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  • Rethinking Chinese Popular Culture

    Cannibalizations of the Canon

    Edited by Carlos Rojas, Eileen Chow ...
    Series series Routledge Contemporary China Series
    Through analyses of a wide range of Chinese literary and visual texts from the beginning of the twentieth century through the contemporary period, the thirteen essays in this volume challenge the view that canonical and popular culture are self-evident and diametrically opposed categories, and instead argue that the two cultural sensibilities are inextricably bound up with one another.An ... Read more

    $77.99 USD

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  • The Gateless Gate

    The Classic Book of Zen Koans

    by Koun Yamada ...
    In The Gateless Gate, one of modern Zen Buddhism's uniquely influential masters offers classic commentaries on the Mumonkan, one of Zen's greatest collections of teaching stories. This translation was compiled with the Western reader in mind, and includes Koan Yamada's clear and penetrating comments on each case. Yamada played a seminal role in bringing Zen Buddhism to the West from Japan, going ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

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  • The Greatest Ghost and Horror Stories Ever Written: volume 1 (The Dunwich Horror, The Tell-Tale Heart, Green Tea, The Monkey's Paw, The Willows, The Shadows on the Wall, and many more!)

    by M. R. James, E. F. Benson, H. P. Lovecraft, Edgar Allan Poe, Saki, J. Sheridan Le Fanu, Franz Kafka, Robert W. Chambers, W. W. Jacobs, Lafcadio Hearn, Ambrose Bierce, Walter De La Mare, Vernon Lee, Mary E. Wilkins Freeman, F. Marion Crawford, William Hope Hodgson, Arthur Machen, Algernon Blackwood, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Oliver Onions, Clark Ashton Smith, John Metcalfe, Leonid Andreyev, Robert E. Howard ...
    Series Book 1 - The Greatest Ghost and Horror Stories Ever Written
    If you were looking for the Holy Bible of the horror anthologies, consider yourself lucky, because you just found it! Cosmic horror, supernatural events, ghost stories, weird fiction, mystical fantasies, occult narratives, this book plunges you into dark domains and brings you face to face with surreal monstrosities. This first volume of “The Greatest Ghost and Horror Stories Ever Written” ... Read more

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  • The Greatest Ghost and Horror Stories Ever Written: volume 6 (30 short stories)

    by E. F. Benson, W. F. Harvey, Bram Stoker, Walter Scott, Elizabeth Gaskell, H. P. Lovecraft, Edgar Allan Poe, Rudyard Kipling, Ambrose Bierce, Algernon Blackwood, John Buchan, A. M. Burrage, Walter De La Mare, H. G. Wells, Robert Louis Stevenson, Cynthia Asquith, Lord Dunsany, Clark Ashton Smith, Margaret Ronan, Amelia B. Edwards, Robert Hichens, H. Russell Wakefield, Arthur Quiller-Couch, William Hope Hodgson, L. P. Hartley, Vincent O’Sullivan, Vernon Lee, Paul Spencer ...
    Series Book 6 - The Greatest Ghost and Horror Stories Ever Written
    If you were looking for the Holy Bible of the horror anthologies, consider yourself lucky, because you just found it! Cosmic horror, supernatural events, ghost stories, weird fiction, mystical fantasies, occult narratives, this book plunges you into dark domains and brings you face to face with surreal monstrosities. This sixth volume of “The Greatest Ghost and Horror Stories Ever Written” ... Read more

    $1.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Search for the Beautiful Woman

    A Cultural History of Japanese and Chinese Beauty

    by Cho Kyo ...
    Translated by Kyoko Iriye Selden ...
    Series series Asia/Pacific/Perspectives
    While a slender body is a prerequisite for beauty today, plump women were considered ideal in Tang Dynasty China and Heian-period Japan. Starting around the Southern Song period in China, bound feet symbolized the attractiveness of women. But in Japan, shaved eyebrows and blackened teeth long were markers of loveliness.For centuries, Japanese culture was profoundly shaped by China, but in complex ... Read more

    $72.89 USD

  • The Great Civilized Conversation

    Education for a World Community

    by Wm. Theodore De Bary ...
    Having spent decades teaching and researching the humanities, Wm. Theodore de Bary is well positioned to speak on its merits and reform. Believing a classical liberal education is more necessary than ever, he outlines in these essays a plan to update existing core curricula by incorporating classics from both Eastern and Western traditions, thereby bringing the philosophy and moral values of Asian ... Read more

    $35.99 USD

  • Nineteen Ways of Looking at Wang Wei

    by Eliot Weinberger, Octavio Paz ...
    A new expanded edition of the classic study of translation, finally back in printThe difficulty (and necessity) of translation is concisely described in Nineteen Ways of Looking at Wang Wei, a close reading of different translations of a single poem from the Tang Dynasty—from a transliteration to Kenneth Rexroth’s loose interpretation. As Octavio Paz writes in the afterword, “Eliot Weinberger’s ... Read more

    $9.39 USD

  • Zhuangzi and Modern Chinese Literature

    by Liu Jianmei ...
    This is a powerful account of how the ruin and resurrection of Zhuangzi in modern China's literary history correspond to the rise and fall of modern Chinese individuality. Liu Jianmei highlights two central philosophical themes of Zhuangzi: the absolute spiritual freedom as presented in the chapter of "Free and Easy Wandering" and the rejection of absolute and fixed views on right and wrong as ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

  • Miyazawa Kenji - a short biography

    by Massimo Cimarelli ...
    "The purpose of the work of my whole life has been to deliver this holy book in your hands, and make you able to enter the Most Noble Path by contacting the teaching of the Buddha"This is the note that on his deathbed Kenji asks his father to write on the copies, addressed to his friends, of the Japanese translation of the Lotus Sūtra. They echo the words of Sakyamuni "... I do what only because ... Read more

    $1.30 USD

  • The Book of Songs

    by The Arthur Waley Estate, Arthur Waley ...
    First published in 1937.The Book of Songs is a collection of ancient Chinese songs, dating from 800 to 600 B.C. Until this was published in 1937 it had not been translated into English since the middle of nineteenth century, when sinology was still in its infancy. For the first time the original meaning of 290 out of the 305 songs is given, use being made of the advances in the study of old ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

  • Rart Eikkatheit's three worlds

    A Thai novella

    by Win Lyovarin ...
    Series series ThaiFiction
    Soldier, pimp or artist?What is Rart’s real nature?Is history repeating itself?By the most inventive and versatile of Thai short story writers,a tale of social upheavals and human ambiguitiesthat can be read at many levels. ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

  • Jottings under Lamplight

    by Xun Lu ...
    Lu Xun (1881–1936) is widely considered the greatest writer of twentieth-century China. Although primarily known for his two slim volumes of short fiction, he was a prolific and inventive essayist. Jottings under Lamplight showcases Lu Xun’s versatility as a master of prose forms and his brilliance as a cultural critic with translations of sixty-two of his essays, twenty of which are translated ... Read more

    $30.29 USD