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  • "The Stone Lion" and Other Chinese Detective Stories: The Wisdom of Lord Bau

    With a little stretch of the imagination, it might be suggested that some Chinese tales from the Sung Dynasty are the precursors of modern detective fiction. Numerous stories in which Lord Bau is the chief protagonist bolster this conjecture. In this collection, translated from Chinese anthologies and retold for the English-speaking audience, Lord Bau is cast in the role of wise judge. Across the ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • /The Daya of West Lake

    /The Masterpieces of Chinese Classical Poetry Selected and Translated with Notes

    by Richard Vann ...
    The clouds rise on my exited chest.The birds I see widest back to nest.One day, I’ll stand on the steep crest,And oversee small hills of the rest.Fan Qiang, a great poet living in China, has spent five years carefully translating Chinese classical poems penned hundreds of years ago by such literary masters as Li Bai, Du Fu, Su Shi and Li Qingzhao etc..While attempting to stay true to the original ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • 1616: Shakespeare and Tang Xianzu's China

    The year is 1616. William Shakespeare has just died and the world of the London theatres is mourning his loss. 1616 also saw the death of the famous Chinese playwright Tang Xianzu. Four hundred years on and Shakespeare is now an important meeting place for Anglo-Chinese cultural dialogue in the field of drama studies. In June 2014 (the 450th anniversary of Shakespeare's birth), SOAS, The ... Read more

    $30.99 USD

  • 1Q84 (Libro 1) de Haruki Murakami (Guía de lectura)

    Resumen y análisis completo

    Series Book 1 - Guía de lectura
    ResumenExpress.com presenta y analiza en esta guía de lectura 1Q84 (Libro 1), del reconocido escritor japonés Haruki Murakami. En esta obra con ecos orwellianos, el autor nos presenta un mundo en apariencia normal en el que dos peculiares personajes, Aomame y Tengo, están unidos sin saberlo por un destino común que les llevará a descubrir un universo paralelo lleno de engaños, violencia y ... Read more

    $6.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • 20世纪40年代大西南文艺大众化运动研究

    by 袁少冲著 ...
    本书研究20世纪40年代大西南文艺大众化运动。作者从启蒙者、被启蒙者、启蒙资源、启蒙阻力和启蒙动力等方面剖析了大西南文艺大众化运动中包含的五种“启蒙”形态。同时,客观分析了大西南文艺大众化运动对当时产生的重大影响和为“抗战”所贡献的力量。 ... Read more

    $20.99 USD

  • 20世纪中国幼儿文学史论

    by 杜传坤著 ...
    本书梳理了我国百年幼儿文学史的发展,多维度反思了其发展过程中的诸多重要问题,揭示了幼儿文学与历史、文化、教育、政治之间的关系。同时,借由对百年幼儿文学发展中核心命题的追问所展开的关于“现代性”问题省察,为教育学、文学、童年研究等提供了借鉴。 ... Read more

    $36.99 USD

  • 20世纪中国文学史研究观念的演变

    by 蒋原伦著 ...
    本书梳理了纯文学史观、反映论文学史观、心灵史文学史观、情感论文学史观四种文学史模式,进而分析其背后的文化思潮与政治历史原因。 ... Read more

    $20.99 USD

  • 20世纪俄罗斯汉学研究中的词汇学研究

    by 王丽媛 ...
    俄罗斯的汉学研究历史已经有几百年了,有研究表明:“在确立词汇学在语言学的地位方面,前苏联的语言学家起了开先河的作用。” 俄罗斯的汉学家在世界汉学史上占有很高的地位,其中词汇学的研究中谢苗纳斯(1992)的《现代汉语词汇学》和格列罗夫(1984)的《汉语词汇学》这两本着作是20世纪俄罗斯汉学界汉语词汇研究领域中的两部标志性学术成果。谢苗纳斯的《现代汉语词汇学》更被认为是“世界罕见的带有新鲜的学术空气的汉语词汇学专著”。作者通过梳理俄罗斯汉学研究中的研究者和其代表的词汇学著作和论文,给俄罗斯汉学研究中的词汇学进行一个总结。 ... Read more

