Far Eastern category: 291 books

China Reinterpreted is the first comprehensive study on the representation of Chinese figures and motifs in Muromachi Japanese noh theater. Given that China had a strong influence on Japanese culture from the sixth to the early seventeenth centuries, research on Japanese reception of Chinese culture...

Recognized as modern China’s preeminent man of letters, Lu Xun (1881–1936) is revered as the nation’s conscience, a writer comparable to Shakespeare or Tolstoy. Gloria Davies’s vivid portrait gives readers a better sense of this influential author by situating the man Mao Zedong hailed as “the sage of modern China” in his turbulent time and place.

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Challenging clichés of Japanism as a feminine taste, Bachelor Japanists argues that Japanese aesthetics were central to contests over the meanings of masculinity in the West. Christopher Reed draws attention to the queerness of Japanist communities of writers, collectors, curators, and artists in...

In four critical essays, Hope Anderson desconstructs the production design, classical allusions, literary source, and Japanese cultural influences in the 1982 Ridley Scott film "Blade Runner," providing new insights into what is regarded by many as the greatest science fiction film of all time. Among...

This is the first English translation of the 1976 novel by Japan's most daring and innovative novelist. Kenzaburo Oe dispenses with the unity of voice often sought in the conventional realistic novel by forcing the reader to come to grips with one of the basic questions in modern literature: What is the novel?

**若無悠久綿長的歷史　讓它逃過二戰期間的轟炸  日本文化的心臟－關西地區　無法跳動迄今  一本直探大和本質的絕妙散文集  現代版本的《菊與刀》京阪神篇  美國人類學家帶你了解關西、理解日本 ** 日本多山，南北狹長，日本史與其說是國家的歷史，不如說是地區的歷史。往航海圖大略一瞥就可明白，日本列島除了四座大島外，其實還涵蓋三千餘座小島，森林覆蓋的陸地達一半以上。除了海洋高山構成自然屏障外，昔日交通運輸的不便，更是讓各地區的交流往來橫遭阻礙。一段時日過後，這種島國特性反倒促使日本各區穩健邁向多元化發展，即使時至今日，仍是日本的鮮明特色。  雖然日本可劃分成八個地區，但是這本短文選集僅描繪其中一區－關西。關西位於本州－日本中間的大島－南部中央處。這片寬闊區域有兩府五縣，分別為京都府、大阪府、奈良縣、兵庫縣、滋賀縣、和歌山縣、三重縣。日本居民有一億兩千七百萬人，約有百分之十九住在關西地區。春秋時節，關西地區的人數暫且增加，日本各地居民紛紛前來觀賞春季飄落的櫻花，秋季溫暖的色調，重新領略共有的文化寶庫。關西的歷史縱深極具魅力，日本國內外皆視關西為日本文化精髓代表，不僅有底蘊豐厚的茶道、花藝、表演藝術（歌舞伎、能劇、人形淨瑠璃）、傳統料理、文學典籍（例如《枕草子》、《源氏物語》，兩部的作者皆為女性）、神社與寺院建築、古老的參拜道，更是各派佛教的中樞。  曾為日本首都的大阪、奈良、京都，全都座落於關西的心臟地帶，亦稱近畿。日本早期跟亞洲其他地方交流往來之時，本州與四國間的瀨戶內海成為通往日本的重要門戶，外來的思想與貨物經由難波津的港口（即大阪港）遍及關西各地。外來的影響即由此地區輻散出去，日本國內無一處不受影響。奈良是日本第一個永久首都，坐擁全世界最古老的木造建築－法隆寺。在鹿群自由漫步的奈良城，法隆寺猶如一份恰如其分的獻禮，標出絲綢之路最東邊路線的末站。  本書為《讀賣新聞》英文版〈關西文化地景〉專欄的集結，該專欄每月挑選一項主題，以一整頁的篇幅刊登於周日的旅遊版，透過「人類學者的眼光」描寫關西。在這本兼具知識性、趣味性的散文集中，作者跳脫評論，向讀者介紹他們可遊覽的實際景點，同時附上相片，進一步吸引讀者前往旅遊。《讀賣新聞》英文版的許多讀者都是移居國外的人士，要是列出遊客首次遊歷時會喜歡的景點，他們肯定會覺得無趣，所以作者想方設法介紹特別景點，就連嫻熟日本習俗與特性的老手都會感到新奇不已。  **【本書精彩內容搶先看】 ** ●說話腔調...

Carlos Rojas focuses on the trope of “homesickness” in China—discomfort caused not by a longing for home but by excessive proximity to it. This inverse homesickness marks a process of movement away from the home, conceived of as spaces associated with the nation, family, and individual body, and gives rise to the possibility of long-term health.

Heroines of the Qing introduces an array of Chinese women from the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries who were powerful, active subjects of their own lives and who wrote themselves as the heroines of their exemplary stories. Traditionally, “exemplary women” (lienu)—heroic martyrs, chaste widows,...

Natsume Sōseki (1867–1916) was the father of the modern novel in Japan, chronicling the plight of bourgeois characters caught between familiar modes of living and the onslaught of Western values and conventions. Yet even though generations of Japanese high school students have been expected to...

As in the United States, fairy-tale characters, motifs, and patterns (many from the Western canon) have pervaded recent Japanese culture. Like their Western counterparts, these contemporary adaptations tend to have a more female-oriented perspective than traditional tales and feature female characters...

First published in Japanese in 1966, the debut novel of the critically acclaimed author of Singular Rebellion is an unusual portrait of a deeply taboo subject in twentieth-century Japanese society: resistance to the draft in World War II. In 1940 Shokichi Hamada is a conscientious objector who dodges...

This is an innovative, scholarly and original study of the ethics of modern Japanese aesthetics from the 1930s, through the Second World War and into the post-war period. Nina Cornyetz embarks on new and unprecedented readings of some of the most significant literary and film texts of the Japanese...

Using the Euro-American theoretical framework of postmodernism, feminism and post-colonialism, this book analyses the fictional and critical work of four contemporary Japanese writers; Murakami Haruki, Yoshimoto Banana, Yoshimoto Takaaki and Karatani Kojin. In addition the author reconsiders this...