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  • Imagining Indianness

    Cultural Identity and Literature

    Edited by Diana Dimitrova, Thomas de Bruijn ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This book brings together several important essays examining the interface between identity, culture, and literature within the issue of cultural identity in South Asian literature. The book explores how one imagines national identity and how this concept is revealed in the narratives of the nation and the production of various cultural discourses. The collection of essays examines questions ... Read more

    $80.99 USD

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  • The Old Capital

    A Novel of Taipei

    by T'ien-hsin Chu ...
    Translated by Howard Goldblatt ...
    Series series Modern Chinese Literature from Taiwan
    Chu T'ien-hsin's The Old Capital is a brilliant evocation of Taiwan's literature of nostalgia and remembrance. The novel is centered on the question, "Is it possible that none of your memories count?" and explores the reliability of remembrances and the thin line that separates fact from fantasy.Comprised of four thematically linked stories and a novella, The Old Capital focuses on the cultural ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • Wild Kids

    Two Novels About Growing Up

    Translated by Michael Berry ...
    by Ta-chun Chang ...
    Series series Modern Chinese Literature from Taiwan
    These two searingly funny and unsettling portraits of teenagers beyond the control and largely beneath the notice of adults in 1980s Taiwan are the first English translations of works by Taiwan's most famous and best-selling literary cult figure. Chang Ta-chun's intricate narrative and keen, ironic sense of humor poignantly and piercingly convey the disillusionment and cynicism of modern Taiwanese ... Read more

    $26.99 USD

  • 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

    $28.99 USD

  • Taiwan Cinema

    A Contested Nation on Screen

    by G. Hong ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    A groundbreaking study of Taiwan cinema, Hong provides helpful insight into how it is taught and studied by taking into account not only the auteurs of New Taiwan Cinema, but also the history of popular genre films before the 1980s. The book is essential for students and scholars of Taiwan, film and visual studies, and East Asian cultural history. ... Read more

    $53.99 USD

  • Sources of Japanese Tradition

    1600 to 2000

    Edited by Carol Gluck, Arthur Tiedemann, Wm. Theodore De Bary ...
    Series series Introduction to Asian Civilizations
    Since it was first published more than forty years ago, Sources of Japanese Tradition, Volume 2, has been considered the authoritative sourcebook for readers and scholars interested in Japan from the eighteenth century to the post-World War II period. Now greatly expanded to include the entire twentieth century, and beginning in 1600, Sources of Japanese Tradition presents writings from modern ... Read more

    $94.99 USD

  • China’s Avant-Garde Fiction

    An Anthology

    Edited by Jing Wang ...
    Filled with mirages, hallucinations, myths, mental puzzles, and the fantastic, the contemporary experimental fiction of the Chinese avant-garde represents a genre of storytelling unlike any other. Whether engaging the worn spectacle of history, expressing seemingly unmotivated violence, or reinventing outlandish Tibetan myths, these stories are defined by their devotion to theatrics and their ... Read more

    $25.99 USD

  • Topographies of Japanese Modernism

    by Seiji Lippit ...
    What happens when a critique of modernity—a "revolt against the traditions of the Western world"—is situated within a non-European context, where the concept of the modern has been inevitably tied to the image of the West?Seiji M. Lippit offers the first comprehensive study in English of Japanese modernist fiction of the 1920s and 1930s. Through close readings of four leading figures of this ... Read more

    $33.99 USD

  • Comparative Journeys

    Essays on Literature and Religion East and West

    by Anthony Yu ...
    Series series Masters of Chinese Studies
    Throughout his academic career, Anthony C. Yu has employed a comparative approach to literary analysis that pays careful attention to the religious and philosophical elements of Chinese and Western texts. His mastery of both canons remains unmatched in the field, and his immense knowledge of the contexts that gave rise to each tradition supplies the foundations for ideal comparative scholarship.In ... Read more

    $67.99 USD

  • Dalit Literatures in India

    Edited by Joshil K. Abraham, Judith Misrahi-Barak ...
    This book breaks new ground in the study of Dalit literature, including in its corpus a range of genres such as novels, autobiographies, pamphlets, poetry, short stories and graphic novels. With contributions from major scholars in the field, alongside budding ones, the book critically examines Dalit literary production and theory. It also initiates a dialogue between Dalit writing and Western ... Read more

    $68.99 USD

  • The Orphan of Zhao and Other Yuan Plays

    The Earliest Known Versions

    Edited by Wilt Idema, Stephen H. West ...
    Series series Translations from the Asian Classics
    This is the first anthology of Yuan-dynasty zaju (miscellaneous comedies) to introduce the genre to English-speaking readers exclusively through translations of the plays' fourteenth-century editions. Almost all previous translations of Yuan-dynasty zaju are based on late-Ming regularized editions that were heavily adapted for performance at the Ming imperial court and then extensively revised in ... Read more

    $67.99 USD

  • The Chinese Written Character as a Medium for Poetry

    A Critical Edition

    by Ernest Fenollosa, Ezra Pound, Jonathan Stalling, Lucas Klein ...
    First published in 1919 by Ezra Pound, Ernest Fenollosa’s essay on the Chinese written language has become one of the most often quoted statements in the history of American poetics. As edited by Pound, it presents a powerful conception of language that continues to shape our poetic and stylistic preferences: the idea that poems consist primarily of images; the idea that the sentence form with ... Read more

    $29.99 USD