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The Platform Sutra of the Sixth Patriarch by Philip Yampolsky 9780231159579
RRP: €35.70Booksplease Price: €27.94Dating back to the eighth century C.E., the Platform Sutra of the Sixth Patriarch is a foundational text of Chan/Zen Buddhism that reveals much about the early evolution of Chinese Chan and the ideological origins of Japanese Zen and Korean Son... -
Song of Sadness by Shûsaku Endô 9781929280223 [USED COPY]
RRP: €20.17Booksplease Price: €15.78Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781929280223Author Shusaku EndoFormat PaperbackPage Count 232Imprint Center for Japanese Studies, University of MichiganPublisher The University of Michigan... -
Gourmet, The, and Other Stories by Lu Wenfu 9780930523398
Booksplease Price: €17.12Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780930523398Author Lu WenfuFormat PaperbackPage Count 250Imprint Readers InternationalPublisher Readers International -
A Dictionary of Philosophical Logic by Roy T. Cook
RRP: €107.10Booksplease Price: €88.37This dictionary introduces undergraduate and post-graduate students in philosophy, mathematics, and computer science to the main problems and positions in philosophical logic. Coverage includes not only key figures, positions, terminology, and debates... -
Homemaking: Radical Nostalgia and the Construction of a South Asian Diaspora by Anindya Raychaudhuri 9781783482634
RRP: €41.65Booksplease Price: €38.37Is it possible to think of a counter-hegemonic, progressive nostalgia that celebrates and helps sustain the marginalised? What might such a nostalgia look like, and what political importance might it have?Homemaking: Radical Nostalgia and the... -
Deleuze and Performance by Laura Cull
RRP: €36.89Booksplease Price: €34.40Was performance important to Deleuze? Is Deleuze important to performance; to its practical, as well as theoretical, research? What are the implications of Deleuze's philosophy of difference, process and becoming, for Performance Studies, a field in... -
The Paper Door and Other Stories by Naoya Shiga
RRP: €26.18Booksplease Price: €23.85No modern Japanese writer was more idolized than Shiga Naoya. The Paper Door and Other Stories showcases the concise, delicate art of this writer who is often called "the god of the Japanese short story." Doyen of Japanese letters Donald Keene ranks some... -
The Tale of an Anklet: An Epic of South India by R. Parthasarathy
RRP: €35.70Booksplease Price: €27.94Originating in Tamil mythology, "Cilappatikaram" is the love story of Kannaki and Kovalan. Kannaki wears a circular anklet representing the power, strength and dignity of the goddess Pattini. Goddess status is bestowed upon Kannaki as her life... -
Islam and Modernity: Key Issues and Debates by Muhammad Khalid Masud
RRP: €30.93Booksplease Price: €28.27Recent events have focused attention on the perceived differences and tensions between the Muslim world and the modern West. As a major strand of Western public discourse has it, Islam appears resistant to internal development and remains inherently... -
Media Audiences: Television, Meaning and Emotion by Kristyn Gorton
RRP: €29.74Booksplease Price: €27.24An engaging and original study of current research on television audiences and the concept of emotion, this book offers a unique approach to key issues within television studies. Topics discussed include: television branding; emotional qualities in... -
Sleeping, Sinning, Falling by Mutsuo Takahashi 9780872862685
RRP: €14.27Booksplease Price: €12.72Sleeping Sinning Falling is a generous volume of selected and new poems, written over the last twenty-five years by one of the major voices in twentieth century Japanese poetry. The translations are by Hiroaki Sato, who has published over twelve books... -
Border Politics: The Limits of Sovereign Power by Nick Vaughan-Williams
RRP: €29.74Booksplease Price: €27.24This book, newly available in paperback, presents a distinctive theoretical approach to the problem of borders in the study of global politics. It turns from current debates about the presence or absence of borders between states to consider the... -
The Warrior Song of King Gesar by Douglas J Penick 9780974597461
RRP: €20.17Booksplease Price: €17.99Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780974597461Author Douglas J PenickFormat PaperbackPage Count 172Imprint Mountain Treasury PressPublisher Mountain Treasury PressWeight(grams)... -
Records of the Three Kingdoms in Plain Language by Wilt L. Idema 9781624665240
RRP: €64.25Booksplease Price: €52.00The 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... -
