Columbia University Press: 2355 books
Unearthing the Changes
Recently Discovered Manuscripts of the Yi Jing (I Ching) and Related Texts
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2014
In recent years, three ancient manuscripts relating to the Yi jing (I Ching), or Classic of Changes, have been discovered. The earliest—the Shanghai Museum Zhou Yi—dates to about 300 B.C.E. and shows evidence of the text's original circulation. The Guicang, or Returning to Be Stored, reflects...
Chinese History and Culture
Sixth Century B.C.E. to Seventeenth Century
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2016
The recipient of the Kluge Prize for lifetime achievement in the humanities and the Tang Prize for "revolutionary research" in Sinology, Ying-shih Yü is a premier scholar of Chinese studies. Chinese History and Culture volumes 1 and 2 bring his extraordinary oeuvre to English-speaking readers....
Early Medieval China
A Sourcebook
Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 2014
This innovative sourcebook builds a dynamic understanding of China's early medieval period (220–589) through an original selection and arrangement of literary, historical, religious, and critical texts. A tumultuous and formative era, these centuries saw the longest stretch of political fragmentation...
by Burton Watson
Language: English
Release Date: August 17, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: August 17, 2007
Compiled by disciples of Confucius in the centuries following his death in 479 B.C.E., The Analects of Confucius is a collection of aphorisms and historical anecdotes embodying the basic values of the Confucian tradition: learning, morality, ritual decorum, and filial piety. Reflecting the model eras...
by N. Harry Rothschild
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2015
Wu Zhao (624–705), better known as Wu Zetian or Empress Wu, is the only woman to have ruled China as emperor over the course of its 5,000-year history. How did she—in a predominantly patriarchal and androcentric society—ascend the dragon throne? Exploring a mystery that has confounded scholars...
The Songs of Chu
An Anthology of Ancient Chinese Poetry by Qu Yuan and Others
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2017
Sources show Qu Yuan (?340–278 BCE) was the first person in China to become famous for his poetry, so famous in fact that the Chinese celebrate his life with a national holiday called Poet's Day, or the Dragon Boat Festival. His work, which forms the core of the The Songs of Chu, the second oldest...
How to Read Chinese Poetry in Context
Poetic Culture from Antiquity Through the Tang
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2018
How to Read Chinese Poetry in Context is an introduction to the golden age of Chinese poetry, spanning the earliest times through the Tang dynasty (618–907). It aims to break down barriers—between language and culture, poetry and history—that have stood in the way of teaching and learning Chinese...
Cinematic Appeals
The Experience of New Movie Technologies
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2013
Cinematic Appeals follows the effect of technological innovation on the cinema experience, specifically the introduction of widescreen and stereoscopic 3D systems in the 1950s, the rise of digital cinema in the 1990s, and the transition to digital 3D since 2005. Widescreen cinema promised to draw...
Beyond Bolaño
The Global Latin American Novel
Language: English
Release Date: January 27, 2015
Through a comparative analysis of the novels of Roberto Bolaño and the fictional work of César Aira, Mario Bellatin, Diamela Eltit, Chico Buarque, Alberto Fuguet, and Fernando Vallejo, among other leading authors, Héctor Hoyos defines and explores new trends in how we read and write in a globalized...
Coming to Our Senses
Affect and an Order of Things for Global Culture
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2016
Coming to Our Senses positions affect, or feeling, as our new cultural compass, ordering the parameters and possibilities of what can be known. From Facebook "likes" to Coca-Cola "loves," from "emotional intelligence" in business to "emotional contagion" in...
The Lovelorn Ghost and the Magical Monk
Practicing Buddhism in Modern Thailand
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2011
Stories centering on the lovelorn ghost (Mae Nak) and the magical monk (Somdet To) are central to Thai Buddhism. Historically important and emotionally resonant, these characters appeal to every class of follower. Metaphorically and rhetorically powerful, they invite constant reimagining across time.
Focusing...
The Extinct Scene
Late Modernism and Everyday Life
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2015
In 1935, the English writer Stephen Spender wrote that the historical pressures of his era should "turn the reader's and writer's attention outwards from himself to the world." Combining historical, formalist, and archival approaches, Thomas S. Davis examines late modernism's decisive turn...
Globalectics
Theory and the Politics of Knowing
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2012
A masterful writer working in many genres, Ngugi wa Thiong'o entered the East African literary scene in 1962 with the performance of his first major play, The Black Hermit, at the National Theatre in Uganda. In 1977 he was imprisoned after his most controversial work, Ngaahika Ndeenda (I Will Marry...
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Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2015
An America in which the color of one's skin no longer matters would be unprecedented. With the election of President Barack Obama in 2008, that future suddenly seemed possible. Obama's rise reflects a nation of fluid populations and fortunes, a society in which a biracial individual could be embraced...