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Twentieth-century Chinese Women's Poetry: An Anthology

An Anthology

by Julia C. Lin ...

Chinese women's writing is rich and abundant, although not well known in the West. Despite the brutal wars and political upheavals that ravaged twentieth-century China, the ranks of women in the literary world increased dramatically. This anthology introduces English language readers to a comprehensive selection of Chinese women poets from both the mainland and Taiwan. It spans the early 1920s and ... Read more

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Chinese women's writing is rich and abundant, although not well known in the West. Despite the brutal wars and political upheavals that ravaged twentieth-century China, the ranks of women in the literary world increased dramatically. This anthology introduces English language readers to a comprehensive selection of Chinese women poets from both the mainland and Taiwan. It spans the early 1920s and
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TwentiethCentury Chinese Women's Poetry: An Anthology

by Julia C. Lin ...

This enticing anthology introduces English language readers to a comprehensive selection of twentieth century Chinese women poets from both the mainland and Taiwan. It includes 245 poems by forty poets, and spans the early 1920s and Republican China's literary renaissance through the end of the twentieth century. ... Read more

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This enticing anthology introduces English language readers to a comprehensive selection of twentieth century Chinese women poets from both the mainland and Taiwan. It includes 245 poems by forty poets, and spans the early 1920s and Republican China's literary renaissance through the end of the twentieth century.
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The Dream of the Red Chamber

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by Cao Xueqin, Lance Thomas ...

Translated by H. Bencraft Joly ...

The Dream of the Red Chamber, an exquisite masterpiece by Cao Xueqin, delves deep into the lives of the Jia family, weaving a rich tapestry of love, ambition, and the inevitable decay of aristocracy in 18th-century China. The novel is notable for its intricate character development and vivid prose, employing an allegorical literary style that reflects the complexities of human emotions and ... Read more

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The Dream of the Red Chamber, an exquisite masterpiece by Cao Xueqin, delves deep into the lives of the Jia family, weaving a rich tapestry of love, ambition, and the inevitable decay of aristocracy in 18th-century China. The novel is notable for its intricate character development and vivid prose, employing an allegorical literary style that reflects the complexities of human emotions and
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The Greatest Ghost and Horror Stories Ever Written: volume 1 (The Dunwich Horror, The Tell-Tale Heart, Green Tea, The Monkey's Paw, The Willows, The Shadows on the Wall, and many more!)

by M. R. James, E. F. Benson, H. P. Lovecraft, Edgar Allan Poe, Saki, J. Sheridan Le Fanu, Franz Kafka, Robert W. Chambers, W. W. Jacobs, Lafcadio Hearn, Ambrose Bierce, Walter De La Mare, Vernon Lee, Mary E. Wilkins Freeman, F. Marion Crawford, William Hope Hodgson, Arthur Machen, Algernon Blackwood, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Oliver Onions, Clark Ashton Smith, John Metcalfe, Leonid Andreyev, Robert E. Howard ...

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If you were looking for the Holy Bible of the horror anthologies, consider yourself lucky, because you just found it! Cosmic horror, supernatural events, ghost stories, weird fiction, mystical fantasies, occult narratives, this book plunges you into dark domains and brings you face to face with surreal monstrosities. This first volume of “The Greatest Ghost and Horror Stories Ever Written” ... Read more

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If you were looking for the Holy Bible of the horror anthologies, consider yourself lucky, because you just found it! Cosmic horror, supernatural events, ghost stories, weird fiction, mystical fantasies, occult narratives, this book plunges you into dark domains and brings you face to face with surreal monstrosities. This first volume of “The Greatest Ghost and Horror Stories Ever Written”
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Nagarjuna's Middle Way

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by Mark Siderits, Shoryu Katsura ...

Series series Classics of Indian Buddhism
Winner of the 2014 Khyenste Foundation Translation Prize.Nagarjuna's renowned twenty-seven-chapter Fundamental Verses on the Middle Way (Mulamadhyamakakarika) is the foundational text of the Madhyamaka school of Mahayana Buddhist philosophy. It is the definitive, touchstone presentation of the doctrine of emptiness. Professors Siderits and Katsura prepared this translation using the four surviving ... Read more

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Winner of the 2014 Khyenste Foundation Translation Prize.Nagarjuna's renowned twenty-seven-chapter Fundamental Verses on the Middle Way (Mulamadhyamakakarika) is the foundational text of the Madhyamaka school of Mahayana Buddhist philosophy. It is the definitive, touchstone presentation of the doctrine of emptiness. Professors Siderits and Katsura prepared this translation using the four surviving
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Alphaville hotel

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by Wiwat Lertwiwatwongsa ...

