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  • The Sing-song Girls of Shanghai

    by Bangqing Han ...
    Translated by Eileen Chang, Eva Hung ...
    Series series Weatherhead Books on Asia
    Desire, virtue, courtesans (also known as sing-song girls), and the denizens of Shanghai's pleasure quarters are just some of the elements that constitute Han Bangqing's extraordinary novel of late imperial China. Han's richly textured, panoramic view of late-nineteenth-century Shanghai follows a range of characters from beautiful sing-song girls to lower-class prostitutes and from men in ... Read more

    $35.99 USD

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  • Peace Under Heaven: A Modern Korean Novel

    A Modern Korean Novel

    by Man-Sik Chae, Kyung-Ja Chun ...
    Originally published in Seoul in 1938, soon after the outbreak of the Pacific War, "Peace Under Heaven" is a satirical novel centering on the household of a Korean landlord during the Japanese colonial occupation. Master Yun, embodying the traditional ambitions of a standard Korean paterfamilias, by being projected fast forward into a modern urban environment, caricatures the increasing ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

  • Tales of Moonlight and Rain

    by Akinari Ueda ...
    Translated by Anthony Chambers ...
    First published in 1776, the nine gothic tales in this collection are Japan's finest and most celebrated examples of the literature of the occult. They subtly merge the world of reason with the realm of the uncanny and exemplify the period's fascination with the strange and the grotesque. They were also the inspiration for Mizoguchi Kenji's brilliant 1953 film Ugetsu.The title Ugetsu monogatari ... Read more

    $25.99 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

    $28.79 USD

  • Selected Poems of Du Fu

    Series series Translations from the Asian Classics
    Du Fu (712–777) has been called China's greatest poet, and some call him the greatest nonepic, nondramatic poet whose writings survive in any language. Du Fu excelled in a great variety of poetic forms, showing a richness of language ranging from elegant to colloquial, from allusive to direct. His impressive breadth of subject matter includes intimate personal detail as well as a great deal of ... Read more

    $25.99 USD

  • Translating Mount Fuji

    Modern Japanese Fiction and the Ethics of Identity

    by Dennis Washburn ...
    Dennis Washburn traces the changing character of Japanese national identity in the works of six major authors: Ueda Akinari, Natsume S?seki, Mori ?gai, Yokomitsu Riichi, ?oka Shohei, and Mishima Yukio. By focusing on certain interconnected themes, Washburn illuminates the contradictory desires of a nation trapped between emulating the West and preserving the traditions of Asia.Washburn begins with ... Read more

    $67.99 USD

  • Narrating China

    Jia Pingwa and his Fictional World

    by Yiyan Wang ...
    Series series Routledge Contemporary China Series
    Jia Pingwa, whose novels have caused both fame and controversy, has an enormous readership throughout the Chinese speaking world. However, despite Pingwa's cultural significance and the use of his poetry, novels and prose in schools and universities, there has never been any substantial academic study of the writer and his writings. Filling that gap, this book examines the corpus of Pingwa’s ... Read more

    $62.99 USD

  • 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

    $25.99 USD

  • Love and Revolution

    A Novel About Song Qingling and Sun Yat-sen

    by Ping Lu ...
    Translated by Nancy Du ...
    Series series Modern Chinese Literature from Taiwan
    "Death is inevitably the end of a journey. Death also allows the journey to go back to the beginning."In this bold novel, one of Taiwan's most celebrated authors reimagines the lives of a legendary couple: Sun Yat-sen, known as the "Father of the Chinese Revolution," and his wife, Song Qingling.Born in 1866, Sun Yat-sen grew up an admirer of the rebels who tried to overthrow the ruling Manchu ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • Haiku Before Haiku

    From the Renga Masters to Basho

    by Steven D. Carter ...
    Series series Translations from the Asian Classics
    While the rise of the charmingly simple, brilliantly evocative haiku is often associated with the seventeenth-century Japanese poet Matsuo Basho, the form had already flourished for more than four hundred years before Basho even began to write. These early poems, known as hokku, are identical to haiku in syllable count and structure but function differently as a genre. Whereas each haiku is its ... Read more

    $26.99 USD

  • Reading Postcolonial Theory

    Key texts in context

    by Bibhash Choudhury ...
    This book is an essential introduction to significant texts in postcolonial theory. It looks at seminal works in the ‘moments of their making’ and delineates the different threads that bind postcolonial studies. Each chapter presents a comprehensive discussion of a major text and contextualises it in the wake of contemporary themes and debates. The volume:Studies major texts by foremost scholars — ... Read more

    $67.99 USD

  • The Novels of Oe Kenzaburo

    by Yasuko Claremont ...
    Series series Routledge Contemporary Japan Series
    Ôe Kenzaburô was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1994. This critical study examines Ôe’s entire career from 1957 – 2006 and includes chapters on Ôe’s later novels not published in English. Through close readings at different points in Ôe’s career Yasuko Claremont establishes the spiritual path that he has taken in its three major phrases of nihilism, atonement, and salvation, all ... Read more

    $77.99 USD