Far Eastern category: 291 books
Occidentalism
A Theory of Counter-Discourse in Post-Mao China
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 1995
Xiaomei Chen offers an insightful account of the unremittingly favorable depiction of Western culture and its negative characterization of Chinese culture in post-Mao China from 1978-1988. Chen examines the cultural and political interrelations between the East and West from a vantage point more complex...
Classical Chinese Poetry in Singapore
Witnesses to Social and Cultural Transformations in the Chinese Community
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2017
As the essence of Chinese traditional culture, classical Chinese poetry in Singapore played a very important role in the social and cultural development of Singapore’s Chinese community. Numerous poems depicted the unique scenery of tropical rainforest and the customs with a Nanyang flavor, recorded...
Foreign Accents
Chinese American Verse from Exclusion to Postethnicity
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2010
Foreign Accents examines the various transpacific signifying strategies by which poets of Chinese descent in the U.S. have sought to represent cultural tradition in their articulations of an ethnic subjectivity, in Chinese as well as in English. In assessing both the dynamics and the politics of poetic...
by Luciana Galliano
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2018
Fluxus was a pivotal movement in redefining art’s role and the artist’s identity in the contemporary world, so that its aesthetics – as well as many of its gimmicks – have become so deeply embedded in our social setting that we now no longer realize where they originally came into being. Fluxus...
The Sino-Japanese War and Youth Literature
Friends and Foes on the Battlefield
Language: English
Release Date: January 22, 2016
The Sino-Japanese War (1937 – 1945) was fought in the Asia-Pacific theatre between Imperial Japan and China, with the United States as the latter’s major military ally. An important line of investigation remains, questioning how the history of this war has been passed on to post-war generations’...
Just Living
Poems and Prose of the Japanese Monk Tonna
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2002
The medieval Buddhist poet-monk Tonna (1289–1372) was regarded as the leading poet of his day and a prominent scholar and critic. Despite his commoner status, he was assigned the task of acting as compiler for an imperial anthology of poetry and counted a number of prominent courtiers among his...
The Breaking Jewel
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: January 23, 2003
Set on an island in the South Pacific during the final days of World War II, when the tide has turned against Japan and the war has unmistakably become one of attrition, The Breaking Jewel offers a rare depiction of the Pacific War from the Japanese side and captures the essence of Japan's doomed...
The Female as Subject
Reading and Writing in Early Modern Japan
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2016
Michigan Monograph Series in Japanese Studies No. 70
The Female as Subject reveals the rich and lively world of literate women in Japan from 1600 through the early twentieth century. Eleven essays by an international group of scholars from Europe, Japan, and North America examine...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2018
The Pillow Book of Sei Shonagon is a fascinating, detailed account of Japanese court life in the eleventh century. Written by a lady of the court at the height of Heian culture, this book enthralls with its lively gossip, witty observations, and subtle impressions. Lady Shonagon was an erstwhile rival...
by Zhang Jiong
Language: English
Release Date: July 14, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 14, 2017
Marxism initiated a new era not only for people to fight for socialist future, but also for each discipline of sciences to witness profound changes. In such a context, literature, which has always been closely related to politics, will inevitably move toward a new direction.
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Trees Without Wind
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2012
Unfolding in the tense years of the Cultural Revolution (1966–1976), Trees Without Wind takes place in a remote Shanxi village in which a rare affliction has left the residents physically stunted. Director Liu, an older revolutionary and local commune head, becomes embroiled in a power struggle...
The Dilemma of Faith in Modern Japanese Literature
Metaphors of Christianity
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2018
The first book-length study to explore the links between Christianity and modern Japanese literature, this book analyses the process of conversion of nine canonical authors, unveiling the influence that Christianity had on their self-construction, their oeuvre and, ultimately, the trajectory of modern...
by Sheng-mei Ma
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2012
Drawing from Anglo-American, Asian American, and Asian literature as well as J-horror and manga, Chinese cinema and Internet, and the Korean Wave, Sheng-mei Ma's Asian Diaspora and East-West Modernity probes into the conjoinedness of West and East, of modernity's illusion and nothing's infinitude....
Toma y Daca
Transculturación Y Presencia de Escritores Chino-Latinoamericanos
Language: Spanish
Release Date: August 15, 2016
In the mid-1800s, tens of thousands of Chinese workers migrated to Cuba, Peru, Mexico, and Panama in search of a better life. As they and their descendants assimilated into their new host countries, they contributed significantly to the economies of these countries through their work in agriculture,...