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  • Silk and Insight (Kinu to Meisatsu): A Novel

    Published in 1964, Silk and Insight (Kinu to Meisatsu), is one of the last major novels of Yukio Mishima to be translated into English. Besides being a good novel, as one would expect from Mishima, it stands as an excellent piece of social commentary on the transformation of Japanese business from the old paternalism--which by no means was benevolent--to a new world where labor unions were as ... Read more

    ₹1,251.61

  • The Subplot

    What China Is Reading and Why It Matters

    by Megan Walsh ...
    What does contemporary China's diverse and exciting fiction tell us about its culture, and the relationship between art and politics?The Subplot takes us on a lively journey through a literary landscape like you’ve never seen before: a vast migrant-worker poetry movement, homoerotic romances by “rotten girls,” swaggering literary popstars, millionaire e-writers churning out the longest-ever novels ... Read more

    ₹973.49

  • Lust, Commerce, and Corruption

    An Account of What I Have Seen and Heard, by an Edo Samurai

    Series series Translations from the Asian Classics
    By 1816, Japan had recovered from the famines of the 1780s and moved beyond the political reforms of the 1790s. Despite persistent economic and social stresses, the country seemed to be approaching a new period of growth. The idea that the shogunate would not last forever was far from anyone's mind.Yet, in that year, an anonymous samurai author completed one of the most detailed critiques of Edo ... Read more

    ₹5,565.93

  • The History of Hentai Manga

    by Kimi Rito ...
    While manga is now a well known entity in the global publishing scene, the medium's international success has its roots in the realm of eros. Japanese media critic Kimi Rito dives into the history of manga's erotic world a genre known internationally simply as - hentai. What are the origins of hentai? How has it evolved from the days of ukiyo-e to today's modern comics and animation. Who are the ... Read more

    ₹748.70

  • Spring and Autumn Annals of Wu and Yue

    A Literary Translation of the First Chinese Novel, Wu Yue chunqiu

    Series series SUNY series, Translating China
    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 earliest surviving novel written in the Chinese language, Wu Yue chunqiu (The Spring and Autumn Annals of the Kingdoms of Wu and Yue). Composed nearly two millennia ago and featuring some of the most ... Read more

    ₹3,164.51

  • Wailing Ghosts

    by Pu Songling ...
    Translated by John Minford ...
    Series series Penguin Little Black Classics
    '...revealing great shining fangs more than three inches long.'Some of the most macabre and wonderful of all Chinese stories, including 'The Golden Goblet', 'Scorched Moth the Daoist' and 'The Black Beast'Introducing Little Black Classics: 80 books for Penguin's 80th birthday. Little Black Classics celebrate the huge range and diversity of Penguin Classics, with books from around the world and ... Read more

    ₹43.37

  • The Pinch Runner Memorandum

    This is the first English translation of the 1976 novel by Japan's most daring and innovative novelist. Kenzaburo Oe dispenses with the unity of voice often sought in the conventional realistic novel by forcing the reader to come to grips with one of the basic questions in modern literature: What is the novel? ... Read more

    ₹1,251.61

  • The Complete Works of Rudyard Kipling (Illustrated)

    From colonial India to the Grand Banks—illustrated novels, stories, poems, children's classics, and travel

    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 Light That Failed Captain Courageous: A Story of the Grand Banks Kim The Naulahka: A Story of West and East Stalky and Co. Short Story Collections: The City of Dreadful Night Plain Tales from the Hills ... Read more

    ₹259.00 or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Real Story of Ah-Q and Other Tales of China

    The Complete Fiction of Lu Xun

    by Lu Xun ...
    Translated by Julia Lovell ...
    Lu Xun (Lu Hsun) is arguably the greatest writer of modern China, and is considered by many to be the founder of modern Chinese literature. Lu Xun's stories both indict outdated Chinese traditions and embrace China's cultural richness and individuality. This volume presents brand-new translations by Julia Lovell of all of Lu Xun's stories, including 'The Real Story of Ah-Q', 'Diary of a Madman', ... Read more

    ₹525.91

  • The Gate

    Translated by William F. Sibley ...
    An NYRB Calssics OriginalA humble clerk and his loving wife scrape out a quiet existence on the margins of Tokyo. Resigned, following years of exile and misfortune, to the bitter consequences of having married without their families’ consent, and unable to have children of their own, Sōsuke and Oyone find the delicate equilibrium of their household upset by a new obligation to meet the educational ... Read more

