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The Substance of Fiction: Literary Objects in China, 1550-1775 by Sophie Volpp
RRP: £30.00£27.39Do the portrayals of objects in literary texts represent historical evidence about the material culture of the past? Or are things in books more than things in the world? Sophie Volpp considers fictional objects of the late Ming and Qing that defy being... -
Historian of the Strange: Pu Songling and the Chinese Classical Tale by Judith T. Zeitlin 9780804729680
RRP: £24.99£21.67This is the first book in English on the seventeenth-century Chinese masterpiece Liaozhai's Records of the Strange (Liaozhai zhiyi) by Pu Songling, a collection of nearly five hundred fantastic tales and anecdotes written in Classical Chinese.Reviews"It... -
Reading North Korea: An Ethnological Inquiry by Sonia Ryang
RRP: £33.95£27.41Often depicted as one of the world's most strictly isolationist and relentlessly authoritarian regimes, North Korea has remained terra incognita to foreign researchers as a site for anthropological fieldwork. Given the difficulty of gaining access to the... -
Songs of Gods, Songs of Humans: The Epic Tradition of the Ainu by Donald L. Phillipi 9780691608815
RRP: £60.00£47.10As an especially beautiful and pure example of the archaic epic styles that were once current among the hunting and fishing peoples of northern Asia, the Ainu epic folklore is of immense literary value. This collection and English translation by Donald... -
Political Parties in Britain by Matt Cole
RRP: £20.99£19.25This introduction to political parties in Britain offers an examination of the main parties' individual characteristics (including policy, organisation and support) and explains the impact of smaller parties. Key themes traced throughout the book are the... -
Hume's Philosophy in Historical Perspective by M. A. Stewart 9780199547319
RRP: £107.50£97.19David 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... -
Tokyo in Transit: Japanese Culture on the Rails and Road by Alisa Freedman
RRP: £20.99£18.37Increased use of mass transportation in the early twentieth century enabled men and women of different social classes to interact in ways they had not before. Using a cultural studies approach that combines historical research and literary analysis,... -
Kokin Wakashu: The First Imperial Anthology of Japanese Poetry: With 'Tosa Nikki' and 'Shinsen Waka' by Helen Craig McCullough
RRP: £83.00£72.51A Stanford University Press classic.Reviews'Every Western student of Japanese classical literature of pre-modern history is indebted to Helen McCullough for her many major contributions to our knowledge and understanding of the literature and culture of... -
The Grand Scribe's Records, Volume I: The Basic Annals of Pre-Han China by Ssu-ma Ch'ien 9780253038555
RRP: £39.00£34.52"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... -
Dictee by Theresa Hak Kyung Cha 9780520390485
RRP: £15.99£10.33Newly restored, this version of Theresa Hak Kyung Cha's masterpiece honors the author's original intentions and vision for the book. Originally published in 1982, Dictee is a classic of modern Asian American literature.Dictee is the best-known work of... -
Hostages of the Jade Wolf by Keith Brumpton 9781789980950
RRP: £5.99£4.60Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781789980950Author Keith BrumptonFormat PaperbackPage Count 112Imprint The Secret Book CompanyPublisher The Secret Book CompanyWeight(grams) 234g -
Du Fu Transforms: Tradition and Ethics amid Societal Collapse by Lucas Rambo Bender
RRP: £54.95£44.06Often considered China's greatest poet, Du Fu (712-770) came of age at the height of the Tang dynasty, in an era marked by confidence that the accumulated wisdom of the precedent cultural tradition would guarantee civilization's continued stability and... -
Morbius: Blood Ties by Brendan Deneed 9781789094855
RRP: £16.99£8.38Morbius the Living Vampire seeks to end his curse of a thirst for blood, and to stop a demonic cult from unleashing hell on Earth. Seeking to cure his rare blood disorder, Dr. Michael Morbius instead cursed himself with an insatiable lust for human... -
Sunday Sparrows by Lin Song 9781938890253
RRP: £10.99£7.38Song Lin's poems explore his sojourns in several countries, the natural world outside him, and his own inner landscape. His early imprisonment during the 1989 Tienanmen Square protests gave rise to the title poem, as well as a profound sense of yearning... -
