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  • How to Find True Love & Other Stories

    A trilingual edition in English, German and Indonesian

    Serier Bog 1 - BTW
    German title: Wie man wahre Liebe findet und andere ErzählungenIndonesian title: Teknik Menemukan Cinta Sejati dan cerita lainnyaThese neatly-constructed postmodern tales demonstrate the author’s skill at deception. Even in storiesthat contain portraits of reality, readers are compelled to question whethersuch “reality” is indeed real. These are stories that take jibes at bothrealist literature ... Læs mere

    31,38 kr.

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    13 Thai short stories

    Serier serie ThaiFiction
    Thirteen short stories spanning a quarter centuryby the most incisive Thai satirist of the times ... Læs mere

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  • The Demon at Agi Bridge and Other Japanese Tales

    Redigeret af Haruo Shirane ...
    Serier serie Translations from the Asian Classics
    Burton Watson and Haruo Shirane, renowned translators and scholars, introduce English-speaking readers to the vivid tradition of early and medieval Japanese anecdotal (setsuwa) literature. These orally narrated and written tales drew on both local folk tradition and continental sources. Taken from seven major anthologies of anecdotal literature compiled between the ninth and thirteenth centuries, ... Læs mere

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  • Kannani and Document of Flames

    Two Japanese Colonial Novels

    af Katsuei Yuasa ...
    Oversat af Mark W. Driscoll ...
    This volume makes available for the first time in English two of the most important novels of Japanese colonialism: Yuasa Katsuei’s Kannani and Document of Flames. Born in Japan in 1910 and raised in Korea, Yuasa was an eyewitness to the ravages of the Japanese occupation. In both of the novels presented here, he is clearly critical of Japanese imperialism. Kannani (1934) stands alone within ... Læs mere

    173,49 kr.

  • Filipinos in New York City

    Serier serie Images of America
    After the Spanish-American War in 1898, many Filipinos immigrated to New York City, mostly as students, enrolling at local institutions like Columbia University and New York University. Some arrived via Ellis Island as early as 1915, while Filipino military servicemen and Navy seafarers settled in New York after both World Wars I and II. After the Asian Immigration Act of 1965, many Filipinos came ... Læs mere

    83,29 kr. eller Gratis med Kobo Plus

  • AlliterAsian

    Twenty Years of Ricepaper Magazine

    Allan Cho: Allan Cho works as an academic librarian at the University of British Columbia. His writing has appeared in Ricepaper, The Georgia Straight, and Diverse.Julia Lin: Julia Lin is the author of Miah, the first book-length work of Taiwanese-Canadian literary fiction ever published.Jim Wong-Chu: Jim Wong-Chu is a writer, historian, and editor. He is a founding member of the Asian Canadian ... Læs mere

    83,74 kr. eller Gratis med Kobo Plus

  • Asian & Pacific Short Stories

    Readers of Asian & Pacific Short Stories will have the exciting experience of encountering for the first time the recent work of some of Asia's most talented writers. Collected in this anthology are short stories by authors in nine Asian and Pacific countries: Australia, the Republic of China, Japan, the Republic of Korea, Malaysia, New Zealand, the Philippines, Thailand, and the Republic of ... Læs mere

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  • Three Ways of Thought in Ancient China

    First published in 1939.This book consists chiefly of extracts from Chuang Tzu, Mencius and Han Fei Tzu. Chuang Tzu's appeal is to the imagination; the appeal of mencius is to the moral feelings; realism, as expounded by Han Fei Tzu, finds a close parallel in modern Totalitarianism and as a result these extracts from a book of the third century B.C. nonetheless have a very contemporary connection. ... Læs mere

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  • The Phonetics of Japanese Language

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    Serier serie Routledge Library Editions: Japan
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  • Sukra’s Eyes & Other Tales

    A trilingual edition in English, German and Indonesian

    Serier Bog 9 - BTW
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  • Twentieth-century Chinese Women's Poetry: An Anthology

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    af Julia C. Lin ...
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  • Don't Make a Sign on the Boat, Stories from Burma

    A collection of stories from Myanmar (Burma), told by Sayadaw UNyaneinda, Abbot of the old Burmese Temple in Bodhgaya and written down in this form by Susanne Isabel Krajanek, born in Austria and living in Bodhgaya, India, for many years.Hidden in most of the tales is some piece of advise, such as how to manage a certain situation, or to show how things generally turn out. Some are simply amusing ... Læs mere

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