    ₹804.51

  • Anton Chekhov: The Collected Novellas and Short Stories in Multiple Translations (Unabridged)

    Novellas and Stories of 19th-Century Russia, Multiple Translations

    This carefully crafted ebook: "Anton Chekhov: The Collected Novellas and Short Stories in Multiple Translations (Unabridged)" is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents. Excerpt: "Life is a vexatious trap; when a thinking man reaches maturity and attains to full consciousness he cannot help feeling that he is in a trap from which there is no escape."Ward No. Six ... Read more

    ₹179.00 or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Three Treasures

    A Revised and Illustrated Study and Translation of Minamoto no Tamenori's Sanboe

    Series Book 97 - Michigan Monograph Series in Japanese Studies
    When the young Princess Sonshi became a Buddhist nun in the year 984, a scholar-official of the royal court was commissioned to create a guide to the Buddhist religion that would be accessible for her. He did so in the form of the illustrated works of fiction (monogatari) that appealed to women readers of her time and class. The text has survived in later manuscripts; the illustrations, if they ... Read more

    ₹3,368.42

  • The River Imp and the Stinky Jewel and Other Tales

    Monster Comics from Edo Japan

    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. This book presents a selection of Edo monster comics in English for the first time, introducing readers to a captivating, humorous, and eye-opening genre of popular fiction.The River Imp and the ... Read more

    ₹2,622.07

  • Electrified Voices

    How the Telephone, Phonograph, and Radio Shaped Modern Japan, 1868–1945

    by Kerim Yasar ...
    Series series Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia University
    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 Voices, Kerim Yasar traces the origins of the modern soundscape, showing how the revolutionary nature of sound technology and the rise of a new auditory culture played an essential role in the formation of ... Read more

    ₹2,397.28

  • Playwrights and Literary Games in Seventeenth-Century China

    Plays by Tang Xianzu, Mei Dingzuo, Wu Bing, Li Yu, and Kong Shangren

    by Jing Shen ...
    Playwrights and Literary Games in Seventeenth-Century China: Plays by Tang Xianzu, Mei Dingzuo, Wu Bing, Li Yu, and Kong Shangren is a full-length study of chuanqi (romance) drama, a sophisticated form with substantial literary and meta-theatrical value that reigned in Chinese theater from the sixteenth to eighteenth centuries and nourished later theatrical traditions including jingju (Beijing ... Read more

    ₹10,632.85

  • Internet Literature in China

    by Michel Hockx ...
    Series series Global Chinese Culture
    Since the 1990s, Chinese literary enthusiasts have explored new spaces for creative expression online, giving rise to a modern genre that has transformed Chinese culture and society. Ranging from the self-consciously avant-garde to the pornographic, web-based writing has introduced innovative forms, themes, and practices into Chinese literature and its aesthetic traditions.Conducting the first ... Read more

    ₹4,709.49

  • Transpacific Connections: Literary and Cultural Production by and about Latin American Nikkeijin

    Edited by Maja Zawierzeniec ...
    Series series Anthem Studies in Latin American Literature and Culture
    Transpacific Connections: Literary and Cultural Production by and about Latin American Nikkeijin is a cross-cultural work combining Latin American and Japanese studies. It contains original research on social and cultural relations between Japan and Latin America, ranging from Japanese inspirations in one of the Mexican most renowned poets, Brazilian dekasegi (temporary workers in Japan) described ... Read more

    ₹3,425.76

  • Licentious Fictions

    Ninjō and the Nineteenth-Century Japanese Novel

    by Daniel Poch ...
    Nineteenth-century Japanese literary discourse and narrative developed a striking preoccupation with ninjō—literally “human emotion,” but often used in reference to amorous feeling and erotic desire. For many writers and critics, fiction’s capacity to foster both licentiousness and didactic values stood out as a crucial source of ambivalence. Simultaneously capable of inspiring exemplary behavior ... Read more

    ₹5,565.93

  • Yuan Zhen’s New Music Bureau Poetry

    Music and Ritual as Means of Governance

    by Mei Ah Tan ...
    Series series Routledge Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Literature
    This book is the first comprehensive study of the twelve New Music Bureau poems by the influential poet-official Yuan Zhen 元稹 (779–831) in comparison with the response poems of Bai Juyi 白居易 (772–846). Its new perspective on music and ritual reveals connections between Yuan’s poems that otherwise appear to have no logical relation. While Bai’s poems are celebrated for their simple and direct style, ... Read more

