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  • Observing the Unseen

    Curiosity and Common Knowledge in Early Modern China

    de Andrew Schonebaum ...
    Explores the relationship between fantastical literature and scientific inquiryWhat did early modern Chinese readers believe about dragons, thunder, or fate, and where did they learn it? Observing the Unseen explores how literate and marginally literate people in China between the sixteenth and nineteenth centuries investigated the invisible, the ubiquitous, and the inexplicable. Whether through ... Leer más

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  • Lives Interrupted

    Psychiatric Narratives of Struggle and Resilience

    de Secil Arac-Orhun, Montana Queler, Marilyn Charles, Alan Doyle, Elliott Madison, Veronica Ozog, Mario Pinot, Andrew Schonebaum, Erin Soros0, Kenneth Dudek1, Michael O’Loughlin2 ...
    Series series Psychoanalytic Studies: Clinical, Social, and Cultural Contexts
    Lives Interrupted: Psychiatric Narratives of Struggle and Resilience provides insight into the everyday experiences of individuals struggling with severe psychic distress during a six-month immersion program at the Fountain House headquarters, a New York-based organization that works to address the effects of serious mental illness. These narratives add complexity and objectivity to the expanding ... Leer más

    $121.99 USD

  • Novel Medicine

    Healing, Literature, and Popular Knowledge in Early Modern China

    de Andrew Schonebaum ...
    Series series Modern Language Initiative Books
    By examining the dynamic interplay between discourses of fiction and medicine, Novel Medicine demonstrates how fiction incorporated, created, and disseminated medical knowledge in China, beginning in the sixteenth century. Critical readings of fictional and medical texts provide a counterpoint to prevailing narratives that focus only on the “literati” aspects of the novel, showing that these texts ... Leer más

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  • Approaches to Teaching The Plum in the Golden Vase (The Golden Lotus)

    Edición de Andrew Schonebaum ...
    Series Libro 159 - Approaches to Teaching World Literature
    The Plum in the Golden Vase (also known as The Golden Lotus) was published in the early seventeenth century and may be the first long work of Chinese fiction written by a single (though anonymous) author. Featuring both complex structural elements and psychological and emotional realism, the novel centers on the rich merchant Ximen Qing and his household and describes the physical surroundings and ... Leer más

    $38.00 USD

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  • Jottings under Lamplight

    de 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 ... Leer más

    $30.99 USD

  • The Chinese Novel at the Turn of the Century

    Edición de Milena Dolezelova-Velingerova ...
    Series series Heritage
    This collection of essays reveals the dynamic role of the late Qing novel in the process of modernization of Chinese fiction. Substantial changes in various aspects of the Chinese novel at the turn of the century, demonstrated by structural analyses of several representative novels, suggest that the evolution of modern Chinese fiction was a more complex process than a simple imitation of Western ... Leer más

    $31.99 USD

  • The Scholar and the State

    Fiction as Political Discourse in Late Imperial China

    de Liangyan Ge ...
    In imperial China, intellectuals devoted years of their lives to passing rigorous examinations in order to obtain a civil service position in the state bureaucracy. This traditional employment of the literati class conferred social power and moral legitimacy, but changing social and political circumstances in the Ming (1368–1644) and Qing (1644–1911) periods forced many to seek alternative careers ... Leer más

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  • The Analects of Confucius

    A Philosophical Translation

    de Roger T. Ames, Henry Rosemont Jr. ...
    "To quietly persevere in storing up what is learned, to continue studying without respite, to instruct others without growing weary--is this not me?"--ConfuciusConfucius is recognized as China's first and greatest teacher, and his ideas have been the fertile soil in which the Chinese cultural tradition has flourished. Now, here is a translation of the recorded thoughts and deeds that best remember ... Leer más

    $13.99 USD

  • Chinese Literature

    A Very Short Introduction

    de Sabina Knight ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    Perhaps nowhere else has literature been as conscious a collective endeavor as in China, and China's survival over three thousand years may owe more to its literary traditions than to its political history. This Very Short Introduction tells the story of Chinese literature from antiquity to the present, focusing on the key role literary culture played in supporting social and political concerns. ... Leer más

    $7.99 USD

  • Symptoms of an Unruly Age

    Li Zhi and Cultures of Early Modernity

    de Rivi Handler-Spitz ...
    Symptoms of an Unruly Age compares the writings of Li Zhi (1527–1602) and his late-Ming compatriots to texts composed by their European contemporaries, including Montaigne, Shakespeare, and Cervantes. Emphasizing aesthetic patterns that transcend national boundaries, Rivi Handler-Spitz explores these works as culturally distinct responses to similar social and economic tensions affecting early ... Leer más

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  • How to Read Chinese Poetry

    A Guided Anthology

    Edición de Zong-qi Cai ...
    Series series How to Read Chinese Literature
    In this "guided" anthology, experts lead students through the major genres and eras of Chinese poetry from antiquity to the modern time. The volume is divided into 6 chronological sections and features more than 140 examples of the best shi, sao, fu, ci, and qu poems. A comprehensive introduction and extensive thematic table of contents highlight the thematic, formal, and prosodic features of ... Leer más

    $40.99 USD

  • The Art of War

    Sun Zi's Military Methods

    de Sun Zi ...
    Traducido por Victor Mair ...
    Series series Translations from the Asian Classics
    Compiled during the Warring States period of 475-221 B.C.E., The Art of War has had an enormous impact on the development of Chinese military strategy over the past two thousand years and occupies an important place in East Asian intellectual history. It is the first known attempt to formulate a rational basis for the planning and conduct of military operations, and while numerous editions of the ... Leer más

    $12.99 USD