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Chinua Achebe's Things Fall Apart: A Casebook by Isidore Okpewho 9780195147643
RRP: £34.99Booksplease Price: £23.03Chinua Achebe is Africa's most prominent writer, and Things Fall Apart (1958) is the most renowned and widely-read African novel in the global literary canon. Translated into close to sixty languages, Things Fall Apart is the novel that inaugurated the... -
The Memoirs of Lady Hyegyong: The Autobiographical Writings of a Crown Princess of Eighteenth-Century Korea by JaHyun Kim Haboush 9780520280489
RRP: £27.00Booksplease Price: £22.32Lady Hyegyong's memoirs, which recount the chilling murder of her husband by his father, form one of the best known and most popular classics of Korean literature. From 1795 until 1805 Lady Hyegyong composed this masterpiece, depicting a court life... -
Stories to Awaken the World: A Ming Dynasty Collection, Volume 3 by Feng Menglong
RRP: £91.00Booksplease Price: £79.90Stories to Awaken the World, the first complete translation of Xingshi hengyan, completes the publication in English of the famous three-volume set of Feng Menglong's popular Chinese-vernacular stories. These tales, which come from a variety of sources... -
Can the Subaltern Speak?: Reflections on the History of an Idea by Rosalind Morris 9780231143851
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £19.74Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak's original essay "Can the Subaltern Speak?" transformed the analysis of colonialism through an eloquent and uncompromising argument that affirmed the contemporary relevance of Marxism while using deconstructionist methods to... -
Haiku by Peter Washington
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £11.95Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781400041282Author Peter WashingtonFormat HardbackPage Count 256Imprint Everyman's Library USAPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 232gDimensions(mm)... -
The Pocket Haiku by Sam Hamill 9781611801538
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £6.48Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781611801538Author Sam HamillFormat PaperbackPage Count 152Imprint Shambhala Publications IncPublisher Shambhala Publications IncWeight(grams)... -
Teach Us to Outgrow Our Madness: Four Short Novels by Kenzaburo Oe 9780714530482
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £8.62Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780714530482Author Kenzaburo OeFormat PaperbackPage Count 276Imprint Marion Boyars Publishers LtdPublisher Marion Boyars Publishers Ltd -
The Art of the Sonnet by Stephen Burt 9780674061804
RRP: £22.95Booksplease Price: £18.52Few poetic forms have found more uses than the sonnet in English, and none is now more recognizable. It is one of the longest-lived of verse forms, and one of the briefest. A mere fourteen lines, fashioned by intricate rhymes, it is, as Dante Gabriel... -
Choosing to Be Simple: Collected Poems of Tao Yuanming by Tao Yuanming 9781556596728
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £11.68Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781556596728Author Tao YuanmingFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint Copper Canyon Press,U.S.Publisher Copper Canyon Press,U.S. -
The Chinese Written Character as a Medium for Poetry: A Critical Edition by Ernest F. Fenollosa
RRP: £23.99Booksplease Price: £21.00First published in 1919 by Ezra Pound, Ernest Fenollosa's essay on the Chinese written language has become one of the most often quoted statements in the history of American poetics. As edited by Pound, it presents a powerful conception of language that... -
The Miner by Natsume Soseki
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.99From the great Meiji writer Natsume Soseki, The Miner is an absurdist tale about the indeterminate nature of human personality. 'It makes me very happy that I can read this novel written over a hundred years ago as if it were contemporary and be... -
Yi Sang: Selected Works by Choi Mee Don
RRP: £21.99Booksplease Price: £17.49Winner of the Big Other Award in TranslationWinner of MLA's 17th Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Prize for a Translation of a Literary WorkFormally audacious and remarkably compelling, Yi Sang's works were uniquely situated amid the literary experiments of... -
The History of MDMA by Prof Torsten Passie
RRP: £45.00Booksplease Price: £40.84As 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... -
East of the Wardrobe: The Unexpected Worlds of C. S. Lewis by Archaeologist Warwick Ball
