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In the seventeenth century, Japanese popular prose flourished as waves of newly literate readers gained access to the printed word. Commercial publishers released vast numbers of titles in response ……続きを見る

Japanese Literature: From Murasaki to Murakami provides a concise introduction to the literature of Japan that traces its origins in the seventh century and explores a literary legacyーand its cultu……続きを見る

In an interconnected world, literature moves through transnational networks, crosses borders, and bridges diverse cultures. In these ways, literature can bring people closer together. Today, as hope……続きを見る

The violent suppression of the 1989 Tiananmen Square demonstrations is thought to be contemporary China’s most taboo subject. Yet despite sweeping censorship, Chinese culture continues to engage wit……続きを見る

Performing the Socialist State offers an innovative account of the origins, evolution, and legacies of key trends in twentieth-century Chinese theater. Instead of seeing the Republican, high sociali……続きを見る

Charismatic artists recruit desperate migrants for site-specific performance art pieces, often without compensation. Construction workers threaten on camera to jump from the top of a high-rise build……続きを見る

The Pillow Book of Sei Shonagon is a fascinating, detailed account of Japanese court life in the eleventh century. Written by a lady of the court at the height of Heian culture, this book enthralls ……続きを見る

Ideas about how to study and understand cultural historyーparticularly literatureーare rapidly changing as new digital archives and tools for searching them become available. This is not the first i……続きを見る

Malaysian Chinese (Mahua) literature is marginalized on several fronts. In the international literary space, which privileges the West, Malaysia is considered remote. The institutions of modern Chin……続きを見る

The Story of the Stone (also known as Dream of the Red Chamber) is widely held to be the greatest work of Chinese literature, beloved by readers ever since it was first published in 1791. The story ……続きを見る

Compiled in the early tenth century, the Kokinshū is an anthology of some eleven hundred poems that aimed to elevate the prestige of vernacular Japanese poetry at the imperial court. From shortly af……続きを見る

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

There is a stark contrast between the overarching importance of history writing in imperial China and the meagerness of historical texts from the centuries preceding the imperial unification of 221 ……続きを見る

The maverick cultural entrepreneur Li Yu survived the tumultuous Ming-Qing dynastic transition of the mid-seventeenth century through a commercially successful practice founded on intermedial experi……続きを見る

In the postwar years, an eruption of urbanization took place across Japan, from its historical central cities to the outer reaches of the archipelago. During the 1960s and 1970s, Japanese literary a……続きを見る

Winner, 2023 Morris D. Forkosch Prize, Journal of the History of Ideas The scholarly culture of Ming dynasty China (1368–1644) is often seen as prioritizing philosophy over concrete textual study. N……続きを見る

Who are the new Chinese intellectuals? In the wake of the crackdown on the 1989 democracy movement and the rapid marketization of the 1990s, a novel type of grassroots intellectual emerged. Instead ……続きを見る

In 1829, three women and three men were paraded through Osaka and crucified. Placards set up at the execution ground proclaimed their crime: they were devotees of the “pernicious creed” of Christian……続きを見る

Chinese poetry has a long history of interaction with the visual arts. Classical aesthetic thought held that painting, calligraphy, and poetry were cross-fertilizing and mutually enriching. What hap……続きを見る

Under the Song Dynasty, China experienced rapid commercial growth and monetization of the economy. In the same period, the austere ethical turn that led to neo-Confucianism was becoming increasingly……続きを見る

The Zhuangzi (Sayings of Master Zhuang) is one of the foundational texts of the Chinese philosophical tradition and the cornerstone of Daoist thought. The earliest and most influential commentary on……続きを見る

In Edo-period Japan, readers relished works known as kibyōshi that combined text and illustration on the same page, much like comic books and manga. Monsters often took center stage in these stories……続きを見る

Top Graduate Zhang Xie is the first extant play in the Chinese southern dramatic tradition and a milestone in the history of Chinese literature. Dating from the early fifteenth century, but possibly……続きを見る

歐陽竟無──「悲而後有學，憤而後有學，無可奈何而後有學，救亡圖存而後有學」。 其會通儒佛，以學術形式讓佛法思考專業化，開拓民國佛學多元思潮，成為復興佛教文化的不世大師。 ▍齊聲推薦 王汎森／中央研究院院士……続きを見る

Empire of Culture brings together contemporary representations of Victorian Britain to reveal how the nation's imperial past inheres in the ways post-imperial subjects commodify and consume "culture……続きを見る

In Metaphor and Meaning, scholars from China, the United States, and Europe draw on Sarah Allan's groundbreaking application of conceptual metaphor theory to the study of early Chinese philosophy an……続きを見る

Narrative Devices in the Shiji*: Retelling the Past* offers the first systematic analysis of narratives in early Chinese historical writings from 400 BCE to 100 CE, with a focus on the Shiji (Record……続きを見る

《朱淑真诗词传：闲品》表现的是发自女性内心的感受，描写她敏感心思反映下的无尽的寂寞生活。朱淑真在自己的作品里构建了一个幽、静、深、远的世界，具有女性诗词作品独有的特色。朱淑真的闺中主题，绝大部分是个……続きを見る

《励耘语言学刊》2022年第2辑（总第37辑）刊载学术论文共22篇，内容涵盖文字学研究、音韵学研究、训诂学和词汇学、语法学、语言学史等多个方面。 続きを見る

这是一本针对小学生的诗词学习读物。书中按照飞花令的行令规则，从古典诗词中精选近300首脍炙人口的经典古诗词，以飞花令的形式，以诗词中经常出现风物、意象、情绪、姿态等50多个常见字进行编排，将小学阶段所涉……続きを見る