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  • The Impact of Akira

    A Manga [R]evolution

    by Rémi Lopez ...
    Discover Katsuhiro Otomo’s visionary work and post-Akira Japanese comic culture.The catalyst of an era, of a world that was unaware of its downfall, Katsuhiro Otomo’s visionary work marked a turning point in the industry. First, in his homeland, Japan, in terms of graphics and plot on an entire generation of post-Akira artists who adopted his attention to detail, his realism and his dizzying views ... Read more

    $11.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Nineteen Ways of Looking at Wang Wei

    A new expanded edition of the classic study of translation, finally back in printThe difficulty (and necessity) of translation is concisely described in Nineteen Ways of Looking at Wang Wei, a close reading of different translations of a single poem from the Tang Dynasty—from a transliteration to Kenneth Rexroth’s loose interpretation. As Octavio Paz writes in the afterword, “Eliot Weinberger’s ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Haruki Murakami

    Storytelling and Productive Distance

    by Chikako Nihei ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Contemporary Literature
    Haruki Murakami: Storytelling and Productive Distance studies the evolution of the monogatari, or narrative and storytelling in the works of Haruki Murakami. Author Chikako Nihei argues that Murakami’s power of monogatari lies in his use of distancing effects; storytelling allows individuals to "cross" into a different context, through which they can effectively observe themselves and reality. His ... Read more

    $52.99 USD

  • Letters of Four Seasons

    Translated by Richard L. Gage ...
    This book provides a rare opportunity to look over the shoulders of two prominent personalities as they exchange letters over a one-year period. They write about their impressions and reflections on travels and work, seasons and places, close friends and public figures they have known. Both are men of wide experience. Ikeda has visited China a number of times, contributing to the restoration of ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Wang Yangming: An Essential Biography

    Bresciani, Umberto, Wang Yangming – An Essential Biography, Passerino Editore, 2016. This is a biography – the first in Western languages - of an extraordinary man, who has fascinated countless people in the last five centuries. Wang Yangming was a philosopher, a military and political leader, and a poet and artist; but most of all a spiritual master for all those who came to him in search for a ... Read more

    $6.99 USD $5.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Gate

    Translated by William F. Sibley ...
    An NYRB Calssics OriginalA humble clerk and his loving wife scrape out a quiet existence on the margins of Tokyo. Resigned, following years of exile and misfortune, to the bitter consequences of having married without their families’ consent, and unable to have children of their own, Sōsuke and Oyone find the delicate equilibrium of their household upset by a new obligation to meet the educational ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • The Monkey and the Monk: An Abridgment of The Journey to the West

    An Abridgment of The Journey to the West

    by ...
    Anthony C. Yu’s celebrated translation of The Journey to the West reinvigorated one of Chinese literature’s most beloved classics for English-speaking audiences when it first appeared thirty years ago. Yu’s abridgment of his four-volume translation, The Monkey and the Monk, finally distills the epic novel’s most exciting and meaningful episodes without taking anything away from their true spirit. ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • The World of the Shining Prince

    Court Life in Ancient Japan

    by Ivan Morris ...
    Ivan Morris’s definitive and widely acclaimed portrait of the ceremonious and melancholy world of ancient Japan.Using The Tale of Genji and other major literary works from Japan’s Heian period as a frame of reference, The World of the Shining Prince recreates an era when women set the cultural tone. Focusing on the world of the emperor’s court—a world deeply admired by Virginia Woolf, among others ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • Modern Japanese Literature

    From 1868 to the Present Day

    by Donald Keene ...
    A collection of plays, essays, poetry, and reportage compiled by “the 20th-century’s premier scholar of Japanese literature” (Slate).Modern Japanese Literature is Donald Keene’s critically acclaimed companion volume to his landmark Anthology of Japanese Literature. Now considered the standard canon of modern Japanese writing translated into English, Modern Japanese Literature includes concise ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Real Story of Ah-Q and Other Tales of China

    The Complete Fiction of Lu Xun

    by Lu Xun ...
    Translated by Julia Lovell ...
    Lu Xun (Lu Hsun) is arguably the greatest writer of modern China, and is considered by many to be the founder of modern Chinese literature. Lu Xun's stories both indict outdated Chinese traditions and embrace China's cultural richness and individuality. This volume presents brand-new translations by Julia Lovell of all of Lu Xun's stories, including 'The Real Story of Ah-Q', 'Diary of a Madman', ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • The Plum in the Golden Vase or, Chin P'ing Mei

