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  • Quelling the Demons' Revolt

    A Novel from Ming China

    by Guanzhong Luo ...
    Translated by Patrick Hanan ...
    Series series Translations from the Asian Classics
    In this Ming-era novel, historical narrative, raucous humor, and the supernatural are interwoven to tell the tale of an unsuccessful attempt to overthrow the Song dynasty. A poor young girl meets an old woman who gives her a magic book that allows her to create rice and money. Her father, terrified that his daughter's demonic nature might be discovered, marries her off. Forced to flee, she and ... Read more

    $21.59 USD

  • Why Fiction Matters in Contemporary China

    by David Der-wei Wang ...
    Series series The Mandel Lectures in the Humanities at Brandeis University
    Contemporary discussions of China tend to focus on politics and economics, giving Chinese culture little if any attention. Why Fiction Matters in Contemporary China offers a corrective, revealing the crucial role that fiction plays in helping contemporary Chinese citizens understand themselves and their nation. Where history fails to address the consequences of man-made and natural atrocities, ... Read more

    $25.19 USD

  • The Lyrical in Epic Time

    Modern Chinese Intellectuals and Artists Through the 1949 Crisis

    by David Der-wei Wang ...
    In this book, David Der-wei Wang uses the lyrical to rethink the dynamics of Chinese modernity. Although the form may seem unusual for representing China's social and political crises in the mid-twentieth century, Wang contends that national cataclysm and mass movements intensified Chinese lyricism in extraordinary ways.Wang calls attention to the form's vigor and variety at an unlikely juncture ... Read more

    $67.49 USD

  • Taiwan Under Japanese Colonial Rule, 1895–1945

    History, Culture, Memory

    Edited by Ping-hui Liao, David Der-wei Wang ...
    Series series Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia University
    The first study of colonial Taiwan in English, this volume brings together seventeen essays by leading scholars to construct a comprehensive cultural history of Taiwan under Japanese rule. Contributors from the United States, Japan, and Taiwan explore a number of topics through a variety of theoretical, comparative, and postcolonial perspectives, painting a complex and nuanced portrait of a ... Read more

    $67.49 USD

  • The Last of the Whampoa Breed

    Stories of the Chinese Diaspora

    Edited by Pang-Yuan Chi, David Der-wei Wang ...
    Series series Modern Chinese Literature from Taiwan
    Whampoa Military Academy was China's first modern military institution. For decades the "Spirit of Whampoa" was invoked as the highest praise to all Chinese soldiers who guarded their nation heroically. But of all the battles these soldiers have fought, the most challenging one was the civil war that resulted in the "great divide" of China in the mid-twentieth century. In 1949 the Communists ... Read more

    $33.29 USD

  • Writing Taiwan

    A New Literary History

    by Rey Chow, Harry Harootunian, Masao Miyoshi ...
    Series series Asia-Pacific: Culture, Politics, and Society
    W**riting Taiwan is the first volume in English to examine the entire span of modern Taiwan literature, from the first decades of the twentieth century to the present. In this collection, leading literary scholars based in Taiwan and the United States consider prominent Taiwanese authors and works in genres including poetry, travel writing, and realist, modernist, and postmodern fiction. The ... Read more

    $28.79 USD

  • A New Literary History of Modern China

    Edited by David Der-wei Wang ...
    Literature, from the Chinese perspective, makes manifest the cosmic patterns that shape and complete the world—a process of “worlding” that is much more than mere representation. In that spirit, A New Literary History of Modern China looks beyond state-sanctioned works and official narratives to reveal China as it has seldom been seen before, through a rich spectrum of writings covering Chinese ... Read more

    $32.39 USD

  • Quelling the Demons' Revolt

    A Novel from Ming China

    by Guanzhong Luo ...
    Translated by Patrick Hanan ...
    Series series Translations from the Asian Classics
    In this Ming-era novel, historical narrative, raucous humor, and the supernatural are interwoven to tell the tale of an unsuccessful attempt to overthrow the Song dynasty. A poor young girl meets an old woman who gives her a magic book that allows her to create rice and money. Her father, terrified that his daughter's demonic nature might be discovered, marries her off. Forced to flee, she and ... Read more

    $28.49 USD

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  • Obscene Things

    Sexual Politics in Jin Ping Mei

    by Naifei Ding ...
    In Obscene Things Naifei Ding intervenes in conventional readings of Jin Ping Mei, an early scandalous Chinese novel of sexuality and sexual culture. After first appearing around 1590, Jin Ping Mei was circulated among some of China’s best known writers of the time and subsequently was published in three major recensions. A 1695 version by Zhang Zhupo became the most widely read and it is this ... Read more

    $28.79 USD

  • Peach Blossom Pavillion

    by Mingmei Yip ...
    In a sunny California apartment, a young woman and her fiancé arrive to record her great-grandmother's story. The story that unfolds of Precious Orchid's life in China, where she rises from a childhood of shame to become one of the most successful courtesans in the land, is unlike any they've heard before. . .When Precious Orchid's father is falsely accused of a crime and found guilty, he is ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Chinese Literature

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Sabina Knight ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    Perhaps nowhere else has literature been as conscious a collective endeavor as in China, and China's survival over three thousand years may owe more to its literary traditions than to its political history. This Very Short Introduction tells the story of Chinese literature from antiquity to the present, focusing on the key role literary culture played in supporting social and political concerns. ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • Wild Orchid

    A Retelling of "The Ballad of Mulan"

    by Cameron Dokey ...
    Series series Once upon a Time
    "Once upon a Time" Is TimelessWielding a sword as deftly as an embroidery needle, Mulan is unlike any other girl in China. When the emperor summons a great army, each family must send a male to fight. Tomboyish Mulan is determined to spare her aging father and bring her family honor, so she disguises herself and answers the call.But Mulan never expects to find a friend, let alone a soul mate, in ... Read more

    $8.99 USD