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Dragonflies: Fiction by Chinese Women in the Twentieth Century by Shu-ning Sciban
Booksplease Price: £20.12Dragonflies is an anthology containing twelve selections ranging from short stories to novellas, and spans the century from the May Fourth Movement to the 1990s. The eleven authors represented are... -
Back to Heaven: Selected Poems of Ch'on Sang Pyong by Sang Pyong Ch'on
Booksplease Price: £92.20These poems by "the happiest man in the world" are full of light though written in dark times. Ch'on had the art of seeing the beauty of life beyond all the pain, and of putting it into the music of... -
A Handbook to Classical Japanese by John Timothy Wixted
RRP: £31.00Booksplease Price: £18.01Emerging from materials the author developed while teaching, A Handbook to Classical Japanese draws on twenty-five years of experience in addressing problem areas for those learning the language. The... -
Traces in the Way: Michi and the Writings of Komparu Zenchiku by Noel J. Pinnington
RRP: £43.00Booksplease Price: £35.99Traces in the Way is simultaneously a critical interpretation of the writings of noh playwright and thinker Komparu Zenchiku (1407-1470); a refutation of received views of Japanese traditional arts... -
Inventing Nanjing Road: Commercial Culture in Shanghai, 1900-1945 by Sherman Cochran
RRP: £22.99Booksplease Price: £13.37The contributors to this collection of seven essays (plus an editor's introduction and a comparative afterword) have framed debates about the construction of commercial culture in China. They all... -
Principles of Poetry by Sakutaro Hagiwara
RRP: £20.99Booksplease Price: £17.24This work comprises the first complete English translation of Shi no Genri, one of the most important attempts at a theory of literature written in the modern period. Hagiwara Sakutaro (1886-1942)... -
Reorienting the Manchus: A Study of Sinicization, 1583-1795 by Pei Huang
RRP: £28.99Booksplease Price: £16.47Making extensive use of Chinese, Japanese, Manchu, and Western sources, the author adopts a historical multifaceted approach to explore the various forces-geography; economics; frontier contacts;... -
Crossed Paths: Labor Activism and Colonial Governance in Hong Kong, 1938-1958 by Lu Yan
RRP: £60.00Booksplease Price: £42.60Labor Activism and Colonial Governance in Hong Kong chronicles a long neglected yet formative social and political movement in Hong Kong between the 1930s and 1950s. Drawing upon a range of British... -
Gendered Landscapes: Short Fiction by Modern and Contemporary Korean Women Novelists by Yung-Hee Kim
RRP: £63.00Booksplease Price: £51.42Gendered Landscapes presents ten short stories and novellas by representative modern Korean women writers dating from the 1930s to the end of the 1990s. Signature pieces selected from the acclaimed... -
Annotated Japanese Literary Gems: Stories by Natsume Soseki, Tomioka Taeko, and Inoue Yasushi by Kyoko Selden
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £16.47This is the second volume of Annotated Japanese Literary Gems, which makes available representative examples of Japanese short stories and novellas from Meiji to the present. This multi-volume set of... -
Annotated Japanese Literary Gems: Stories by Tawada Yoko, Hayashi Kyoko, Nakagami Kenji by Kyoko Selden 9781933947358
RRP: £21.99Booksplease Price: £18.78This is the second volume of Annotated Japanese Literary Gems, which makes available representative examples of Japanese short stories and novellas from Meiji to the present. This multi-volume set of... -
Japan's Renaissance: The Politics of the Muromachi Bakufu by Kenneth Alan Grossberg 9781885445087
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £13.37First published in 1981, Japan's Renaissance is a detailed and exhaustively researched account of the regime of Japan's second shogunate, and also an agile comparative analysis of the political... -
Han Sorya and North Korean Literature: The Failure of Socialist Realism in the DPRK by Brian Myers 9780939657841
RRP: £35.00Booksplease Price: £29.42This first and only study of North Korean literary history by a Western scholar deals with the crucial role played by Han Sorya, chairman of the D.P.R.K.'s Federation of Literature and Art from 1948... -
Across the Perilous Sea: Japanese Trade with China and Korea from the Seventh to the Sixteenth Centuries by Charlotte von Verschuer 9781933947334
RRP: £27.99Booksplease Price: £16.47Originally published as Le commerce exterieur du Japon des origines au XVIe siecle in 1988, this new edition of the landmark French study chronicles Japan's transformation from an importer of... -
