Han Han: 492 books

For those who follow Chinese affairs, Han Han is as controversial as they come—an irreverent singer, sports celebrity, and satirist whose brilliant blogs and books have made him a huge celebrity with more than half a billion readers. Now, with this collection of his essays, Americans can appreciate...

“Funny and shrewd” (The New York Times Book Review) essays from China’s most popular young troublemaker about growing up millennial and causing social and political scandal today. Han Han “owes equal debt to Jack Kerouac and Justin Timberlake” (The New Yorker). He’s the most influential...

This book examines the development of Chinese literature journals and social ideologies from 1931 to 1938, combining first-hand historical materials, historical data and four important literature journals to study the competition and cooperation between various powers such as the Kuomintang, the CCP,...

An argument that love requires the courage to accept self-negation for the sake of discovering the Other. Byung-Chul Han is one of the most widely read philosophers in Europe today, a member of the new generation of German thinkers that includes Markus Gabriel and Armen Avanessian. In The Agony...

Peu d'ouvrages ont eu une importance aussi décisive que le Han Fei Zi, car peu ont su décrire avec autant de précision l'art de gouverner, c'est-à-dire d'obtenir le pouvoir et, surtout, de le conserver. On rapproche souvent ce recueil des écrits de Han Fei et du Prince de Machiavel. Le Han Fei...

Desire, virtue, courtesans (also known as sing-song girls), and the denizens of Shanghai's pleasure quarters are just some of the elements that constitute Han Bangqing's extraordinary novel of late imperial China. Han's richly textured, panoramic view of late-nineteenth-century Shanghai follows a...

The Internet was supposed to be an antidote to authoritarianism. It can enable citizens to express themselves freely and organize outside state control. Yet while online activity has helped challenge authoritarian rule in some cases, other regimes have endured: no movement comparable to the Arab Spring...

Tracing the thread of “decreation” in Chinese thought, from constantly changing classical masterpieces to fake cell phones that are better than the original. Shanzhai is a Chinese neologism that means “fake,” originally coined to describe knock-off cell phones marketed under such names...

One of today's most widely read philosophers considers the shift in violence from visible to invisible, from negativity to excess of positivity. Some things never disappear—violence, for example. Violence is ubiquitous and incessant but protean, varying its outward form according to the social...

In 2004, Carolyn Han left her comfortable life and position as a lecturer in English at Hawaii Community College and went to live in one of the most remote and mysterious places in the Middle East—Yemen, known in the West primarily for providing a haven for terrorists affiliated with al Qaeda. The...

One of the hallmark features of the post–civil rights United States is the reign of colorblindness over national conversations about race and law. But how, precisely, should we understand this notion of colorblindness in the face of enduring racial hierarchy in American society? In Letters of the...

Byung-Chul Han busca hacer explícita la filosofía que está implícita en el budismo Zen, y lo hace a través de la comparación con los filósofos más destacados de la filosofía occidental. Byung-Chul Han nos propone en este ensayo sobre el budismo zen que es posible reflexionar de modo...

Han Peeters (52) en Eva Krap (30) zijn beiden schrijvers en runnen uitgeverijen. Als ze gaan samenwerken ontstaat er een synergie waarin ze steeds vaker alledaagse privézaken met elkaar delen. Zo komen ze erachter dat ze bizarre levens hebben geleid. Han daagt Eva uit en stelt voor dat ze elkaar...

14 Oeuvres de Han Ryner Pseudonyme de Henri Ner, écrivain et philosophe français, anarchiste individualiste, pacifiste et anticlérical (1861-1938) Ce livre numérique présente une collection de 14 Oeuvres de Han Ryner éditées en texte intégral....