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Scripture of the Lotus Blossom of the Fine Dharma by Leon Hurvitz
RRP: $54.89$41.63Originally published in 1976, Leon Hurvitz's monumental translation of the Lotus Sutra is the work scholars have preferred for decades. Hailed by critics as an "extraordinary" and "magnificent" achievement, Hurvitz's translation is based on the best... -
A New Literary History of Modern China by David Der-Wei Wang
RRP: $65.10$54.10Literature, 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... -
The Pillow Book of Sei Shonagon by Ivan Morris 9780231073370
RRP: $48.03$36.40The Pillow Book of Sei Shonagon is a fascinating, detailed account of Japanese court life in the eleventh century. Written by a lady of the court at the height of Heian culture, this book enthralls with its lively gossip, witty observations, and subtle... -
Murakami Haruki and Our Years of Pilgrimage by Gitte Marianne Hansen
RRP: $56.59$50.02This book is a timely and expansive volume on Murakami Haruki, arguably Japan's most high profile contemporary writer. With contributions from prominent Murakami scholars, this book approaches the works of Murakami Haruki through interdisciplinary... -
Bones Will Crow: An Anthology of Burmese Poetry by James Byrne
RRP: $22.28$15.33Bones 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... -
The Burden of Female Talent: The Poet Li Qingzhao and Her History in China by Ronald C. Egan 9780674726697
RRP: $85.68$67.70Widely considered the preeminent Chinese woman poet, Li Qingzhao (1084-1150s) occupies a crucial place in China's literary and cultural history. She stands out as the great exception to the rule that the first-rank poets in premodern China were male. But... -
Commentary on The Song of Awakening by Yoka Daishi
RRP: $65.10$53.45A Twentieth-century Japanese Zen Master's Commentary on Shodoeka (Cheng tao ke), the famous poem by the Great Seventh-century Chinese Ch'an master, Yoka Genkaku (Yung-chia Hsuan-chueh)About the AuthorTranslated from Japanese to French by Janine Coursin... -
The Oxford Handbook of Museum Archaeology by Alice Stevenson 9780198847526
RRP: $188.68$187.93This Handbook provides a transnational reference point for critical engagements with the legacies of, and futures for, global archaeological collections. It challenges the common misconception that museum archaeology is simply a set of procedures for... -
Film Violence - History, Ideology, Genre by Jim Kendrick 9781906660260
RRP: $30.86$25.09Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781906660260Author Jim KendrickFormat PaperbackPage Count 144Imprint Wallflower PressPublisher Wallflower PressWeight(grams) 222gDimensions(mm) 200mm *... -
How to Read Chinese Prose: A Guided Anthology by Zong-qi Cai
RRP: $60.04$47.36This 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... -
Mishima, Aesthetic Terrorist: An Intellectual Portrait by Andrew Rankin 9780824873745
RRP: $77.10$62.97Half 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... -
Religion in Victorian London by W.M. Jacob 9780192897404
RRP: $138.94$126.86This innovative book challenges many of the widely held assumptions about the place of religion in Victorian society and in London, the world's first great industrial and commercial metropolis. Against the background of Victorian London it explores the... -
An Edo Anthology: Literature from Japan's Mega-city, 1750-1850 by Sumie Jones 9780824837402
RRP: $58.23$48.70During 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 Poetry of W. B. Yeats: Deluxe slipcase edition by W. B. Yeats 9781789502244
RRP: $30.86$19.28Apologies 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 -
The Bamboo Texts of Guodian: A Study and Complete Translation by Scott Cook
RRP: $118.36$107.81The 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... -
Electoral Systems and Voting in the United Kingdom by Chris Robinson
RRP: $36.00$31.87A key feature of the New Labour government's constitutional reform agenda has been the introduction of a number of alternative methods of voting for both existing elections and for those to new political institutions. This book examines the workings of... -
Suicidal Narrative in Modern Japan: The Case of Dazai Osamu by Alan Stephen Wolfe
RRP: $65.18$58.89Dazai Osamu (1909-1948) is one of Japan's most famous literary suicides, known as the earliest postwar manifestation of the genuinely alienated writer in Japan. In this first deconstructive reading of a modern Japanese novelist, Alan Wolfe draws on... -
Sweden, the Swastika and Stalin: The Swedish Experience in the Second World War by John Gilmour
$67.51This book fills a gap in the existing literature on the Second World War by covering the range of challenges, threats, issues, dilemmas, and changes faced and dealt with by Sweden during the conflict. Interest in Sweden's wartime experiences has... -
Arctic Front: The Advance of Mountain Corps Norway on Murmansk, 1941 by Wilhelm Hess 9781612009728
RRP: $60.04$37.38In 1941, military operations were conducted by large formations along the northern coast of Scandinavia - for the first time in history of warfare. A modern army suddenly swept into that isolated and inhospitable region that was yet to possess the level... -
How to Read Chinese Poetry in Context: Poetic Culture from Antiquity Through the Tang by Zong-qi Cai
RRP: $60.04$46.67How to Read Chinese Poetry in Context is an introduction to the golden age of Chinese poetry, spanning the earliest times through the Tang dynasty (618-907). It aims to break down barriers-between language and culture, poetry and history-that have stood... -
Becoming Modern Women: Love and Female Identity in Prewar Japanese Literature and Culture by Michiko Suzuki