Series series ThaiFiction
A writer grappling with his characters– or is it the other way around? –in an impish homage to Jean-Luc Godardand Anna Karina.Followed by 'A tale without a name',a layered short story plugged intothe age of the internetand human incommunicability.With these two short fictions,Wiwat Lertwiwatwongsa, a noted film critic,takes pole position in cutting-edge Thai writing. ... Read more

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A writer grappling with his characters– or is it the other way around? –in an impish homage to Jean-Luc Godardand Anna Karina.Followed by 'A tale without a name',a layered short story plugged intothe age of the internetand human incommunicability.With these two short fictions,Wiwat Lertwiwatwongsa, a noted film critic,takes pole position in cutting-edge Thai writing.
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The Book of Songs

by The Arthur Waley Estate, Arthur Waley ...

First published in 1937.The Book of Songs is a collection of ancient Chinese songs, dating from 800 to 600 B.C. Until this was published in 1937 it had not been translated into English since the middle of nineteenth century, when sinology was still in its infancy. For the first time the original meaning of 290 out of the 305 songs is given, use being made of the advances in the study of old ... Read more

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First published in 1937.The Book of Songs is a collection of ancient Chinese songs, dating from 800 to 600 B.C. Until this was published in 1937 it had not been translated into English since the middle of nineteenth century, when sinology was still in its infancy. For the first time the original meaning of 290 out of the 305 songs is given, use being made of the advances in the study of old
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Mu Shiying

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Shanghai’s “Literary Comet” When the avant-garde writer Mu Shiying was assassinated in 1940, China lost one of its greatest modernist writers while Shanghai lost its most detailed chronicler of the city’s Jazz-Age nightlife. Mu’s highly original stream-of-consciousness approach to short story writing deserves to be re-examined and re-read. As Andrew Field argues, Mu advanced modern Chinese writing ... Read more

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Shanghai’s “Literary Comet” When the avant-garde writer Mu Shiying was assassinated in 1940, China lost one of its greatest modernist writers while Shanghai lost its most detailed chronicler of the city’s Jazz-Age nightlife. Mu’s highly original stream-of-consciousness approach to short story writing deserves to be re-examined and re-read. As Andrew Field argues, Mu advanced modern Chinese writing
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From Thailand With Love

by Mobi D'Ark ...

"From Thailand with love" is a collection of six novelettes based in Thailand, ranging in length from 5,000 to 25,000 words and are set mainly in the mid to late 20th century, although the final tale commences in the 1930's and finishes in the early 21st century.The stories encompass some wide ranging subject matter, including: government corruption; the Thai drinking culture; senseless Thai on ... Read more

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"From Thailand with love" is a collection of six novelettes based in Thailand, ranging in length from 5,000 to 25,000 words and are set mainly in the mid to late 20th century, although the final tale commences in the 1930's and finishes in the early 21st century.The stories encompass some wide ranging subject matter, including: government corruption; the Thai drinking culture; senseless Thai on
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The Columbia Anthology of Japanese Essays

Zuihitsu from the Tenth to the Twenty-First Century

Edited by Steven D. Carter ...

A court lady of the Heian era, an early modern philologist, a novelist of the Meiji period, and a physicist at Tokyo University. What do they have in common, besides being Japanese? They all wrote zuihitsu—a uniquely Japanese literary genre encompassing features of the nonfiction or personal essay and miscellaneous musings. For sheer range of subject matter and breadth of perspective, the zuihitsu ... Read more

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A court lady of the Heian era, an early modern philologist, a novelist of the Meiji period, and a physicist at Tokyo University. What do they have in common, besides being Japanese? They all wrote zuihitsu—a uniquely Japanese literary genre encompassing features of the nonfiction or personal essay and miscellaneous musings. For sheer range of subject matter and breadth of perspective, the zuihitsu
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In Ghostly Japan

by Lafcadio Hearn ...

Upon his arrival in Japan in 1890, Lafcadio Hearn found himself enamored with the culture, people, and stories of the country, and would make Japan his home until his death in 1904. His collections of stories published during this time became the most popular of Hearn's writings, and earned him veneration worldwide as not only a great translator of Japanese mythology, but as a sensational teller ... Read more

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Upon his arrival in Japan in 1890, Lafcadio Hearn found himself enamored with the culture, people, and stories of the country, and would make Japan his home until his death in 1904. His collections of stories published during this time became the most popular of Hearn's writings, and earned him veneration worldwide as not only a great translator of Japanese mythology, but as a sensational teller
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Phantom Lover and Other Thrilling Tales of Thailand

by Jim Algie ...

Dark magic and dark pasts haunt the characters in these short stories set in mysterious, exotic Thailand.Ghosts, spirits and the real-life terror of despair haunt the pages of The Phantom Lover and Other Thrilling Tales of Thailand. In these nine horror stories, you'll meet:A drug trafficker-turned-writer who confronts vulnerability in his hard-as-nails partner in crime.An executioner who explores ... Read more

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Dark magic and dark pasts haunt the characters in these short stories set in mysterious, exotic Thailand.Ghosts, spirits and the real-life terror of despair haunt the pages of The Phantom Lover and Other Thrilling Tales of Thailand. In these nine horror stories, you'll meet:A drug trafficker-turned-writer who confronts vulnerability in his hard-as-nails partner in crime.An executioner who explores
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