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In Another World With My Smartphone: Volume 22 by Patora Fuyuhara
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £10.46The Visions Dancing in My Mind... Touya's honeymoon might be over, but love's still lingering in the air in Brunhild! Can poor Endymion cope with being part of an alien menage a quatre? Who else might be looking for a match made in heaven? Having... -
Filthy Fictions: Asian American Literature by Women by Monica Chiu 9780759104563
RRP: £38.00Booksplease Price: £33.25Filthy Fictions addresses Asian American literature by women to explore and explode the sedimented and solidified meanings we have created about 'Asian Americans' and 'dirt' through dialogues that not only cross disciplinary and institutional formations... -
Taiwanese Literature as World Literature by Professor or Dr. Pei-yin Lin 9781501381386
Booksplease Price: £29.35Owing to Taiwan’s multi-ethnic nature and palimpsestic colonial past, Taiwanese literature is naturally multilingual. Although it can be analyzed through frameworks of Japanophone literature and Chinese literature, and the more provocative Sinophone... -
Filthy Fictions: Asian American Literature by Women by Monica Chiu 9780759104556
RRP: £97.00Booksplease Price: £84.16Filthy Fictions addresses Asian American literature by women to explore and explode the sedimented and solidified meanings we have created about "Asian Americans" and "dirt" through dialogues that not only cross disciplinary and... -
Epic Tales of the Philippines: Tribal Lores of Filipinos by Artemio R. Guillermo 9780761824916
RRP: £68.00Booksplease Price: £58.66Epic Tales of the Philippines is an anthology of epic stories, retold in narrative form, from original ballads and poems of major tribal groups of the country. Like their European paradigms, the epic tales explore themes of good and evil, loyalty,... -
Letters of a Javanese Princess by Raden Adjeng Kartini by Hildred Geertz 9780819147585
RRP: £57.00Booksplease Price: £49.34Translated from the original Dutch by Agnes Louise Symmers and originally published by Alfred A. Knopf, this collection of letters was written by the daughter of a Javanese civil servant in the Dutch colonial government. She had been permitted the... -
A Short History of Paper in Imperial China Jean-Pierre Drège 9783110701548
Booksplease Price: £106.49Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
The Cambridge Companion to Manga and Anime Jaqueline Berndt 9781009009980
RRP: £22.99Booksplease Price: £22.03In recent years, manga and anime have attracted increasing scholarly interest beyond the realm of Japanese studies. This Companion takes a unique approach, committed to exploring both the similarities and differences between these two distinct but... -
The Cambridge Companion to Manga and Anime Jaqueline Berndt 9781316518793
Booksplease Price: £77.75In recent years, manga and anime have attracted increasing scholarly interest beyond the realm of Japanese studies. This Companion takes a unique approach, committed to exploring both the similarities and differences between these two distinct but... -
Literary Cultures in History: Reconstructions from South Asia Sheldon Pollock 9780520228214
RRP: £84.00Booksplease Price: £76.71A grand synthesis of unprecedented scope, "Literary Cultures in History" is the first comprehensive history of the rich literary traditions of South Asia. Together these traditions are unmatched in their combination of antiquity, continuity, and... -
Korean and Korean American Life Writing in Hawai'i: From the Land of the Morning Calm to Hawai'i Nei by Heui-Yung Park 9781498507677
RRP: £93.00Booksplease Price: £81.04Korean and Korean American Life Writing in Hawai'i examines such self-representing genres as lyric poems, oral history, autobiography, and memoirs written by Korean and Korean Americans from the early twentieth century to the present, in order to explore... -
Black Stars: Poems by Ngo Tu Lap 9781571314598
RRP: £11.99Booksplease Price: £10.84Simultaneously occupying past, present, and future, Black Stars escapes the confines of time and space, suffusing image with memory, abstraction with meaning, and darkness with abundant light. In these masterful translations, the poems sing out with the... -
Daodejing: A Literal-Critical Translation by Joseph Hsu 9780761841524
RRP: £41.00Booksplease Price: £35.79The Daodejing is a taproot of Chinese thinking, a hallmark of Eastern philosophy, a world literary masterpiece, and gift to mankind. Though small in size, it treats a variety of important issues and has inspired many great minds. In number of... -
Suryavamshi: The Sun Kings of Rajasthan by Abanindranath Tagore 9789353456436