Voices of Taiwanese Women: Three Contemporary Plays by John Weinstein 9781939161574
Booksplease Price: £92.20This anthology presents three new translations representing an aspect of modern Asian drama as yet unavailable to readers in English: the community-based theaters of Taiwan, working in Chinese... -
Textual Cacophony: Online Video and Anonymity in Japan by Daniel Johnson 9781501772252
RRP: £116.00Booksplease Price: £80.10Textual Cacophony explores the behaviors and routines of communication within anonymous internet culture in Japan. Focusing on the video sharing website Niconico, social media aggregation sites, and... -
Sacred Rites in Moonlight: Ben no Naishi Nikki by Naishi Ben no 9781885445223
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £13.37Ben no Naishi (1228-1270), a descendant of a literary branch of the Fujiwara family, created an innovative poetic account focusing on her public personae as a naishi serving at the court of... -
Inventing Nanjing Road: Commercial Culture in Shanghai, 1900-1945 by Sherman Cochran 9781885445636
RRP: £35.00Booksplease Price: £23.99The contributors to this collection of seven essays (plus an editor's introduction and a comparative afterword) have framed debates about the construction of commercial culture in China. They all... -
The Role of Central Banking in China's Economic Reform by Carsten Holz 9780939657599
RRP: £7.99Booksplease Price: £7.34"A thoroughly researched study of the banking system over the period from 1978 to early 1990.... Holz's work deserves to be read widely by analysts from both the traditional and econometric schools... -
To Achieve Security and Wealth: The Qing Imperial State and the Economy, 1644-1911 by Jane Kate Leonard 9780939657568
RRP: £7.99Booksplease Price: £7.34The studies in this collection re-examine the role of the Qing state in the private economy. They show in a variety of cases how the interaction between the two helped the state achieve its goals of... -
Backed against the Sea: A Novel by Wang 9780939657865
RRP: £22.99Booksplease Price: £18.78Written as the ludicrous and disturbing ramblings of an errant, pseudo-intellectual urbanite secluding himself from the underworld in an impoverished coastal village of Taiwan in the early 1960s,... -
Charisma and Community Formation in Medieval Japan: The Case of the Yugyo-ha (1300-1700) by S. A. Thornton 9781885445025
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £13.37The Yugyo-ha achieved success by basing its religious authority on a combination of Pure Land mysticism and the practices of fundraising hijiri. Between 1300 and 1700, the Pure Land Buddhist... -
Kojiki-den by Motoori Norinaga 9781885445872
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £13.37Motoori Norinaga (1730-1801) believed that the intersection of time, language, meaning, and culture in the Kojiki had the power ro reveal the voice of archaic Japan. Japan's self-image was changed... -
Bandits in Print: "The Water Margin" and the Transformations of the Chinese Novel by Scott W. Gregory 9781501769689
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £15.85Bandits in Print examines the world of print in early modern China, focusing on the classic novel The Water Margin (Shuihu zhuan). Depending on which edition a reader happened upon, The Water Margin... -
By the Waters of Babylon by Arimasa Mori 9781501780080
RRP: £22.99Booksplease Price: £20.36By the Waters of Babylon is a memoir and travelogue by Mori Arimasa, the influential Japanese philosopher and intellectual who interpreted European culture to postwar Japan. A professor of French... -
Dragons, Tigers, and Dogs: Qing Crisis Management and the Boundaries of State Power in Late Imperial China by Robert J. Antony
RRP: £44.00Booksplease Price: £36.40Dragons, Tigers, and Dogs is a tightly-focused collection of studies that explores how Qing governing institutions and strategies worked in actual practice to address the practical problems and needs... -
Vision of a Phoenix: The Poems of Ho Nansorhon by Nansorhon Ho
RRP: £28.99Booksplease Price: £24.76The biography and writings of Ho Nansorhon (1563-1589), one of the finest poets of the entire Choson dynasty, who wrote during the Golden Age of Sino-Korean poetry. This period also witnessed the... -
Informal Empire in Crisis: British Diplomacy and the Chinese Customs Succession, 1927-1929 by Martyn Atkins
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £7.34The Inspector-General of the Chinese Maritime Customs Service was, without doubt, the highest-ranking foreigner in the Chinese Government. His position at the heart of China's fiscal, commercial and... -
