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Compiled 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...

Redemption and Regret presents two previously unpublished typescripts of James Scarth Gale, a Canadian missionary to Korea for four decades (1888-1927). During his time in Korea, Gale developed into the foremost Western scholar of Korean history,...

While Tao Qian's unique position in Chinese literature is uncontested, there has been much debate over the relationship between Tao's poetry and the life he lived and over the poet's place within the literary and intellectual traditions of his time...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781929280216Author Shusaku EndoFormat HardbackPage Count 232Imprint Center for Japanese Studies, University of MichiganPublisher The University of Michigan...

The Japanese novel, lately so widely translated, is finding a broader and better informed readership than ever before. Until now, however, no comprehensive critical discussion of the form has been available in a Western language. Masao Miyoshi offers an...

This bibliography of Tanizaki Jun''ichiro''s work cites over 250 translations of his fiction and nearly 200 essays about his life and work, evidence that he is a writer of world renown who has a universal appeal that transcends time and place'Book...

This is one of Hogg's longest and also one of his most original and daring works. Gillian Hughes's uncovering of the original manuscript in the Fales Library of New York University in August 2001 allows the editors to produce here a text that reflects...

This book discusses the question of subjectivity in modern Indian literature using some of the most influential literary texts of the last hundred years. Scholarship in Indian literature tends to be divided along the lines of region, language, historical...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780835602990Author Mabel CollinsFormat PaperbackPage Count 40Imprint Quest Books,U.S.Publisher Quest Books,U.S.

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781929280124Author Kamei HideoFormat HardbackPage Count 376Imprint Center for Japanese Studies, University of MichiganPublisher The University of Michigan...

Shotetsu monogatari was written by a disciple of Shotetsu (1381–1459), whom many scholars regard as the last great poet of the courtly tradition. The work provides information about the practice of poetry during the 14th and 15th centuries, including...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781929280476Author R. Keller KimbroughFormat HardbackPage Count 392Imprint Center for Japanese Studies, University of MichiganPublisher The University of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781929280346Author John WallaceFormat HardbackPage Count 344Imprint Center for Japanese Studies, University of MichiganPublisher The University of Michigan...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783838215440Author Chandani LokugeFormat PaperbackPage Count 260Imprint Ibidem PressPublisher Ibidem Press

Originally published in 1932, Kathleen Tamagawa’s pioneering Asian American memoir is a sensitive and thoughtful look at the personal and social complexities of growing up racially mixed during the early twentieth century. Born in 1893 to an Irish...

Winner of the 2015 A-Asia/ICAS Africa-Asia Book Prize, a global competition, for the best book in English, French, or Portuguese on any topic linking Asia and Africa. The Magellan Fallacy argues that literature in Spanish from Asia and Africa, though...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781929280445Author Jan BardsleyFormat HardbackPage Count 320Imprint Center for Japanese Studies, University of MichiganPublisher The University of Michigan...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781929280292Author Susanna FesslerFormat HardbackPage Count 310Imprint Center for Japanese Studies, University of MichiganPublisher The University of...

Written from a feminist perspective, this is a cultural and ideological study of modern China as seen in the writing of experimental fiction, one of the main attempts to subvert the conventions of socialist realism in contemporary Chinese literature.Book...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781929280070Author Matthew Carl StrecherFormat HardbackPage Count 254Imprint Center for Japanese Studies, University of MichiganPublisher The University of...

This study traces for the first time the full range of Akiko''s involvement with The Tale of Genji. Through her work Genji became, in fact as well as in name, an exemplum of that most modern of literary genres, the novel'Book InformationISBN...

In the deepening twilight before World War II, Oguma Hideo cried out against the darkness that was enveloping men's souls. He died in 1940 at the age of 39, but during his brief lifetime he published some of the most politically powerful poems ever...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781929280605Author Michael K. BourdaghsFormat HardbackPage Count 312Imprint Center for Japanese Studies, University of MichiganPublisher The University of...

History, according to the Confucian tradition, was a “comprehensive mirror” for aid in government: it was part of the great Way (ta-tao), the tradition of the governing elite. Fiction, which was originally referred to as “the talk of the streets,”...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781882295340Author Xue DiFormat PaperbackPage Count 64Imprint Alice James BooksPublisher Alice James BooksWeight(grams) 113g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781929280865Author Alex BatesFormat PaperbackPage Count 232Imprint Center for Japanese Studies, University of MichiganPublisher The University of Michigan...

Lu Ling (1921-94) was one of modern China's most intensely psychological writers, foregrounding in his many novels and short stories the narrative representation of consciousness and the individual psyche. His mentor Hu Feng (1902-85), a leftist literary...

Li He (790-816) holds a place in China's poetic history somewhat outside the mainstream, but in every generation of readers there have been those who have found his intense and often cryptic lyrical visions irresistibly fascinating and utterly without...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780939512843Author Dennis WashburnFormat HardbackPage Count 448Imprint The University of Michigan PressPublisher The University of Michigan...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780939512560Author Aileen GattenFormat HardbackPage Count 294Imprint The University of Michigan PressPublisher The University of Michigan PressWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781889910505Author Matthew GollubFormat HardbackPage Count 40Imprint Tortuga PressPublisher Tortuga PressWeight(grams) 363g

Intended to be a treatise on life itself, this epic poem embraces religion and ethics, polity and government, philosophy and the pursuit of salvation. This collection of more than 4,000 verses is supplemented by a glossary, genealogical tables, and an...

For six centuries the Soga vendetta was Japan's archetypal revenge tragedy, and the Soga brothers epitomized heroic avengers, dedicated yet doomed. In Avatars of Vengeance Laurence Kominz explores the timeless appeal that the Soga story has exerted on...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781929280247Author John Pierre MertzFormat HardbackPage Count 312Imprint Center for Japanese Studies, University of MichiganPublisher The University of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781929280421Author Laurence KominzFormat HardbackPage Count 340Imprint Center for Japanese Studies, University of MichiganPublisher The University of...

A masterpiece of world literature, Honglou Meng (Dream of the Red Chamber) by Cao Xueqin (1715-1763) is widely considered China's greatest novel and serves as a compendium of traditional Chinese life and culture during the Qing Dynasty. This guide offers...

There is no greater challenge to a translator than the rendering of Chinese, ancient or modern, into English. In this fascinating volume, world-famous scholar-translators talk about their craft from a variety of points of view, confronting key issues of...

A representative sampling of the short fiction produced by a single generation of Thai writers during the "American Era" in Thailand, the two decades from the mid-1950s to the mid-1970s, when US involvement in politics and the economy ignited...

Questions of the nature of understanding and interpretation-hermeneutics-are fundamental in human life, though historically Westerners have tended to consider these questions within a purely Western context. In this comparative study, Zhang Longxi...

In Chinese literary history, the Six Dynasties (317-588) and the T'ang (618-906) were the great creative times for the production of supernatural and fantastic stories in the classical language. This major collection of ninety-six stories, most of them...