manga in the visual arts. The Cambridge Companion to Modern Japanese Culture traces the cultural ... Read more

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  • Travels in Manchuria and Mongolia

    A Feminist Poet from Japan Encounters Prewar China

    by Akiko Yosano ...
    Translated by Joshua Fogel ...
    Yosano Akiko (1878-1942) was one of Japan's greatest poets and translators from classical Japanese. Her output was extraordinary, including twenty volumes of poetry and the most popular translation of the ancient classic The Tale of Genji into modern Japanese. The mother of eleven children, she was a prominent feminist and frequent contributor to Japan's first feminist journal of creative writing, ... Read more

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  • Chinese Women Writers and the Feminist Imagination, 1905-1948

    by Haiping Yan ...
    Series series Asia's Transformations/Literature and Society
    Chinese Women Writers and the Feminist Imagination, 1905-1948 provides a compelling study of leading women writers in modern China, charting their literary works and life journeys to examine the politics and poetics of Chinese transcultural feminism that exceed the boundaries of bourgeois feminist selfhood.Unlike recent literary studies that focus on the discursive formation of the modern Chinese ... Read more

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  • Masculinity Besieged?

    Issues of Modernity and Male Subjectivity in Chinese Literature of the Late Twentieth Century

    by Xueping Zhong ...
    In Masculinity Besieged? Xueping Zhong looks at Chinese literature and films produced during the 1980s to examine male subjectivities in contemporary China. Reading through a feminist psychoanalytic lens, Zhong argues that understanding the nature of male subjectivities as portrayed in literature and film is crucial to understanding China’s ongoing quest for modernity.Before the 1990s onslaught of ... Read more

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  • The Modern Murasaki

    Writing by Women of Meiji Japan

    Edited by Rebecca Copeland, Melek Ortabasi, , Ph.D. ...
    Series series Asia Perspectives: History, Society, and Culture
    The first anthology of its kind, The Modern Murasaki brings the vibrancy and rich imagination of women's writing from the Meiji period to English-language readers. Along with traditional prose, the editors have chosen and carefully translated short stories, plays, poetry, speeches, essays, and personal journal entries. Selected readings include writings by the public speaker Kishida Toshiko, the ... Read more

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  • The Trio

    The Trio - NewGen Writers

    by NewGen Writers ...
    This book is about the life of 3 childhood friends. What they had thought about their lives and what happened to them.It's about their bonding to fight to bonding again, love to revenge and depression to success. ... Read more

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