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The Song of Everlasting Sorrow: A Novel of Shanghai by Wang Anyi 9780231143431
RRP: £25.00£18.70Set in post-World War II Shanghai, The Song of Everlasting Sorrow follows the adventures of Wang Qiyao, a girl born of the longtong, the crowded, labyrinthine alleys of Shanghai's working-class neighborhoods. Infatuated with the glitz and glamour of... -
Far Beyond the Field: Haiku by Japanese Women by Makoto Ueda
RRP: £30.00£23.29Far Beyond the Field is a first-of-its-kind anthology of haiku by Japanese women, collecting translations of four hundred haiku written by twenty poets from the seventeenth century to the present. By arranging the poems chronologically, Makoto Ueda has... -
The Unwanted Undead Adventurer (Light Novel): Volume 1 by Yu Okano
RRP: £10.99£8.43Rentt Faina, a twenty-five-year-old adventurer, has been hacking away at monsters for a decade. Without much talent for the job, Rentt finds himself stuck hunting slimes and goblins for meager amounts of coin every day. Little does he know, all this is... -
Anthology of Korean Literature: From Early Times to the Nineteenth Century by Peter H. Lee 9780824807566
RRP: £29.95£28.88This books offers a comprehensive sampling of the major genres of poetry and prose written from about A.D. 600 to the end of the nineteenth century. The book contains a dazzling array of myths and legends, essays and biographies, love poems and Zen... -
The Oxford Handbook of Critical Improvisation Studies, Volume 1 by George E. Lewis 9780197602201
RRP: £40.99£38.28Improvisation informs a vast array of human activity, from creative practices in art, dance, music, and literature to everyday conversation and the relationships to natural and built environments that surround and sustain us. The two volumes of The... -
Genuine Pretending: On the Philosophy of the Zhuangzi by Hans-Georg Moeller 9780231183994
RRP: £30.00£23.29Genuine Pretending is an innovative and comprehensive new reading of the Zhuangzi that highlights the critical and therapeutic functions of satire and humor. Hans-Georg Moeller and Paul J. D'Ambrosio show how this Daoist classic, contrary to contemporary... -
Little Lift and Look Nosy Lion by Sarah Allen 9781474994712 [USED COPY]
RRP: £5.99£2.66Follow a nosy lion cub around the grassland to discover a tall giraffe, a baby elephant squirting water and a funny looking warthog! Babies will delight in discovering safari animals in this sweet, sturdy flap book. Designed especially to encourage... -
How the NHS Coped with Covid-19 by Welch, Ellen 9781399006118
RRP: £15.99£11.612020 will forever be remembered as the year the Coronavirus pandemic changed life as we know it across the World. Economies crashed, livelihoods were eradicated, and thousands of lives were shortened or devastated by the effects of this novel virus. In... -
Spice and Wolf, Vol. 14 (manga) by Isuna Hasekura 9780316442657
RRP: £10.99£7.78Previously, Lawrence and Holo traveled to the town of Svernel in order to meet with the Myuri Mercenary Company and find out more about Holo's past companions and her home. But now Lawrence has gotten completely caught up in the political strife of... -
The Monkey and the Monk: An Abridgment of "The Journey to the West" by Anthony C. Yu 9780226971568
RRP: £19.00£14.38Anthony 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... -
The Forbidden Worlds of Haruki Murakami by Matthew Carl Strecher 9780816691982
RRP: £17.99£15.90In an "other world" composed of language-it could be a fathomless Martian well, a labyrinthine hotel or forest-a narrative unfolds, and with it the experiences, memories, and dreams that constitute reality for Haruki Murakami's characters and readers... -
A New Literary History of Modern China by David Der-Wei Wang
RRP: £37.95£32.11Literature, 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... -
Humboldt, Worldview and Language by James W. Underhill
RRP: £21.99£17.97This title is a study of the linguistic philosophy of Wilhelm von Humboldt, Prussian philologist and politician. From linguists such as Sapir, Whorf and Chomsky to philosophers such as Heidegger and sociologists such as Bourdieu, the idea that a language... -
The Golden Peaches of Samarkand: A Study of T'ang Exotics by Edward Hetzel Schafer
