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Ryokan (1758-1831), a Buddhist monk in the Zen sect, was a major figure in Tokugawa poetry. Although a Zen master, he never headed a temple but chose to live alone in simple huts and to support himself by begging. His poems are mainly a record of his...

First published in 1919 by Ezra Pound, Ernest Fenollosa's essay on the Chinese written language has become one of the most often quoted statements in the history of American poetics. As edited by Pound, it presents a powerful conception of language that...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781906660161Author David ButlerFormat PaperbackPage Count 144Imprint Wallflower PressPublisher Wallflower PressWeight(grams) 212gDimensions(mm) 215mm *...

At the start of the twenty-first century, China is poised to become a major global power. Understanding its culture is more important than ever before for western audiences, but for many, China remains a mysterious and exotic country. This Companion...

In Tokyo in the early 1990s, an indie band called Flipper's Guitar was at the forefront of a new wave in Japanese popular music known as Shibuya-kei. The band's founder, Keigo Oyamada, would go on to produce, under the name Cornelius, a series of albums...

That year, quite a shocking incident occurred... So reminisces old Hanshichi in a story from one of Japan's most beloved works of popular literature, Hanshichi torimonocho. Told through the eyes of a street-smart detective, Okamoto Kido's best-known work...

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...

Examines the role that Japanese girls' magazine culture played during the twentieth century in the creation and use of the notion of shojo, the cultural identity of adolescent Japanese girls.Hiromi Tsuchiya Dollase examines the role that magazines have...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780994571533Author Royall TylerFormat PaperbackPage Count 294Imprint Blue-Tongue BooksPublisher Blue-Tongue BooksWeight(grams) 435gDimensions(mm) 229mm *...

Terayama Shuji (1935-1983) was an avant-garde Japanese poet, dramatist, film director, and photographer known for his highly provocative work. In this inventive and revealing work, Steven Ridgely examines Terayama's life and art to show that a...

Wang 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...

In this classic tale, Richard E. Kim paints seven vivid scenes from a boyhood and early adolescence in Korea at the height of the Japanese occupation, 1932 to 1945. Taking its title from the grim fact that the occupiers forced the Koreans to renounce...

The first full-length work in English on Kitahara Hakushu (1885-1942), a leading poet of modern Japan. In addition to a thorough recounting of the poet's life and times, the author provides numerous translations of Hakush's poems and excerpts from his...

The book looks at London's maritime history from the establishment of Roman Londinium to the present day. It discusses many different aspects of life on the Thames and its connecting waterways and canals. There was a time when the River Thames was the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780924304774Author Marvin MarcusFormat PaperbackPage Count 132Imprint Association for Asian StudiesPublisher Association for Asian StudiesWeight(grams)...

This Companion provides a comprehensive overview of the influences that have shaped modern-day Japan. Spanning one and a half centuries from the Meiji Restoration in 1868 to the beginning of the twenty-first century, this volume covers topics such as...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780974597461Author Douglas J PenickFormat PaperbackPage Count 172Imprint Mountain Treasury PressPublisher Mountain Treasury PressWeight(grams)...

This 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...

Bones Will Crow is the first anthology of contemporary Burmese poets in any language, and includes the work of Burmese poets in exile, in prison and undercover. Introduced by Zeyar Lynn, with a Preface by Ruth Padel.The poets featured are Tin Moe...

Previous translations and descriptions of Li Qingzhao are molded by an image of her as lonely wife and bereft widow formed by centuries of manipulation of her work and legacy by scholars and critics (all of them male) to fit their idea of a what a...

In this ground-breaking synthesis of art and science, Diana Deutsch, one of the world's leading experts on the psychology of music, shows how illusions of music and speech--many of which she herself discovered--have fundamentally altered thinking about...

The friendships of writers of the mid-Tang era (780s-820s)-between literary giants like Bai Juyi and Yuan Zhen, Han Yu and Meng Jiao, Liu Zongyuan and Liu Yuxi-became famous through the many texts they wrote to and about one another. What inspired...

This debut collection in English from Korean poet Moon Bo Young insists that you, as a reader, put down your expectations of what should be important or serious. While these poems are about god, death, love, and literature, they are also just as much...

This volume presents a broad range of writings on literature from the period of the inception of literary modernity in China. Of the 55 essays included, 47 are translated here for the first time, including two essays by Lu Xun. In addition to the...

It's a Prehistoric Ritual The conflict with the wicked god has finally come to an end, and Touya now presides over a unified planet. There may be peace, but this world is still far from a paradise! It's time for him to help resolve centuries-long...

This exciting collection of work introduces a major shift in debates on sexuality: a shift away from discourse, identity and signification, to a radical new conception of bodily materialism. Moving away from the established path known as queer theory, it...

This book offers a guided introduction to Chinese nonfictional prose and its literary and cultural significance. It features more than one hundred major texts from antiquity through the Qing dynasty that exemplify major genres, styles, and forms of...

An oblique, hard-edged novel tinged with offbeat fantasy, One Hundred Shadows is set in a slum electronics market in central Seoul - an area earmarked for demolition in a city better known for its shiny skyscrapers and slick pop videos. Here, the...

This interdisciplinary collection explores the confluence of American and British (neo)imperalism in the Pacific, as represented in various forms of Pacific discourse including literature, ethnography, film, painting, autobiography, journalism, and...

Half a century after his shocking samurai-style suicide, Yukio Mishima (1925-1970) remains a deeply controversial figure. Though his writings and life-story continue to fascinate readers around the world, Mishima has often been scorned by scholars, who...

Butterfly Mother is a collection of epic songs from the rich oral tradition of the Miao (Hmong) people of southwest China. These poetic narratives, traditionally performed by two groups of singers, relate the creation of a world in which everything is...

Given a second chance at life, undead adventurer Rentt Faina passes the Bronze-class Ascension Exam for the second time. Sheila's suspicious of him, however, and manages to uncover his true identity. Rentt initially plays dumb, but faced with Sheila's...

During the eighteenth century, Edo (today's Tokyo) became the world's largest city, quickly surpassing London and Paris. Its rapidly expanding population and flourishing economy encouraged the development of a thriving popular culture. Innovative and...

The story took place in Snowy Mountain in the coldest part of Manchuria, one Winter's morning in 1781. The Dragon Lodge party ran into the Horse Spring Banditry who were there to unearth a buried casket. They were waylaid yet by the Peking Overland...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780802151841Author Kenzaburo OeFormat PaperbackPage Count 204Imprint Grove Press / Atlantic Monthly PressPublisher Grove Press / Atlantic Monthly...

As recent statistics show, more than 100 million people on the planet have used MDMA. After cannabis, it is the second most used drug worldwide. Yet there are many misconceptions surrounding the drug, which have affected attempts to use it as a...

The cache of bamboo texts unearthed in the village of Guodian, Hubei Province, in 1993 is a rare and unique find in the history of Chinese philosophy and literature. This study renders the complex corpus of the Guodian texts into a more easily manageable...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781789502244Author W. B. YeatsFormat HardbackPage Count 160Imprint ArcturusPublisher Arcturus Publishing Ltd

An 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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781943872879Author Joel MurachFormat PaperbackPage Count 704Imprint Mike Murach & Associates Inc.Publisher Mike Murach & Associates Inc.