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A critical introduction to how the Nagasaki atomic bombing has been remembered, especially in contrast to that of Hiroshima. In the decades following the atomic bombing of Nagasaki on August 9, 1945……続きを見る

本書論析的小說，有的蒼茫遼闊，為大時代錄音留影。 有荒誕黒幕，既寫實又諷刺；有二二八的集體記憶掃描、疑慮與消解。 有的精緻幽微：找到幸福了嗎？逐層揭祕，薄情郎竟不識新歡原是舊愛。多重敘事的參差映像，呈……続きを見る

作者閱讀各種各樣的文學作品，探掘其中曲折委婉的情事ーー 　　隱地撰「年代五書」。本書談及：回首文學人美好的七○年代。 　　夢蝶詩中那一片瀰天漫地而令人心折骨驚的悲情，究竟為何而起？ 　　逯耀東復現高華人……続きを見る

獻給先夫江萬齡博士 To Beloved Dr. Wan-Lin Kiang 及愛子江耀中 And my dear son, Eliot Y. Kiang 本書由旅美文化人趙蘭潤女士以優美辭彙與深厚學養，精選譯介世紀詩人艾略特的詩作名篇，書中藝術插畫由旅美設計……続きを見る

讀宋詞，就像穿越八百年回到古代當文青； 讀宋詞，能讓我們更加明白人性裡真摯的情感。 　　你以為，李宗盛跟女歌手們的風花雪月是現代的特產？ 　　其實宋代的柳永才是真正的高手。 　　你以為，把好幾首歌的各取……続きを見る

本書頗不同於當今所見同類型的文學論述，後者多半只停在為「已經過去的人」服務階段，看不出在現實情境中具有什麼意義或能起什麼作用，更別說還能引導未來文學研究的走向。本書中各文，大體上都在開發一條由過去到……続きを見る

There aren't many novels that address the Second World War and its influence on Asian Countries as well as Kazuo Ishiguro's An Artist of the Floating World. Neither are there many criticism of this ……続きを見る

An eleventh-century classic, The Pillow Book of Sei Shōnagon is frequently paired with The Tale of Genji as one of the most important works in the Japanese canon. Yet it has also been marginalized w……続きを見る

Long before karaoke’s ubiquity and the rise of global brands such as Sony, Japan was a place where new audio technologies found eager users and contributed to new cultural forms. In Electrified Voic……続きを見る

How can literary forms fashion a nation? Though genres such as the novel and newspaper have been credited with shaping a national imagination and a sense of community, during the rapid modernization……続きを見る

In thirteenth-century China, a Daoist monk named Gao Daokuan (1195-1277) composed a series of illustrated poems and accompanying verse commentary known as the Daoist Horse Taming Pictures. In this a……続きを見る

How to Read a Japanese Poem offers a comprehensive approach to making sense of traditional Japanese poetry of all genres and periods. Steven D. Carter explains to Anglophone students the methods of ……続きを見る

In 1994, workers broke ground on China’s Three Gorges Dam. By its completion in 2012, the dam had transformed the ecology of the Yangzi River, displaced over a million people, and forever altered a ……続きを見る

Why should the earliest literary encounters between China and the United Statesーand their critical interpretationーmatter now? How can they help us describe cultural exchanges in which nothing subs……続きを見る

Indigenous knowledge of local ecosystems often challenges settler-colonial cosmologies that naturalize resource extraction and the relocation of nomadic, hunting, foraging, or fishing peoples. Quest……続きを見る

Zhu Xi (1130–1200) was the preeminent Confucian thinker of the Song dynasty (960–1279). His teachings profoundly influenced China, where for centuries after his death they formed the basis of the co……続きを見る

After toppling the Ming dynasty, the Qing conquerors forced Han Chinese males to adopt Manchu hairstyle and clothing. Yet China’s new rulers tolerated the use of traditional Chinese attire in perfor……続きを見る

“Information” has become a core concept across the disciplines, yet it is still often seen as a unique feature of the Western world that became central only in the digital age. In this book, leading……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

Do the portrayals of objects in literary texts represent historical evidence about the material culture of the past? Or are things in books more than things in the world? Sophie Volpp considers fict……続きを見る

A new wave of cutting-edge, risk-taking science fiction has energized twenty-first-century Chinese literature. These works capture the anticipation and anxieties of China’s new era, speaking to a fu……続きを見る

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

The modern imagination of classical Chinese thought has long been dominated by Confucius, Mozi, Mencius, and other so-called “Masters” of the Warring States period. Michael Hunter argues that this a……続きを見る

Xiang Kairan, who wrote under the pen name “the Unworthy Scholar from Pingjiang,” is remembered as the father of modern Chinese martial arts fiction, one of the most distinctive forms of twentieth-c……続きを見る

Nineteenth-century Japanese literary discourse and narrative developed a striking preoccupation with ninjōーliterally “human emotion,” but often used in reference to amorous feeling and erotic desir……続きを見る

Why would an inkstone have a poem inscribed on it? Early modern Chinese writers did not limit themselves to working with brushes and ink, and their texts were not confined to woodblock-printed books……続きを見る

Winner, 2023 Harry Levin Prize, American Comparative Literature Association Beginning in the late Qing era, Chinese writers and intellectuals looked to India in search of new literary possibilities ……続きを見る

Edo-period Japan was a golden age for commercial literature. A host of new narrative genres cast their gaze across the social landscape, probed the realms of history and the fantastic, and breathed ……続きを見る

Winner, 2023 Choice Outstanding Academic Title Our relationship with things abounds with paradoxes. People assign value to objects in ways that are often deeply personal or idiosyncratic yet at the ……続きを見る

In the early twentieth century, Japan was awash with typographic text and mass-produced print. Over the short span of a few decades, affordable books and magazines became a part of everyday life, an……続きを見る