RRP: £35.00£32.13In the seventh century the kingdom of Samarkand sent formal gifts of fancy yellow peaches, large as goose eggs and with a color like gold, to the Chinese court at Ch'ang-an. What kind of fruit these golden peaches really were cannot now be guessed, but... -
The Siege of Tsingtau: The German-Japanese War 1914 by Stephenson, Charles 9781399074834
RRP: £14.99£11.95The German-Japanese War was a key, yet often neglected, episode in the opening phase of the First World War. It had profound implications for the future, particularly in respect of Japans acquisition of Germanys Micronesian islands. Japans naval... -
Battle of the Bulge: A Guide to Modelling the Battle by Ben Skipper 9781399007702
RRP: £16.99£12.28The Battle of the Bulge was the perfect storm for the Allies in late 1944; a tired army, overstretched supply lines, and poor intelligence on what was waiting on the other side of the hill. On 16th December, with almost complete surprise, the Germans... -
Great Books of China by Frances Wood 9781837930210
RRP: £10.99£7.12Discover - or rediscover - the major achievements of Chinese culture and civilization. Great Books of China offers concise introductions - each of them accompanied by generous quotation (in English) from the book in question - to sixty-six works in... -
Curious Questions & Answers about Rainforests by Anne Rooney 9781789892178
RRP: £12.99£5.31Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781789892178Author Anne RooneyFormat HardbackImprint Miles Kelly Publishing LtdPublisher Miles Kelly Publishing Ltd -
The Moon in the Water: Understanding Tanizaki, Kawabata and Mishima by Gwenn B. Petersen 9780824814762
RRP: £25.95£24.69Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780824814762Author Gwenn B. PetersenFormat PaperbackPage Count 380Imprint University of Hawai'i PressPublisher University of Hawai'i Press -
Mulan: Five Versions of a Classic Chinese Legend, with Related Texts by Shiamin Kwa
RRP: £18.99£15.67The legend of Mulan--the daughter who disguises herself as a man, dons her father's armor, and heads off to war in his place--remains one of the most popular Chinese folktales despite (or because of) its lack of supernatural demonstrations or... -
The Short Story: An Introduction by Paul March-Russell
RRP: £21.99£20.11This new general introduction emphasises the importance of the short story to an understanding of modern fiction. In twenty succinct chapters, the study paints a complete portrait of the short story - its history, culture, aesthetics and economics... -
Territorializing Manchuria: The Transnational Frontier and Literatures of East Asia by Miya Qiong Xie
RRP: £54.95£43.66Xiao Hong, Yom Sang-sop, Abe Kobo, and Zhong Lihe-these iconic literary figures from China, Korea, Japan, and Taiwan all described Manchuria extensively in their literary works. Now China's Northeast but a contested frontier in the first half of the... -
The Great Mirror of Male Love by Saikaku Ihara
RRP: £24.99£21.67A Stanford University Press classic.Reviews"A welcome opportunity for wider comparison of the literary traditions and sexual conventions of Japanese and Euro-American cultures."-Journal of Japanese StudiesBook InformationISBN 9780804718950Author Paul... -
A Certain Justice: Toward an Ecology of the Chinese Legal Imagination by Haiyan Lee
RRP: £26.00£24.85A 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... -
Orientalism and the Postcolonial Predicament: Perspectives on South Asia by Carol A. Breckenridge
RRP: £27.99£24.54In his extraordinarily influential book Orientalism, Edward Said argued that Western knowledge about the Orient in the Post-Enlightenment period has been "a systematic discourse by which Europe was able to manage-even produce-the Orient politically,... -
For All My Walking: Free-Verse Haiku of Taneda Santoka by Taneda Santoka 9780231125178
RRP: £22.00£17.36In April 1926, the Japanese poet Taneda Santoka (1882-1940) set off on the first of many walking trips, journeys in which he tramped thousands of miles through the Japanese countryside. These journeys were part of his religious training as a Buddhist... -
Zhuangzi: A New Translation of the Sayings of Master Zhuang as Interpreted by Guo Xiang by Richard John Lynn
RRP: £30.00£23.29The Zhuangzi (Sayings of Master Zhuang) is one of the foundational texts of the Chinese philosophical tradition and the cornerstone of Daoist thought. The earliest and most influential commentary on the Zhuangzi is that of Guo Xiang (265-312), who also... -