The Lure of the Modern: Writing Modernism in Semicolonial China, 1917-1937 by Shu-mei Shih
RRP: €34.51Booksplease Price: €27.39Shu-mei Shih's study is the first book in English to offer a comprehensive account of Chinese literary modernism from Republican China. In The Lure of the Modern, Shih argues for the contextualization of Chinese modernism in the semicolonial cultural and... -
Murasaki Shikibu: The Tale of Genji by Richard Bowring 9780521539753
Booksplease Price: €33.38Murasaki Shikibu's The Tale of Genji, written in Japan in the early eleventh century, is acknowledged to be one of Japan's greatest literary achievements, and sometimes thought of as the world's first novel. It is also one of the earliest major works to... -
Wen Xuan or Selections of Refined Literature, Volume II: Rhapsodies on Sacrifices, Hunting, Travel, Sightseeing, Palaces and Halls, Rivers and Seas by David R. Knechtges 9780691600932
RRP: €69.02Booksplease Price: €54.67The Wen xuan, compiled by Xiao Tong (501-531), is the oldest surviving anthology of Chinese literary genres. It was one of the primary sources of literary knowledge for educated Chinese in the premodern period, and it is still the essential handbook for... -
Be a Woman: Hayashi Fumiko and Modern Japanese Women's Literature by Joan E. Ericson 9780824818845
RRP: €30.88Booksplease Price: €29.13An examination of writing by Japanese women, this text aims to advance the debate over the literary category of ""women's literature"" in modern Japan and show its complex and contradictory consequences in the life and work of Hayashi Fumiko (1903-1951)... -
Masculinity and Popular Television by Rebecca Feasey
RRP: €34.50Booksplease Price: €32.27This book is a comprehensive and accessible introduction to the key debates concerning the representation of masculinities in a wide range of popular television genres. The volume looks at the depiction of public masculinity in the soap opera,... -
The Unwanted Undead Adventurer (Light Novel): Volume 5 by Yu Okano
RRP: €13.08Booksplease Price: €12.65When Rentt Faina crosses paths with Nive Maris, he finds himself victim to a rain of Holy Fire! But rather than prove he's a vampire, it disproves it! Lorraine believes Rentt's divinity may have protected against the Holy Fire, and together they decide... -
Sunday Sparrows by Lin Song 9781938890253
RRP: €13.08Booksplease Price: €9.31Song Lin's poems explore his sojourns in several countries, the natural world outside him, and his own inner landscape. His early imprisonment during the 1989 Tienanmen Square protests gave rise to the title poem, as well as a profound sense of yearning... -
Inventing the Classics: Modernity, National Identity, and Japanese Literature by Haruo Shirane 9780804741057
RRP: €33.31Booksplease Price: €28.95Today the term "Japanese literary classics" implies such texts as the Man'yoshu, Kojiki, Tale of Genji, Tale of the Heike, Noh drama, and the works of Saikaku, Chikamatsu, and Basho, which are considered the wellspring and embodiment of Japanese... -
The Han Rhapsody: A Study of the Fu of Yang Hsiung (53 B.C.-A.D.18) by David R. Knechtges 9780521103466
Booksplease Price: €45.32An attempt at an analysis in depth of the work of Yang Hsiung (53 BC-AD 18), and of the Fu or rhapsody (a mixture of rhythmical prose passages interspersed with free, rhymed verse). Yang Hsiung has figured prominently in Chinese literary history, though... -
How NOT to Summon a Demon Lord: Volume 14 by Yukiya Murasaki
Booksplease Price: €13.84"I admit it. You are the leader." "Thank you, Diablo. I will do everything to answer the trust you've placed in me." As it just so turns out, the former prime minister Noah Gibun is an outsider-a Cross Reverie player who was pulled into... -
The Poetry of Yunus Emre, A Turkish Sufi Poet by Grace Martin Smith
RRP: €36.89Booksplease Price: €33.62The popularity of Yunus Emre, who is often referred to as the Turkish national poet, has endured for six centuries. Yunus is the most important representative of early Turkish mysticism; he can be considered the founder of Alevi-Bektasi literature, and... -
Deleuze's Hume: Philosophy, Culture and the Scottish Enlightenment by Jeffrey Bell
RRP: €28.55Booksplease Price: €23.41Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781474474566Author Jeffrey BellFormat PaperbackPage Count 184Imprint Edinburgh University PressPublisher Edinburgh University Press -
Reading North Korea: An Ethnological Inquiry by Sonia Ryang
RRP: €40.40Booksplease Price: €32.62Often depicted as one of the world's most strictly isolationist and relentlessly authoritarian regimes, North Korea has remained terra incognita to foreign researchers as a site for anthropological fieldwork. Given the difficulty of gaining access to the... -