    Volume One: The Gathering

    by David Tod Roy ...
    Series Book 56 - Princeton Library of Asian Translations
    In this first of a planned five-volume set, David Roy provides a complete and annotated translation of the famous Chin P'ing Mei, an anonymous sixteenth-century Chinese novel that focuses on the domestic life of Hsi-men Ch'ing, a corrupt, upwardly mobile merchant in a provincial town, who maintains a harem of six wives and concubines. This work, known primarily for its erotic realism, is also a ... Read more

    $30.99 USD

  • The Hall of Uselessness

    Collected Essays

    by Simon Leys ...
    An NYRB Classics OriginalSimon Leys is a Renaissance man for the era of globalization. A distinguished scholar of classical Chinese art and literature and one of the first Westerners to recognize the appalling toll of Mao’s Cultural Revolution, Leys also writes with unfailing intelligence, seriousness, and bite about European art, literature, history, and politics and is an unflinching observer of ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • The History of Hentai Manga

    by Kimi Rito ...
    • A rare critical look at an infamous manga genre. • Latest book from Ankoku Seiun Award winning author • Book features interviews with a number of active hentai comic artists • Author has been a regular academic guest at AnimeExpo, America’s largest anime and manga culture event. • Subject matter suitable for both academic and entertainment reading. ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • The Ink Dark Moon

    Love Poems by Ono no Komachi anmd Izumi Shikibu, Women of the Ancient Court of Japan

    Series series Vintage Classics
    These translated poems were written by two women of the Heian court of Japan between the ninth and eleventh centuries A.D.The poems speak intimately of their authors' sexual longing, fulfillment and disillusionment. ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • Silk and Insight (Kinu to Meisatsu): A Novel

    Published in 1964, Silk and Insight (Kinu to Meisatsu), is one of the last major novels of Yukio Mishima to be translated into English. Besides being a good novel, as one would expect from Mishima, it stands as an excellent piece of social commentary on the transformation of Japanese business from the old paternalism--which by no means was benevolent--to a new world where labor unions were as ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • 厭世廢文觀止

    英雄豪傑競靠腰,國文課本沒有教

    Series series 歷史系列
    毁人不倦、開卷耍廢!從不為人知的古聖先哲內心小話,到課本沒提的番外話,厭世國文老師帶你看懂古文,看透現世一切愛憎悲歡,更廢出人生新高度!祁立峰/宋怡慧/吳冠宏/敏鎬的黑特事務所/陳茻/陳怡嘉/陳安儀楊子漠/厭世哲學家/歐陽立中/蕭宇辰 一起讀古文耍廢推薦!古文如此厭世,令英雄豪傑競靠腰──你讀的國文課本,才不會這樣教咧!**‧〈燭之武退秦師〉**燭之武沒那麼重要啦,派誰去說都嘛一樣可以勸退秦軍!**‧〈大同與小康〉**孔子想表達的是「沒有雞排(大同)吃,雞塊(小康)也不錯」?**‧〈出師表〉**諸葛亮想對少主劉禪說:「別趁家裡沒大人,自己亂做決定喔。」(乖)**‧〈左忠毅公軼事〉**記錄的是左光斗和史可法師生之間「一段不可告人的故事」。(曖昧滿點)**‧〈... ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • 夢紅樓

    by 蔣勳 ...
    Series Book 60 - 綠蠹魚叢書
    **蔣勳說:如果在荒島上只許帶一本書,我會帶《紅樓夢》。《紅樓夢》最迷人的部分全在生活細節,並不是情節。每天能閱讀一點就閱讀一點,這是讀《紅樓夢》最好的方法。**《紅樓夢》,是一塊躲藏著生命意念的頑石,到人世間經歷的一次生死愛恨;是眷戀繁華的「假象」,也是了悟幻滅的「真相」;是一段歌笑涕淚所有青春韶華的詩篇,也是一個惋惜悲嘆所有美麗女子的故事;《紅樓夢》裡的愛情,在性別裡流動、變換,而寶玉和寶釵、黛玉之間,更糾纏著不可言說的生命遺憾……那些絢爛繽紛,彷如一夢,彷如前世始終忘不掉的一次花季。美學大師蔣勳將他閱讀《紅樓夢》半世紀的深刻體悟,滲透進入字裡行間,如實告訴我們:為什麼《紅樓夢》是可以讀一輩子的書?為何閱讀《紅樓夢》是一種學習「寬容」的過程?這是一本進入經典之前的必要之書,獨到可親的導讀,讓經典的價值長存,並與今世呼應,更具有觀照你我人生的現代意義。 ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • The Objectionable Li Zhi