RRP: $37.72$32.23Presenting a fresh examination of women writers and prewar ideology, this book breaks new ground in its investigation of love as a critical aspect of Japanese culture during the early to mid-twentieth century. As a literary and cultural history of love... -
The Making of Barbarians: Chinese Literature and Multilingual Asia by Haun Saussy
RRP: $51.46$39.14A groundbreaking account of translation and identity in the Chinese literary tradition before 1850-with important ramifications for todayDebates on the canon, multiculturalism, and world literature often take Eurocentrism as the target of their critique... -
Orientalism and the Postcolonial Predicament: Perspectives on South Asia by Carol A. Breckenridge
RRP: $51.44$45.27In 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,... -
A Poetics of Courtly Male Friendship in Heian Japan by Paul Gordon Schalow 9780824830205
RRP: $87.48$71.20Western scholars have tended to read Heian literature through the prism of female experience, stressing the imbalance of power in courtship and looking for evidence that women hoped to move beyond the constraints of marriage politics. Paul Schalow's... -
Japanese Counterculture: The Antiestablishment Art of Terayama Shuji by Steven C. Ridgely
RRP: $37.72$32.23Terayama 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... -
Augustus by Jonathan Edmondson
RRP: $53.17$50.00Augustus (63 BC -- AD 14), the first Roman emperor, brought peace and stability to Rome after decades of strife and uncertainty. He put in place a new institutional framework for the Roman Empire and inspired the ideology that sustained it for the next... -
Musical Illusions and Phantom Words by Diana Deutsch 9780197672280
RRP: $25.71$23.84In 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... -
Mahabharata by William Buck 9780520305588
RRP: $29.14$22.88Few works in world literature have inspired so vast an audience in nations with radically different languages and cultures as the Mahabharata. Written some 2,000 years ago and probably the longest Indian epic ever composed, it is a story of dynastic... -
The Princeton Companion to Classical Japanese Literature by Earl Roy Miner 9780691008257
$107.77The description for this book, The Princeton Companion to Classical Japanese Literature, will be forthcoming.Reviews"A reference work that is at once comprehensive, stimulating, and potentially useful to both a specialist and non-specialist readership..... -
Monks, Bandits, Lovers, and Immortals: Eleven Early Chinese Plays by Stephen H. West 9781603842006
RRP: $32.57$28.29This magnificent collection of eleven early [1250-1450] Chinese plays will give readers a vivid sense of life and a clear understanding of dramatic literature during an extraordinarily eventful period in Chinese history. Not only are the eleven plays in... -
Anthology of Korean Literature: From Early Times to the Nineteenth Century by Peter H. Lee 9780824807566
RRP: $51.37$41.39This 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... -
Mishima, Aesthetic Terrorist: An Intellectual Portrait by Andrew Rankin 9780824883089
RRP: $35.94$21.84Half 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... -
Deleuze and Queer Theory by Chrysanthi Nigianni
RRP: $53.17$44.00This 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... -
Roman Imperialism by Andrew Erskine
RRP: $51.44$46.76This book examines the course and nature of Roman expansion during the Republic and Early Empire, focusing on the impact of Roman rule on the subject, and the effect of empire on the imperial power. These are topics which have long generated considerable... -
The Culture of Language in Ming China: Sound, Script, and the Redefinition of Boundaries of Knowledge by Nathan Vedal
RRP: $51.46$46.98Winner, 2023 Morris D. Forkosch Prize, Journal of the History of IdeasThe scholarly culture of Ming dynasty China (1368-1644) is often seen as prioritizing philosophy over concrete textual study. Nathan Vedal uncovers the preoccupation among Ming... -
Pleasure in Profit: Popular Prose in Seventeenth-Century Japan by Laura Moretti
RRP: $60.04$46.67In the seventeenth century, Japanese popular prose flourished as waves of newly literate readers gained access to the printed word. Commercial publishers released vast numbers of titles in response to readers' hunger for books that promised them potent... -
Hume's Philosophy in Historical Perspective by M. A. Stewart 9780199547319
RRP: $149.23$135.35David Hume was a highly original thinker. Nevertheless, he was a writer of his time and place in the history of philosophy. In this book, M. A. Stewart puts Hume's writing in context, particularly that of his native Scotland, but also that of British and... -
Rome and Parthia: Empires at War: Ventidius, Antony and the Second Romano-Parthian War, 40 20 BC by Sampson, Gareth C 9781399002875
RRP: $27.43$19.91In the mid-first century BC, despite its military victories elsewhere, the Roman Empire faced a rival power in the east; the Parthian Empire. The first war between two superpowers of the ancient world had resulted in the total defeat of Rome and the... -
The Art of Being Alone: Poems 1952-2009 by Shuntaro Tanikawa
RRP: $48.01$40.58This extensive selection of Tanikawa Shuntaro's poetry reflects the full depth and breadth of his work, from his appearance as a fresh new voice to the mastery of his later poetry. It traces his artistic development and his shift in focus from man's... -
The Grand Scribe's Records, Volume I: The Basic Annals of Pre-Han China by Ssu-ma Ch'ien 9780253038555
RRP: $77.19$66.67"An essential source for the study of events in early China, a guide to the moral philosophy of the gentlemen of Han, and a splendid work of literature which may be read for the pleasure of its style and the power of its narrative. . . . This work makes...