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  • The Red Bowl & Other Stories

    A trilingual edition in English, German and Indonesian

    by Marjie Suanda, Zen Hae, Joshua Ramon Enslin ...
    Series Book 25 - BTW
    German title: Die Rote Schüssel und andere ErzählungenIndonesian title: Mangkok Merah dan cerita lainnyaZen Hae’s stories focus on Betawi people –the original inhabitans of Jakarta. His characters, often presented in empathetic descriptions, are common people: scavengers, land brokers, traditional artists and the like; people whose lives and fates are constantly being tested in the face of massive ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

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  • The Plum in the Golden Vase or, Chin P'ing Mei

    Volume Two: The Rivals

    by David Tod Roy ...
    Series series Princeton Library of Asian Translations
    In this second of a planned five-volume series, David Roy provides a complete and annotated translation of the famous Chin P'ing Mei, an anonymous sixteenth-century Chinese novel that focuses on the domestic life of His-men Ch'ing, a corrupt, upwardly mobile merchant in a provincial town, who maintains a harem of six wives and concubines. This work, known primarily for its erotic realism, is also ... Read more

    $38.19 USD

  • Vietnam and Other Alien Worlds

    by Joe Haldeman ...
    The Hugo and Nebula Award–winning author of The Forever War presents writings ranging from our past in Southeast Asia to our future among the stars.Joe Haldeman burst onto the literary scene with the hugely popular novel The Forever War, but his career also took off on the strength of his short fiction. This brilliant collection brings together examples of his science fiction as well as his ... Read more

    $8.69 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • 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

  • Nagarjuna's Middle Way

    Mulamadhyamakakarika

    by Mark Siderits, Shoryu Katsura ...
    Series series Classics of Indian Buddhism
    Winner of the 2014 Khyenste Foundation Translation Prize.Nagarjuna's renowned twenty-seven-chapter Fundamental Verses on the Middle Way (Mulamadhyamakakarika) is the foundational text of the Madhyamaka school of Mahayana Buddhist philosophy. It is the definitive, touchstone presentation of the doctrine of emptiness. Professors Siderits and Katsura prepared this translation using the four surviving ... Read more

    $23.99 USD

  • Ground Zero, Nagasaki

    Stories

    by Yuichi Seirai ...
    Translated by Paul Warham ...
    Set in contemporary Nagasaki, the six short stories in this collection draw a chilling portrait of the ongoing trauma of the detonation of the atomic bomb. Whether they experienced the destruction of the city directly or heard about it from survivors, the characters in these tales filter their pain and alienation through their Catholic faith, illuminating a side of Japanese culture little known in ... Read more

    $26.59 USD

  • Drinking the Mountain Stream

    Songs of Tibet's Beloved Saint, Milarepa

    by Jetsun Milarepa ...
    Translated by Lama Kunga Rinpoche, Brian Cutillo ...
    Jetsun Milarepa, Tibet's renowned and beloved saint, is known for his penetrating insights, wry sense of humor, and ability to render any lesson into spontaneous song. His songs and poems exhibit the bold, inspirational leader as he guided followers along the Buddhist path.More than any other collection of his stories and songs, Drinking the Mountain Stream reveals Milarepa's humor and wisdom. ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

  • The Book of Songs

    by The Arthur Waley Estate, Arthur Waley ...
    First published in 1937.The Book of Songs is a collection of ancient Chinese songs, dating from 800 to 600 B.C. Until this was published in 1937 it had not been translated into English since the middle of nineteenth century, when sinology was still in its infancy. For the first time the original meaning of 290 out of the 305 songs is given, use being made of the advances in the study of old ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

  • Rethinking Chinese Popular Culture

    Cannibalizations of the Canon

    Edited by Carlos Rojas, Eileen Chow ...
    Series series Routledge Contemporary China Series
    Through analyses of a wide range of Chinese literary and visual texts from the beginning of the twentieth century through the contemporary period, the thirteen essays in this volume challenge the view that canonical and popular culture are self-evident and diametrically opposed categories, and instead argue that the two cultural sensibilities are inextricably bound up with one another.An ... Read more

    $82.99 USD

  • Rart Eikkatheit's three worlds

    A Thai novella

    by Win Lyovarin ...
    Series series ThaiFiction
    Soldier, pimp or artist?What is Rart’s real nature?Is history repeating itself?By the most inventive and versatile of Thai short story writers,a tale of social upheavals and human ambiguitiesthat can be read at many levels. ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

  • Kannani and Document of Flames

    Two Japanese Colonial Novels

    by Katsuei Yuasa ...
    Translated by Mark W. Driscoll ...
    This volume makes available for the first time in English two of the most important novels of Japanese colonialism: Yuasa Katsuei’s Kannani and Document of Flames. Born in Japan in 1910 and raised in Korea, Yuasa was an eyewitness to the ravages of the Japanese occupation. In both of the novels presented here, he is clearly critical of Japanese imperialism. Kannani (1934) stands alone within ... Read more

    $18.69 USD

  • Long Narrative Songs from the Mongghul of Northeast Tibet

    Texts in Mongghul, Chinese, and English

    by Dechun Li, Gerald Roche ...
    Series Book 8 - World Oral Literature Series
    Containing ballads of martial heroism, tales of tragic lovers and visions of the nature of the world, Long Narrative Songs from the Mongghul of Northeast Tibet: Texts in Mongghul, Chinese, and English is a rich repository of songs collected amongst the Mongghul of the Seven Valleys, on the northeast Tibetan Plateau in western China. These songs represent the apogee of Mongghul oral literature, and ... Read more

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