Far Eastern category: 291 books

First published in 1988, this reissue is an important work in the field of national literary exchange. Declared by American Library Association in its Choice publication one of the ten best reference works of 1988, the volume has survived global change - politically, socially, economically, religiously,...

The figure of the Chinese sex worker—who provokes both disdain and desire—has become a trope for both Asian American sexuality and Asian modernity. Lingering in the cultural imagination, sex workers link sexual and cultural marginality, and their tales clarify the boundaries of citizenship, nationalism,...

Bienvenue dans la collection Les Fiches de lecture d’Universalis Les Contes de pluie et de lune (Ugetsu-monogatari) sont le chef-d’œuvre de l’écrivain japonais Ueda Akinari (1734-1809). Une fiche de lecture spécialement conçue pour le numérique, pour tout savoir sur Contes...

Les origines de la littérature chinoise sont à peu près contemporaines de celles des deux autres littératures dont se nourrit encore la tradition du monde civilisé : celle de l'Inde et celle de l'Europe. Ici comme là, ces origines remontent à un ou deux millénaires avant l'ère chrétienne …

Critics typically regard Abe Kobo (1924-93) as writing against realism, due to his avant-garde aesthetics that challenged the Naturalist realism dominating the literary mainstream and the Socialist realism of the orthodox Left in postwar Japan. He considered his work thoroughly realist, however, and...

Set against the political and social upheavals of the 1960s, A Room Where the Star-Spangled Banner Cannot Be Heard tells the story of Ben Isaac, a blond-haired, blue-eyed American youth living with his father at the American consulate in Yokohama. Chafing against his father's strict authority and...

Ecocriticism is a mode of interdisciplinary critical inquiry into the relationship between cultural production, society, and the environment. The field advocates for the more-than-human realm as well as for underprivileged human and non-human groups and their perspectives. Taiwan is one of the earliest...

This collection of ecocritical essays is focused on the work of Japan’s foremost writer on environment and culture, Ishimure Michiko. Ishimure is known for her pioneering trilogy that exposed the Minamata Disease incident and the nature of modern industrial pollution. She is also regarded by many...

Linda Hogan and Contemporary Taiwanese Writers: an Ecocritical Study of Indigeneities and Environment is the first full length single-authored study of Native American writer Linda Hogan and the first book to address Hogan’s poetry and prose primarily from ecocritical perspectives (inclusive of...

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熱心冷眼看紅樓人物 溫暖而同理地感受每個人物的生命處境 理性而客觀地分析每個人物的性格特質 賈寶玉和香菱、或晴雯、或襲人、或薛寶琴的關係 在紅樓情榜上，別有深刻意義 《紅樓一夢：賈寶玉與次金釵》完整呈現歐麗娟教授多年來研究《紅樓夢》的心得，比臺大開放式課程內容更完整和豐富。本書細讀《紅樓夢》四位金釵，即香菱、晴雯、襲人和薛寶琴，討論她們在小說中的社會處境、人際關係、精神世界，以及和小說主角賈寶玉的錯綜複雜關係，同時收入「紅樓情榜」，讓讀者了解《紅樓夢》「情榜」的規畫與人選。 在《紅樓夢》裡，組成貴族世家的數百位人物各有特色，被刻畫得維妙維肖，恍如可見他們從書頁裡躍然而出。偉哉曹雪芹！ 歐麗娟《紅樓一夢：賈寶玉與次金釵》特別針對情痴情種的賈寶玉、紅顏薄命的香菱、心高氣傲的晴雯、溫柔婉約的襲人、宛若天仙的薛寶琴，給予細緻而深入的分析，以呈現小說家苦心塑造每一個角色的動人之處。 《紅樓夢》的最佳代言人歐麗娟，從整部小說中抽絲剝繭，由各個細微處觀察每一個人物的言行舉止、心理轉折，完整而全面地探討賈寶玉與次金釵的精神與靈魂，那是獨特而豐富的小宇宙。 作者簡介 作者：歐麗娟 國立臺灣大學中國文學研究所博士，現任臺灣大學中國文學系教授。多年來致力於唐代詩歌、《紅樓夢》的研究，成果豐碩。 自2012年在臺大開放式課程陸續開設「紅樓夢」與「中國文學史」以來，廣受海內外華人歡迎，讓不同世代讀者重新認識中國古典文學的精髓；2015年，更榮獲全球開放教育聯盟「傑出開放教育獎」（The...

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Bienvenue dans la collection Les Fiches de lecture d’Universalis Le Shui hu zhuan (littéralement Récit des bords de l'eau) s'inspire de toute une tradition orale riche et diversifiée, mais aussi de faits historiques puisque Song Jiang, héros du roman, fut en Chine un brigand qui sévit...