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  • Spring and Autumn Annals of Wu and Yue

    A Literary Translation of the First Chinese Novel, Wu Yue chunqiu

    Series series SUNY series, Translating China
    A Tale of Two Kingdoms offers a highly readable translation of the earliest surviving novel written in the Chinese language, Wu Yue chunqiu (The Spring and Autumn Annals of the Kingdoms of Wu and Yue). Composed nearly two millennia ago and featuring some of the most famous characters in Chinese literature, this powerful saga of humiliation, violence, and revenge recounts the battles between the ... Read more

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  • Bone, Bronze, and Bamboo

    Unearthing Early China with Sarah Allan

    Series series SUNY series in Chinese Philosophy and Culture
    Bone, Bronze, and Bamboo explores the tremendous wealth of newly unearthed artifacts and manuscripts that have been revolutionizing the study of early China. Leading scholars from China and abroad lend their expertise in archaeology, art history, paleography, intellectual history, and many other disciplines to show how these fascinating finds change our understanding of China's past. Organized in ... Read more

    $33.99 USD

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  • Laozi's Dao De Jing

    A New Interpretation for a Transformative Time

    by Laozi, Ken Liu ...
    A fresh, graceful translation of one of the most important and timeless classics—the foundational work of Daoism—by award-winning novelist Ken Liu, who contextualizes and demystifies this famously enigmatic text.Laozi’s Dao De Jing was written around 400 BC by a compassionate soul in a world torn by hatred and ambition, dominated by those that yearned for apocalyptic confrontations and prized ... Read more

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  • Affective Betrayal

    Mind, Music, and Embodied Action in Late Qing China

    by Jean Tsui ...
    Series series SUNY series in Chinese Philosophy and Culture
    Affective Betrayal uses "affect" as an analytical category to explicate the fragility and fragmentation of Chinese political modernity. In so doing, the book uncovers some of the unresolved moral and philosophical obstacles China encountered in the past, as well as the cultural predicament the country faces at present.At the turn of the twentieth century, China's leading reformer Liang Qichao ... Read more

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  • Metaphor and Meaning

    Thinking Through Early China with Sarah Allan

    Series series SUNY series in Chinese Philosophy and Culture
    In Metaphor and Meaning, scholars from China, the United States, and Europe draw on Sarah Allan's groundbreaking application of conceptual metaphor theory to the study of early Chinese philosophy and material culture. Conceptual metaphor theory treats metaphors not just as linguistic expressions but as fundamental structures of thought that define one's conceptual system and perception of reality. ... Read more

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  • Empire of Culture

    Neo-Victorian Narratives in the Global Creative Economy

    by Waiyee Loh ...
    Series series SUNY series, Studies in the Long Nineteenth Century
    Empire of Culture brings together contemporary representations of Victorian Britain to reveal how the nation's imperial past inheres in the ways post-imperial subjects commodify and consume "culture" in the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. The globalization of English literature, along with British forms of dress, etiquette, and dining, in the nineteenth century presumed and ... Read more

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  • Teaching Film from the People's Republic of China

    Series series Options for Teaching
    This volume brings a diverse range of voices--from anthropology, communication studies, ethnomusicology, film, history, literature, linguistics, sociology, theater, and urban geography--into the conversation about film from the People's Republic of China. Essays seek to answer what films can reveal or obscure about Chinese history and society and demonstrate how studying films from the PRC can ... Read more

    $38.00 USD

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  • The Dawn of the Warrior Age

    War Tales from Medieval Japan

    by Royall Tyler ...
    The war between the Heike and Genji clans in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries is among the most compelling and significant moments in Japan’s history, immortalized in The Tale of the Heike. Beyond the events recorded in this canonical text, the conflicts of the surrounding years are crucial to medieval Japanese culture and history. In 1156, power began to slip away from the court nobility in ... Read more

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  • Narrative Devices in the Shiji

    Retelling the Past

    by Lei Yang ...
    Series series SUNY series in Chinese Philosophy and Culture
    Narrative Devices in the Shiji*: Retelling the Past* offers the first systematic analysis of narratives in early Chinese historical writings from 400 BCE to 100 CE, with a focus on the Shiji (Records of the Historian), a vast collection of historical accounts completed by Sima Qian (145–86 BCE). For centuries, the dominant approach to the Shiji has been to infer Sima's intentions from his ... Read more

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  • Reading Tolkien in Chinese