RRP: £24.99Booksplease Price: £21.35A fascinating look at the rich but under-appreciated Eastern sources behind the Narnia book C. S. Lewis was no great traveller but he was a prodigious bibliophile who absorbed the world's traditions of myth, religion, and cosmology. The Chronicles of... -
Eurasia without Borders: The Dream of a Leftist Literary Commons, 1919-1943 by Katerina Clark
RRP: £42.95Booksplease Price: £34.64A long-awaited corrective to the controversial idea of world literature, from a major voice in the field.Katerina Clark charts interwar efforts by Soviet, European, and Asian leftist writers to create a Eurasian commons: a single cultural space that... -
Mulan: Five Versions of a Classic Chinese Legend, with Related Texts by Shiamin Kwa 9781603841979
RRP: £43.99Booksplease Price: £35.54The legend of Mulan--the daughter who disguises herself as a man, dons her father's armor, and heads off to war in his place--remains one of the most popular Chinese folktales despite (or because of) its lack of supernatural demonstrations or... -
Chuang Tzu by David Hinton
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £9.68Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781619024434Author David HintonFormat PaperbackPage Count 144Imprint CounterpointPublisher Counterpoint -
Anthology of Korean Literature: From Early Times to the Nineteenth Century by Peter H. Lee 9780824807566
RRP: £29.95Booksplease Price: £28.88This 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... -
Records of the Three Kingdoms in Plain Language by Wilt L. Idema 9781624665233
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £15.79The saga of the Three Kingdoms-which recounts the dramatic story of the civil wars (ca. 180-220 CE) that divided the old Han Empire into the Shu, Wei, and Wu states-remains as popular as ever in China, having served as the basis of not only traditional... -
How to Read Chinese Poetry: A Guided Anthology by Zong-qi Cai 9780231139410
RRP: £38.00Booksplease Price: £31.01In this "guided" anthology, experts lead students through the major genres and eras of Chinese poetry from antiquity to the modern time. The volume is divided into 6 chronological sections and features more than 140 examples of the best shi, sao, fu, ci,... -
Far Beyond the Field: Haiku by Japanese Women by Makoto Ueda
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £23.48Far Beyond the Field is a first-of-its-kind anthology of haiku by Japanese women, collecting translations of four hundred haiku written by twenty poets from the seventeenth century to the present. By arranging the poems chronologically, Makoto Ueda has... -
But the Girl: ‘A wonderful new novel’ Brandon Taylor by Jessica Zhan Mei Yu 9781787333925
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £13.00Irreverent, witty and wise, But the Girl is a coming-of-age story about not wanting to leave your family behind'Impressive... Yu remakes the art of writing itself'GUARDIAN'A wonderful new novel for a metamodern world'BRANDON TAYLOR, author of The Late... -
The Song of Everlasting Sorrow: A Novel of Shanghai by Wang Anyi 9780231143431
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £20.34Set in post-World War II Shanghai, The Song of Everlasting Sorrow follows the adventures of Wang Qiyao, a girl born of the longtong, the crowded, labyrinthine alleys of Shanghai's working-class neighborhoods. Infatuated with the glitz and glamour of... -
The Golden Peaches of Samarkand: A Study of T'ang Exotics by Edward Hetzel Schafer
RRP: £35.00Booksplease Price: £32.13In the seventh century the kingdom of Samarkand sent formal gifts of fancy yellow peaches, large as goose eggs and with a color like gold, to the Chinese court at Ch'ang-an. What kind of fruit these golden peaches really were cannot now be guessed, but... -
Humboldt, Worldview and Language by James W. Underhill
RRP: £21.99Booksplease Price: £18.84This title is a study of the linguistic philosophy of Wilhelm von Humboldt, Prussian philologist and politician. From linguists such as Sapir, Whorf and Chomsky to philosophers such as Heidegger and sociologists such as Bourdieu, the idea that a language... -
Mulan: Five Versions of a Classic Chinese Legend, with Related Texts by Shiamin Kwa
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £16.27The legend of Mulan--the daughter who disguises herself as a man, dons her father's armor, and heads off to war in his place--remains one of the most popular Chinese folktales despite (or because of) its lack of supernatural demonstrations or... -
Territorializing Manchuria: The Transnational Frontier and Literatures of East Asia by Miya Qiong Xie
