Far Eastern category: 291 books
by Alex Bates, Koichi Haga, Ursula Heise
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2017
What can ecocriticism do when engaging with Japanese literature and culture? This edited volume Ecocriticism in Japan attempts to answer this question. The contributors place themselves inside the domestic fields of production of works of art and express their concerns and ideas for the English-speaking...
by Vincent Durand-Dastès, Marie Laureillard
Language: French
Release Date: December 12, 2017
Language: French
Release Date: December 12, 2017
Démons et fantômes, gui 鬼 , comptent parmi les figures les plus marquantes de la culture chinoise, et continuent de hanter encore de nos jours la société de la Chine et de ses voisins. Dans le premier volume de notre recueil fantomatique, nous avons essayé de préciser les contours des êtres...
地表最強國文課本 第一冊
翻牆出走自學期
Language: Chinese
Release Date: January 1, 2017
全體國文老師：「地表最強國文課本？」
陳茻：「還是改成這本國文課本94狂？」（淡定）
想成為地表最強的人，就要讀遍所有的「國文課本」！
情欲流動的男演員「湯顯祖」、最強的神鬼文豪「蘇東坡」、科技狂與發明狂「諸葛亮」、古代網路戰神「孟子」、絕對是外星人的「莊子」……古物收購，新品上市！
「全書共十課，從年輕的文章開始，一路排到老的。過往的文學史都從最古老的文章開始教，我不認為這樣不好，只是想把年代倒回來，先讀讀離我們近點的東西，再慢慢溯源，我想，這麼做也許會有些不同的收穫。」
——「地表最強國文課沒有之一」臉書專頁作家...
by Chiufang Hwang
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2017
CHIUFANG HWANG came to the United States from Taiwan when she was a toddler so her father could pursue a PhD. But his academic American dream stalled, forcing the family into a transient lifestyle as he chased one PhD program after another, from Texas to South Carolina and back. Always the new kid...
Famille de Ba Jin
Les Fiches de lecture d'Universalis
Language: French
Release Date: November 10, 2015
Bienvenue dans la collection Les Fiches de lecture d’Universalis
Publié par Ba Jin (1904-2005) en 1931 et 1932 dans Le Temps de Shanghai, puis en volume en 1933, Famille (Jia) est le premier volet d’une trilogie, Jiliu (Le Torrent), qui retrace la chronique des Gao – un clan de Chengdu,...
Chen Style Taijiquan Collected Masterworks
The History of a Martial Art
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2019
The first-ever English translation of the most important masterworks of Chen Style Taiji, as originally published by the renowned grandmaster Chen Zhaopi
Chen Zhaopi (1893-1972) is universally recognized as a grandmaster of Chen Style Taiji, an ancient martial art that is the foundation of...
Misers, Shrews, and Polygamists
Sexuality and Male-Female Relations in Eighteenth-Century Chinese Fiction
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 1995
Having multiple wives was one of the mainstays of male privilege during the Ming and Qing dynasties of late imperial China. Based on a comprehensive reading of eighteenth-century Chinese novels and a theoretical approach grounded in poststructuralist, psychoanalytic, and feminist criticism, Misers,...
Learning to Kneel
Noh, Modernism, and Journeys in Teaching
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2016
In this inventive mix of criticism, scholarship, and personal reflection, Carrie J. Preston explores the nature of cross-cultural teaching, learning, and performance. Throughout the twentieth century, Japanese noh was a major creative catalyst for American and European writers, dancers, and composers....
Minuit de Mao Dun
Les Fiches de lecture d'Universalis
Language: French
Release Date: November 10, 2015
Bienvenue dans la collection Les Fiches de lecture d’Universalis
Oeuvre majeure de Mao Dun (1896-1981), Minuit, publié en 1933, a été salué en son temps comme « le premier roman réaliste réussi de la littérature chinoise » (Qu Qiubai).
Une fiche de lecture spécialement conçue...
by Scott J. Miller
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2009
With the Meiji Restoration in 1868, Japan opened its doors to the West and underwent remarkable changes as it sought to become a modern nation. Accompanying the political changes that Western trade ushered in were widespread social and cultural changes. Newspapers, novels, poems, and plays from the...
Dramatic Action in Greek Tragedy and Noh
Reading with and beyond Aristotle
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2013
This book explores the ramifications of understanding the similarities and differences between the tragedies of Euripides and Sophocles and realistic Japanese noh. First, it looks at the relationship of Aristotle’s definition of tragedy to the tragedies he favored. Next, his definition is applied...
Women in British Chinese Writings
Subjectivity, Identity and Hybridity
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2014
British Chinese Writings: Subjectivity, Identity and Hybridity' is a study of British Chinese literature. As Dr Hsiao points out, investigation of British Chinese writings is a little studied area; however, since the political, social and historical factors affecting this group of literature are unique,...
A Hundred Flowers Blossoming
A Collection of Literary Essays Written by Chinese Scholars
Language: English
Release Date: August 3, 2009
A Hundred Flowers Blossoming is a collection of literary essays written by faculty members of Xi'an International Studies University, China with two distinctive features. The first one is a Chinese perspective on Western literary works, which is normally not found in the scholarship in the West. The...