    $6.99 USD

  • A Book to Burn and a Book to Keep (Hidden)

    Selected Writings

    by Zhi Li ...
    Series series Translations from the Asian Classics
    Li Zhi's iconoclastic interpretations of history, religion, literature, and social relations have fascinated Chinese intellectuals for centuries. His approach synthesized Confucian, Buddhist, and Daoist ethics and incorporated the Neo-Confucian idealism of such thinkers as Wang Yangming (1472–1529). The result was a series of heretical writings that caught fire among Li Zhi's contemporaries, ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • A Brief History of Chinese Fiction

    by Lu Hsun ...
    A Brief History of Chinese Fiction grew out of the lecture notes Lu Hsun used when teaching a course on Chinese fiction at Peking University between 1920 and 1924. In December 1923 a first volume was printed and in June 1924 a second volume. In September 1925 these were reprinted as one book. In 1930 the author made certain changes, but all subsequent editions have remained the same. ... Read more

    $7.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • A Certain Justice

    Toward an Ecology of the Chinese Legal Imagination

    by Haiyan Lee ...
    A much-needed account of the hierarchy of justice that defines China’s unique political-legal culture.To many outsiders, China has an image as a realm of Oriental despotism where law is at best window dressing and at worst an instrument of coercion and tyranny. In this highly original contribution to the interdisciplinary field of law and humanities, Haiyan Lee contends that this image arises from ... Read more

    $23.99 USD

  • A Companion to The Story of the Stone

    A Chapter-by-Chapter Guide

    The Story of the Stone (also known as Dream of the Red Chamber) is widely held to be the greatest work of Chinese literature, beloved by readers ever since it was first published in 1791. The story revolves around the young scion of a mighty clan who, instead of studying for the civil service examinations, frolics with his maidservants and girl cousins. The narrative is cast within a mythic ... Read more

    $25.99 USD

  • A Comprehensive Study of Tang Poetry I

    by Lin Geng ...
    Series series China Perspectives
    Tang poetry is one of the most valuable cultural inheritances of Chinese history. Its distinctive aesthetics, delicate language, and diverse styles constitute great literature in itself, as well as a rich topic for literary study. This two-volume set constitutes a classic analysis of Tang poetry in the “Golden Age” of Chinese poetry (618–907 CE).In this volume, the author provides a general ... Read more

    $99.99 USD

  • A Comprehensive Study of Tang Poetry II

    by Lin Geng ...
    Series series China Perspectives
    Tang poetry is one of the most valuable cultural inheritances of Chinese history. Its distinctive aesthetics, delicate language and diverse styles constitute great Literature in itself, as well as a rich topic for literary study. This two-volume set constitutes a classic analysis of Tang poetry in the “Golden Age” of Chinese poetry (618–907 CE).This volume focuses on the prominent Tang poets and ... Read more

    $48.99 USD

  • A Fictional Commons

    Natsume Soseki and the Properties of Modern Literature

    Modernity arrived in Japan, as elsewhere, through new forms of ownership. In A Fictional Commons, Michael K. Bourdaghs explores how the literary and theoretical works of Natsume Sōseki (1867–1916), widely celebrated as Japan's greatest modern novelist, exploited the contradictions and ambiguities that haunted this new system. Many of his works feature narratives about inheritance, thievery, and ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

  • A History of Chinese Literature

    A History of Chinese Literature is THE classic introduction to Chinese literature, which has given to the world exquisite poetry and such classics as Monkey, The Analects of Confucius, the works of Chuang Tzu, and other writings over a time span of 2,500 or more years.Author, Professor Giles, a legendary scholar of Chinese, was best known for the Wade-Giles romanization system. In this book he ... Read more

    $5.99 USD

  • A History of Cyber Literary Criticism in China

    This is the first scholarly attempt to write a history of cyber literary criticism in China. The author uses the Internet as the departure point, literature as the horizontal axis, and criticism as the vertical axis, to draw a detailed trajectory of the development of cyber literary criticism in China.The book comprises two parts. The first part focuses on the representation of historical facts ... Read more

