Far Eastern category: 291 books
The World of the Shining Prince
Court Life in Ancient Japan
Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2013
Ivan Morris’s definitive and widely acclaimed portrait of the ceremonious and melancholy world of ancient Japan.
Using The Tale of Genji and other major literary works from Japan’s Heian period as a frame of reference, The World of the Shining Prince recreates an era when women set...
Literary Creations on the Road
Women's Travel Diaries in Early Modern Japan
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2012
Keiko Shiba, a noted researcher in early modern Japanese history, has spent years collecting hundreds of travel diaries written by women during the reign of the Tokugawa shogunate (17th through mid-19th centuries). The fruit of her research, originally published in Japanese, is now available in an...
Hojoki
Visions of a Torn World
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 1998
A luminous translation of the classic Buddhist poem
by Wai-chew Sim
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2009
Having earned an international reputation with his booker-prize-winning novel, The Remains of the Day, Kazuo Ishiguro is fast emerging as an important cultural figure of our times.
In this guide to Ishiguro’s varied and often experimental work, Wai-chew Sim presents:
a biographical...
The Lyrical in Epic Time
Modern Chinese Intellectuals and Artists Through the 1949 Crisis
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2015
In this book, David Der-wei Wang uses the lyrical to rethink the dynamics of Chinese modernity. Although the form may seem unusual for representing China's social and political crises in the mid-twentieth century, Wang contends that national cataclysm and mass movements intensified Chinese lyricism...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2016
The Columbia Companion to Modern Chinese Literature features more than fifty short essays on specific writers and literary trends from the Qing period (1895–1911) to the present. The volume opens with thematic essays on the politics and ethics of writing literary history, the formation of the canon,...
The Spatiality of Emotion in Early Modern China
From Dreamscapes to Theatricality
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2018
Emotion takes place. Rather than an interior state of mind in response to the outside world, emotion per se is spatial, at turns embedding us from without, transporting us somewhere else, or putting us ahead of ourselves. In this book, Ling Hon Lam gives a deeply original account of the history of...
by Li-hua Ying
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2009
Modern Chinese literature has been flourishing for over a century, with varying degrees of intensity and energy at different junctures of history and points of locale. An integral part of world literature from the moment it was born, it has been in constant dialogue with its counterparts from the...
by Xuezhao CHEN, Jeffrey C. Kinkley, Ti Hua
Language: English
Release Date: December 27, 1990
Language: English
Release Date: December 27, 1990
A poignant memoir of life under Communism by one of China's established women writers. Not only did her heroic intellectualism suffer under the restrictions of a repressive regime, but both her passionate devotion to women's rights and her fervent adherence to the precepts of Marxism were tested under often heartbreaking conditions.
Rethinking Chinese Popular Culture
Cannibalizations of the Canon
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2008
Through analyses of a wide range of Chinese literary and visual texts from the beginning of the twentieth century through the contemporary period, the thirteen essays in this volume challenge the view that canonical and popular culture are self-evident and diametrically opposed categories, and instead...
Ah Q Archaeology
Lu Xun, Ah Q, Ah Q Progeny, and the National Character Discourse in Twentieth Century China
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2006
Although Lu Xun was a leading intellectual and writer in twentieth century China, and his representative character Ah Q, hero of 'The True Story of Ah Q,' is considered an iconic repository of progressive Chinese thinking about the national character, few works examine the major discourses in his...
Japanese and Western Literature
A Comparative Study
Language: English
Release Date: August 9, 2016
Japanese and Western Literature delves deeply into Japanese culture to discover the concepts that similarize and differentiate Japanese and Western literary creations. Paralleling Japanese literary creations and fundamental thought with those of the West, the author draws many illuminating comparisons:...
Transpacific Community
America, China, and the Rise and Fall of a Cultural Network
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2016
In the turbulent years after World War I, a transpacific community of American and Chinese writers and artists emerged to forge new ideas regarding aesthetics, democracy, internationalism, and the political possibilities of art. Breaking with preconceived notions of an "exotic" East, the...
Writing Beijing
Urban Spaces and Cultural Imaginations in Contemporary Chinese Literature and Films
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2016
One of the oldest cities in the world, Beijing was an imperial capital for centuries. After the founding of the People’s Republic of China in 1949, Beijing became not only the political center of the new communist country, but also the signifier of socialist ideol-ogy and revolutionary culture....