Columbia Press: 2357 books
by N. Harry Rothschild
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2015
Wu Zhao (624–705), better known as Wu Zetian or Empress Wu, is the only woman to have ruled China as emperor over the course of its 5,000-year history. How did she—in a predominantly patriarchal and androcentric society—ascend the dragon throne? Exploring a mystery that has confounded scholars...
The Songs of Chu
An Anthology of Ancient Chinese Poetry by Qu Yuan and Others
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2017
Sources show Qu Yuan (?340–278 BCE) was the first person in China to become famous for his poetry, so famous in fact that the Chinese celebrate his life with a national holiday called Poet's Day, or the Dragon Boat Festival. His work, which forms the core of the The Songs of Chu, the second oldest...
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...
Cinematic Appeals
The Experience of New Movie Technologies
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2013
Cinematic Appeals follows the effect of technological innovation on the cinema experience, specifically the introduction of widescreen and stereoscopic 3D systems in the 1950s, the rise of digital cinema in the 1990s, and the transition to digital 3D since 2005. Widescreen cinema promised to draw...
Beyond Bolaño
The Global Latin American Novel
Language: English
Release Date: January 27, 2015
Through a comparative analysis of the novels of Roberto Bolaño and the fictional work of César Aira, Mario Bellatin, Diamela Eltit, Chico Buarque, Alberto Fuguet, and Fernando Vallejo, among other leading authors, Héctor Hoyos defines and explores new trends in how we read and write in a globalized...
Coming to Our Senses
Affect and an Order of Things for Global Culture
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2016
Coming to Our Senses positions affect, or feeling, as our new cultural compass, ordering the parameters and possibilities of what can be known. From Facebook "likes" to Coca-Cola "loves," from "emotional intelligence" in business to "emotional contagion" in...
The Lovelorn Ghost and the Magical Monk
Practicing Buddhism in Modern Thailand
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2011
Stories centering on the lovelorn ghost (Mae Nak) and the magical monk (Somdet To) are central to Thai Buddhism. Historically important and emotionally resonant, these characters appeal to every class of follower. Metaphorically and rhetorically powerful, they invite constant reimagining across time.
Focusing...
The Extinct Scene
Late Modernism and Everyday Life
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2015
In 1935, the English writer Stephen Spender wrote that the historical pressures of his era should "turn the reader's and writer's attention outwards from himself to the world." Combining historical, formalist, and archival approaches, Thomas S. Davis examines late modernism's decisive turn...
Globalectics
Theory and the Politics of Knowing
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2012
A masterful writer working in many genres, Ngugi wa Thiong'o entered the East African literary scene in 1962 with the performance of his first major play, The Black Hermit, at the National Theatre in Uganda. In 1977 he was imprisoned after his most controversial work, Ngaahika Ndeenda (I Will Marry...
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Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2015
An America in which the color of one's skin no longer matters would be unprecedented. With the election of President Barack Obama in 2008, that future suddenly seemed possible. Obama's rise reflects a nation of fluid populations and fortunes, a society in which a biracial individual could be embraced...
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...
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...
Homecomings
The Belated Return of Japan's Lost Soldiers
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2016
Soon after the end of World War II, a majority of the nearly 7 million Japanese civilians and serviceman who had been posted overseas returned home. Heeding the call to rebuild, these veterans helped remake Japan and enjoyed popularized accounts of their service. For those who took longer to be repatriated,...
Electric Dreamland
Amusement Parks, Movies, and American Modernity
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2012
Amusement parks were the playgrounds of the working class in the early twentieth century, combining numerous, mechanically-based spectacles into one unique, modern cultural phenomenon. Lauren Rabinovitz describes the urban modernity engendered by these parks and their media, encouraging ordinary individuals...