A Fictional Commons: Natsume Soseki and the Properties of Modern Literature by Michael K. Bourdaghs
RRP: £20.99£18.37Modernity 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,... -
The Poetry of Yunus Emre, A Turkish Sufi Poet by Grace Martin Smith
RRP: £31.00£28.25The popularity of Yunus Emre, who is often referred to as the Turkish national poet, has endured for six centuries. Yunus is the most important representative of early Turkish mysticism; he can be considered the founder of Alevi-Bektasi literature, and... -
Maninbo: Peace & War Ko Un 9781780372426
RRP: £15.00£9.80Ko Un has long been a living legend in Korea, both as a poet and as a person. Allen Ginsberg once wrote, 'Ko Un is a magnificent poet, combination of Buddhist cognoscente, passionate political libertarian, and naturalist historian.' Maninbo (Ten Thousand... -
The Late Tang: Chinese Poetry of the Mid-Ninth Century (827-860) by Stephen Owen
RRP: £20.95£17.28The poetry of the Late Tang often looked backward, and many poets of the period distinguished themselves through the intensity of their retrospective gaze. Chinese poets had always looked backward to some degree, but for many Late Tang poets the echoes... -
Kafu the Scribbler: The Life and Writings of Nagai Kafu, 1897-1959 by Edward G. Seidensticker
£26.33Kafu the Scribbler is neither pure biography nor pure criticism nor yet a pure anthology, but a blending of the three. It is an introduction to Nagai Kafu and his city, accompanied by a fairly generous sampling from his works.About the AuthorEdward... -
Islam and Modernity: Key Issues and Debates by Muhammad Khalid Masud
RRP: £25.99£23.58Recent events have focused attention on the perceived differences and tensions between the Muslim world and the modern West. As a major strand of Western public discourse has it, Islam appears resistant to internal development and remains inherently... -
The Promise and Peril of Things: Literature and Material Culture in Late Imperial China by Wai-yee Li
RRP: £30.00£23.29Winner, 2023 Choice Outstanding Academic TitleOur relationship with things abounds with paradoxes. People assign value to objects in ways that are often deeply personal or idiosyncratic yet at the same time rooted in specific cultural and historical... -
Deleuze and Performance by Laura Cull
RRP: £31.00£28.69Was performance important to Deleuze? Is Deleuze important to performance; to its practical, as well as theoretical, research? What are the implications of Deleuze's philosophy of difference, process and becoming, for Performance Studies, a field in... -
A Companion to The Story of the Stone: A Chapter-by-Chapter Guide by Kenneth Hsien-Yung Pai
RRP: £30.00£23.29The Story of the Stone (also known as Dream of the Red Chamber) is widely held to be the greatest work of Chinese literature, beloved by readers ever since it was first published in 1791. The story revolves around the young scion of a mighty clan who,... -
Dwelling in the Archive: Women Writing House, Home, and History in Late Colonial India by Antoinette Burton 9780195144253
RRP: £35.49£25.45Dwelling in the Archives uses the writing of three 20th century Indian women to interrogate the status of the traditional archive, reading their memoirs, fictions, and histories as counter-narratives of colonial modernity. Janaki Majumdar was the... -
Text and the City: Essays on Japanese Modernity by Akiko Maeda 9780822333463
RRP: £23.99£21.24Maeda Ai was a prominent literary critic and an influential public intellectual in late-twentieth-century Japan. Text and the City is the first book of his work to appear in English. A literary and cultural critic deeply engaged with European critical... -
The Rise and Fall of Modern Japanese Literature by John Whittier Treat
RRP: £31.00£30.19The Rise and Fall of Modern Japanese Literature tells the story of Japanese literature from its start in the 1870s against the backdrop of a rapidly coalescing modern nation to the present. John Whittier Treat takes up both canonical and forgotten works,... -
British Asian Fiction: Twenty-First-Century Voices by Sara Upstone 9780719078330
RRP: £19.99£17.82This is the first text to focus solely on the writing of British writers of South Asian descent born or raised in Britain. Exploring the unique contribution of these writers, it positions their work within debates surrounding black British, diasporic,... -
