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In Saying All That Can Be Said, Keith McMahon presents the first full analysis of the sexually explicit portrayals in the Ming novel Jin Ping Mei (The Plum in the Golden Vase). Countering common views of those portrayals as "just sex" or as "bad...

Dreams have been taken seriously in China for at least three millennia. Wandering Spirits is a translation and study of the most comprehensive work on dream culture in traditional China-Lofty Principles of Dream Interpretation (Mengzhan yizhi), compiled...

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This book considers the contemporary political formula of the “Chinese Dream” in the light of the treatment of dreams in Chinese literary history since antiquity. Sinic literary and philosophical texts document an extensive spectrum of dream...

By analyzing a group of literary (wenyan) novellas, this study of late-Ming material culture focuses on an erotic fiction genre, the marketing and consuming strategies behind it, and the Daoist allegory contained within. Richard Wang examines these works...

Literary Forms of Argument in Early China explores formal approaches to the study of philosophical texts to present new methods for the analysis of pre-modern thought in China. Attempts made by Chinese thinkers to generate literary forms of philosophical...

The world is anything but unfamiliar with diaspora: Jewish, African, Armenian, Roma-Gipsy, Filipino/a, Tamil, Irish or Italian, even Japanese. But few have carried so global a resonance as that of China. What, then, of literary-cultural expression, the...

In Representing Empire Ying Xiong examines Japanese-language colonial literature written by Japanese expatriate writers in Taiwan and Manchuria. Drawing on a wide range of Japanese and Chinese sources, Representing Empire reveals not only a nuanced...

Analyzes the use of anecdotes as an essential rhetorical tool and form of persuasion in various literary genres in early China.Between History and Philosophy is the first book-length study in English to focus on the rhetorical functions and forms of...

Analyzes the use of anecdotes as an essential rhetorical tool and form of persuasion in various literary genres in early China.Between History and Philosophy is the first book-length study in English to focus on the rhetorical functions and forms of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798887552323Author Qiaqia WuFormat PaperbackPage Count 80Imprint QiaqiawuPublisher QiaqiawuWeight(grams) 209g

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Awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2000, Gao Xingjian is the first Chinese writer to be so lauded for his prose and plays. Since relocating to France in 1987, in a voluntary exile from China, he has assembled a body of dramatic work that has best...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781621967002Author Astrid Møller-OlsenFormat HardbackPage Count 326Imprint Cambria PressPublisher Cambria PressWeight(grams) 649g

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This book explores the material and cultural history of the Ming Dynasty based on the Chinese magnum opus Xingshi Yinyuan Zhuan (literally, The Story of a Marital Fate to Awaken the World), written under the pseudonym of the seventeenth-century writer...

A milestone of Chinese narratological studies, Chinese Narratology is a two-volume set which establishes a unique theoretical system of Chinese narratology by exploring the principles and characteristics of Chinese narratives.From argument to the...

The culture of food and drink occupies a central role in the development of Chinese civilization, and the language of gastronomy has been a vital theme in literary productions through many different eras and genres. From stanzas on food and wine in the...

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Since the reform and opening up of China in 1978, Western literary criticism has begun to flourish and gain in popularity within the country's academic literature community. These two volumes meticulously select and examine nine of the most influential...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781621964278Author Janet NgFormat HardbackPage Count 280Imprint Cambria PressPublisher Cambria PressWeight(grams) 581g

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781621965442Author Chia-Rong WuFormat HardbackPage Count 234Imprint Cambria PressPublisher Cambria PressWeight(grams) 513gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 18mm

What drives literary change? Does literature merely follow shifts in a culture, or does it play a distinctive role in shaping emergent trends? Michael Fuller explores these questions while examining the changes in Chinese shi poetry from the late...

The culture of food and drink occupies a central role in the development of Chinese civilization, and the language of gastronomy has been a vital theme in literary productions through many different eras and genres. From stanzas on food and wine in the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781604978957Author Fu JingqiFormat HardbackImprint Cambria PressPublisher Cambria PressWeight(grams) 875g

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789745241343Author Mimi ChanFormat PaperbackPage Count 350Imprint Orchid PressPublisher Orchid PressWeight(grams) 458g

Revolution, foreign occupation, and political, cultural, and economic upheavals defined mid-twentieth-century Chinese society. This new anthology, a sequel to the acclaimed first volume, compiled by Dooling and Kristina Torgeson and covering the early...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781399538886Author Lingjie JiFormat HardbackPage Count 246Imprint Edinburgh University PressPublisher Edinburgh University Press

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781621966203Author Mo YanFormat PaperbackPage Count 314Imprint Cambria PressPublisher Cambria PressWeight(grams) 463gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 18mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781604979527Author Xiaorong LiFormat HardbackPage Count 344Imprint Cambria PressPublisher Cambria PressWeight(grams) 676g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781645602248Author Rabindra Kumar DasFormat PaperbackPage Count 204Imprint Black Eagle BooksPublisher Black Eagle BooksWeight(grams) 263g

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