RRP: £54.95Booksplease Price: £43.66Xiao Hong, Yom Sang-sop, Abe Kobo, and Zhong Lihe-these iconic literary figures from China, Korea, Japan, and Taiwan all described Manchuria extensively in their literary works. Now China's Northeast but a contested frontier in the first half of the... -
The Short Story: An Introduction by Paul March-Russell
RRP: £21.99Booksplease Price: £20.27This new general introduction emphasises the importance of the short story to an understanding of modern fiction. In twenty succinct chapters, the study paints a complete portrait of the short story - its history, culture, aesthetics and economics... -
Managing Scotland's Environment by Charles Warren
RRP: £39.00Booksplease Price: £36.32Scotland's natural environment is its most treasured asset and the subject of its most vociferous debates. In this book Charles Warren tackles the hottest current debates - land reform, the future of farming, public access, conservation of moorland and... -
Christianity, Politics and Public Life in Kenya by Paul Gifford
RRP: £49.99Booksplease Price: £44.11Since independence in 1963, Kenya has been a classic personalised patronage state, run by a corrupt elite for its own benefit, as became tragically evident in December 2007's stolen election and its aftermath. Kenya is also said to be 80 percent... -
The Mouth That Begs: Hunger, Cannibalism, and the Politics of Eating in Modern China by Gang Yue 9780822323419
RRP: £25.99Booksplease Price: £22.96The Chinese ideogram chi is far richer in connotation than the equivalent English verb "to eat." Chi can also be read as "the mouth that begs for food and words." A concept manifest in the twentieth-century Chinese political reality of revolution and... -
In Another World With My Smartphone: Volume 24 by Patora Fuyuhara
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.49Airships in the Sky with...Engineers?A group of curious Gollem engineers traveling in a great airship arrives in the Duchy of Brunhild. Their sudden appearance alone is puzzling enough, but what do these Seekers want with Yumina's white crown? Are there... -
For All My Walking: Free-Verse Haiku of Taneda Santoka by Taneda Santoka 9780231125178
RRP: £22.00Booksplease Price: £17.50In April 1926, the Japanese poet Taneda Santoka (1882-1940) set off on the first of many walking trips, journeys in which he tramped thousands of miles through the Japanese countryside. These journeys were part of his religious training as a Buddhist... -
The Great Mirror of Male Love by Saikaku Ihara
RRP: £24.99Booksplease Price: £21.84A Stanford University Press classic.Reviews"A welcome opportunity for wider comparison of the literary traditions and sexual conventions of Japanese and Euro-American cultures."-Journal of Japanese StudiesBook InformationISBN 9780804718950Author Paul... -
Haruki Murakami's "the Wind-up Bird Chronicle" by Matthew C. Strecher 9780826452399
Booksplease Price: £22.07This is an excellent guide to Haruki MurakamiGCOs extraordinary novel. It features a biography of the author (including an interview), a full-length analysis of the novel, and a great deal more. If youGCOre studying this novel, reading it for your book... -
Introduction to Japanese Horror Film by Colette Balmain
RRP: £28.99Booksplease Price: £27.12This book is a major historical and cultural overview of an increasingly popular genre. Starting with the cultural phenomenon of Godzilla, it explores the evolution of Japanese horror from the 1950s through to contemporary classics of Japanese horror... -
Gazing at the Moon: Buddhist Poems of Solitude Saigyo Saigyo 9781611809428
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £10.70Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781611809428Author Saigyo SaigyoFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint Shambhala Publications IncPublisher Shambhala Publications Inc -
Enlightenment and Change: Scotland 1746-1832 by Bruce Lenman
RRP: £23.99Booksplease Price: £22.02This second revised and expanded edition of the bestselling Integration and Enlightenment provides a compact survey of developments in Enlightenment Scotland, from the aftermath of the 1745 Jacobite rebellion to the Scottish Reform Act of 1832. The Act... -
Scripture of the Lotus Blossom of the Fine Dharma by Leon Hurvitz
RRP: £32.00Booksplease Price: £24.96Originally 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... -
Traditional Japanese Poetry: An Anthology by Steven D. Carter 9780804722124
RRP: £50.00Booksplease Price: £41.53This anthology brings togethere in convenient form a rich selection of Japanese poetry in traditional genres dating back from the earliest times to the twentieth century. With more than 1,100 poems, it is the most varied and comprehensive selection of...