    Fiction, Criticism, and Dissent in Late Ming China

    Iconoclastic scholar Li Zhi (1527–1602) was a central figure in the cultural world of the late Ming dynasty. His provocative and controversial words and actions shaped print culture, literary practice, attitudes toward gender, and perspectives on Buddhism and the afterlife. Although banned, his writings were never fully suppressed, because they tapped into issues of vital significance to ... Read more

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  • Anime in the West Attraction, Benefits, Dangers Psychological and Spiritual Perspectives

    Author Erik Angus MacRae endeavors to explain the phenomenon of Anime/Japanese Animation from the perspective of a Canadian male who was born in the Nineties and grew up immersed in its culture.Two key points are important to grasp in approaching the book.Familiarity of the reader with the subject matter (various Anime series) is often assumedThe book is not friendly to the "Woke concepts"/"Cancel ... Read more

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  • Novel Medicine

    Healing, Literature, and Popular Knowledge in Early Modern China

    Series series Modern Language Initiative Books
    By examining the dynamic interplay between discourses of fiction and medicine, Novel Medicine demonstrates how fiction incorporated, created, and disseminated medical knowledge in China, beginning in the sixteenth century. Critical readings of fictional and medical texts provide a counterpoint to prevailing narratives that focus only on the “literati” aspects of the novel, showing that these texts ... Read more

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  • 走路──獨處的實踐

    by 龍應台 ...
    Series series 龍應台作品集
    龍應台首部圖文創作18****幅親手電腦繪圖 40****則自然思索▎走一條沒走過的路****做一件沒做過的事▕走路,就不會是觥籌交錯的時候。走路,就不會是把心分給他人的時候。走路,就不會是掛在網上、陷入其中的時候。即便是熙攘擁擠的市集,只要是走路,也是我帶著「自己」在熱的喧鬧中以冷靜聽、靜觀、靜思,更何況是行走山中野路,明月照亮青苔,溪水攪動碎星。只要走路,就一定是我的身體和我的「自己」單獨有約。新的一年,無論如何忙碌,每天走路,而且走路時,全神貫注,心無罣礙:1.走一條沒走過的路2.去菜市場,跟十個人說話3.去墳場走走4.在路邊一棵樹下,坐著5.找到沒有光的地方6.了解一種作物7.走進一方田... ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • The Sing-song Girls of Shanghai

    by Bangqing Han ...
    Translated by Eileen Chang, Eva Hung ...
    Series series Weatherhead Books on Asia
    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 range of characters from beautiful sing-song girls to lower-class prostitutes and from men in ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • The Search for the Beautiful Woman

    A Cultural History of Japanese and Chinese Beauty

    by Cho Kyo ...
    Translated by Kyoko Iriye Selden ...
    Series series Asia/Pacific/Perspectives
    While a slender body is a prerequisite for beauty today, plump women were considered ideal in Tang Dynasty China and Heian-period Japan. Starting around the Southern Song period in China, bound feet symbolized the attractiveness of women. But in Japan, shaved eyebrows and blackened teeth long were markers of loveliness.For centuries, Japanese culture was profoundly shaped by China, but in complex ... Read more

    $70.99 USD

  • The Scholar and the State

    Fiction as Political Discourse in Late Imperial China

    by Liangyan Ge ...
    In imperial China, intellectuals devoted years of their lives to passing rigorous examinations in order to obtain a civil service position in the state bureaucracy. This traditional employment of the literati class conferred social power and moral legitimacy, but changing social and political circumstances in the Ming (1368–1644) and Qing (1644–1911) periods forced many to seek alternative careers ... Read more

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