The Poetics of Early Chinese Thought: How the Shijing Shaped the Chinese Philosophical Tradition by Michael Hunter
RRP: £30.00£23.29The modern imagination of classical Chinese thought has long been dominated by Confucius, Mozi, Mencius, and other so-called "Masters" of the Warring States period. Michael Hunter argues that this approach neglects the far more central role of poetry,... -
The Tale of an Anklet: An Epic of South India by R. Parthasarathy
RRP: £30.00£23.29Originating in Tamil mythology, "Cilappatikaram" is the love story of Kannaki and Kovalan. Kannaki wears a circular anklet representing the power, strength and dignity of the goddess Pattini. Goddess status is bestowed upon Kannaki as her life... -
Writing Home: Representations of the Native Place in Modern Japanese Literature by Stephen Dodd 9780674016521
RRP: £33.95£27.81This book examines the development of Japanese literature depicting the native place (furusato) from the mid-Meiji period through the late 1930s as a way of articulating the uprootedness and sense of loss many experienced as Japan modernized. The 1890s... -
Border Politics: The Limits of Sovereign Power by Nick Vaughan-Williams
RRP: £24.99£22.71This book, newly available in paperback, presents a distinctive theoretical approach to the problem of borders in the study of global politics. It turns from current debates about the presence or absence of borders between states to consider the... -
The Bridge of Dreams: A Poetics of 'The Tale of Genji' by Haruo Shirane 9780804717199
RRP: £27.99£24.14The Bridge of Dreams is a brilliant reading of The Tale of Genji that succeeds both as a sophisticated work of literary criticism and as an introduction this world masterpiece. Taking account of current literary theory and a long tradition of Japanese... -
Understanding Humor in Japan by Jessica Milner Davis
RRP: £33.95£29.09For many students of Japanese culture and visitors to Japan, Japanese humor seems obscure, difficult to find, and perhaps even nonexistent. By bringing together scholarly insights and original research by both Japanese and non-Japanese experts, Jessica... -
The Platform Sutra of the Sixth Patriarch by Philip Yampolsky 9780231159579
RRP: £30.00£23.29Dating back to the eighth century C.E., the Platform Sutra of the Sixth Patriarch is a foundational text of Chan/Zen Buddhism that reveals much about the early evolution of Chinese Chan and the ideological origins of Japanese Zen and Korean Son... -
Deleuze's Hume: Philosophy, Culture and the Scottish Enlightenment by Jeffrey Bell
RRP: £23.99£19.51Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781474474566Author Jeffrey BellFormat PaperbackPage Count 184Imprint Edinburgh University PressPublisher Edinburgh University Press -
Why Fiction Matters in Contemporary China by David Der–wei Wang
RRP: £28.00£27.39Contemporary discussions of China tend to focus on politics and economics, giving Chinese culture little if any attention. Why Fiction Matters in Contemporary China offers a corrective, revealing the crucial role that fiction plays in helping... -
Victorian Literature and Postcolonial Studies by Patrick Brantlinger
RRP: £23.99£21.85This book surveys the impact of the British Empire on nineteenth-century British literature from a postcolonial perspective. It explains both pro-imperialist themes and attitudes in works by major Victorian authors, and also points of resistance to and... -
Manufacturing Modern Japanese Literature: Publishing, Prizes, and the Ascription of Literary Value by Edward Mack
RRP: £22.99£20.01Emphasizing how modes of book production, promotion, and consumption shape ideas of literary value, Edward Mack examines the role of Japan's publishing industry in defining modern Japanese literature. In the late nineteenth century and early twentieth,... -
The Paper Door and Other Stories by Naoya Shiga
RRP: £22.00£17.36No modern Japanese writer was more idolized than Shiga Naoya. The Paper Door and Other Stories showcases the concise, delicate art of this writer who is often called "the god of the Japanese short story." Doyen of Japanese letters Donald Keene ranks some... -
Gourmet, The, and Other Stories by Lu Wenfu 9780930523398
£14.81Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780930523398Author Lu WenfuFormat PaperbackPage Count 250Imprint Readers InternationalPublisher Readers International