Far Eastern category: 291 books
The Ink Dark Moon
Love Poems by Ono no Komachi anmd Izumi Shikibu, Women of the Ancient Court of Japan
Language: English
Release Date: January 21, 2015
These translated poems were written by 2 ladies of the Heian court of Japan between the ninth and eleventh centuries A.D. The poems speak intimately of their authors' sexual longing, fulfillment and disillusionment.
Mencius
A New Translation Arranged and Annotated For The General Reader
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1963
Most educated Westerners are familiar with the thinkers and prophets who inform the Western spirit. But they are less familiar with the thinkers who have shaped the major oriental civilizations. The heirs of these ancient civilizations are now once again in the ascendant. We must understand the ways...
by Li-hua Ying
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2010
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...
Cosmopolitanism, Nationalism, and Individualism in Modern China
The Chenbao Fukan and the New Culture Era, 1918–1928
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2014
Cosmopolitanism, Nationalism, and Individualism in Modern China analyzes important aspects of Chinese intellectual life and cultural practices that formed and informed the historical phenomenon known as the New Culture era. Through examining an influential newspaper supplement published in Beijing...
Baudelaire in China
A Study in Literary Reception
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2012
Baudelaire's work entered China in the twentieth century amidst political and social upheavals accompanied by a "literary revolution" that called for classical models and modes of expression to be replaced by vernacular language and contemporary content. Chinese writers welcomed their meeting with...
Forming the Early Chinese Court
Rituals, Spaces, Roles
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2017
Forming the Early Chinese Court builds on new directions in comparative studies of royal courts in the ancient world to present a pioneering study of early Chinese court culture. Rejecting divides between literary, political, and administrative texts, Luke Habberstad examines sources from the Qin,...
by Zhang Jiong
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2017
Each age has its value system of literary criticism whose construction is inseparable from the mainstream ideology of the society. In contemporary China, the mainstream ideology is inevitably Marxism.
This book is composed of two parts. The first part studies literary criticism in contemporary...
Interfamily Tanci Writing in Nineteenth-Century China
Bonds and Boundaries
Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2017
Employing an interdisciplinary approach, this is the first monograph to frame three once widely-read tanci fiction (a type of lyrical narrative) from nineteenth-century China, Meng ying yuan (1843), Yu xuan cao (1894), and Jing zhong zhuan (1895), as interrelated texts composed by three generation...
Travels in Manchuria and Mongolia
A Feminist Poet from Japan Encounters Prewar China
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2001
Yosano Akiko (1878-1942) was one of Japan's greatest poets and translators from classical Japanese. Her output was extraordinary, including twenty volumes of poetry and the most popular translation of the ancient classic The Tale of Genji into modern Japanese. The mother of eleven children, she was...
Mystifying China's Southwest Ethnic Borderlands
Harmonious Heterotopia
Language: English
Release Date: December 28, 2017
The Confucian notion of “Harmony with difference” (he er bu tong) has great political and cultural resonance in contemporary China, which propagates the quest for a pluralist harmony between cultural and ethnic components of society. In an attempt to examine a range of responses to this state-envisioned...
by Lu Hsun
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2016
A Brief History of Chinese Fiction grew out of the lecture notes Lu Hsun used when teaching a course on Chinese fiction at Peking University between 1920 and 1924. In December 1923 a first volume was printed and in June 1924 a second volume. In September 1925 these were reprinted as one book. In 1930 the author made certain changes, but all subsequent editions have remained the same.
A Book to Burn and a Book to Keep (Hidden)
Selected Writings
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2016
Li Zhi's iconoclastic interpretations of history, religion, literature, and social relations have fascinated Chinese intellectuals for centuries. His approach synthesized Confucian, Buddhist, and Daoist ethics and incorporated the Neo-Confucian idealism of such thinkers as Wang Yangming (1472–1529)....
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...
Translation as Citation
Zhuangzi Inside Out
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2017
This volume examines translation from many different angles: it explores how translations change the languages in which they occur, how works introduced from other languages become part of the consciousness of native speakers, and what strategies translators must use to secure acceptance for foreign...