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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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  • Tiananmen Fictions outside the Square

    The Chinese Literary Diaspora and the Politics of Global Culture

    by Belinda Kong ...
    Series series Asian American History & Cultu
    An exciting analysis of the myriad literary effects of Tiananmen, Belinda Kong's Tiananmen Fictions Outside the Square is the first full-length study of fictions related to the 1989 movement and massacre. More than any other episode in recent world history, Tiananmen has brought a distinctly politicized Chinese literary diaspora into stark relief.Kong redefines Tiananmen's meaning from an event ... 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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  • Chinese Novel Book Review: 小说《花落花开》读者网友书评集

    这本书收集了国内读者及海外网友对二十万字长篇小说《花落花开》原名《花浓爱更浓》的评论、建议和跟贴。 ... Read more

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  • Confucian Image Politics

    Masculine Morality in Seventeenth-Century China

    by Ying Zhang ...
    During the Ming-Qing transition (roughly from the 1570s to the 1680s), literati-officials in China employed public forms of writing, art, and social spectacle to present positive moral images of themselves and negative images of their rivals. The rise of print culture, the dynastic change, and the proliferating approaches to Confucian moral cultivation together gave shape to this new political ... Read more

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  • 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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  • Symptoms of an Unruly Age

    Li Zhi and Cultures of Early Modernity

    Symptoms of an Unruly Age compares the writings of Li Zhi (1527–1602) and his late-Ming compatriots to texts composed by their European contemporaries, including Montaigne, Shakespeare, and Cervantes. Emphasizing aesthetic patterns that transcend national boundaries, Rivi Handler-Spitz explores these works as culturally distinct responses to similar social and economic tensions affecting early ... Read more

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  • 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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  • Mo Yan in Context

    Nobel Laureate and Global Storyteller

    Edited by Angelica Duran, Yuhan Huang ...
    Series series Comparative Cultural Studies
    In 2012 the Swedish Academy announced that Mo Yan had received the Nobel Prize in Literature for his work that "with hallucinatory realism merges folk tales, history, and the contemporary." The announcement marked the first time a resident of mainland China had ever received the award. This is the first English-language study of the Chinese writer's work and influence, featuring essays from ... Read more

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  • Keywords in Western Literary Criticism and Contemporary China

    Volume 2

    Edited by Yamin Hu ...
    Since the reform and opening up of China in 1978, Western literary criticism has begun to flourish and gain in popularity within the country’s academic literature community. These two volumes meticulously select and examine nine of the most influential keywords from Western literary theory while identifying the intricate historical sources of these terms and analyzing their relevance to other ... Read more

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  • Writing Gender in Early Modern Chinese Women's Tanci Fiction

    by Li Guo ...
    Series series Comparative Cultural Studies
    Women’s tanci, or “plucking rhymes,” are chantefable narratives written by upper-class educated women from seventeenth-century to early twentieth-century China. Writing Gender in Early Modern Chinese Women’s Tanci Fiction offers a timely study on early modern Chinese women’s representations of gender, nation, and political activism in their tanci works before and after the Taiping Rebellion (1850 ... Read more

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  • Women’s Tanci Fiction in Late Imperial and Early Twentieth-Century China

    by Li Guo ...
    Series series Comparative Cultural Studies
    In Women’s Tanci Fiction in Late Imperial and Early Modern China, Li Guo presents the first book-length study in English of women’s tanci fiction, the distinctive Chinese form of narrative written in rhymed lines during the late imperial to early modern period (related to, but different from, the orally performed version also called tanci) She explores the tradition through a comparative analysis ... Read more

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  • Poet-Monks

    The Invention of Buddhist Poetry in Late Medieval China

    Poet-Monks focuses on the literary and religious practices of Buddhist poet-monks in Tang-dynasty China to propose an alternative historical arc of medieval Chinese poetry. Combining large-scale quantitative analysis with close readings of important literary texts, Thomas J. Mazanec describes how Buddhist poet-monks, who first appeared in the latter half of Tang-dynasty China, asserted a bold new ... Read more

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  • Bandits in Print

    "The Water Margin" and the Transformations of the Chinese Novel

    Bandits in Print examines the world of print in early modern China, focusing on the classic novel The Water Margin (Shuihu zhuan). Depending on which edition a reader happened upon, The Water Margin could offer vastly different experiences, a characteristic of the early modern Chinese novel genre and the shifting print culture of the era.Scott W. Gregory argues that the traditional novel is best u ... Read more

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  • Xueqin and Xakespeare

    Reading The Story of the Stone through Hamlet

    Series series Routledge Studies in Comparative Literature
    This monograph offers a detailed consideration of the five-volume novel written by Cao Xueqin and translated into English as The Story of the Stone, when read through William Shakespeare’s drama Hamlet, Prince of Denmark, A Tragedy in Five Acts. The book builds on the superlative David Hawkes/John Minford English language translation, which is inspired by resonances between the English ... Read more

