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Through both cultural and literary analysis, this book examines gender in relation to late Qing and modern Chinese intellectuals, including Mu Shiying, Bai Wei, and Lu Xun. Tackling important, previously neglected questions, Zhu ultimately shows the...

The Postcolonial Cultural Industry makes a timely intervention into the field of postcolonial studies by unpacking its relation to the cultural industry. It unearths the role of literary prizes, the adaptation industry and the marketing of ethnic...

Edward Granville Browne (1862-1926) was a British orientalist renowned for his work on Persian history and literature. Originally published in 1920, this book was written by Browne as the continuation of his Literary History of Persia (1906). The period...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781934043936Author Kang-Baek YiFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Cambria PressPublisher Cambria PressWeight(grams) 263g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789358727661Author Majnoon GorakhpuriFormat PaperbackPage Count 124Imprint Taemeer PublicationsPublisher Taemeer PublicationsWeight(grams) 150g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798227778321Author Meghna PrabirFormat PaperbackPage Count 202Imprint Sturges & McGregorPublisher Sturges & McGregorWeight(grams) 263g

The widely acclaimed films of Wong Kar-wai are characterized by their sumptuous yet complex visual and sonic style. This study of Wong s filmmaking techniques uses a poetics approach to examine how form, style, narration, characterization, genre, and...

This book systematically studies the literary output of female writers in contemporary China within the frame of literary theories of feminism. With tools from psychoanalysis, structuralism and deconstructionism, the two female authors, Meng and Dai,...

This book investigates the internationalization of Chinese culture in recent decades and the global dimensions of Chinese culture from comparative and interdisciplinary perspectives. It covers a variety of topics concerning the contemporary significance...

The three-volume project 'Concepts and Methods for the Study of Chinese Religions' presents a history of the study of Chinese religions. It evaluates the current state of scholarship, discusses a variety of analytical approaches and theories about...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789358725353Author Mukarram NiyazFormat PaperbackPage Count 138Imprint Taemeer PublicationsPublisher Taemeer PublicationsWeight(grams) 168g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781621965466Author Yugen WangFormat HardbackPage Count 372Imprint Cambria PressPublisher Cambria PressWeight(grams) 152g

Fakes and forgeries are objects of fascination. This volume contains a series of thirteen articles devoted to fakes and forgeries of written artefacts from the beginnings of writing in Mesopotamia to modern China. The studies emphasise the subtle...

The three-volume project 'Concepts and Methods for the Study of Chinese Religions' is a timely review of the history of the study of Chinese religions, reconsiders the present state of analytical and methodological theories, and initiates a new chapter...

Chinese and Western Literary Influence in Liu Cixin's Three Body Trilogy examines Liu Cixin's acclaimed trilogy, a Chinese science fiction epic whose translation is exceedingly popular in the Western world. Will Peyton argues that the ingenuity of Liu's...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781621965473Author Clara IwasakiFormat HardbackPage Count 244Imprint Cambria PressPublisher Cambria PressWeight(grams) 526gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm *...

Originally published in 1916, this book presents a selection from the Jatakas translated into English. The selection was made 'with the purpose of bringing together the Jataka stories of most interest, both intrinsically, and also from the point of view...

This book is the first comprehensive study of the reception of Tennessee Williams in China, from rejection and/or misgivings to cautious curiosity and to full-throated acceptance, in the context of profound changes in China’s socioeconomic and cultural...

This collection opens the geospatiality of “Asia” into an environmental framework called "Oceania" and pushes this complex regional multiplicity towards modes of trans-local solidarity, planetary consciousness, multi-sited decentering, and world...

This book focuses on the way that notions of home and identity have changed for Muslims as a result of international 'war on terror' rhetoric. It uniquely links the post-9/11 stereotyping of Muslims and Islam in the West to the roots of current jihadism...

This book brings together fourteen articles by prominent critics of Malaysian Anglophone literature from five different countries: Australia, Italy, Malaysia, Singapore, and the US. It investigates the thematic and stylistic trends in the literary...

This book explores Chinese novelists' distinctive contributions to the China debate in terms of the key issues of Chinese language, power dynamics and Confucian tradition. As China is rising, Chinese historians, social scientists and policymakers are...

This book examines the Chinese fictions (xiaoshuo) published between 1898 and 1927 – three pivotal decades, during which China underwent significant social changes. It applies Narratology and Sociology of the Novel methods to analyze both the texts...

This book examines haunting in terms of trauma, languaging, and the supernatural in works by Chinese Australian writers born in Australia, Mainland China, Hong Kong, Malaysia, and Singapore. It goes beyond the conventional focus on identity issues in the...

An examination of whether Chinese writers of the Creation Society, a Chinese literary coterie, successfully appropriated shishosetsu, a quintessentially Japanese form of autobiographical narrative, into a form to be exploited for their own ends,...

This book is an anthology of research co-edited by Dr. Chia-rong Wu (University of Canterbury) and Professor Ming-ju Fan (National Chengchi University). This collection of original essays integrates and expands research on Taiwan literature because it...

Craziness and Carnival in Neo-Noir Chinese Cinema offers an in-depth discussion of the "stone phenomenon" in Chinese film production and cinematic discourses triggered by the extraordinary success of the 2006 low-budget film, Crazy Stone...

During the twentieth century, at the height of the independence movement and after, Indian literary writing in English was entrusted with the task of consolidating the image of a unified, seemingly caste-free, modernising India for consumption both at...

This book brings together fourteen articles by prominent critics of Malaysian Anglophone literature from five different countries: Australia, Italy, Malaysia, Singapore, and the US. It investigates the thematic and stylistic trends in the literary...

Eight centuries divide us from Fan Cheng-ta, but across this gap of time his voice may still be heard - suave, familiar, peaceable - in a cycle of small poems which, reflecting the Chinese rural year, seem as fresh today as when they first came from his...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781622461158Author Ryŏ KimFormat PaperbackPage Count 364Imprint Homa & Sekey BooksPublisher Homa & Sekey BooksWeight(grams) 463g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789354426810Author K.A. GunasekaranFormat PaperbackPage Count 120Imprint Orient Blackswan Pvt LtdPublisher Orient Blackswan Pvt Ltd

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781615991662Author Gulnaz FatmaFormat PaperbackPage Count 46Imprint Loving Healing PressPublisher Loving Healing PressWeight(grams) 80g

Rakugo, a popular form of comic storytelling, has played a major role in Japanese culture and society. Developed during the Edo (1600-1868) and Meiji (1868-1912) periods, it is still popular today, with many contemporary Japanese comedians having...

Chinese Environmental Humanities showcases contemporary ecocritical approaches to Chinese culture and aesthetic production as practiced in China itself and beyond. As the first collaborative environmental humanities project of this kind, this book brings...

This collection opens the geospatiality of "Asia" into an environmental framework called "Oceania" and pushes this complex regional multiplicity towards modes of trans-local solidarity, planetary consciousness, multi-sited...

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In various ways, Chinese diasporic communities seek to connect and re-connect with their “homelands” in literature, film, and visual culture. The essays in Affective Geographies and Narratives of Chinese Diaspora examine how diasporic bodies and emotions...

At its most basic, re-Orientalism is defined as forms of Orientalism practiced and manifested by Orientals in representing the Orient. This book looks at the application and discourse of re-Orientalism in contemporary Indian and South Asian writing in...

Letter writing is a pivotal yet neglected medium of historical Chinese communication. The epistolary format is key to sinological research. As historical letters have a specific vocabulary and rhetorical structure it is difficult to read them without the...