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  • The 70's Biweekly

    Social Activism and Alternative Cultural Production in 1970s Hong Kong

    Edited by Lu Pan ...
    Taking The 70’s Biweekly—an independent youth publication in the 1970s Hong Kong—as the main thread, this edited volume investigates an unexplored trajectory of Hong Kong’s cultural and art production in the 1970s that represents the making of a dissent space by independent press and activist groups in the city. The 70’s Biweekly stands out from many other independent magazines with its unique ... Read more

    ₹1,873.47

  • 明清文學中的女子與國難

    Women and National Trauma in Late Imperial Chinese Literature

    by 李惠儀 ...
    Translated by 李惠儀, 許明德 ...
    Series Book 16 - 中國文學研究叢書
    明清易代是中國歷史中的鉅變。這一轉折除了成為清初文人念茲在茲的寫作主題,同時也持續為後世文人著述的焦點。《明清文學中的女子與國難》集中討論女性在這關鍵的歷史時刻如何通過自身著述與他人書寫開闢議論,想像與創作的空間。範圍涵蓋女性文學,男性借用女子的身分和聲音寄託幽懷之作,及以女性為文化符號,藉以撫今追昔,反思明亡的罪責和前因後果的作品。本書深入探討國難之際人們的思維與情感,以及後人如何回顧並挪用這段歷史,旨在說明歷史與文學如何交織互動,並闡釋性別的概念如何成為經驗與表述世變亂離的方式與途徑。為何性別界限,女子的貞淫美惡,她們的自主,無奈與困境會變成國難經歷與記憶的寓言寄意契機?人們如何藉這些敘述思考國族的命運?透過回答這些問題,李惠儀揭示了各文體中女子的種種形相,並藉此探究明清易代及後世國難重演時人們的感懷和精神面貌。 ... Read more

    ₹1,644.44

  • 中國文學鑑賞舉隅

    Series series 滄海叢刊/語文類
    這兒有古文新探,從質樸的「奏議」到華美的「辭賦」。這兒有小說析評,從古典的《西遊記》到鄉土的〈漁歌子〉。這兒有白話散文的欣賞,從朱自清到陳之藩。而新詩的品鑑,則限於對瘂弦的《深淵》作一測量與試探。作者微末的心意在,使過去的文學作品,在現代人心域中活躍如新;讓一切已有的美感經驗,在每一個新的時代裏,煥發出更新的意義和光芒。同時也藉對現代文學的長江大河的追溯,一探那傳統的和鄉土的巴顏喀喇山。作者簡介:黃慶萱浙江省平陽縣人,一九三二年生。國立臺灣師範大學國文研究所畢業,國家文學博士 。曾任師大國文系教授。許家鸞安徽省合肥縣人,一九三七年生。國立臺灣師範大學國文系畢業。曾任台北巿立第一女子高級中學國文教師。 ... Read more

    ₹781.28

  • La Chine pense-t-elle ?

    Leçon inaugurale prononcée le jeudi 11 décembre 2008

    by Anne Cheng ...
    Series series Leçons inaugurales
    Depuis l’Europe des Lumières, on s’est beaucoup occupé de « penser la Chine », quitte à fabriquer les représentations les plus contradictoires, entre la « Chine philosophique » et le « despotisme oriental », entre une Chine éternelle, esthétique et consensuelle, et une autre, imprévisible et inquiétante. Pour sortir de ces clichés tenaces, Anne Cheng nous propose d’exercer notre oreille à capter ... Read more

    ₹617.92

  • The Ethics of Aesthetics in Japanese Cinema and Literature

    Polygraphic Desire

    by Nina Cornyetz ...
    Series series Routledge Contemporary Japan Series
    This is an innovative, scholarly and original study of the ethics of modern Japanese aesthetics from the 1930s, through the Second World War and into the post-war period. Nina Cornyetz embarks on new and unprecedented readings of some of the most significant literary and film texts of the Japanese canon, for instance works by Kawabata Yasunari, Mishima Yukio, Abe Kôbô and Shinoda Masahiro, all ... Read more

    ₹7,064.36