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Un viaggio attraverso la storia magnifica e complessa del teatro giapponese, dalla grandezza della tradizione alle soglie della modernità. Prendendo le mosse dalle origini rituali, religiose, folklo……続きを見る

Dai generi di spettacolo della tradizione (gagaku, nō, kyōgen, teatro dei burattini bunraku, kabuki) all’introduzione del dramma di ispirazione occidentale, l’epoca moderna in Giappone ha visto un c……続きを見る

La critica letteraria e la saggistica riguardante temi legati alla pratica creativa costituiscono due voci importanti nella letteratura giapponese moderna. Da Natsume Sōseki e Tanizaki Jun'ichirō ad……続きを見る

Chronicles the genesis and development of modern Chinese literature during the tumultuous period of radical self-awakening between the watershed literary revolution of 1917 and the foundation of the……続きを見る

Comics and cartoons from Japan, or manga and anime, are an increasingly common feature of visual and popular culture around the world. While it is often observed that these media forms appeal to bro……続きを見る

Affect, Performativity, and Chinese Diasporas in the Caribbean: Hopeful Futures analyzes the emergence of Chinese diasporic literature and art in the Caribbean and its diasporas in the twenty-first ……続きを見る

我無法憑空「創造」故事，我只是從心裡掏出那些東西， 它們一直就在那裡。 從閱讀到追隨，從翻譯到寫作 村上春樹喚起靈魂的故事旅程 以創作聞名全世界的日本小說家村上春樹，作品以超過五十種語言於各國翻譯出版，……続きを見る

Tokyo: Memory, Imagination, and the City is a collection of eight essays that explore Tokyo urban space from the perspective of memory in works of the imaginationーnovels, short stories, poetry, ess……続きを見る

In the wake of its defeat in World War II, as Japan was forced to remake itself from “empire” to “nation” in the face of an uncertain global situation, literature and literary criticism emerged as h……続きを見る

Unfolding in the tense years of the Cultural Revolution (1966–1976), Trees Without Wind takes place in a remote Shanxi village in which a rare affliction has left the residents physically stunted. D……続きを見る

"As we passed from the city center into the Fukushima suburbs I surveyed the landscape for surgical face masks. I wanted to see in what ratios people were wearing such masks. I was trying to determi……続きを見る

First published in Japanese in 1966, the debut novel of the critically acclaimed author of Singular Rebellion is an unusual portrait of a deeply taboo subject in twentieth-century Japanese society: ……続きを見る

A study of Hu Feng as a literary critic and case study on how intellectual work can respond to political pressure. In this book, Ruth Y. Y. Hung provides a study of Hu Feng (1902–1985) as a critic, ……続きを見る

The essays in this volume examine China's medievalism from the viewpoint of cultural history, philosophy and comparative literature. Contributors discuss the lingering effects of the Middle Ages on ……続きを見る

During the Tang dynasty, the imperial capital of Chang’an (present-day Xi’an) was unrivaled in its monumental scale, with about one million inhabitants dwelling within its walls. It was there that o……続きを見る

Translingual Narration is a study of colonial Taiwanese fiction, its translation from Japanese to Chinese, and films produced during and about the colonial era. It is a postcolonial intervention int……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

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

This volume of essays and translations analyzes the prodigious and wide-ranging output of Keijiro Suga. Based in Japan, Keijiro Suga's works are wide-ranging and multilingual. His volumes of poetry ……続きを見る

Yöko Tawada: Voices from Everywhere is the first volume of criticism dedicated to the work of Yöko Tawada, one of the most highly acclaimed writers of her generation. Douglas Slaymaker has collected……続きを見る

Tommy's Sunset is a translation of the acclaimed Japanese novel about the journey of a mother and her autistic child. Drawing from her own personal life story, Hisako Tsurushima has provided a defin……続きを見る

From the dawn of the atomic age, art and popular culture have played an essential role interpreting nuclear issues to the public and investigating the implications of nuclear weapons to the future o……続きを見る

This carefully crafted ebook: "The Complete Works of Rudyard Kipling (Illustrated)" is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents. Table of Contents: Novels: The Lig……続きを見る