Far Eastern 11

Remembering Tanizaki Jun’ichirō and Matsuko provides previously unpublished memories, anecdotes, and insights into the lives, opinions, personalities, and writings of the great novelist Tanizaki Jun……続きを見る

The English Renaissance and the Far East: Cross-Cultural Encounters is an original and timely examination of cultural encounters between Britain, China, and Japan. It challenges accepted, Anglocentr……続きを見る

Mapping Modern Beijing investigates the five methods of representing Beijing-a warped hometown, a city of snapshots and manners, an aesthetic city, an imperial capital in comparative and cross-cultu……続きを見る

This volume examines translation from many different angles: it explores how translations change the languages in which they occur, how works introduced from other languages become part of the consc……続きを見る

American Haiku: New Readings explores the history and development of haiku by American writers, examining individual writers. In the late nineteenth century, Japanese poetry influenced through trans……続きを見る

When the Umayyads, the first Islamic dynasty, rose to power shortly after the death of the Prophet Muhammad (d. 632), the polity of which they assumed control had only recently expanded out of Arabi……続きを見る

What can ecocriticism do when engaging with Japanese literature and culture? This edited volume Ecocriticism in Japan attempts to answer this question. The contributors place themselves inside the d……続きを見る

In its diversity of perspectives, The Unfinished Atomic Bomb: Shadows and Reflections is testament to the ways in which contemplations of the A-bomb are endlessly shifting, rarely fixed on the same ……続きを見る

Employing an interdisciplinary approach, this is the first monograph to frame three once widely-read tanci fiction (a type of lyrical narrative) from nineteenth-century China, Meng ying yuan (1843),……続きを見る

As the essence of Chinese traditional culture, classical Chinese poetry in Singapore played a very important role in the social and cultural development of Singapore’s Chinese community. Numerous po……続きを見る

While teaching in Japan, Judith Pascoe was fascinated to discover the popularity that Emily Brontë’s novel Wuthering Heights has enjoyed there. Nearly 100 years after its first formal introduction t……続きを見る

The Confucian notion of “Harmony with difference” (he er bu tong) has great political and cultural resonance in contemporary China, which propagates the quest for a pluralist harmony between cultura……続きを見る

Dieses eBook: "Oscar Wilde: Essays" ist mit einem detaillierten und dynamischen Inhaltsverzeichnis versehen und wurde sorgfältig korrekturgelesen. Die Seele des Menschen unter dem Sozialismus ist ei……続きを見る

This collection of ecocritical essays is focused on the work of Japan’s foremost writer on environment and culture, Ishimure Michiko. Ishimure is known for her pioneering trilogy that exposed the Mi……続きを見る

Each age has its value system of literary criticism whose construction is inseparable from the mainstream ideology of the society. In contemporary China, the mainstream ideology is inevitably Marxis……続きを見る

A Hundred Flowers Blossoming is a collection of literary essays written by faculty members of Xi'an International Studies University, China with two distinctive features. The first one is a Chinese ……続きを見る

The figure of the Chinese sex workerーwho provokes both disdain and desireーhas become a trope for both Asian American sexuality and Asian modernity. Lingering in the cultural imagination, sex worke……続きを見る

Most people suppose that the whole world knows what it is to love; that romantic love is universal, quintessentially human. Such a supposition has to be able to meet three challenges. It has to just……続きを見る

《現代中國文學的課題》是徐訏所著的文學評論之一，他在這本書中運用自己長年的所學與深厚的文史哲涵養，提出自己對中國知識分子與中國文學發展的評析。其所涵蓋的範圍，上自清末、下至一九五○年代，特別是民初五……続きを見る

It is now almost a cliché to claim that China and the Chinese people have changed. Yet inside the new clothing that is worn by the Chinese man today, Kam Louie contends, we still see much of the his……続きを見る

Forming the Early Chinese Court builds on new directions in comparative studies of royal courts in the ancient world to present a pioneering study of early Chinese court culture. Rejecting divides b……続きを見る

Able to shape-shift and ride the clouds, wielding a magic cudgel and playing tricks, Sun Wukong (aka Monkey or the Monkey King) first attained superstar status as the protagonist of the sixteenth-ce……続きを見る

「詩人的任務就是要在從未開發的資源裡找到詩材；詩人的職志是要把缺乏詩意的東西變成詩。」──T.S.艾略特右手寫詩、左手撰評的向明，長期積累了大量的讀詩與評詩心得。本書集結其過去幾年發表過或未發表的詩評與觀……続きを見る

詩意往往在牆腳突然冒出，在陽光、水、空氣的因緣俱足中，如種子發芽、生長、サツ壯，完美得令人措手不及，就是一朵已經開了花的緑色生命。以現代詩中的人性，探問葫蘆裡裝的什麼乾坤？文字的遊戲或遊戲的文字，為……続きを見る

「交往詩」是以人事交游為前提，重複進行詩篇的往還交換，整個過程既是詩學的，也是社會的。元和詩人的交往詩，不只涉及詩歌的交換，創作主體的對話，也是文學社會化的標誌，更是詩人意識得以獨立、詩人自覺愈形明……続きを見る

別找我，我沒時間治天下 孔子：顏回啊！你那麼窮，為何不去當官？ 醜得嚇死人，魅力無法擋？ 誰叫列子自己愛大出鋒頭 小偷還怕你的防盜術不夠好呢！ 不懂儒術卻穿上儒服的人，處死 道，在屎尿中 踩到路人的腳，說……続きを見る

Natsume Sōseki (1867–1916) was the father of the modern novel in Japan, chronicling the plight of bourgeois characters caught between familiar modes of living and the onslaught of Western values and……続きを見る

作者充分運用田野民族志研究法、文本比較分析法、口述歷史研究法等方法，從劉徳方生活的區域文化和個人經歷挖掘他的故事積累和儲藏，梳理他聽故事、學故事、講故事的生命愛好和實踐，分析他擅長講述的多種類型的經……続きを見る

本書從審美和精神層面探討《紅樓夢》不可複製的獨特價值，書中涵攝了四大主題：第一是《紅樓夢》的解脫之道，探討書中如何藉清白女兒之身，以情抗禮，以美的秩序去質疑天地男女陰陽的尊卑之道，使寶玉作為拯救者，……続きを見る

The first book-length study to explore the links between Christianity and modern Japanese literature, this book analyses the process of conversion of nine canonical authors, unveiling the influence ……続きを見る