Columbia University Press: 2355 books
Chinese Women’s Cinema
Transnational Contexts
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2011
The first of its kind in English, this collection explores twenty one well established and lesser known female filmmakers from mainland China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, and the Chinese diaspora. Sixteen scholars illuminate these filmmakers' negotiations of local and global politics, cinematic representation,...
Taiwan Film Directors
A Treasure Island
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2005
Focusing on the work of four contemporary filmmakers—Ang Lee, Edward Yang, Hou Hsiao-hsien, and Tsai Ming-liang—the authors explore how these filmmakers broke from tradition, creating a cinema that is both personal and insistent on examining Taiwan's complex history. Featuring stills, anecdotes,...
Beyond Sinology
Chinese Writing and the Scripts of Culture
Language: English
Release Date: January 21, 2014
New communication and information technologies provide distinct challenges and possibilities for the Chinese script, which, unlike alphabetic or other phonetic scripts, relies on multiple signifying principles. In recent decades, this multiplicity has generated a rich corpus of reflection and experimentation...
Literary Culture in Taiwan
Martial Law to Market Law
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2004
With monumental changes in the last two decades, Taiwan is making itself anew. The process requires remapping not only the country's recent political past, but also its literary past. Taiwanese literature is now compelled to negotiate a path between residual high culture aspirations and the emergent...
Silencing the Bomb
One Scientist's Quest to Halt Nuclear Testing
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2017
In December 2016, the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists moved their iconic “Doomsday Clock” thirty seconds forward to two and a half minutes to midnight, the latest it has been set since 1952, the year of the first United States hydrogen bomb test. But a group of scientists—geologists, engineers,...
Found Life
Poems, Stories, Comics, a Play, and an Interview
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2017
One of the first Russian writers to make a name for herself on the Internet, Linor Goralik writes conversational short works that conjure the absurd in all its forms, reflecting post-Soviet life and daily universals. Her mastery of the minimal, including a wide range of experiments in different forms...
Japan and the Culture of the Four Seasons
Nature, Literature, and the Arts
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2012
Elegant representations of nature and the four seasons populate a wide range of Japanese genres and media—from poetry and screen painting to tea ceremonies, flower arrangements, and annual observances. In Japan and the Culture of the Four Seasons, Haruo Shirane shows how, when, and why this practice...
Thin Places
A Pilgrimage Home
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2008
Thin Places is an eloquent meditation on what it means to move between cultures and how one might finally come home, a particular paradox in a culture that lacks deep ties to the natural world. During the 1990s, Ann Armbrecht, an American anthropologist, made several trips to northeastern Nepal to...
Hawk of the Mind
Collected Poems
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2018
Yang Mu is a towering figure in modern Chinese poetry. His poetic voice is subtle and lyrical, and his work is rich with precise images and crystalline thoughts invoking temporality and remembrance. A bold innovator and superb craftsman, he elegantly combines cosmopolitan experimentation with poetic...
Ghalib
Selected Poems and Letters
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2017
This selection of poetry and prose by Ghalib provides an accessible and wide-ranging introduction to the preeminent Urdu poet of the nineteenth century. Ghalib's poems, especially his ghazals, remain beloved throughout South Asia for their arresting intelligence and lively wit. His letters—informal,...
by Huang Huang Chun-ming
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2001
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2001
From the preeminent writer of Taiwanese nativist fiction and the leading translator of Chinese literature come these poignant accounts of everyday life in rural and small-town Taiwan. Huang is frequently cited as one of the most original and gifted storytellers in the Chinese language, and these selections...
by Chŏnghŭi O
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2012
O Chonghui crafts historically-rooted yet timeless tales imagining core human experiences from a female point of view. Since her debut in 1968, she has formed a powerful challenge to the patriarchal literary establishment in Korea, and her work has invited rich comparisons with the achievements of...
The AIDS Conspiracy
Science Fights Back
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2012
Since the early days of the AIDS epidemic, many bizarre and dangerous hypotheses have been advanced to explain the origins of the disease. In this compelling book, Nicoli Nattrass explores the social and political factors prolonging the erroneous belief that the American government manufactured the...
Human Trafficking Around the World
Hidden in Plain Sight
Language: English
Release Date: June 4, 2013
This unprecedented study of sex trafficking, forced labor, organ trafficking, and sex tourism across twenty-four nations highlights the experiences of the victims, perpetrators, and anti-traffickers involved in this brutal trade. Combining statistical data with intimate accounts and interviews, journalist...