Far Eastern category: 291 books
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Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 1985
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 1985
Sugawara and the Secrets of Calligraphy is a classic play from Japan's golden age of puppet theater. Written in the eighteenth century, it tells the tale of Sugawara no Michizane, a wronged scholar-official who, in death, joins the Shinto pantheon as a nurturer of scholarship and calligraphy. The...
Yoshitsune and the Thousand Cherry Trees
A Masterpiece of the Eighteenth-Century Japanese Puppet Theater
Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 1993
A masterpiece of eighteenth-century Japanese puppet theater, Yoshitsune and the Thousand Cherry Trees is an action-packed play set in the aftermath of the twelfth-century Genji–Heike wars. It follows the adventures of the military commander, Yoshitsune, as he tries to avoid capture by his jealous...
by Umberto Bresciani
Language: Italian
Release Date: February 19, 2019
Language: Italian
Release Date: February 19, 2019
Per la prima volta in italiano il Dizionario di Confucianesimo, un'opera enciclopedica con migliaia di lemmi su tutti gli aspetti del Confucianesimo. L’ideologia che va sotto il nome di Confucianesimo ha dominato per millenni la nazione più grande del globo. Sarebbe già una ragione sufficiente...
Narrow Road to the Interior
And Other Writings
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2006
A beautiful translation of one of the most-loved classics of Japanese literature.
Bashō (1644–1694)—a great luminary of Asian literature who elevated the haiku to an art form of utter simplicity and intense spiritual beauty—is renowned in the West as the author of Narrow Road to the...
Kawthoolei - The Karen National Union (KNU) - True Report
The Fight for independence from Burma since 1948
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2014
Kawthoolei - The Karen National Union (KNU) - True Report The Fight for independence from Burma since 1948
Heinz Duthel, ex Legionaire, twice Consul of Angola in France and Uganda in Germany and France spend his life as one of the last German Mercenary, before taking refuge in Far East in...
by Professor Matthew Beedham
Language: English
Release Date: November 23, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: November 23, 2009
One of the most popular contemporary authors, Kazuo Ishiguro has so far produced six highly regarded novels which have won him international acclaim and honours, including the Booker Prize, the Whitbread Award and an OBE for Services to Literature.
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A History of Pain
Trauma in Modern Chinese Literature and Film
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2008
The portrayal of historical atrocity in fiction, film, and popular culture can reveal much about the function of individual memory and the shifting status of national identity. In the context of Chinese culture, films such as Hou Hsiao-hsien's City of Sadness and Lou Ye's Summer Palace and novels...
The Art of Haiku
Its History through Poems and Paintings by Japanese Masters
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2012
In the past hundred years, haiku has gone far beyond its Japanese origins to become a worldwide phenomenon—with the classic poetic form growing and evolving as it has adapted to the needs of the whole range of languages and cultures that have embraced it. This proliferation of the joy of haiku is...
The Heart of Japan (Routledge Revivals)
Glimpses of Life and Nature Far From the Travellers' Track in the Land of the Rising Sun
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2014
This collection of commentaries and reflections on Japanese culture, first published in 1904, was written shortly after the return of two English aristocrats from five years spent immersed in the ‘Land of the Rising Sun’. Their intention through these anecdotes – some humorous and charming,...
Tales of Futures Past
Anticipation and the Ends of Literature in Contemporary China
Language: English
Release Date: July 9, 2014
Most studies of Chinese literature conflate the category of the future with notions of progress and nation building, and with the utopian visions broadcast by the Maoist and post-Mao developmental state. The future is thus understood as a preconceived endpoint that is propagated, at times even imposed,...
by B. J. Moore-Gilbert
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2014
First published in 1986, this book sets Kipling firmly in the historical context not only of contemporary India but of prior Anglo-Indian writers about India. Despite his enthusiastic reception in England as ‘revealer of the East’, in India he seems to have been regarded as just one more Anglo-Indian...
Socialist Cosmopolitanism
The Chinese Literary Universe, 1945-1965
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2017
Socialist Cosmopolitanism offers an innovative interpretation of literary works from the Mao era that reads Chinese socialist literature as world literature. As Nicolai Volland demonstrates, after 1949 China engaged with the world beyond its borders in a variety of ways and on many levels—politically,...
by Haomin Gong, Xin Yang
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2017
New information technologies have, to an unprecedented degree, come to reshape human relations, identities and communities both online and offline. As Internet narratives including online fiction, poetry and films reflect and represent ambivalent politics in China, the Chinese state wishes to enable...