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  • Mencius

    A New Translation Arranged and Annotated For The General Reader

    Series series Heritage
    Most educated Westerners are familiar with the thinkers and prophets who inform the Western spirit. But they are less familiar with the thinkers who have shaped the major oriental civilizations. The heirs of these ancient civilizations are now once again in the ascendant. We must understand the ways and thoughts that condition their conduct. The Works of Mencius provides an admirable insight into ... Read more

    $27.99 USD

  • The Chinese Novel at the Turn of the Century

    Series series Heritage
    This collection of essays reveals the dynamic role of the late Qing novel in the process of modernization of Chinese fiction. Substantial changes in various aspects of the Chinese novel at the turn of the century, demonstrated by structural analyses of several representative novels, suggest that the evolution of modern Chinese fiction was a more complex process than a simple imitation of Western ... Read more

    $31.99 USD

  • Sugawara and the Secrets of Calligraphy

    Series series Translations from the Asian Classics
    Sugawara and the Secrets of Calligraphy is a classic play from Japan's golden age of puppet theater. Written in the eighteenth century, it tells the tale of Sugawara no Michizane, a wronged scholar-official who, in death, joins the Shinto pantheon as a nurturer of scholarship and calligraphy. The story recounts Sugawara's entanglement with the powerful Fujiwara family, who accuse Sugawara of ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • Surviving the Storm: A Memoir

    A poignant memoir of life under Communism by one of China's established women writers. Not only did her heroic intellectualism suffer under the restrictions of a repressive regime, but both her passionate devotion to women's rights and her fervent adherence to the precepts of Marxism were tested under often heartbreaking conditions. ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • "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

  • Origins of Modern Japanese Literature

    Translated by Brett de Bary ...
    Series series Post-contemporary interventions
    Since its publication in Japan ten years ago, Origins of Modern Japanese Literature has become a landmark book, playing a pivotal role in defining discussions of modernity in that country. Against a history of relative inattention on the part of Western translators to modern Asian critical theory, this first English publication is sure to have a profound effect on current cultural criticism in the ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

  • Yoshitsune and the Thousand Cherry Trees

    A Masterpiece of the Eighteenth-Century Japanese Puppet Theater

    Edited by Stanleigh Jones Jr. ...
    Series series Translations from the Asian Classics
    A masterpiece of eighteenth-century Japanese puppet theater, Yoshitsune and the Thousand Cherry Trees is an action-packed play set in the aftermath of the twelfth-century Genji–Heike wars. It follows the adventures of the military commander, Yoshitsune, as he tries to avoid capture by his jealous older brother and loyal henchmen. The drama, written by a trio of playwrights, popularizes Japan's ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • The Pinch Runner Memorandum

    This is the first English translation of the 1976 novel by Japan's most daring and innovative novelist. Kenzaburo Oe dispenses with the unity of voice often sought in the conventional realistic novel by forcing the reader to come to grips with one of the basic questions in modern literature: What is the novel? ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Misers, Shrews, and Polygamists

    Sexuality and Male-Female Relations in Eighteenth-Century Chinese Fiction

    by Keith McMahon ...
    Having multiple wives was one of the mainstays of male privilege during the Ming and Qing dynasties of late imperial China. Based on a comprehensive reading of eighteenth-century Chinese novels and a theoretical approach grounded in poststructuralist, psychoanalytic, and feminist criticism, Misers, Shrews, and Polygamists examines how such privilege functions in these novels and provides the first ... Read more

    $22.99 USD

  • Occidentalism

    A Theory of Counter-Discourse in Post-Mao China

    by Xiaomei Chen ...
    Xiaomei Chen offers an insightful account of the unremittingly favorable depiction of Western culture and its negative characterization of Chinese culture in post-Mao China from 1978-1988. Chen examines the cultural and political interrelations between the East and West from a vantage point more complex than that accommodated by most current theories of Western imperialism and colonialism. Going ... Read more

    $175.99 USD

  • None but the Nightingale

    An Introduction to Chinese Literature

    This classic introduction to the Chinese literature is a fundamental step towards the West's understanding of the rich literary legacy of China.Readable, condensed, entertaining, the selections contained in this book belong to enduring world literature; the "Great Society" envisioned by Confucius; the "Fireside Chats" of K'ang Hei; the supercilious letter of the Emperor Ch'ien Lung to King George ... Read more

    $5.99 USD

  • Hojoki

    Visions of a Torn World

    Series series Rock Spring Collection of Japanese Literature
    Japan's capital city of Kyoto was devastated by earthquake, storm, and fire in the late 12th century. Retreating from "this unkind world," the poet and Buddhist priest Kamo-no-Chomei left the capital for the forested mountains, where he eventually constructed his famous "ten-foot-square" hut. From this solitary vantage point Chomei produced Hojoki, an extraordinary literary work that describes all ... Read more

