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When we look in detail at the various peripheral groups of disenfranchised people emerging from the aftermath of the Asia–Pacific War the list is startling: Koreans in Japan (migrants or forced labo……続きを見る

The collapse of China’s Qing dynasty coincided roughly with discoveries that helped revolutionize views of infectious disease. Together, these parallel developments generated a set of paradigm shift……続きを見る

Foreign Accents examines the various transpacific signifying strategies by which poets of Chinese descent in the U.S. have sought to represent cultural tradition in their articulations of an ethnic ……続きを見る

Multiple Translation Communities in Contemporary Japan offers a collection of essays that (1) deepens the understanding of the cultural and linguistic diversity of communities in contemporary Japan ……続きを見る

Xiaomei Chen offers an insightful account of the unremittingly favorable depiction of Western culture and its negative characterization of Chinese culture in post-Mao China from 1978-1988. Chen exam……続きを見る

Nouvelle traduction. L'oeuvre la plus importante de l'un des plus grands écrivains chinois du siècle passé. Ah Q, paysan sans éducation ni occupation fixe, mène u……続きを見る

Un recueil de quatre enquêtes du juge Pao, le plus célèbre des magistrats-détectives chinois : traduction en français de l’œuvre d'un auteur chinois anonyme du XVIIe siècle. Pour les amoureux de la ……続きを見る

China’s profound influence on the avant-garde in the 20th century was nowhere more apparent than in the work of Ezra Pound, Bertolt Brecht, and the writers associated with the Parisian literary jour……続きを見る

With the Meiji Restoration in 1868, Japan opened its doors to the West and underwent remarkable changes as it sought to become a modern nation. Accompanying the political changes that Western trade ……続きを見る

Modern Chinese literature has been flourishing for over a century, with varying degrees of intensity and energy at different junctures of history and points of locale. An integral part of world lite……続きを見る

With the Meiji Restoration in 1868, Japan opened its doors to the West and underwent remarkable changes as it sought to become a modern nation. Accompanying the political changes that Western trade ……続きを見る

Modern Chinese literature has been flourishing for over a century, with varying degrees of intensity and energy at different junctures of history and points of locale. An integral part of world lite……続きを見る

From ancient times, China's remote and exotic Southーa shifting and expanding region beyond the Yangtze Riverーhas been an enduring theme in Chinese literature. For poets and scholar-officials in me……続きを見る

The Records of Mazu and the Making of Classical Chan Literature explores the growth, makeup, and transformation of Chan (Zen) Buddhist literature in late medieval China. The volume analyzes the earl……続きを見る

Verse Going Viral examines what happens when poetry, a central pillar of traditional Chinese culture, encounters an era of digital media and unabashed consumerism in the early twenty-first century. ……続きを見る

As state control of private life in China has loosened since 1980, citizens have experienced an unprecedented family revolutionーan overhaul of family structure, marital practices, and gender relati……続きを見る

In imperial China, intellectuals devoted years of their lives to passing rigorous examinations in order to obtain a civil service position in the state bureaucracy. This traditional employment of th……続きを見る

Another Phenomenology of Humanity: A Reading of A Dream of Red Mansions is devoted to developing another version of phenomenology of humanityーhuman nature, human dispositions and human desiresーby ……続きを見る

Traveling Texts and the Work of Afro-Japanese Cultural Production analyzes the complex conversations taking place in texts of all sorts traveling between Africans, African Diasporas, and Japanese ac……続きを見る

Scholar-officials of late medieval China were not only enthusiastic in amateur storytelling, but also showed unprecedented interest in recording stories on different aspects of literati life. These ……続きを見る

Awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2000, Gao Xingjian is the first Chinese writer to be so lauded for his prose and plays. Since relocating to France in 1987, in a voluntary exile from China,……続きを見る

As in the United States, fairy-tale characters, motifs, and patterns (many from the Western canon) have pervaded recent Japanese culture. Like their Western counterparts, these contemporary adaptati……続きを見る

Extrait :  I.1. Le Maître dit : « Celui qui étudie pour appliquer au bon moment n’y trouve-t-il pas de la satisfaction ? Si des amis viennent de loin recevoir  ses le&cc……続きを見る

Madame Chrysanthème est un roman de l'écrivain français Pierre Loti (1850 – 1923). Publié en 1888, il connut un immense succès d'édition. Ce livre numérique présente l'édition intégrale et comporte ……続きを見る

The year is 1616. William Shakespeare has just died and the world of the London theatres is mourning his loss. 1616 also saw the death of the famous Chinese playwright Tang Xianzu. Four hundred year……続きを見る

In this first serious study of Hanshan (“Cold Mountain”), Paul Rouzer discusses some seventy poems of the iconic Chinese poet who lived sometime during the Tang dynasty (618–907). Hanshan’s poems ga……続きを見る

Bienvenue dans la collection Les Fiches de lecture d’Universalis Les Contes de pluie et de lune (Ugetsu-monogatari) sont le chef-d’œuvre de l’écrivain japonais Ueda Akinari (1734-1809). Une fiche de……続きを見る

Linda Hogan and Contemporary Taiwanese Writers: an Ecocritical Study of Indigeneities and Environment is the first full length single-authored study of Native American writer Linda Hogan and the fir……続きを見る

From the 1980s onwards, the incidence of eating disorders and self-harm has increased among Japanese women, who report receiving mixed messages about how to be women. Mirroring this, women’s self-di……続きを見る

The Sino-Japanese War (1937 – 1945) was fought in the Asia-Pacific theatre between Imperial Japan and China, with the United States as the latter’s major military ally. An important line of investig……続きを見る