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  • The Myriad Faces of Heroes and Heroines

    Folkloric Tradition and Modern Contemporaries in Asia

    Edited by Julian Patrick Ward, Kelly Kar Yue Chan, Chi Sum Garfield Lau ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    This collection scrutinizes the representation, dynamics, transformation and/or adaptation of various heroes and heroines in different folkloric traditions and narratives in the context of Asia. Exploring notions in the topics of mythologies, folktales, literature, theatre performance and any other art forms, the volume collates discussions on the pragmatic and aesthetic representation of men and ... Read more

    $161.09 USD

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  • The Essence and Applications of Taijiquan

    by Yang Chengfu ...
    Translated by Louis Swaim ...
    The publication in 1934 of Yang Chengfu's book, Essence and Applications of Taijiquan (Taijiquan Tiyong Quanshu) marked a milestone in the modern evolution of the art of taijiquan. Using what is best-termed demonstration narrative, the author presents form postures and suggested applications from his own perspective, as he performed them. This methodology renders Yang Chengfu's direct, hands-on ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • The Subplot

    What China Is Reading and Why It Matters

    by Megan Walsh ...
    What does contemporary China's diverse and exciting fiction tell us about its culture, and the relationship between art and politics?The Subplot takes us on a lively journey through a literary landscape like you’ve never seen before: a vast migrant-worker poetry movement, homoerotic romances by “rotten girls,” swaggering literary popstars, millionaire e-writers churning out the longest-ever novels ... Read more

    $10.69 USD

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  • Chinese Literature

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Sabina Knight ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    Perhaps nowhere else has literature been as conscious a collective endeavor as in China, and China's survival over three thousand years may owe more to its literary traditions than to its political history. This Very Short Introduction tells the story of Chinese literature from antiquity to the present, focusing on the key role literary culture played in supporting social and political concerns. ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • Wong Kar-wai's Ashes of Time

    by Hong Kong University Press ...
    Ashes of Time, by the internationally acclaimed director Wong Kar-wai, has been considered to be one of the most complex and self-reflexive of Hong Kong films. Loosely based on the stories by renowned martial arts novelist Jin Yong, Wong Kar-wai has created a very different kind of martial arts film, which invites close and sustained study.This book presents the nature and significance of Ashes of ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • Women in Chinese Martial Arts Films of the New Millennium

    Narrative Analyses and Gender Politics

    by Ya-chen Chen ...
    Women and Gender in Chinese Martial Arts Films of the New Millennium, by Ya-chen Chen, is an excavation of underexposed gender issues focusing mainly on contradictory and troubled feminism in the film narratives. In the cinematic world of martial arts films, one can easily find representations of women of Ancient China released from the constraints of patriarchal social order to revel in a ... Read more

    $121.49 USD

  • Excavating the Afterlife

    The Archaeology of Early Chinese Religion

    by Guolong Lai ...
    Series series Art History Publication Initiative Books
    In Excavating the Afterlife, Guolong Lai explores the dialectical relationship between sociopolitical change and mortuary religion from an archaeological perspective. By examining burial structure, grave goods, and religious documents unearthed from groups of well-preserved tombs in southern China, Lai shows that new attitudes toward the dead, resulting from the trauma of violent political ... Read more

    $58.49 USD

  • Wuxia Martial Arts And Romance

    by yingxiong feng ...
    This ebook is a complete manual for Wuxia martial arts literature. It is a must-read for martial arts or Wuxia lovers.Wuxia as a genre of fiction that originated in China has become more and more popular among the youth in global cities. The attributes of the marital heroes are listed as benevolence, justice, individualism, loyalty, courage, truthfulness, disregard for wealth, and desire for glory ... Read more

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  • 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

    $25.19 USD

  • Martial Arts Cinema and Hong Kong Modernity

    by Hong Kong University Press ...
    At the core of Martial Arts Cinema and Hong Kong Modernity: Aesthetics, Representation, Circulation is a fascinating paradox: the martial arts film, long regarded as a vehicle of Chinese cultural nationalism, can also be understood as a mass cultural expression of Hong Kong’s modern urban-industrial society. This important and popular genre, Man-Fung Yip argues, articulates the experiential ... Read more

    $23.79 USD

  • The Craft of Oblivion

    Forgetting and Memory in Ancient China

    by Albert Galvany ...
    Series series SUNY series in Chinese Philosophy and Culture
    Examines the intersections between forgetting and remembering in classical Chinese civilization.The Craft of Oblivion is an innovative and groundbreaking volume that aims to study, for the first time, the intersections between forgetting and remembering in classical Chinese civilization. Oblivion has tended to be relegated to a marginal position, often conceived as the mere destructive or ... Read more

    $35.09 USD

  • When the Yellow River Floods

    Water, Technology, and Nation-Building in Early Twentieth-Century Chinese Literature

    by Hui-Lin Hsu ...
    When the Yellow River Floods explores the relationship between environmental degradation, hydraulic engineering, and nation-building in the context of Liu E’s The Travels of Lao Can. This book contributes to the field by providing a unique perspective on modern Chinese literary history that goes beyond conventional narratives that focus solely on political and cultural factors. The main areas ... Read more

    $21.59 USD