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  • Asian Diaspora Poetry in North America

    de 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 ... Leer más

    $70.99 USD

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  • The Tales of the Heike

    de Burton Watson, Haruo Shirane ...
    Traducido por Burton Watson ...
    Series series Translations from the Asian Classics
    The Tales of the Heike is one of the most influential works in Japanese literature and culture, remaining even today a crucial source for fiction, drama, and popular media. Originally written in the mid-thirteenth century, it features a cast of vivid characters and chronicles the epic Genpei war, a civil conflict that marked the end of the power of the Heike and changed the course of Japanese ... Leer más

    $27.99 USD

  • Like a Yeti Catching Marmots

    A Little Treasury of Tibetan Proverbs

    de Pema Tsewang Shastri ...
    The Yeti, or Dremo in Tibetan, is a dim-witted mythical beast said to feed only on marmots. It sees a marmot, grabs the hapless creature, and then sits on it, saving the delicious morsel for later. And then the Yeti sees another marmot and leaps up to snatch it while the first marmot makes a quick break for freedom. An image of bumbling, foolish effort.This enchanting little book contains 108 ... Leer más

    $11.99 USD

  • Romancing the East

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

    de 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 ... Leer más

    Antes $8.99 USD Ahora $4.99 USD

  • River of Fire and Other Stories

    Traducido por Ju-Chan Fulton, Bruce Fulton ...
    de Chŏnghŭi O ...
    Series series Weatherhead Books on Asia
    O Chonghui crafts historically-rooted yet timeless tales imagining core human experiences from a female point of view. Since her debut in 1968, she has formed a powerful challenge to the patriarchal literary establishment in Korea, and her work has invited rich comparisons with the achievements of Joyce Carol Oates, Alice Munro, and Virginia Woolf.These nine stories range from O Chonghui's first ... Leer más

    $21.99 USD

  • Long Narrative Songs from the Mongghul of Northeast Tibet

    Texts in Mongghul, Chinese, and English

    de Dechun Li, Gerald Roche ...
    Series Libro 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 ... Leer más

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  • The Literature of Pre-Islamic Iran

    Companion Volume I

    Edición de 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 ... Leer más

    $109.99 USD

  • Once Iron Girls

    Essays on Gender by Post-Mao Chinese Literary Women

    Edición de Hui Wu ...
    Available in English for the first time, Once Iron Girls: Essays on Gender by Post-Mao Chinese Literary Women brings together twenty-five essays by seven critically acclaimed writers, whose fiction and poetry have become classics in modern Chinese literature. Poetic, metaphoric, and sometimes playful and satiric, the essays discuss the material reality wherein Chinese women live and function. ... Leer más

    $47.99 USD

  • The Columbia Sourcebook of Literary Taiwan

    Edición de 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; ... Leer más

    $76.99 USD

  • The Orphan of Zhao and Other Yuan Plays

    The Earliest Known Versions

    Edición de 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 ... Leer más

    $67.99 USD

  • Translating Maternal Violence

    The Discursive Construction of Maternal Filicide in 1970s Japan

    de Alessandro Castellini ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This book provides the first full-length, English-language investigation of the multiple and often contradictory ways in which mothers who kill their children were portrayed in 1970s Japan. It offers a snapshot of a historical and social moment when motherhood was being renegotiated, and maternal violence was disrupting norms of acceptable maternal behaviour. Drawing on a wide range of original ... Leer más

    $62.99 USD

  • Courtesans and Opium

    Romantic Illusions of the Fool of Yangzhou

    de Anonymous ...
    Traducido por 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 ... Leer más

    $25.99 USD