    Religion, Fantasy and Translation

    Series series Perspectives on Fantasy
    Approaching translations of Tolkien's works as stories in their own right, this book reads multiple Chinese translations of Tolkien's writing to uncover the new and unique perspectives that enrich the meaning of the original texts.Exploring translations of The Lord of the Rings, The Hobbit, The Silmarillion, The Children of Hurin and The Unfinished Tales, Eric Reinders reveals the mechanics of ... Read more

    $93.99 USD

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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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  • The Fox Spirit, the Stone Maiden, and Other Transgender Histories from Late Imperial China

    In imperial China, people moved away from the gender they were assigned at birth in different ways and for many reasons. Eunuchs, boy actresses, and clergy left behind normative gender roles defined by family and procreation. “Stone maidens”—women deemed physically incapable of vaginal intercourse—might depart from families or marriages to become Buddhist or Daoist nuns. Anatomical males who ... Read more

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  • 解讀馬一浮

    by 楊照 ...
    Series series 展讀民國人文
    以接續儒家道統為己任,以服膺宋明理學為特徵亂世中的「新儒家」衛道士▍齊聲推薦王汎森/中央研究院院士江仲淵/「歷史說書人History Storyteller」粉專創辦人呂芳上/中央研究院近代史研究所兼任研究員李隆獻/臺灣大學中文系特聘教授廖彥博/歷史作家蔡長林/中央研究院中國文哲研究所研究員(依姓氏筆畫排列)清末民初,西學東漸的巨大衝擊,傳統儒家的內核幾乎被掏空殆盡,此時一些針對經學權威的流派異軍突起,馬一浮所屬的「新儒家」就名列其中。馬一浮主張中國知識,乃至人類一切文明,皆被「六藝」所含納;他雖被稱為「一代儒宗」,但他不僅只歸宗儒家,同時也析解佛道,並聚焦於理學。馬一浮身為民初的領軍學者之一,卻被蔡元培、熊十力等人詬病「世故欠通」,宛如一名誤入民國畫卷的宋代士人。而當行到人生最後一里路,「儒林」頹敗,「智林」高懸,他所創立的「復興書院」也名存實亡。他不再教學與著述,僅遺下一些與佛道相關 ... Read more

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  • Sound and Silence

    My Experience with China and Literature

    by Lianke Yan ...
    Translated by Carlos Rojas ...
    Series series Sinotheory
    Yan Lianke is a world-renowned author of novels, short stories, and essays whose provocative and nuanced writing explores the reality of everyday life in contemporary China. In Sound and Silence, Yan compares his literary project to a blind man carrying a flashlight whose role is to help others perceive the darkness that surrounds them. Often described as China’s most censored author, Yan reflects ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • La littérature chinoise

    Six conférences

    Grand sinologue soviétique, Vasily Alekseyev en 1907 voyage avec Édouard Chavannes à travers plusieurs provinces chinoises, décrivant d'anciens monuments sculptés jusqu'alors inconnus, en particulier les monuments au Henan et au Shaanxi. En plus il devient conservateur et chercheur principal au Musée asiatique de Petersbourg. Son expertise inégalée de la culture et de la littérature chinoises est ... Read more

    $9.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Origins of Chinese Literary Hermeneutics

    A Study of the Shijing and the Mao School of Confucian Exegesis

    Series series SUNY series in Chinese Philosophy and Culture
    The Shijing ("Canon of Odes") is China's oldest poetry collection, traditionally considered to have been edited by Confucius himself. Despite their enormous importance for Confucianism and Chinese civilization, the 305 odes have for millennia also puzzled readers. Why did the Sage include in the Canon apparently lewd poems about women promising men to "hitch up" their skirts and "wade the river," ... Read more

    $33.99 USD

  • 曾經江湖:金庸,為武俠小說而生的人—金庸的武林1

    by 楊照 ...
    Series Book 4610 - 金庸茶館
    在喧嘩巨變的時代,楊照招魂那位講故事的人,重整金庸筆下的山河歲月。「對於江湖新鮮人,這是一部金庸導讀;對於早已熟讀金庸者,這更是一本知音之書。」楊照說,紀念金庸最有意義的方式,是將他的武俠小說按照創作時間先後,認真重讀一次,那是過去與現在、傳統與創新的一番奇妙對話。從唐傳奇、《水滸傳》《三俠五義》,到平江不肖生打造了江湖概念,武俠小說系譜形塑了一個「集體世界」,而金庸的成就,在於既承繼又跳出了這種創作規則;甚至,武俠小說的終結,是因為江湖這個舞臺被金庸和古龍拆完了……楊過是從《阿Q正傳》化身出來的俠?「射鵰」的來歷可追溯到《史記.李將軍列傳》?《書劍恩仇錄》的天山異域,讓我們看到武功的限制?袁承志的抉擇,反映了金庸的心境?而金庸自己,到底又最像作品裡的哪個角色?楊照從金庸的生平與時代出發,追索小說與人生的微妙交錯;繼而逐部細究小說... ... Read more