Booksplease Price: £16.31Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789353456436Author Abanindranath TagoreFormat PaperbackPage Count 264Imprint Juggernaut PublicationPublisher Juggernaut Publication -
The Cambridge Companion to Rabindranath Tagore by Sukanta Chaudhuri 9781108747738
Booksplease Price: £37.77This is the first one-volume guide in English, or indeed in Bengali, to the full spectrum of Tagore's multi-faceted genius. It has two parts: (a) critical surveys of the chief sectors of his artistic output and its reception; (b) specialized studies of... -
The Cambridge Companion to Rabindranath Tagore by Sukanta Chaudhuri 9781108489942
RRP: £85.00Booksplease Price: £83.94This is the first one-volume guide in English, or indeed in Bengali, to the full spectrum of Tagore's multi-faceted genius. It has two parts: (a) critical surveys of the chief sectors of his artistic output and its reception; (b) specialized studies of... -
Chinese Narrative Poetry: The Late Han Through T'ang Dynasties by Dore J. Levy 9780822308638
RRP: £62.00Booksplease Price: £53.13Chinese Narrative Poetry brings a new perspective to some of China's best-loved and most influential poems, including Ts'ai Yen's "Poem of Affliction," Po Chu-yi's "Song of Everlasting Sorrow," and Wei Chuang's recently discovered... -
The Soldier-Writer, the Expatriate, and Cold War Modernism in Taiwan: Freedom in the Trenches by Li-Chun Hsiao 9781498569118
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £26.47Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781498569118Author Li-Chun HsiaoFormat PaperbackPage Count 190Imprint Lexington BooksPublisher Lexington Books -
Tawada Yoko: On Writing and Rewriting Doug Slaymaker 9781498590068
RRP: £35.00Booksplease Price: £32.24This collection draws from scholars across different languages to address and assess the scholarly achievements of Tawada Yoko. Yoko, born in Japan (1960) and based in Germany, writes and presents in both German and Japanese. The contributors of this... -
Gender Politics in Modern China: Writing and Feminism by Tani E. Barlow 9780822313762
RRP: £89.00Booksplease Price: £77.62Through the lens of modern Chinese literature, Gender Politics in Modern China explores the relationship between gender and modernity, notions of the feminine and masculine, and shifting arguments for gender equality in China. Ranging from interviews... -
The Way of Shikishima: Waka Theory and Practice in Early Modern Japan by Roger K. Thomas 9780761839804
RRP: £48.00Booksplease Price: £41.72Though the haiku is the best known Japanese verse form in the west, its appearance in the early modern period (1600-1868) was preceded by at least a millennium of waka poetry, whose thirty-one syllable version, tanka, had dominated Japanese letters among... -
Artists of the Floating World: Contemporary Writings Between Cultures by Rob Burton 9780761835998
RRP: £39.00Booksplease Price: £34.10This work analyzes the fiction of four contemporary multicultural writers who render a 'floating world' in which cultures converge or collide in unexpected, exciting, and dangerous ways. The novels and short stories of Kazuo Ishiguro, Bessie Head,... -
Ezra Pound's Cathay by Wai-Lim Yip 9780691648569
Booksplease Price: £106.89Wai-lim Yip's study of Ezra Pound's translation of the difficult Cathay poems also includes a discussion of the problems of translation from Chinese in general, and the effort by Pound in these poems in particular. Mr. Yip links Pound's principles of... -
Suicidal Narrative in Modern Japan: The Case of Dazai Osamu by Alan Stephen Wolfe 9780691636351
Booksplease Price: £111.49Dazai 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... -
Enchantment and Disenchantment: Love and Illusion in Chinese Literature by Wai-yee Li 9780691632902
Booksplease Price: £119.74In a famous episode of the eighteenth-century masterpiece The Dream of the Red Chamber, the goddess Disenchantment introduces the hero, Pao-yu, to the splendors and dangers of the Illusory Realm of Great Void. The goddess, one of the divine women in... -
Scripture, Canon and Commentary: A Comparison of Confucian and Western Exegesis by John B. Henderson 9780691631363
Booksplease Price: £107.64In this major contribution to the study of the Chinese classics and comparative religion, John Henderson uses the history of exegesis to illuminate mental patterns that have universal and perennial significance for intellectual history. Henderson relates... -
Wu Wenying and the Art of Southern Song Ci Poetry by Grace S. Fong 9780691637808
Booksplease Price: £84.98The author begins with a biography exploring the moral and aesthetic implications of Wu's life as a guest-poet" patronized by officials and aristocrats, and continues with a reconstruction of the historical and literary context needed for modern... -
