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Internet Literature in China by Michel Hockx
RRP: $87.75Booksplease Price: $71.27Since the 1990s, Chinese literary enthusiasts have explored new spaces for creative expression online, giving rise to a modern genre that has transformed Chinese culture and society. Ranging from the... -
Literature and Censorship in Modern China Michel Hockx 9781032775838
Booksplease Price: $84.49This innovative study examines literary censorship in China from 1900 to present. Literature and Censorship in Modern China offers invaluable insights into the study of censorship, and the study of... -
The Literary Field of Twentieth Century China by Michel Hockx 9781138863187
RRP: $77.98Booksplease Price: $24.43At least since the late nineteenth century onwards, Chinese literature as a form of cultural production has been taking place within a specific social space, including writers, critics, journalists,... -
Reading East Asian Writing: The Limits of Literary Theory by Michel Hockx
Booksplease Price: $100.66This book presents contributions by thirteen scholars of Chinese and Japanese literature whose work is characterised by a strong interest in literary theory. They focus in particular on the various... -
Women and the Periodical Press in China's Long Twentieth Century: A Space of their Own? by Michel Hockx 9781108419758
RRP: $212.55Booksplease Price: $192.74In this major new collection, an international team of scholars examine the relationship between the Chinese women's periodical press and global modernity in the late nineteenth and twentieth... -
Questions of Style: Literary Societies and Literary Journals in Modern China, 1911-1937 by Michel Hockx 9789004205673
Booksplease Price: $89.90Dealing with the central issue of style in literature, this groundbreaking study is a must for sinologists, but also for all students of comparative literature. Michel Hockx takes as a point of... -
China's Literary and Cultural Scenes at the Turn of the 21st Century by Jie Lu 9781138863699
Booksplease Price: $100.66China's literary and cultural production at the turn of the twenty-first century is marked by heterogeneity, plurality, and diversity. Given its complexity, the literary/cultural production of this... -
The Quest for Gentility in China: Negotiations Beyond Gender and Class Daria Berg 9780415545419
RRP: $115.03Booksplease Price: $103.23The quest for gentility has shaped Chinese civilization and the formation of culture in China until the present day. This book analyzes social aspirations and cultural practices in China from 1550 to... -
Beyond the Iron House: Lu Xun and the Modern Chinese Literary Field by Saiyin Sun
RRP: $101.38Booksplease Price: $91.53Beyond the Iron House is a critical study of a crucial period of life and work of the modern Chinese writer Lu Xun. Through thorough research into historical materials and archives, the author... -
Perfect Worlds: Utopian Fiction in China and the West by Douwe W. Fokkema
Booksplease Price: $154.46Perfect Worlds offers an extensive historical analysis of utopian narratives in the Chinese and Euro-American traditions. This comparative study discusses, among other things, More's criticism of... -
Literary Societies of Republican China by Kirk A. Denton 9780739119341
Booksplease Price: $130.42Literary Societies in Republican China provides a new and comprehensive perspective on the fascinating literary world of the most turbulent period in recent Chinese history: the Republican era of... -
Disability in Contemporary China: Citizenship, Identity and Culture by Sarah Dauncey 9781107544369
RRP: $50.70Booksplease Price: $48.83Sarah Dauncey offers the first comprehensive exploration of disability and citizenship in Chinese society and culture from 1949 to the present. Through the analysis of a wide variety of Chinese... -
Disability in Contemporary China: Citizenship, Identity and Culture by Sarah Dauncey
RRP: $183.30Booksplease Price: $166.26Sarah Dauncey offers the first comprehensive exploration of disability and citizenship in Chinese society and culture from 1949 to the present. Through the analysis of a wide variety of Chinese... -
Utopian Fiction in China: Genre, Print Culture and Knowledge Formation, 1902–1912 by Shuk Man Leung 9789004680388
Booksplease Price: $221.56The book studies utopian fiction as a knowledge apparatus by connecting three aspects of late Qing culture: the rise of modern press, the emergence of new genre, and the epistemology of modernity,... -
Chinese Reportage: The Aesthetics of Historical Experience by Charles A. Laughlin
RRP: $60.45Booksplease Price: $51.89Chinese Reportage details for the first time in English the creation and evolution of a distinctive literary genre in twentieth-century China. Reportage literature, while sharing traditional... -
Chinese Poetry and Translation: Rights and Wrongs Maghiel Crevel 9781041176879
Booksplease Price: $95.36Chinese Poetry and Translation: Rights and Wrongs' offers fifteen essays on the triptych of poetry + translation + Chinese. The collection has three parts: The Translator's Take, Theoretics, and... -
Pirates and Publishers: A Social History of Copyright in Modern China by Fei-Hsien Wang
RRP: $54.60Booksplease Price: $45.88A detailed historical look at how copyright was negotiated and protected by authors, publishers, and the state in late imperial and modern ChinaIn Pirates and Publishers, Fei-Hsien Wang reveals the... -
Pirates and Publishers: A Social History of Copyright in Modern China by Fei-Hsien Wang 9780691171821
RRP: $78.00Booksplease Price: $63.82A detailed historical look at how copyright was negotiated and protected by authors, publishers, and the state in late imperial and modern ChinaIn Pirates and Publishers, Fei-Hsien Wang reveals the... -
Photo Poetics: Chinese Lyricism and Modern Media Culture by Shengqing Wu
RRP: $58.50Booksplease Price: $48.91Chinese poetry has a long history of interaction with the visual arts. Classical aesthetic thought held that painting, calligraphy, and poetry were cross-fertilizing and mutually enriching. What... -
Photo Poetics: Chinese Lyricism and Modern Media Culture by Shengqing Wu 9780231192200
RRP: $228.15Booksplease Price: $178.66Chinese poetry has a long history of interaction with the visual arts. Classical aesthetic thought held that painting, calligraphy, and poetry were cross-fertilizing and mutually enriching. What... -
Chinese Poetry in Times of Mind, Mayhem and Money by Maghiel van Crevel 9789004205635
Booksplease Price: $95.08Chinese Poetry in Times of Mind, Mayhem and Money is a groundbreaking contribution to scholarship, well-suited to classroom use in that it combines rigorous analysis with a lively style. Covering the... -
From the Old Country: Stories and Sketches of China and Taiwan by 9780231166300
RRP: $195.00Booksplease Price: $153.31Though he lived most of his life in rural South Taiwan, Zhong Lihe spent several years in Manchuria and Peking, moving among an eclectic mix of ethnicities, social classes, and cultures. His... -
The Intellectual in Modern Chinese History by Timothy Cheek 9781107643192
RRP: $52.65Booksplease Price: $47.97This vivid narrative history of Chinese intellectuals and public life provides a guide to making sense of China today. Timothy Cheek presents a map and a method for understanding the intellectual in... -
Visions of Dystopia in China's New Historical Novels by Jeffrey C. Kinkley 9780231167680
RRP: $107.25Booksplease Price: $86.78The depiction of personal and collective suffering in modern Chinese novels differs significantly from standard Communist accounts and many Eastern and Western historical narratives. Writers such as...