Asian

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...

Extoled for her achievements in Dacia, Tanya is sent back to the frontlines for another...debut?! As warm memories in the rear fade into the distance, relations with the once amicable Colonel Lergen and her subordinates go sour. From a barrage of...

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.

A 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...

How 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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780974261881Author Robin D GillFormat PaperbackPage Count 504Imprint Paraverse PressPublisher Paraverse PressWeight(grams) 893gDimensions(mm) 246mm * 189mm...

This 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...

Modernity arrived in Japan, as elsewhere, through new forms of ownership. In A Fictional Commons, Michael K. Bourdaghs explores how the literary and theoretical works of Natsume Soseki (1867-1916), widely celebrated as Japan's greatest modern novelist,...

In 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...

This impressive new scholarly translation and commentary on the key work of J do Shinsh 's 8th lineage successor to founder Shinran is an extremely valuable contribution by one of the leading academics in the field. Professor Kemmyo Taira Sato is...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781604978551Author Alison M GroppeFormat HardbackPage Count 338Imprint Cambria PressPublisher Cambria PressWeight(grams) 662gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm *...

Xu Xu (1908-1980) was one of the most widely read Chinese authors of the 1930s to 1960s. His popular urban gothic tales, his exotic spy fiction, and his quasi-existentialist love stories full of nostalgia and melancholy offer today's readers an...

The 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.....

This 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...

In this first serious study of Hanshan ("Cold Mountain"), Paul Rouzer discusses some seventy poems of the iconic Chinese poet who lived sometime during the Tang dynasty (618-907). Hanshan's poems gained a large readership in English-speaking countries...

Support children in their early development. iPrimary English Reception workbooks provide structured activities designed to support your child's early development in English from ages 3-5 and help children develop into engaged and enthusiastic learners...

A debut English translation of contemporary free verse poetry by an award-winning South Korean poet and novelist.By turns humorous and dark, these poems explore the simultaneous intimacy and alienation of everyday life in urban Seoul. Writing in a simple...

This book features original readings of Pound and Eliot from a major literary critic. In this classic work, Maud Ellmann examines T. S. Eliot's and Ezra Pound's criticism in terms of what she calls the 'poetics of impersonality'. She convincingly shows...

This 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...

In 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 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...

This volume presents the only English translation of the prayers of Japan's indigenous religious tradition, Shinto. These prayers, norito, are works of religious literature that are basic to our understanding of Japanese religious history. Locating...

Winner, 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...

Originally published in 1930, this book presents fourteen stories from Ferdowsi's Shahnama, all involving women. Fourteen manuscript illustrations are incorporated throughout the text, together with notes and a bibliography. All stories are translated...

In 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...

In 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...

Perhaps no one is more qualified to write about Japanese culture than Donald Keene, considered the leading interpreter of that nation's literature to the Western world. The author, editor, or translator of nearly three dozen books of criticism and works...

Dazai 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...