Persons, Roles, and Minds: Identity in <I>Peony Pavilion</I> and <I>Peach Blossom Fan</I> by Tina Lu
RRP: €38.08Booksplease Price: €33.83Focusing on two late-Ming or early-Qing plays central to the Chinese canon, this thought-provoking study explores crucial questions concerning personal identity. How is a person, as opposed to a ghost or animal, to be defined? How can any specific person... -
Pacific Islands Writing: The Postcolonial Literatures of Aotearoa/New Zealand and Oceania by Michelle Keown 9780199276455
RRP: €43.42Booksplease Price: €36.53The Oxford Studies in Postcolonial Literatures series offers stimulating and accessible introductions to definitive topics and key genres and regions within the rapidly diversifying field of postcolonial literary studies in English. The first book of its... -
Indian English by Pingali Sailaja
RRP: €33.31Booksplease Price: €30.95This book is a descriptive account of English as it is used in India. Indian English is a second language to most of its speakers. In its 400-year history it has acquired its own character, yet still looks to native varieties of English for norms. The... -
Thirty-Six Views - The Kangxi Emperor's Mountain Estate in Poetry and Prints by Richard E. Strassberg
RRP: €49.92Booksplease Price: €42.20Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780884024095Author KangxiFormat HardbackPage Count 316Imprint Dumbarton Oaks Research Library & CollectionPublisher Dumbarton Oaks Research Library &... -
Murasaki Shikibu: The Tale of Genji by Richard Bowring 9780521832083
Booksplease Price: €60.07Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Yuan Hung-tao and the Kung-an School by Chih-p'ing Chou 9780521342070
Booksplease Price: €124.93Professor Chou here offers a perspective on the rise and fall of the Kung-an school as a key to understanding the development of Chinese literary criticism in the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries. His book focuses upon the literary theories... -
Tun-huang Popular Narratives by Victor H. Mair 9780521247610
RRP: €135.66Booksplease Price: €122.19Tun-huang Popular Narratives presents authoritative translations of four vernacular Chinese stories, taken from fragmentary texts usually referred to as pien-wen or 'transformation texts'. Dating from the late T'ang (618-907) and Five Dynasties (907-959)... -
The Language of Indrajit of Orcha: A Study of Early Braj Bhasa Prose by R. S. McGregor 9780521052283
Booksplease Price: €45.76For centuries, until the consolidation of modern standard Hindi after 1900, the Hindi dialect known as Braj Bhasa enjoyed great prestige as the vehicle of the Krsna cult literature of northern India, as well as for the brilliance of its secular... -
Indian Semantic Analysis: The Nirvacana Tradition by Eivind Kahrs 9780521631884
Booksplease Price: €126.63The Indian tradition of semantic elucidation known as nirvacana analysis represented a powerful hermeneutic tool in the exegesis and transmission of authoritative scripture. Nevertheless, it has all too frequently been dismissed by modern scholars as... -
Stone Lake: The Poetry of Fan Chengda 1126-1193 by J. D. Schmidt 9780521417822
Booksplease Price: €125.03Stone Lake is a translation and study of the poetry of Fan Chengda (1126-1193), one of the most famous Chinese poets of the twelfth century. For the non-specialist reader the main attraction of this 1992 book will be the translations from an extensive... -
Within the Human Realm: The Poetry of Huang Zunxian, 1848-1905 by J. D. Schmidt 9780521462716
RRP: €124.95Booksplease Price: €97.16This book is a study of the poetry of Huang Zunxian, one of the most famous authors of late nineteenth-century China. The first part consists of a detailed biography outlining Huang's literary and political career. This is followed by a critical... -
T'ao Yuan-ming: Volume 2, Additional Commentary, Notes and Biography: His Works and their Meaning by A. R. Davis 9780521104531
Booksplease Price: €47.92All the works of the Chinese poet T'ao Yuan-ming (AD 365-427) generally considered genuine have been translated here with commentary and annotation. T'ao, in the author's opinion, is of all the major Chinese poets especially concerned with personal... -
Buddhism Under the T'ang by Stanley Weinstein 9780521103480
Booksplease Price: €50.91Buddhism Under the Tang is a history of the Buddhist Church during the T'ang dynasty (618-907), when Buddhist thought reached the pinnacle of its development. The three centuries spanned by the T'ang saw the formation of such important philosophical...