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Writing the South Seas
Imagining the Nanyang in Chinese and Southeast Asian Postcolonial Literature
Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 2015
Postcolonial literature about the South Seas, or Nanyang, examines the history of Chinese migration, localization, and interethnic exchange in Southeast Asia, where Sinophone settler cultures evolved independently by adapting to their "New World" and mingling with native cultures. Writing...
by Martina Sprague
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2018
How profound is Sun Tzu in relation to the full expanse of Chinese and European military history? While historical accounts can act as pillars of strength and as guideposts for building military theories, statesmen or generals can rarely rely on Sun Tzu's advice as a prescription for success by randomly...
Dragons in the Land of the Condor
Writing Tusán in Peru
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2014
Building on his 2013 study on Nikkei cultural production in Peru, in Dragons in the Land of the Condor Ignacio López-Calvo studies the influence of a Chinese ethnic background in the writing of several twentieth- and twenty-first-century Sino-Peruvian authors.
While authors like Siu Kam Wen...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2015
The Cambridge History of Japanese Literature provides, for the first time, a history of Japanese literature with comprehensive coverage of the premodern and modern eras in a single volume. The book is arranged topically in a series of short, accessible chapters for easy access and reference, giving insight...
Bamboo Shoots After the Rain
Contemporary Stories by Women Writers of Taiwan
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 1993
A short story collection hailed as a “welcome and valuable addition to our growing knowledge about the inner lives and literary talents of Chinese women” (Amy Ling, author of Between Worlds: Women Writers of Chinese Ancestry).
This remarkable anthology introduces the short fiction of fourteen...
The Flight of Love
A Messenger Poem of Medieval South India by Venkatanatha
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2016
After a sleepless night spent longing for his absent wife Sita, Rama, god-prince and future king, surveyed his army camps on a clear autumn morning and spied a white goose playing in a pond of lotus flowers. Seeing this radiant creature who so resembled his lost beloved, he began to plead with the...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2018
The study of early China has been radically transformed over the past fifty years by archaeological discoveries, including both textual and non-textual artefacts. Excavations of settlements and tombs have demonstrated that most people did not lead their lives in accordance with ritual canons, while...
Debating the 'Post' Condition in India
Critical Vernaculars, Unauthorized Modernities, Post-Colonial Contentions
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2017
How was the post-modernist project contested, subverted and assimilated in India? This book offers a personal account and an intellectual history of its reception and response. Tracing independent India’s engagement with Western critical theory, Paranjape outlines both its past and ‘post’. The...
In Another Country
Colonialism, Culture, and the English Novel in India
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2002
In a work of stunning archival recovery and interpretive virtuosity, Priya Joshi illuminates the cultural work performed by two kinds of English novels in India during the colonial and postcolonial periods. Spanning the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, readers and writers, empire and nation, consumption...
On Cold Mountain
A Buddhist Reading of the Hanshan Poems
Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 2015
In this first serious study of Hanshan (“Cold Mountain”), Paul Rouzer discusses some seventy poems of the iconic Chinese poet who lived sometime during the Tang dynasty (618–907). Hanshan’s poems gained a large readership in English-speaking countries following the publication of Jack Kerouac’s...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2008
This inter-disciplinary volume of essays opens new points of departure for thinking about how Taiwan has been studied and represented in the past, for reflecting on the current state of ‘Taiwan Studies’, and for thinking about how Taiwan might be re-configured in the future.
As the study...
Terrestrial Lessons
The Conquest of the World as Globe
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2017
Why and how do debates about the form and disposition of our Earth shape enlightened subjectivity and secular worldliness in colonial modernity? Sumathi Ramaswamy explores this question for British India with the aid of the terrestrial globe, which since the sixteenth century has circulated as a worldly...
The Novels of Bapsi Sidhwa
A Critical Evaluation
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2013
The Novels of Bapsi Sidhwa: A Critical Evaluation is an attempt to discover and analyze Bapsi Sidhwa's concern with the subjective truth of human personality as it finds adequate expression in her novels. Sidhwa's novels presents socio-cultural aspect of a minority community, i.e., Parsees, struggling...
The Roots of Hinduism
The Early Aryans and the Indus Civilization
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2015
Hinduism has two major roots. The more familiar is the religion brought to South Asia in the second millennium BCE by speakers of Aryan or Indo-Iranian languages, a branch of the Indo-European language family. Another, more enigmatic, root is the Indus civilization of the third millennium BCE, which...