Scripture of the Lotus Blossom of the Fine Dharma by Leon Hurvitz 9780231148948
Booksplease Price: £117.62Originally 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... -
Comparative Journeys: Essays on Literature and Religion East and West by Anthony Yu 9780231143264
Booksplease Price: £75.81Throughout his academic career, Anthony C. Yu has employed a comparative approach to literary analysis that pays careful attention to the religious and philosophical elements of Chinese and Western texts. His mastery of both canons remains unmatched in... -
My South Seas Sleeping Beauty: A Tale of Memory and Longing by Guixing Zhang 9780231140584
Booksplease Price: £34.89My South Seas Sleeping Beauty is a captivating coming-of-age tale set in the magical jungles of Borneo. Told through the vivid recollections of a Chinese-Malay youth, the novel recounts the life of Su Qi, a troubled, sensitive son of a wealthy family,... -
The Modern Murasaki: Writing by Women of Meiji Japan Rebecca Copeland (Washington University) 9780231137751
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £23.78The first anthology of its kind, The Modern Murasaki brings the vibrancy and rich imagination of women's writing from the Meiji period to English-language readers. Along with traditional prose, the editors have chosen and carefully translated short... -
I Am a Season That Does Not Exist in the World by Kim Kyung Ju 9781939568144
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £10.48Translated from the Korean by Jake Levine. Kim Kyung Ju's poetry operates in a world where no one seems to belong: "the living are born in the dead people's world, and the dead are born in the living." Already in its thirtieth edition in Korea, I AM A... -
A Private Life by Ran Chen 9780231131964
Booksplease Price: £37.70From one of China's most celebrated contemporary novelists comes this riveting tale of a young woman's emotional and sexual awakening. Set in the turbulent decades of the Cultural Revolution and the Tian'anmen Square incident, A Private Life exposes the... -
Poetry and Personality: Reading, Exegesis, and Hermeneutics in Traditional China by Steven Van Zoeren 9780804718547
Booksplease Price: £80.93A Stanford University Press classic.Reviews'This book offers important new insights into the understanding of classical Chinese literature. Its subject - the nature of the hermeneutical tradition in China, with a focus on the commentaries on the Book of... -
Hitomaro and the Birth of Japanese Lyricism by Ian Hideo Levy 9780691640631
Booksplease Price: £84.91Professor Levy explores the ritual origins of Japanese verse, the impact of Chinese and Korean literary influence on the seventh-century Court, and the rhetorical deification of the imperial family as the condition under which Hitomaro would begin his... -
The Poetry and Poetics of Nishiwaki Junzaburo: Modernism in Translation by Hosea Hirata 9780691633862
Booksplease Price: £111.49This book offers an in-depth investigation into the writings of one of modern Japan's most gifted poet-scholars, Nishiwaki Junzaburo (1894-1982), who has been compared to T. S. Eliot, R. M. Rilke, and Paul Valery. Exploring both his poetry and... -
Noh Drama and The Tale of the Genji: The Art of Allusion in Fifteen Classical Plays by Janet Emily Goff 9780691633534
Booksplease Price: £118.02The Japanese noh theater has enjoyed a rich, continuous history dating back to the Muromachi period (1336-1573), when virtually the entire repertoire was written. Some of the finest plays were inspired by the eleventh-century masterpiece of court... -
Travels of a Genre: The Modern Novel and Ideology by Mary N. Layoun 9780691630717
Booksplease Price: £112.73If the modern Western novel is linked to the rise of a literate bourgeoisie with particular social values and narrative expectations, to what extent can that history of the novel be anticipated in non-Western contexts? In this bold, insightful work Mary... -
The Splendor of Longing in the Tale of the Genji by Norma Field 9780691609812
RRP: £60.00Booksplease Price: £46.34Foremost among Japanese literary classics and one of the world's earliest novels, the Tale of Genji was written around the year A.D. 1000 by Murasaki Shikibu, a woman from a declining aristocratic family. For sophisticaion and insight, Western prose... -
Crafting a Collection: The Cultural Contexts and Poetic Practice of the Huajian Ji (Collection from Among the Flowers) by Anna M. Shields 9780674021426
RRP: £41.95Booksplease Price: £34.00Compiled in 940 at the court of the kingdom of Shu, the Huajian ji is the earliest extant collection of song lyrics by literati poets. The collection has traditionally been studied as the precursor to the lyrics of the Song dynasty, or in terms of what...