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  • Obscene Things

    Sexual Politics in Jin Ping Mei

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    In Obscene Things Naifei Ding intervenes in conventional readings of Jin Ping Mei, an early scandalous Chinese novel of sexuality and sexual culture. After first appearing around 1590, Jin Ping Mei was circulated among some of China’s best known writers of the time and subsequently was published in three major recensions. A 1695 version by Zhang Zhupo became the most widely read and it is this ... Leer más

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  • 9 Gold Bullets

    Vincent Calvino Crime Novels, #12

    Series Libro 12 - Vincent Calvino Crime Novels
    In 9 Gold Bullets, the twelfth novel in Christopher G. Moore's Shamus Award-winning Vincent Calvino noir detective series, a priceless collection of gold bullet coins from the reign of Rama V has vanished—along with a prominent Thai collector. When Bangkok police trace a link to Calvino's childhood friend Josh Stein, now ensnared by a ruthless Russian client, the case draws Calvino into a web of ... Leer más

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  • 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

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  • Zeami

    Performance Notes

    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

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  • Japan and the Culture of the Four Seasons

    Nature, Literature, and the Arts

    de Haruo Shirane ...
    Elegant representations of nature and the four seasons populate a wide range of Japanese genres and media—from poetry and screen painting to tea ceremonies, flower arrangements, and annual observances. In Japan and the Culture of the Four Seasons, Haruo Shirane shows how, when, and why this practice developed and explicates the richly encoded social, religious, and political meanings of this ... Leer más

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  • Taiwan Cinema

    A Contested Nation on Screen

    de 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. ... Leer más

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  • Orphan of Asia

    de Zhuoliu Wu ...
    Traducido por Ioannis Mentzas ...
    Series series Modern Chinese Literature from Taiwan
    Born in Japanese-occupied Taiwan, raised in the scholarly traditions of ancient China by his grandfather but forced into the Japanese educational system, Hu Taiming, the protagonist of Orphan of Asia, ultimately finds himself estranged from all three cultures. Wu's autobiographical novel, completed in 1945, is widely regarded as a classic of modern Asian literature and a groundbreaking expression ... Leer más

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  • Sirens of the Western Shore

    The Westernesque Femme Fatale, Translation, and Vernacular Style in Modern Japanese Literature

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    Indra Levy introduces a new archetype in the study of modern Japanese literature: the "Westernesque femme fatale," an alluring figure who is ethnically Japanese but evokes the West in her physical appearance, lifestyle, behavior, and, most important, her use of language. She played conspicuous roles in landmark works of modern Japanese fiction and theater.Levy traces the lineage of the ... Leer más

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  • The Tao and the Logos

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    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

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  • Reading the Past Across Space and Time

    Receptions and World Literature

    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    Featuring leading scholars in their fields, this book examines receptions of ancient and early modern literary works from around the world (China, Japan, Ancient Maya, Ancient Mediterranean, Ancient India, Ancient Mesopotamia) that have circulated globally across time and space (from East to West, North to South, South to West). Beginning with the premise of an enduring and revered cultural past, ... Leer más

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  • Language, Education and Nation-building

    Assimilation and Shift in Southeast Asia

    Edición de P. Sercombe, R. Tupas ...
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  • Trauma, Dissociation and Re-enactment in Japanese Literature and Film

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    Japanese literature and film have frequently been approached using lenses such as language, genre and ideology. Yet, despite a succession of major social traumas that have marked, and in many ways shaped and defined much of modern Japan, Japanese fiction and cinema have not often been examined psychoanalytically.In this book, David Stahl conducts in-depth readings and interpretations of a set of ... Leer más

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