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  • Ecologies of Translation in East and South East Asia, 1600-1900

    Edited by Li Guo, Patricia Sieber, Peter Kornicki ...
    This ground-breaking volume on early modern inter-Asian translation examines how translation from plain Chinese was situated at the nexus between, on the one hand, the traditional standard of biliteracy characteristic of literary practices in the Sinographic sphere, and on the other, practices of translational multilingualism (competence in multiple spoken languages to produce a fully localized ... Read more

    $61.99 USD

  • Red Is Not the Only Color

    Contemporary Chinese Fiction on Love and Sex between Women, Collected Stories

    by Patricia Sieber, Chen Ran, Chen Xue, He An, Hong Ling, Liang Hanyi, Wang Anyi, Wong Bikwan, Zhang Mei ...
    Series series Asian Voices
    The first English-language anthology of its kind, Red Is Not the Only Color offers a window into the uncharted terrain of intimate relations between Chinese women. As urban China has undergone rapid transformation, same-sex relations have emerged as a significant, if previously neglected, touchstone for the exploration of the meaning of social change. The short fiction in this volume highlights ... Read more

    $42.99 USD

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  • The Oxford Handbook of Modern Chinese Literatures

    Edited by Carlos Rojas, Andrea Bachner ...
    Series series Oxford Handbooks
    With over forty original essays, The Oxford Handbook of Modern Chinese Literatures offers an in-depth engagement with the current analytical methodologies and critical practices that are shaping the field in the twenty-first century. Divided into three sections--Structure, Taxonomy, and Methodology--the volume carefully moves across approaches, genres, and forms to address a rich range topics that ... Read more

    $147.99 USD

  • The I Ching

    A Biography

    by Richard J. Smith ...
    Series series Lives of Great Religious Books
    How the I Ching became one of the most widely read and influential books in the worldThe I Ching originated in China as a divination manual more than three thousand years ago. In 136 BCE the emperor declared it a Confucian classic, and in the centuries that followed, this work had a profound influence on the philosophy, religion, art, literature, politics, science, technology, and medicine of ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • Anthem

    by Ayn Rand ...
    Anthem is Ayn Rand’s classic tale of a dystopian future of the great “We”—a world that deprives individuals of a name or independence—that anticipates her later masterpieces, The Fountainhead and Atlas Shrugged.They existed only to serve the state. They were conceived in controlled Palaces of Mating. They died in the Home of the Useless. From cradle to grave, the crowd was one—the great WE.In all ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

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  • Yinyang

    The Way of Heaven and Earth in Chinese Thought and Culture

    by Robin R. Wang ...
    Series Book 11 - New Approaches to Asian History
    The concept of yinyang lies at the heart of Chinese thought and culture. The relationship between these two opposing, yet mutually dependent, forces is symbolized in the familiar black and white symbol that has become an icon in popular culture across the world. The real significance of yinyang is, however, more complex and subtle. This brilliant and comprehensive analysis by one of the leading ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • Genuine Pretending

    On the Philosophy of the Zhuangzi

    by Hans-Georg Moeller, Paul J. D'Ambrosio ...
    Genuine Pretending is an innovative and comprehensive new reading of the Zhuangzi that highlights the critical and therapeutic functions of satire and humor. Hans-Georg Moeller and Paul J. D’Ambrosio show how this Daoist classic, contrary to contemporary philosophical readings, distances itself from the pursuit of authenticity and subverts the dominant Confucianism of its time through satirical ... Read more

    $26.99 USD

  • Lust, Caution

    The Story

    by Eileen Chang, Ang Lee ...
    A major motion picture (2007) from Oscar-winning director Ang Lee (Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon; Brokeback Mountain): an intensely passionate story of love and espionage, set in Shanghai during World War II.In the midst of the Japanese occupation of China and Hong Kong, two lives become intertwined: Wong Chia Chi, a young student active in the resistance, and Mr. Yee, a powerful political figure ... Read more

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  • An Introduction to Chinese Philosophy

    by Karyn Lai ...
    Series series Cambridge Introductions to Philosophy
    This second edition of An Introduction to Chinese Philosophy presents a comprehensive introduction to key ideas and arguments in early Chinese philosophy. Written in clear, accessible language, it explores philosophical traditions including Confucianism, Daoism, Mohism, Legalism and Chinese Buddhism, and how they have shaped Chinese thought. Drawing on the key classical texts as well as up-to-date ... Read more

    $36.99 USD

  • Neo-Confucianism

    Metaphysics, Mind, and Morality

    by JeeLoo Liu ...
    Solidly grounded in Chinese primary sources, Neo Confucianism: Metaphysics, Mind, and Morality engages the latest global scholarship to provide an innovative, rigorous, and clear articulation of neo-Confucianism and its application to Western philosophy.Contextualizes neo-Confucianism for contemporary analytic philosophy by engaging with today’s philosophical questions and debatesBased on the most ... Read more

    $32.00 USD

  • Farewell My Concubine

    A Queer Film Classic

    by Helen Hok-Sze Leung ...
    Series series Queer Film Classics
    Helen Hok-Sze Leung: Helen Hok-Sze Leung is an Associate Professor in Gender, Sexuality & Women's Studies at Simon Fraser University in Burnaby, BC, Canada. She has published widely on queer cinema and is the author of Undercurrents: Queer Culture and Postcolonial Hong Kong (UBC Press, 2008). ... Read more

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  • The Columbia History of Chinese Literature

    Edited by Victor Mair ...
    The Columbia History of Chinese Literature is a comprehensive yet portable guide to China's vast literary traditions. Stretching from earliest times to the present, the text features original contributions by leading specialists working in all genres and periods. Chapters cover poetry, prose, fiction, and drama, and consider such contextual subjects as popular culture, the impact of religion, the ... Read more

    $53.99 USD