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  • Literary Communication in Song Dynasty

    by Wang Zhaopeng ...
    Based on first-hand historical materials, this book explores the various aspects of literary communication during the Song Dynasty in China.The book investigates the single-channel dissemination of poetry and ci works, the dissemination of literary collections, the dissemination through wall inscriptions, the oral dissemination of Song ci, the remuneration and commercialization of literature in ... Read more

    $64.99 USD

  • Modern Narrative Strategies in the Twentieth-Century Japanese Novel

    by Lucian Zup ...
    The modern Japanese novel has its roots in the influence exerted by the modern Western novel. However, the point of the present study is that the modern Japanese novel has appropriated modern forms of Western Romanian discourse through an act larger than the passivity of influence, which is translation.The Japanese novel will be approached from the perspective of the relations it maintains with ... Read more

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  • Strategii narative moderne în romanul japonez din secolul XX

    by Lucian Zup ...
    Romanul japonez modern își are rădăcinile în influența exercitată de romanul occidental modern. Totuși, ideea studiului de față este că romanul japonez modern și-a însușit forme moderne ale discursului romanesc occidental printr-un act mai amplu decât pasivitatea influențării, care e traducerea.Romanul japonez va fi abordat în perspectiva relaţiilor ce le întreţine cu centrul de receptare european ... 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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  • Affect, Performativity, and Chinese Diasporas in the Caribbean

    Hopeful Futures

    Series series Routledge Research in Postcolonial Literatures
    Affect, Performativity, and Chinese Diasporas in the Caribbean: Hopeful Futures analyzes the emergence of Chinese diasporic literature and art in the Caribbean and its diasporas in the twenty-first century. This book considers the historical and critical discourse about the Chinese diasporas in the Caribbean and proposes a textual and visual archive selecting contemporary texts that signal a ... Read more

    $52.99 USD

  • Kōjin Karatani’s Philosophy of Architecture

    by Nadir Lahiji ...
    In this book, Nadir Lahiji introduces Kōjin Karatani’s theoretical-philosophical project and demonstrates its affinity with Kant’s critical philosophy founded on ‘architectonic reason’. From the ancient Greeks we have inherited a definition of the word ‘philosophy’ as Sophia—wisdom. But in his book Architecture as Metaphor Kōjin Karatani introduces a different definition of philosophy. Here, ... Read more

    $48.99 USD

  • 紅樓夢公開課(二):細論寶黛釵卷

    by 歐麗娟 ...
    Series Book 2 - 紅樓夢公開課
    ★ 臺大網站總點閱數超過410萬,華人世界最受歡迎的《紅樓夢》線上課程★ 臺大中文系教授歐麗娟權威導讀,推出至今最完整、最翔實、最精彩的公開課文字紀錄!《紅樓夢》是中國文學史上的偉大經典之一,它講述貴族世家中的婚戀糾葛、族眾紛爭和命運起伏。曹雪芹以精湛靈動的筆法、充滿詩意的場面描寫和細膩入微的人物刻畫,呈現豐富的情感世界和貴族風貌,深刻探討命運和現實的交織,啟發後代無數的文學創作及研究。所謂「一切經典皆是通向自我的敲門磚」,研究紅學超過二十年的歐麗娟教授將帶領讀者藉由這部經典敲開大門,不只看到《紅樓夢》裡各式各樣、多采多姿的寶藏,更要召喚出其中的人,也就是讀者各種可能的自我。《紅樓夢公開課》完整收錄歐麗娟於臺大線上課程的教授內容,第二冊「細論寶黛釵」深入探索《紅樓夢》的人物風采,主要聚焦於「鼎足」三人:賈寶玉、林黛玉及薛寶釵。本書深入分析,該如何解讀紅樓人物,才能將他們還原為完整的 ... Read more

    $14.99 USD