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  • Long Narrative Songs from the Mongghul of Northeast Tibet

    Texts in Mongghul, Chinese, and English

    by Dechun Li, Gerald Roche ...
    Series Book 8 - World Oral Literature Series
    Containing ballads of martial heroism, tales of tragic lovers and visions of the nature of the world, Long Narrative Songs from the Mongghul of Northeast Tibet: Texts in Mongghul, Chinese, and English is a rich repository of songs collected amongst the Mongghul of the Seven Valleys, on the northeast Tibetan Plateau in western China. These songs represent the apogee of Mongghul oral literature, and ... Read more

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    An Anthology of Discourses from the Pali Canon

    by Venerable Bhikkhu Bodhi ...
    Series series The Teachings of the Buddha
    This landmark collection is the definitive introduction to the Buddha's teachings - in his own words. The American scholar-monk Bhikkhu Bodhi, whose voluminous translations have won widespread acclaim, here presents selected discourses of the Buddha from the Pali Canon, the earliest record of what the Buddha taught. Divided into ten thematic chapters, In the Buddha's Words reveals the full scope ... Read more

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  • Romancing the East

    A Literary Odyssey from the Heart of Darkness to the River Kwai

    by Jerry Hopkins ...
    Profiling individual, legendary authors, best-selling author Jerry Hopkins combines his research and his own experiences as a longtime expatriate with an intimate knowledge of Asia and offers us a unique perspective on the impact of Eastern culture in Western literature.From the time of Marco Polo's trek across the Central Asian desert to the empire of the mighty Kahn, no other place on earth, not ... Read more

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  • The Literature of Pre-Islamic Iran

    Companion Volume I

    Edited by Ronald E. Emmerick, Maria Macuch ...
    Persian literature is the jewel in the crown of Persian culture. It has profoundly influenced the literatures of Ottoman Turkey, Muslim India and Turkic Central Asia and been a source of inspiration for Goethe, Emerson, Matthew Arnold and Jorge Luis Borges among others. Yet Persian literature has never received the attention it truly deserves."A History of Persian Literature" answers this need and ... Read more

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  • The Columbia Sourcebook of Literary Taiwan

    Edited by Sung-sheng Yvonne Chang, Michelle Yeh, Ming-ju Fan ...
    This sourcebook contains more than 160 documents and writings that reflect the development of Taiwanese literature from the early modern period to the twenty-first century. Selections include seminal essays in literary debates, polemics, and other landmark events; interviews, diaries, and letters by major authors; critical and retrospective essays by influential writers, editors, and scholars; ... Read more

    $76.99 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

  • Asian Diaspora Poetry in North America

    by Benzi Zhang ...
    Series series Literary Criticism and Cultural Theory
    Presenting a new way of reading that helps us discern some previously unnoticed or unnoticeable features of Asian diaspora poetry, this volume highlights how poetry plays a significant role in mediating and defining cross-cultural and transnational positions.Asian diaspora poetry in North America is a rich body of poetic works that not only provide valuable material for us to understand the lives ... Read more

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  • Figures of Resistance

    Language, Poetry, and Narrating in The Tale of the Genji and Other Mid-Heian Texts

    by Richard H. Okada, Stanley Fish, Fredric Jameson ...
    Series series Post-Contemporary Interventions
    In this revisionist study of texts from the mid-Heian period in Japan, H. Richard Okada offers new readings of three well-known tales: The Tale of the Bamboo-cutter, The Tale of Ise, and The Tale of Genji. Okada contends that the cultural and gendered significance of these works has been distorted by previous commentaries and translations belonging to the larger patriarchal and colonialist ... Read more

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  • South of the Clouds

    Tales from Yunnan

    Edited by Lucien Miller ...
    Series series McLellan Endowed Series
    The tales included here represent all of Yunnan Province’s officially designated ethnic minorities, and include creation myths, romances, historical legends, tales explaining natural phenomena, ghost stories, and festival tales. The tales are peopled by memorable characters, such as the Tibetan mother who, reborn as a cow, comforts and helps her daughter into her harsh life as a slave girl; the ... Read more

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  • Five Modern Japanese Novelists

    by Donald Keene ...
    The New Yorker has called Donald Keene "America's preeminent scholar of Japanese literature." Now he presents a new book that serves as both a superb introduction to modern Japanese fiction and a memoir of his own lifelong love affair with Japanese literature and culture. Five Modern Japanese Novelistsprofiles five prominent writers whom Donald Keene knew personally: Tanizaki Jun'ichiro, Kawabata ... Read more

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  • Courtesans and Opium

    Romantic Illusions of the Fool of Yangzhou

    by Anonymous ...
    Translated by Patrick Hanan ...
    Series series Weatherhead Books on Asia
    In his preface, the anonymous author of Courtesans and Opium describes his book as an act of penance for thirty years spent patronizing the brothels of Yangzhou. Written in the 1840s, his story is filled with vice and dark consequence, portraying the hazards of the city's seedy underbelly and warning others against the example of the Fool.Chinese literature's first true "city novel," Courtesans ... Read more

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  • Contemporary Diasporic South Asian Women's Fiction

    Gender, Narration and Globalisation

    by Ruvani Ranasinha ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    This book is the first comparative analysis of a new generation of diasporic Anglophone South Asian women novelists including Kiran Desai, Tahmima Anam, Monica Ali, Kamila Shamsie and Jhumpa Lahiri from a feminist perspective. It charts the significant changes these writers have produced in postcolonial and contemporary women’s fiction since the late 1990s. Paying careful attention to the authors’ ... Read more

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