Far Eastern category: 291 books
The Scholar and the State
Fiction as Political Discourse in Late Imperial China
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2015
In imperial China, intellectuals devoted years of their lives to passing rigorous examinations in order to obtain a civil service position in the state bureaucracy. This traditional employment of the literati class conferred social power and moral legitimacy, but changing social and political circumstances...
by Zhang Xiugui
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 1999
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 1999
This CliffsNotes guide includes everything you’ve come to expect from the trusted experts at CliffsNotes, including analysis of the most widely read literary works.
A Shawl of Mist
Tanka: Expressing the Modern Soul in an Ancient Poetic Style
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2012
The concept of a universal human nature suggests that American scholars and American readers of Japanese literature may interpret the elements in Japanese tanka based on emotions — and on meanings attached to natural images — that are common to all of humanity. It is hoped that readers will experience...
How to Read Chinese Poetry in Context
Poetic Culture from Antiquity Through the Tang
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2018
How to Read Chinese Poetry in Context is an introduction to the golden age of Chinese poetry, spanning the earliest times through the Tang dynasty (618–907). It aims to break down barriers—between language and culture, poetry and history—that have stood in the way of teaching and learning Chinese...
Tokyo in Transit
Japanese Culture on the Rails and Road
Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2010
Increased use of mass transportation in the early twentieth century enabled men and women of different social classes to interact in ways they had not before. Using a cultural studies approach that combines historical research and literary analysis, author Alisa Freedman investigates fictional, journalistic,...
by Donald Keene
Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2005
The New Yorker has called Donald Keene "America's preeminent scholar of Japanese literature." Now he presents a new book that serves as both a superb introduction to modern Japanese fiction and a memoir of his own lifelong love affair with Japanese literature and culture. Five Modern Japanese...
Legacies of the Asia-Pacific War
The Yakeato Generation
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2012
When we look in detail at the various peripheral groups of disenfranchised people emerging from the aftermath of the Asia–Pacific War the list is startling: Koreans in Japan (migrants or forced labourers), Burakumin, Hibakusha, Okinawans, Asian minorities, comfort women and many others. Many of...
by Scott J. Miller
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2010
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...
So Lovely a Country Will Never Perish
Wartime Diaries of Japanese Writers
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2010
The attack on Pearl Harbor, which precipitated the Greater East Asia War and its initial triumphs, aroused pride and a host of other emotions among the Japanese people. Yet the single year in which Japanese forces occupied territory from Alaska to Indonesia was followed by three years of terrible...
Writing Okinawa
Narrative acts of identity and resistance
Language: English
Release Date: August 18, 2008
Writing Okinawa is the first comprehensive study in English of Okinawan fiction, from it’s emergence in the early twentieth-century through its most recent permutations. It provides readings of major authors and texts set against a carefully researched presentation of the region’s political and...
Writing in Light
The Silent Scenario and the Japanese Pure Film Movement
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2001
While most people associate Japanese film with modern directors like Akira Kurosawa, Japan’s cinema has a rich tradition going back to the silent era. Japan’s "pure film movement" of the 1910s is widely held to mark the birth of film theory as we know it and is a touchstone for historians of early...
by Daisaku Ikeda, Yasushi Inoue
Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 2013
This book provides a rare opportunity to look over the shoulders of two prominent personalities as they exchange letters over a one-year period. They write about their impressions and reflections on travels and work, seasons and places, close friends and public figures they have known. Both are men of...
The Lost Garden
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2015
The Lost Garden is an eloquent portrait of the losses incurred as we struggle to hold on to our passions. The novel begins with the family of Zhu Yinghong, whose father, Zhu Zuyan, was imprisoned in the early days of Chiang Kai-shek's rule. Zhu Zuyan spends his days luxuriating in his Lotus Garden,...
by Lewis Carroll, Mark Twain, Lew Wallace
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2013
This book contains the following works with an Active Table of Contents - Western Classic Collection: Cabin Fever, Heart of the West, Good Indian, Riders of the Purple Sage... - Alice in Wonderland Collection: All Four Books (Lewis Carroll) - Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ (Lew Wallace) - Classic Horror...