This is a critical study of the major novels and short stories of Minako Oba (1930-) the undisputed leader in the resurgence of women writers in Japan. Oba is a postmodernist, rethinking gender and ……続きを見る
Read for Yourself is Taiwanese Australian writer Sunflower's fourth collection of blog articles. Written during June 2010 and June 2019 and published on the "Voices under the Sun" blog (Taiwan), the……続きを見る
The classic Chinese novel The Water Margin (Shuihu zhuan) tells the story of a band of outlaws in twelfth-century China and their insurrection against the corrupt imperial court. Imported into Japan……続きを見る
著者:Martin Roberts
出版社: Bloomsbury Publishing
発売日: 2019年11月28日
In Tokyo in the early 1990s, an indie band called Flipper's Guitar was at the forefront of a new wave in Japanese popular music known as Shibuya-kei. The band's founder, Keigo Oyamada, would go on t……続きを見る
著者:Yurou Zhong
出版社: Columbia University Press
発売日: 2019年11月12日
Today, Chinese characters are described as a national treasure, the core of the nation’s civilizational identity. Yet for nearly half of the twentieth century, reformers waged war on the Chinese scr……続きを見る
著者:Xi Zhu
出版社: Columbia University Press
発売日: 2019年11月05日
The Yijing (I Ching), or Scripture of Change, is traditionally considered the first and most profound of the Chinese classics. Originally a divination manual based on trigrams and hexagrams, by the ……続きを見る
This book describes firstly a Japanese modernity which is readable not only as a modernising, but also as a Britishing, and secondly modernist attempts to overhaul this British universalism in some ……続きを見る