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  • Literary Societies Of Republican China

    by Xiaomei Chen, Susan Daruvala, Yi-tsi Mei Feuerwerker, Charles A. Laughlin, Mark Miller, Xiaobing Tang, Lawrence Wang-chi Wong, Shengqing Wu, Xueqing Xu ...
    Literary Societies in Republican China provides a new and comprehensive perspective on the fascinating literary world of the most turbulent period in recent Chinese history: the Republican era of 1911-1949. Wedged between the fall of the Empire and the founding of the Communist state, the Republican period witnessed enormous social, political, and cultural changes. Traditionally the period is seen ... Read more

    $72.99 USD

  • Chinese Modern

    The Heroic and the Quotidian

    by Xiaobing Tang, Stanley Fish, Fredric Jameson ...
    Series series Post-Contemporary Interventions
    Chinese Modern examines crucial episodes in the creation of Chinese modernity during the turbulent twentieth century. Analyzing a rich array of literary, visual, theatrical, and cinematic texts, Xiaobing Tang portrays the cultural transformation of China from the early 1900s through the founding of the People’s Republic, the installation of the socialist realist aesthetic, the collapse of the idea ... Read more

    $28.79 USD

  • Global Space and the Nationalist Discourse of Modernity

    The Historical Thinking of Liang Qichao

    by Xiaobing Tang ...
    This book reexamines the historical thinking of Liang Qichao (1873-1929), one of the few modern Chinese thinkers and cultural critics whose appreciation of the question of modernity was based on first-hand experience of the world space in which China had to function as a nation-state. It seeks to demonstrate that Liang was not only a profoundly paradigmatic modern Chinese intellectual but also an ... Read more

    $62.99 USD

  • In Pursuit of Contemporary East Asian Culture

    Edited by Xiaobing Tang ...
    These critical essays examine East Asian culture through an interdisciplinary, cross-cultural lens. Readings of film, television, and visual and literary texts reveal the historical condition as well as the contemporary impulses driving East Asian culture today. We feel the muted tension in a rural South Korean village; we walk down the bustling streets of Hong Kong and witness the city's protean ... Read more

    $59.99 USD

  • Visual Culture in Contemporary China

    Paradigms and Shifts

    by Xiaobing Tang ...
    Exploring a wealth of images ranging from woodblock prints to oil paintings, this beautifully illustrated full-color study takes up key elements of the visual culture produced in the People's Republic of China from its founding in 1949 to the present day. In a challenge to prevailing perceptions, Xiaobing Tang argues that contemporary Chinese visual culture is too complex to be understood in terms ... Read more

    $27.89 USD

  • Politics, Ideology, and Literary Discourse in Modern China

    Theoretical Interventions and Cultural Critique

    by Fredric Jameson, Liu Kang, Liu Zaifu ...
    This collection of essays addresses the perception that our understanding of modern China will be enhanced by opening the literature of China to more rigorous theoretical and comparative study. In doing so, the book confronts the problematic and complex subject of China's literary, theoretical, and cultural responses to the experience of the modern.With chapters by writers, scholars, and critics ... Read more

    $25.19 USD

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    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

  • The Souls of China

    The Return of Religion After Mao

    by Ian Johnson ...
    From the Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist, a revelatory portrait of religion in China today—its history, the spiritual traditions of its Eastern and Western faiths, and the ways in which it is influencing China’s future.The Souls of China tells the story of one of the world’s great spiritual revivals. Following a century of violent anti-religious campaigns, China is now filled with new temples, ... Read more

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  • Nanjing Requiem

    A Novel

    by Ha Jin ...
    Series series Vintage International
    The award-winning author of Waiting and War Trash returns to his homeland in a searing new novel that unfurls during one of the darkest moments of the twentieth century: the Rape of Nanjing.In 1937, with the Japanese poised to invade Nanjing, Minnie Vautrin—an American missionary and the dean of Jinling Women’s College—decides to remain at the school, convinced that her American citizenship will ... Read more

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  • Hampi - The Forgotten Empire

    by Harpreet Kaur Kapoor ...
    Hampi is a world heritage site and holds some of the most unique remains from the great empire of Vijayanagar. The site has an ongoing archaeological dig that has been on since the past 20 years now. With world famous historians and archaeologists having worked on it. The government may have reduced the dig allowance but the enthusiasm has not reduced.There is still so much to know. ... Read more

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  • The Ideals of the East

    With Special Reference to the Art of Japan

    by Kakuzo Okakura ...
    Series series Stone Bridge Classics
    An exploration of the roots of beauty in Japanese aesthetics.Written by the foremost authority of the era on Oriental archeology and art, this extremely influential book offers a brief but concise introduction to Asian art. First published in 1883, it responded to a vogue in Western culture for a growing awareness and appreciation of Japanese artistic expressions of beauty and philosophy—a ... Read more

    $2.95 USD

  • Cinema of Actuality

    Japanese Avant-Garde Filmmaking in the Season of Image Politics

    by Yuriko Furuhata ...
    Series series Asia-Pacific: Culture, Politics, and Society
    During the 1960s and early 1970s, Japanese avant-garde filmmakers intensely explored the shifting role of the image in political activism and media events. Known as the "season of politics," the era was filled with widely covered dramatic events from hijackings and hostage crises to student protests. This season of politics was, Yuriko Furuhata argues, the season of image politics. Well-known ... Read more

    $25.19 USD