    $7.99 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

  • Chinese Modern

    The Heroic and the Quotidian

    Series series Post-Contemporary Interventions
    Chinese Modern examines crucial episodes in the creation of Chinese modernity during the turbulent twentieth century. Analyzing a rich array of literary, visual, theatrical, and cinematic texts, Xiaobing Tang portrays the cultural transformation of China from the early 1900s through the founding of the People’s Republic, the installation of the socialist realist aesthetic, the collapse of the idea ... Read more

    $22.99 USD

  • Writing in Light

    The Silent Scenario and the Japanese Pure Film Movement

    While most people associate Japanese film with modern directors like Akira Kurosawa, Japan’s cinema has a rich tradition going back to the silent era. Japan’s "pure film movement" of the 1910s is widely held to mark the birth of film theory as we know it and is a touchstone for historians of early cinema. Yet this work has been difficult to access because so few prints have been preserved. Joanne ... Read more

    $24.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Shorter Columbia Anthology of Traditional Chinese Literature

    Edited by Victor Mair ...
    Series series Translations from the Asian Classics
    With its fresh translations by newer voices in the field, its broad scope, and its flowing style, this anthology places the immense riches of Chinese literature within easy reach. Ranging from the beginnings to 1919, this abridged version of The Columbia Anthology of Traditional Chinese Literature retains all the characteristics of the original. In putting together these selections Victor H. Mair ... Read more

    $40.99 USD

  • The Taste of Apples

    Translated by Howard Goldblatt ...
    Series series Modern Chinese Literature from Taiwan
    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 reveal his genius.In "The Two Sign Painters," TV reporters ambush two young workers from the ... Read more

    $26.99 USD

  • Travels in Manchuria and Mongolia

    A Feminist Poet from Japan Encounters Prewar China

    by Akiko Yosano ...
    Translated by Joshua Fogel ...
    Yosano Akiko (1878-1942) was one of Japan's greatest poets and translators from classical Japanese. Her output was extraordinary, including twenty volumes of poetry and the most popular translation of the ancient classic The Tale of Genji into modern Japanese. The mother of eleven children, she was a prominent feminist and frequent contributor to Japan's first feminist journal of creative writing, ... Read more

    $27.99 USD

  • Topographies of Japanese Modernism

    by Seiji Lippit ...
    What happens when a critique of modernity—a "revolt against the traditions of the Western world"—is situated within a non-European context, where the concept of the modern has been inevitably tied to the image of the West?Seiji M. Lippit offers the first comprehensive study in English of Japanese modernist fiction of the 1920s and 1930s. Through close readings of four leading figures of this ... Read more

    $33.99 USD

  • Grass For My Pillow

    Translated by Dennis Keene ...
    First published in Japanese in 1966, the debut novel of the critically acclaimed author of Singular Rebellion is an unusual portrait of a deeply taboo subject in twentieth-century Japanese society: resistance to the draft in World War II. In 1940 Shokichi Hamada is a conscientious objector who dodges military service by simply disappearing from society, taking to the country as an itinerant ... Read more

    $37.99 USD

  • Chikamatsu

    Five Late Plays

    Translated by C. Andrew Gerstle ...
    Series series Translations from the Asian Classics
    Chikamatsu Monzaemon (1653-1725), often referred to as "Japan's Shakespeare" and a "god of writers," was arguably the most famous playwright in Japanese history and wrote more than 100 plays for the kabuki and bunraku theaters. Today, the plays of this major literary figure are performed on kabuki and bunraku stages as well as in the modern theater, and forty-nine films of his plays have been made ... Read more

    $35.99 USD

  • Wintry Night

    by Qiao Li ...
    Translated by Taotao Liu, John Balcom ...
    Series series Modern Chinese Literature from Taiwan
    An epic spanning more than half a century of Taiwan's history, this breathtaking historical novel traces the fortunes of the Pengs, a family of Hakka Chinese settlers, across three generations from the 1890s, just before Taiwan was ceded to Japan as a result of the Sino-Japanese war, through World War II. Li Qiao brilliantly re-creates the dramatic world of these pioneers—and the colonization of ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • Just Living

    Poems and Prose of the Japanese Monk Tonna

    by Tonna ...
    Series series Translations from the Asian Classics
    The medieval Buddhist poet-monk Tonna (1289–1372) was regarded as the leading poet of his day and a prominent scholar and critic. Despite his commoner status, he was assigned the task of acting as compiler for an imperial anthology of poetry and counted a number of prominent courtiers among his students and patrons. And yet his works, which remained required reading for virtually all serious poets ... Read more

    $33.99 USD

  • The Breaking Jewel

    A Novel

    by Makoto Oda ...
    Translated by Donald Keene ...
    Series series Weatherhead Books on Asia
    Set on an island in the South Pacific during the final days of World War II, when the tide has turned against Japan and the war has unmistakably become one of attrition, The Breaking Jewel offers a rare depiction of the Pacific War from the Japanese side and captures the essence of Japan's doomed imperial aims. The novel opens as a small force of Japanese soldiers prepares to defend a tiny and ... Read more

    $25.99 USD