South Southeast Asian category: 181 books

This story is one of sixteen stories from CHAIRS. The voices are those of Bangkok based freelance journalists and their invited guests. Each Saturday morning, over coffee, the members of Chairs gather to share the latest gossip, scandals, myths, dangers, exploits, and loves that bind together their...

A Haunting Smile, the final novel in the Land of Smiles Trilogy, is a sharply observed picture interweaving documentary film technique and montage to convey the psychological horror, personal anguish and despair of the Black May of 1992 when students, workers, along with mobile phone carrying yuppies...

A Bewitching Smile, second in the Land of Smiles Trilogy, is reminiscent of A Passage to India in the creation of a kind of psychological DMZ, another Shangri-la with its own epiphanies and perils. The toughsensitive characterization, and the sharp, often aphoristic dialogue, and the irony, combine...

An American war correspondent, Tony Collins, and a former Khmer Rouge child soldier, Sam Rith, reunite after nearly thirty years. Tony helped the world-weary 15-year-old Sam start a new life in the United States. Sam Rith arrived in America, sponsored by Christian couple. But Sam took more...

Mon maître Tch’eng tzeu dit : « On appelle milieu ce qui n’incline d’aucun côté, et constant ce qui ne change pas. Le milieu est la voie droite pour tous les êtres, et la constance est la loi invariable qui les régit. Ce traité contient les enseignements...

Mon maître Tch’eng tzeu dit : « La Grande Étude est l’œuvre de Confucius et de ses disciples.  Elle est comme la porte qui ouvre la voie de la vertu. L’ordre anciennement suivi dans les études n’est plus connu à présent que par ce livre, qui heureusement...

Introduction. Livre I. Leang Houei wang. Livre II. Koung suenn Tch’eou. Livre III. T’eng Wenn koung. Livre IV. Li Leou. Livre V. Wan Tchang. Livre VI. Kao tzeu. Livre VII. Tsin sin. Souverains de la Chine  Lettres et noms propres  Errata 

I. Premier article. T. 8, 1832 II. Deuxième article. T. 4, 1833 IV. Sciences naturelles et arts mécaniques T. 4, 1833 V. Géographie, histoire T. 4, 1833 VI. Philosophie et religion T. 4, 1833  

The wide-ranging essays presented in this book deal more with the practical than with the theoretical aspects of translation. The emphasis throughout is on the element of discovery inherent in the making as well as in the reading of translations. The author states that translation is necessary to any...

The epic of Gesar has been the national treasure of Tibet for almost a thousand years. An open canon of tales about a superhuman warrior-king, the epic is still a living oral tradition, included on UNESCO’s Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity. This book is a translation...

In this ground-breaking interdisciplinary study of terrorism, insurgency and the literature of colonial India, Alex Tickell re-envisages the political aesthetics of empire. Organized around key crisis moments in the history of British colonial rule such as the ‘Black Hole’ of Calcutta, the anti-thug...

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This book addresses the idea of 'civility' as a manifestation of the fluidity and ambivalence of imperial power as reflected in British colonial literature and culture. Discussions of Anglo-Indian romances of 1880-1900, E.M. Forster's The Life to Come and Leonard Woolf's writings show how the appeal...

Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak is one of the most pre-eminent postcolonial theorists writing today and a scholar of genuinely global reputation. This collection, first published in 1993, presents some of Spivak’s most engaging essays on works of literature such as Salman Rushdie's controversial Satanic...