Far Eastern category: 291 books
Another Phenomenology of Humanity
A Reading of A Dream of Red Mansions
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2015
Another Phenomenology of Humanity: A Reading of A Dream of Red Mansions is devoted to developing another version of phenomenology of humanity—human nature, human dispositions and human desires—by taking A Dream of Red Mansions, the crown jewel of Chinese culture, as its main literary paradigm...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2013
China’s literary and cultural production at the turn of the twenty-first century is marked by heterogeneity, plurality, and diversity. Given its complexity, the literary/cultural production of this period perhaps can be understood most productively as a response to a global modernity that has...
On Uneven Ground
Miyazawa Kenji and the Making of Place in Modern Japan
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2011
The history of literary and artistic production in modern Japan has typically centered on the literature and art of Tokyo, yet cultural activity in the country's regional cities and rural towns was no less vibrant. On Uneven Ground recovers pieces of this neglected history through the figure of Miyazawa...
by Haiyan Lee
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2014
In the last two decades, China has become a dramatically more urban society and hundreds of millions of people have changed residence in the process. Family and communal bonds have been broken in a country once known as "a society of kith and kin." There has been a pervasive sense of moral...
Yoko Tawada
Voices from Everywhere
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2007
Ysko Tawada: Voices from Everywhere is the first volume of criticism dedicated to the work of Ysko Tawada, one of the most highly acclaimed writers of her generation. Douglas Slaymaker has collected a range of essays including many that were featured at the 2006 MLA Conference, where a presidential...
Becoming Modern Women
Love and Female Identity in Prewar Japanese Literature and Culture
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2009
Presenting a fresh examination of women writers and prewar ideology, this book breaks new ground in its investigation of love as a critical aspect of Japanese culture during the early to mid-twentieth century. As a literary and cultural history of love and female identity, Becoming Modern Women focuses...
The Unfinished Atomic Bomb
Shadows and Reflections
Language: English
Release Date: December 26, 2017
In its diversity of perspectives, The Unfinished Atomic Bomb: Shadows and Reflections is testament to the ways in which contemplations of the A-bomb are endlessly shifting, rarely fixed on the same point or perspective. The compilation of this book is significant in this regard, offering Japanese,...
Revolution and Its Narratives
China's Socialist Literary and Cultural Imaginaries, 1949–1966
Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2016
Published in China in 2010, Revolution and Its Narratives is a historical, literary, and critical account of the cultural production of the narratives of China's socialist revolution. Through theoretical, empirical, and textual analysis of major and minor novels, dramas, short stories, and cinema,...
by Hongyang（Canada）/ 红洋（加拿大）
Language: Chinese
Release Date: October 17, 2011
Language: Chinese
Release Date: October 17, 2011
这本书收集了国内读者及海外网友对二十万字长篇小说《花落花开》原名《花浓爱更浓》的评论、建议和跟贴。
by Machi Tawara
Language: English
Release Date: June 9, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: June 9, 2015
Machi Tawara's first book of poems, The Anniversary of the Salad combines the classical 'tanka' form with the subject of a modern love affair. It became a sensation, selling over 2 million copies - and the 'salad phenomenon' in Japanese culture was comparable to the 'bananamania' that followed publication...
by Shih-pe Wang, Tian Yuan Tan, Dr Paul Edmondson
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2016
The year is 1616. William Shakespeare has just died and the world of the London theatres is mourning his loss. 1616 also saw the death of the famous Chinese playwright Tang Xianzu. Four hundred years on and Shakespeare is now an important meeting place for Anglo-Chinese cultural dialogue in the field...
Representing the Other in Modern Japanese Literature
A Critical Approach
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2006
Representing the Other in Modern Japanese Literature looks at the ways in which authors writing in Japanese in the twentieth century constructed a division between the ‘Self’ and the ‘Other’ in their work. Drawing on methodology from Foucault and Lacan, the clearly presented essays seek to...
by Hisako Tsurushima
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2008
Tommy's Sunset is a translation of the acclaimed Japanese novel about the journey of a mother and her autistic child. Drawing from her own personal life story, Hisako Tsurushima has provided a definitive work about the problems and surprising joys for the autistic and those who love them. Readers...
Lin Shu, Inc.
Translation and the Making of Modern Chinese Culture
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2012
How could a writer who knew no foreign languages call himself a translator? How, too, did he become a major commercial success, churning out nearly two hundred translations over twenty years? Lin Shu, Inc. crosses the fields of literary studies, intellectual history, and print culture, offering new...