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  • Keywords in Western Literary Criticism and Contemporary China

    Volume 1

    Edited by Yamin Hu ...
    Since the reform and opening up of China in 1978, Western literary criticism has begun to flourish and gain in popularity within the country’s academic literature community. These two volumes meticulously select and examine nine of the most influential keywords from Western literary theory while identifying the intricate historical sources of these terms and analyzing their relevance to other ... Read more

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  • New Woman in Early Twentieth-Century Chinese Fiction

    by Jin Feng ...
    Series series Comparative Cultural Studies
    In The New Woman in Early Twentieth-Century Chinese Fiction, Jin Feng proposes that representation of the "new woman" in Communist Chinese fiction of the earlier twentieth century was paradoxically one of the ways in which male writers of the era explored, negotiated, and laid claim to their own emerging identity as "modern" intellectuals. Specifically, Feng argues that male writers such as Lu Xun ... Read more

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  • Kazuo Ishiguro's An Artist of the Floating World: Answering Excerpt & Essay Questions

    A Guide to Kazuo Ishiguro's An Artist of the Floating World, #3

    Series Book 3 - A Guide to Kazuo Ishiguro's An Artist of the Floating World
    There aren't many novels that address the Second World War and its influence on Asian Countries as well as Kazuo Ishiguro's An Artist of the Floating World. Neither are there many criticism of this novel. This book, therefore, intends to highlight the importance of this novel by critiquing the story and looking at its effect on Japan. In the novel, Kazuo Ishiguro highlights the conflict that ... Read more

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  • The Tale of Genji

    The Tale of Genji (源氏物語 Genji monogatari) is a classic work of Japanese literature written by the noblewoman and lady-in-waiting Murasaki Shikibu in the early years of the 11th century. The original manuscript no longer exists. It was made in "concertina" or "orihon" style: several sheets of paper pasted together and folded alternately in one direction then the other, around the peak of the Heian ... Read more

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  • The Complete Confucius: The Analects, The Doctrine Of The Mean, and The Great Learning

    Confucius (/kənˈfjuːʃəs/ kən-FEW-shəs; 551–479 BC) was a Chinese philosopher and politician of the Spring and Autumn period.The philosophy of Confucius, also known as Confucianism, emphasized personal and governmental morality, correctness of social relationships, justice and sincerity. His followers competed successfully with many other schools during the Hundred Schools of Thought era only to be ... Read more

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  • An Artist of the Floating World: Themes and Elements of Style

    A Guide to Kazuo Ishiguro's An Artist of the Floating World, #2

    Series Book 2 - A Guide to Kazuo Ishiguro's An Artist of the Floating World
    Following the first book on Kazuo Ishiguro's AN ARTIST OF THE FLOATING WORLD which examined the PLOT of the novel and the CHARACTERS this book examines the THEMES and ELEMENTS OF STYLE. This allows the critic of the novel to have a comprehensive view of what the novel is about, how it is crafted, who the players are and what kind of style the novelist adopts. This should prepare any student of ... Read more

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  • 李秉華注解《老子》——3个章节选本

    by Binghua Li ...
    看懂《老子》的过程犹如在做几何题或类似破译密码。虽然注解《老子》者成千上万,但是都存在很多误解。因为不忍坐视所以也来轧闹猛,大概有十余章的观点与众不同,然而可能更接近正确。此选本仅是其中的第二十六章、三十七章和五十六章3个章节,只有4页。估计不会有人看,所以只发布3个章节,免得瞎起劲过份。就当是为了宣示还存在另外一些与众不同然而可能更接近正确的观点。发布这个注解相当于解数学题的经验交流,千万不要认为那是在宣扬某种政治观点或是在褒此贬彼。 ... Read more

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  • The Complete Confucius: The Analects, The Doctrine Of The Mean, and The Great Learning

    Confucius (/kənˈfjuːʃəs/ kən-FEW-shəs; 551–479 BC) was a Chinese philosopher and politician of the Spring and Autumn period.The philosophy of Confucius, also known as Confucianism, emphasized personal and governmental morality, correctness of social relationships, justice and sincerity. His followers competed successfully with many other schools during the Hundred Schools of Thought era only to be ... Read more

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  • Miyazawa Kenji - a short biography

    "The purpose of the work of my whole life has been to deliver this holy book in your hands, and make you able to enter the Most Noble Path by contacting the teaching of the Buddha"This is the note that on his deathbed Kenji asks his father to write on the copies, addressed to his friends, of the Japanese translation of the Lotus Sūtra. They echo the words of Sakyamuni "... I do what only because ... Read more

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