    $64.99 USD

  • A History of Pain

    Trauma in Modern Chinese Literature and Film

    by Michael Berry ...
    Series series Global Chinese Culture
    The portrayal of historical atrocity in fiction, film, and popular culture can reveal much about the function of individual memory and the shifting status of national identity. In the context of Chinese culture, films such as Hou Hsiao-hsien's City of Sadness and Lou Ye's Summer Palace and novels such as Ye Zhaoyan's Nanjing 1937: A Love Story and Wang Xiaobo's The Golden Age collectively ... Read more

    $32.99 USD

  • A Hundred Flowers Blossoming

    A Collection of Literary Essays Written by Chinese Scholars

    A Hundred Flowers Blossoming is a collection of literary essays written by faculty members of Xi'an International Studies University, China with two distinctive features. The first one is a Chinese perspective on Western literary works, which is normally not found in the scholarship in the West. The second is the feministic stance demonstrated in most articles, as most of the contributors are ... Read more

    $37.99 USD

  • A Legacy Magnified: A Generation of Chinese Americans in Southern California (1980's ~ 2010's)

    Vol 3

    by May Chen ...
    A Legacy Magnified: A Generation of Chinese Americans in Southern California, 1980's-2010's (南加華人三十年史話英文版) is a monumental publication jointly authored by a team of renowned group of writers consisting of 17 chapters, nearly 1 million words, and more than 1,300 photographs, many of which are collected from historical archives. It is an unprecedented endeavor undertaken by more than 500 volunteers ... Read more

    $9.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • A Mysterious Woman in History (Simplified Chinese Edition)

    群芳髓:秦可卿的爱情故事

    〈群芳髓〉为你揭开第一古典小说〈红楼梦〉沉没近三百年的爱情秘辛。这是一个神奇又感人的故事,男主角林之云是个不折不扣的中华儿女炎黄子孙,尽管他生长在台湾,又有着日本方面的渊源,正因为这样一个特殊背景,使他和闻名全球两部文学著作〈红楼梦〉与〈源氏物语〉的主人翁产生了精神上的灵遇,〈群芳髓〉现代传奇就这样发生。◆〈群芳髓〉故事大纲◆林之云是一个生长在台湾又有着日本渊源的中华儿女炎黄子孙,正因为这样一个特殊的环境背景,使他和闻名全球的两部文学巨著〈红楼梦〉与〈源氏物语〉里的主人翁产生了精神上的灵遇,〈群芳髓〉现代传奇就这样发生了。小说前半部隐居落水山庄出身哈佛建筑系的林之云,为儿子林雨声安排一个前往京都与杭州两地的文学之旅,目的是探究一篇关于秦可卿翻案红楼梦的惊世文章。京大华裔博士生藤原衣香与林雨声伙同杭州浙大的日裔博士生唐小眉,为了解开藤原衣香的身世之谜,前往栖霞山上的法然寺﹙红楼梦书中的水仙庵 ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

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  • A New Literary History of Modern China

    Edited by David Der-wei Wang ...
    Literature, from the Chinese perspective, makes manifest the cosmic patterns that shape and complete the world—a process of “worlding” that is much more than mere representation. In that spirit, A New Literary History of Modern China looks beyond state-sanctioned works and official narratives to reveal China as it has seldom been seen before, through a rich spectrum of writings covering Chinese ... Read more

    $32.99 USD

  • A ogni gatto il suo autore

    Gatti e scrittori nel Giappone contemporaneo

    Dieci milioni di gatti abitano nelle case giapponesi, a testimonianza di una relazione che si è evoluta nei secoli. I primi arrivarono via nave dalla Cina insieme ai testi dei sutra buddhisti e vennero amati dagli aristocratici della corte di Kyōtō, prima di divenire gli attuali gatti domestici presenti un po’ ovunque, dalle stazioni ai templi, agli anime. Neko jita (lingua di gatto), Neko no ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • A Room Where The Star-Spangled Banner Cannot Be Heard

    A Novel in Three Parts

    by Hideo Levy ...
    Translated by Christopher Scott ...
    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 the trappings of an America culture that has grown increasingly remote, Ben flees home to live with ... Read more

    $15.99 USD