Far Eastern category: 291 books
Learning to Kneel
Noh, Modernism, and Journeys in Teaching
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 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....
Family Revolution
Marital Strife in Contemporary Chinese Literature and Visual Culture
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2014
As state control of private life in China has loosened since 1980, citizens have experienced an unprecedented family revolution—an overhaul of family structure, marital practices, and gender relationships. While the nuclear family has become a privileged realm of romance and individualism symbolizing...
Chikamatsu
Five Late Plays
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2002
Chikamatsu Monzaemon (1653-1725), often referred to as "Japan's Shakespeare" and a "god of writers," was arguably the most famous playwright in Japanese history and wrote more than 100 plays for the kabuki and bunraku theaters. Today, the plays of this major literary figure are...
by David C. Stahl
Language: English
Release Date: July 14, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 14, 2017
Japanese literature and film have frequently been approached using lenses such as language, genre and ideology. Yet, despite a succession of major social traumas that have marked, and in many ways shaped and defined much of modern Japan, Japanese fiction and cinema have not often been examined psychoanalytically.
In...
Mapping Modern Beijing
Space, Emotion, Literary Topography
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2017
Mapping Modern Beijing investigates the five methods of representing Beijing-a warped hometown, a city of snapshots and manners, an aesthetic city, an imperial capital in comparative and cross-cultural perspective, and a displaced city on the Sinophone and diasporic postmemory-by authors travelling...
by Liu Hsieh, Vincent Yu-chung Shih
Language: English
Release Date: January 13, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: January 13, 2015
The Literary Mind and the Carving of Dragons is the first comprehensive work of literary criticism in Chinese, and one that has been considered essential reading for writers and scholars since it was written some 1,500 years ago. A vast compendium of all that was known about Chinese literature at...
The Edge of Knowing
Dreams, History, and Realism in Modern Chinese Literature
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2017
The Edge of Knowing explores the relationship between the rhetoric of dreams and realist literary practice in modern Chinese literature from the May Fourth Era in the early twentieth century through the period just following the end of the Cultural Revolution in 1976. The writers� attention to dreams...
Confucian Image Politics
Masculine Morality in Seventeenth-Century China
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2017
During the Ming-Qing transition (roughly from the 1570s to the 1680s), literati-officials in China employed public forms of writing, art, and social spectacle to present positive moral images of themselves and negative images of their rivals. The rise of print culture, the dynastic change, and the...
Narrating China
Jia Pingwa and his Fictional World
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2006
Jia Pingwa, whose novels have caused both fame and controversy, has an enormous readership throughout the Chinese speaking world. However, despite Pingwa's cultural significance and the use of his poetry, novels and prose in schools and universities, there has never been any substantial academic...
L'Art de la guerre de Sun Tzu (Analyse approfondie)
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Language: French
Release Date: February 8, 2017
L'Art de la guerre est sans aucun doute le plus fameux des traités de stratégie militaire. Attribué au général chinois Sun Tzu, il renouvelle les codes de la tradition guerrière dans la Chine des « Royaumes combattants », mettant l'accent sur trois données fondamentales, dont la maîtrise...
Heike Monogatari (anonyme)
Les Fiches de Lecture d'Universalis
Language: French
Release Date: January 24, 2017
Bienvenue dans la collection Les Fiches de lecture d’Universalis
Le Heike Monogatari appartient au genre des chroniques guerrières, les gunki, tout comme le Hôgen Monogatari, « Récit (des troubles) de l'ère Hôgen » et le Heiji Monogatari, « Récit (des troubles) de l'ère Heiji »....
The Last Isle
Contemporary Film, Culture and Trauma in Global Taiwan
Language: English
Release Date: July 9, 2015
Taiwan is in danger of becoming the last isle, losing its sovereignty and identity. The Last Isle opens from where Taiwan film scholarship leaves off—the 1980s Taiwan New Cinema, focusing on relatively unknown contemporary films that are “unglobalizable,” such as Cape No. 7, Island Etude, Din...
La Confession impudique de Tanizaki Junichiro
Les Fiches de lecture d'Universalis
Language: French
Release Date: November 10, 2015
Bienvenue dans la collection Les Fiches de lecture d’Universalis
C’est un véritable scandale que suscite la parution en 1956 de La Confession impudique (Kagi, littéralement « La Clé »), œuvre du romancier japonais Tanizaki Junichirō (1886-1965).
Une fiche de lecture spécialement...