Annotated Japanese Literary Gems: Stories by Tawada Yoko, Hayashi Kyoko, Nakagami Kenji by Kyoko Selden
RRP: £100.00Booksplease Price: £80.52This is the second volume of Annotated Japanese Literary Gems, which makes available representative examples of Japanese short stories and novellas from Meiji to the present. This multi-volume set of... -
Max Loehr and the Study of Chinese Bronzes: Style and Classification in the History of Art by Robert Bagley
RRP: £53.00Booksplease Price: £35.65Max Loehr (1903-1988), the most distinguished historian of Chinese art of his generation, is celebrated above all for a 1953 art historical study of Chinese bronzes that effectively predicted... -
Representing Lives in China: Forms of Biography in the Ming-Qing Period 1368-1911 by Ihor Pidhainy
Booksplease Price: £92.20The chapters in this ground-breaking volume examine the complex practices of biographical writing in Ming and Qing China. The authors draw on a rich variety of sources to answer some basic questions:... -
The Lioness Roars: Shrew Stories from Late Imperial China by Yenna Wu
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £12.58This anthology offers translations of seven stories and one novella from the 17th and 18th centuries, with a critical introduction and bibliography. To date there are no translations from the... -
![Early One Spring: An Intermediate Chinese Reader to Accompany the Film Video "February" by Wang](https://cdn11.bigcommerce.com/s-zkx5lhzlf8/images/stencil/444x444/products/1345888/1345473/9781885445124__27429.1695297079.jpg?c=1 "Early One Spring: An Intermediate Chinese Reader to Accompany the Film Video "February" by Wang")
Early One Spring: An Intermediate Chinese Reader to Accompany the Film Video "February" by Wang
Booksplease Price: £8.14Adapted from the movie and screenplay of the same name by director Xie Tieli, this intermediate-advanced Chinese language film guide/reader helps students make the difficult transition from the... -
Red Ghost, White Ghost: Stories and Essays by Morio Kita
RRP: £43.00Booksplease Price: £34.85This volume introduces short stories and essays by Kita Morio (1927-2011), one of the most significant, prolific, and beloved post-war writers in Japan. Also known by his literary persona, Dokutoru... -
The Naked Tree: A Novel by Wan-Suh Park
RRP: £13.99Booksplease Price: £12.58A coming-of-age novel set during the Korean War, by Pak Wan-Suh, one of Korea's leading contemporary writers. The award-winning author of more than twenty novels, and numerous short stories and... -
![Deathsong of the River: A Reader's Guide to the Chinese TV Series "Heshang" by Xiaokang Su 9780939657544](https://cdn11.bigcommerce.com/s-zkx5lhzlf8/images/stencil/444x444/products/1640876/5178212/9780939657544__46720.1724029035.jpg?c=1 "Deathsong of the River: A Reader's Guide to the Chinese TV Series "Heshang" by Xiaokang Su 9780939657544")
Deathsong of the River: A Reader's Guide to the Chinese TV Series "Heshang" by Xiaokang Su 9780939657544
RRP: £7.99Booksplease Price: £7.34Perhaps the most daring TV documentary series ever produced in mainland China, which directly affected the thinking of Chinese youth on the eve of the 1989 democracy movement. This richly-annotated... -
Restless Spirits from Japanese Noh Plays of the Fourth Group: Parallel Translations with Running Commentary by Chifumi Shimazaki 9780939657780
RRP: £47.00Booksplease Price: £38.72The "fourth-group Noh," so designated because they are performed fourth in a formal five-Noh program, includes almost one hundred plays, and is a group of great variety: some plays are supernatural... -
Strange Tales from Strange Lands: Stories by Zheng Wanlong by Kam Louie 9780939657858
RRP: £21.99Booksplease Price: £18.78A powerful depiction of the tensions generated by conflicts of sexuality and ethnicity in contemporary China. These tensions evolved partly from the sense of estrangement from Chinese culture felt by... -
Visioning Eternity: Aesthetics, Politics, and History in the Early Modern Noh Theater by Thomas D. Looser 9781933947082
Booksplease Price: £92.20In one of the more remarkable public events of the Tokugawa world, the shogun responded to a deepening crisis in 1840s by sponsoring a huge, "once-in-a-generation" noh performance-the... -
Teishinkoki: What Did a Heian Regent Do? - The Year 939 in the Journal of Regent Fujiwara no Tadahira by Joan R. Piggott 9781933947105
RRP: £116.00Booksplease Price: £92.20This book is organized around a fully annotated translation of daily entries from the year 939 in the Teishinkoki, the journal of Fujiwara Tadahira, an early regent. The translation makes entries...