Wild Grass and Morning Blossoms Gathered at Dusk by Xun Lu
RRP: £29.95£23.66A brilliant new translation of the short improvisational fiction and memoirs of Lu Xun, the father of modern Chinese literature.This captivating translation assembles two volumes by Lu Xun, the founder of modern Chinese literature and one of East Asia's... -
Dynamic Interactive Astrology: Level One - The Planets in Signs and Houses Lyn Birkbeck 9781789046236
RRP: £16.99£14.61Dynamic Interactive Astrology uses a comprehensive and sophisticated set of keywords, and subsequent key phrases created by the user, that provide immediate access to the meanings in one's birth chart of the Planets, Signs, Houses and Aspects - the stuff... -
The Mouth That Begs: Hunger, Cannibalism, and the Politics of Eating in Modern China by Gang Yue 9780822323419
RRP: £25.99£22.89The Chinese ideogram chi is far richer in connotation than the equivalent English verb "to eat." Chi can also be read as "the mouth that begs for food and words." A concept manifest in the twentieth-century Chinese political reality... -
The Misadventures of Master Mugwort: A Joke Book Trilogy from Imperial China by Su Shi 9780197585603
RRP: £22.99£19.56The Hsu-Tang Library presents authoritative and eminently readable translations of classical Chinese literature, in bilingual editions, ranging across three millennia and the entire Sinitic world. The Misadventures of Master Mugwort: A Joke Book... -
The Poetry and Prose of Wang Wei. Volume 1 by Christopher Nugent 9781501516009
£40.73Wang Wei has traditionally been considered one of the greatest of Tang dynasty poets, together with Li Bo and Du Fu. This is the first complete translation into English of all of his poems, and also the first substantial translation of a selection of his... -
Bright Moon, White Clouds by Li Po
RRP: £21.00£13.14Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781590307465Author J. P. SeatonFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Shambhala Publications IncPublisher Shambhala Publications IncWeight(grams)... -
The Commercial Determinants of Health by Nason Maani 9780197578742
RRP: £102.50£99.03An accessible multidisciplinary overview for anyone seeking to understand the commercial determinants of health Our health is largely shaped by the world around us-by the conditions in which we grow, work, and live. These conditions include the... -
The Unwanted Undead Adventurer (Manga): Volume 1 by Yu Okano
RRP: £10.99£9.61It's been ten years since Rentt Faina, a luckless Bronze-class adventurer, set his eyes on becoming Mithril-class. Unfortunately, he finds himself helpless when confronted by a legendary dragon in the Water Moon Dungeon...and is summarily eaten. But... -
In Another World With My Smartphone: Volume 22 by Patora Fuyuhara
RRP: £10.99£9.61The Visions Dancing in My Mind... Touya's honeymoon might be over, but love's still lingering in the air in Brunhild! Can poor Endymion cope with being part of an alien menage a quatre? Who else might be looking for a match made in heaven? Having... -
Prima Donna: The Psychology of Maria Callas by Paul Wink 9780190857738
RRP: £30.99£28.48Prima Donna: The Psychology of Maria Callas explores the psychological mechanisms underlying the hypnotic power of Callas's artistry and the unfolding of her tragic life story. Although precipitated by the trauma and shame that followed her abandonment... -
A Dictionary of Philosophical Logic by Roy T. Cook
RRP: £90.00£73.68This dictionary introduces undergraduate and post-graduate students in philosophy, mathematics, and computer science to the main problems and positions in philosophical logic. Coverage includes not only key figures, positions, terminology, and debates... -
The Spirit of Japanese Poetry by Yone Noguchi 9781513282503
RRP: £4.99£3.63The Spirit of Japanese Poetry (1914) is a collection of essays by Yone Noguchi. Although he is widely recognized as a leading poet in English and Japanese of the modernist period, Noguchi was also a dedicated literary critic who advocated for the... -
Haruki Murakami's "the Wind-up Bird Chronicle" by Matthew C. Strecher 9780826452399
RRP: £21.99£21.89This is an excellent guide to Haruki MurakamiGCOs extraordinary novel. It features a biography of the author (including an interview), a full-length analysis of the novel, and a great deal more. If youGCOre studying this novel, reading it for your book...