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On the Chinese internet, alternate history is booming. Millions of writers and readers fantasize about going back in time and changing their country’s fate. One envisions saving the Southern Song Dy……続きを見る

Once the exclusive domain of the aristocracy, classical Japanese poetry (waka) underwent a remarkable transformation in the medieval period, becoming a dynamic tool for cultural education embraced b……続きを見る

Dialogues in the Dark traces how Chinese readers and scholars since the Han dynasty have variously interpreted the ancient poem “Heavenly Questions” (Tianwen), an enigmatic work attributed to Qu Yua……続きを見る

Counting Dreams tells the story of Nomura Bōtō, a Buddhist nun, writer, poet, and activist who joined the movement to oppose the Tokugawa Shogunate and restore imperial rule. Banished for her politi……続きを見る

Celebrating Sorrow explores the medieval Japanese fascination with grief in tributes to The Tale of Sagoromo**, the classic story of a young man whose unrequited love for his foster sister leads him……続きを見る

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

Review of Japanese Literature is a compelling collection of essays that delves into twelve of the most influential and celebrated works in Japanese literary history. From the classical grandeur of T……続きを見る

Review of Chinese Literature offers a comprehensive analysis of twelve of the most iconic and influential works in the Chinese literary tradition. This collection of essays explores the deep cultura……続きを見る

Renowned writer from Shandong, Mo Yan, intricately weaves together tradition and innovation that has left a distinctive mark on the literary world. Through his works, Mo Yan traverses the intersecti……続きを見る

Examines the role that Japanese girls' magazine culture played during the twentieth century in the creation and use of the notion of shōjo, the cultural identity of adolescent Japanese girls. Hiromi……続きを見る

Japan's oldest surviving narrative, the eighth-century Kojiki, chronicles the mythical origins of its islands and their ruling dynasty through a diverse array of genealogies, tales, and songs that h……続きを見る

Haruki Murakami, a global literary phenomenon, has said that he started writing fiction as a means of self-therapy. What he has not discussed as much is what he needed self-therapy for. This book ar……続きを見る

A poignant memoir of life under Communism by one of China's established women writers. Not only did her heroic intellectualism suffer under the restrictions of a repressive regime, but both her pass……続きを見る

土生土長的美國學者，因傾心於中國文學，從哈佛大學數學系畢業後更換賽道，進入華盛頓大學西雅圖分校中文系深造。本書是他在香港大學中文學院教授「中國古典文學導論」的精華記錄，亦是他首本用中文撰寫的專著。 ……続きを見る

Japanese Literary Theories: An Anthology is the English translation of the 2017 volume edited by Yasusuke Oura (Nihon Bungaku Riron: Ansorojii), which grew from a unique collaboration between schola……続きを見る

This groundbreaking study examines the unlikely merger of two Japanese cultural phenomena, an 11th-century aristocratic text and contemporary manga comics. It explores the ways in which the manga ve……続きを見る

Can novels contribute to the ethical lives of readers? What responsibilities might they bear in representing others? Are we ethically accountable for how we read fiction? This study takes up modern ……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

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

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

Explores how China's oldest poetry collection was interpreted in a Confucian exegetical textーthe Mao Commentary**ーin the mid-second century BCE.** The Shijing ("Canon of Odes") is China's oldest p……続きを見る

The war between the Heike and Genji clans in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries is among the most compelling and significant moments in Japan’s history, immortalized in The Tale of the Heike. Beyo……続きを見る

An approachable and readable translation of a classic work of Chinese literature and landmark work of non-Western fiction writing. A Tale of Two Kingdoms offers a highly readable translation of the ……続きを見る

Depuis plus de vingt ans, le manga Fruits Basket trône au sommet des rayons des librairies. Succès planétaire, il est parvenu à toucher ses lecteurs grâce à ses puissants messages porteurs d’espoir.……続きを見る

Kojiki ("Record of Ancient Matters") is the oldest extant chronicle in Japan, dating from the early 8th century (711-2) and composed by O no Yasumaro at the request of Empress Gemmei. The Kojiki is ……続きを見る

This collection of commentaries and reflections on Japanese culture, first published in 1904, was written shortly after the return of two English aristocrats from five years spent immersed in the ‘L……続きを見る

Xuanzang (600/602–664) was one of the most accomplished and consequential monks in the history of East Asian Buddhism. Celebrated for his sixteen-year pilgrimage from China to India, his transmissio……続きを見る

Emperor Whisperers charts a comparative history of the two largest strains of ancient philosophy, from the first millennium BC to around AD 500. The book examines how philosophy arose from atheism i……続きを見る

'China's first iconic modern intellectual. His lucid and prolific writings, touching on all major concerns in his own time and anticipating many in the future, inspired several generations of thinke……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