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  • Chinese Narrative Poetry

    The Late Han Through T'ang Dynasties

    de Dore J. Levy ...
    Chinese Narrative Poetry brings a new perspective to some of China's best-loved and most influential poems, including Ts'ai Yen's "Poem of Affliction," Po Chu-yi's "Song of Everlasting Sorrow," and Wei Chuang's recently discovered "Song of the Lady of Ch'in." Composed in the shih form during the Late Han, Six Dynasties, and T'ang periods, these poems stand out as masterworks of narrative art. Yet ... Leer más

    $23.99 USD

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  • Zeami

    Performance Notes

    de Motoyiko Zeami ...
    Traducido por Tom Hare ...
    Series series Translations from the Asian Classics
    Zeami (1363-1443), Japan's most celebrated actor and playwright, composed more than thirty of the finest plays of no drama. He also wrote a variety of texts on theater and performance that have, until now, been only partially available in English.Zeami: Performance Notes presents the full range of Zeami's critical thought on this subject, which focused on the aesthetic values of no and its ... Leer más

    $35.99 USD

  • The Cambridge Companion to Modern Chinese Culture

    Edición de Kam Louie ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Culture
    At the start of the twenty-first century, China is poised to become a major global power. Understanding its culture is more important than ever before for western audiences, but for many, China remains a mysterious and exotic country. This Companion explains key aspects of modern Chinese culture without assuming prior knowledge of China or the Chinese language. The volume acknowledges the ... Leer más

    $33.99 USD

  • What Is Modernity?

    Writings of Takeuchi Yoshimi

    Traducido por Richard Calichman ...
    de Yoshimi Takeuchi ...
    Series series Weatherhead Books on Asia
    Regarded as one of the foremost thinkers in postwar Japan, Takeuchi Yoshimi (1910-1977) questioned traditional Japanese thought and radically reconfigured an understanding of the subject's relationship to the world. His works were also central in drawing Japanese attention to the problems inherent in western colonialism and to the cultural importance of Asia, especially China. Takeuchi's writings ... Leer más

    $28.99 USD

  • The Promise of the Foreign

    Nationalism and the Technics of Translation in the Spanish Philippines

    de Vicente L. Rafael ...
    In The Promise of the Foreign, Vicente L. Rafael argues that translation was key to the emergence of Filipino nationalism in the nineteenth century. Acts of translation entailed technics from which issued the promise of nationhood. Such a promise consisted of revising the heterogeneous and violent origins of the nation by mediating one’s encounter with things foreign while preserving their ... Leer más

    $25.99 USD

  • Colonialism/Postcolonialism

    de Ania Loomba ...
    Series series The New Critical Idiom
    Colonialism/Postcolonialism is a comprehensive yet accessible guide to the historical, theoretical and political dimensions of colonial and postcolonial studies.This new edition includes a new introduction and conclusion as well as extensive updates throughout. Topics covered include globalization, new grassroots movements (including Occupy Wall Street), the environmental crisis, and the ... Leer más

    $42.99 USD

  • Utopia and the Village in South Asian Literatures

    de A. Mohan ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    Shifting the postcolonial focus away from the city and towards the village, this book examines the rural as a trope in twentieth-century South Asian literatures to propose a new literary history based on notions of utopia, dystopia, and heterotopia and how these ideas have circulated in the literary and the cultural imaginaries of the subcontinent. ... Leer más

    $49.99 USD

  • The Last of the Whampoa Breed

    Stories of the Chinese Diaspora

    Edición de Pang-Yuan Chi, David Der-wei Wang ...
    Series series Modern Chinese Literature from Taiwan
    Whampoa Military Academy was China's first modern military institution. For decades the "Spirit of Whampoa" was invoked as the highest praise to all Chinese soldiers who guarded their nation heroically. But of all the battles these soldiers have fought, the most challenging one was the civil war that resulted in the "great divide" of China in the mid-twentieth century. In 1949 the Communists ... Leer más

    $33.99 USD

  • The Tao and the Logos

    Literary Hermeneutics, East and West

    de Longxi Zhang ...
    Series series Post-contemporary interventions.
    Questions of the nature of understanding and interpretation—hermeneutics—are fundamental in human life, though historically Westerners have tended to consider these questions within a purely Western context. In this comparative study, Zhang Longxi investigates the metaphorical nature of poetic language, highlighting the central figures of reality and meaning in both Eastern and Western thought: ... Leer más

    $25.99 USD

  • Hindi Dalit Literature and the Politics of Representation

    de Sarah Beth Hunt ...
    This study explores how Dalits in north India have used literature as a means of protest against caste oppression. Including fresh ethnographic research and interviews, it traces the trajectory of modern Dalit writing in Hindi and its pivotal role in the creation, rise and reinforcement of a distinctive Dalit identity.The book challenges the existing impression of Hindi Dalit literature as ... Leer más

    $68.99 USD

  • Fashion, Dress and Identity in South Asian Diaspora Narratives

    From the Eighteenth Century to Monica Ali

    de Noemí Pereira-Ares ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    This book is the first book-length study to explore the sartorial politics of identity in the literature of the South Asian diaspora in Britain. Using fashion and dress as the main focus of analysis, and linking them with a myriad of identity concerns, the book takes the reader on a journey from the eighteenth century to the new millennium, from early travel account by South Asian writers to ... Leer más

    $80.99 USD

  • Yoshitsune and the Thousand Cherry Trees

    A Masterpiece of the Eighteenth-Century Japanese Puppet Theater

    Edición de Stanleigh Jones Jr. ...
    Series series Translations from the Asian Classics
    A masterpiece of eighteenth-century Japanese puppet theater, Yoshitsune and the Thousand Cherry Trees is an action-packed play set in the aftermath of the twelfth-century Genji–Heike wars. It follows the adventures of the military commander, Yoshitsune, as he tries to avoid capture by his jealous older brother and loyal henchmen. The drama, written by a trio of playwrights, popularizes Japan's ... Leer más

    $28.99 USD