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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

  • 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 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

  • 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 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

    Was ₹259.00 Now ₹139.00 or Free with Kobo Plus

  • 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

    Was ₹179.00 Now ₹89.00 or Free with Kobo Plus

  • 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

    ₹794.60

  • 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

  • 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 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 張愛玲的假髮

    by 張小虹 ...
    Series series 知識叢書
    張愛玲(1920.9.30-1995.9.8)百年冥誕暨逝世25週年紀念從許許多多、貌似瑣碎的細微末節處,展開敘事、啟動思考、尋覓文學感性革命的逃逸路徑。張愛玲與莎士比亞可以有何牽連?張愛玲的蟲患又與現代主義大家勞倫斯、吳爾芙、卡夫卡的人類邊疆探險之旅有何交疊?《張愛玲的假髮》一書從當代理論概念「補遺」出發,探討張愛玲的遺囑、遺物、遺照、遺患、遺風、遺產、遺憶,跳脫狹隘的「作者論」與「傳記研究」,以期能活潑潑創造性思考何謂文學、何謂作家、何謂主體、何謂書寫、何謂影像、何謂物件,希冀凸顯文化批判與性別美學政治的「當代性」,讓張學研究從拍板定案變成弔詭懸案,不疑處柳暗花明,錦繡交織出各種文學、文化、法律、政治、運動、物質、身體的繁複與多摺。本書以極不同於既有「張學」的取徑構造了張愛玲的嶄新研究,酣暢淋漓地引領讀者對張愛玲投下最後的目光,是為致敬,亦為禮讚 ... Read more

    ₹1,013.28 or Free with Kobo Plus

  • 想像與形塑──上海、香港和台灣報刊中的張愛玲

    by 梁慕靈 ...
    Series Book 136 - 文學視界
    若要全面理解張愛玲的作品,就必須了解她的創作與文學場域如何互動──編者梁慕靈蒐集整理1943-1949年間,《申報》、《大公報》、《香海畫報》等中國報刊所見之關於張愛玲其人、其文的剪報,從中梳理張愛玲自1943年正式發表作品以來,上海、香港、台灣三地以報刊為首的文化場域與張愛玲作品之間的互動。進一步析論張愛玲作品如何描繪三個城市的形象,同時關注從1943-2016年間,不同時代、不同城市中的各種勢力,如何「借用」和「想像」屬於他們的「張愛玲」。導讀之外,書中整理收錄1943-1949年間《戲報》、《海晶》等上海報刊中,以張愛玲為題的剪報全文61篇,並擴及《天地》、《東方日報》等中國報刊所見之相關報導,編為總目(含提要、關鍵字)651條,期能在此基礎上,開啟對張愛玲、張愛玲作品更多的想像。 ... Read more

    ₹972.34 or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Travels in Manchuria and Mongolia

    A Feminist Poet from Japan Encounters Prewar China

    by Akiko Yosano ...
    Translated by Joshua Fogel ...
    Yosano Akiko (1878-1942) was one of Japan's greatest poets and translators from classical Japanese. Her output was extraordinary, including twenty volumes of poetry and the most popular translation of the ancient classic The Tale of Genji into modern Japanese. The mother of eleven children, she was a prominent feminist and frequent contributor to Japan's first feminist journal of creative writing, ... Read more

    ₹1,925.98

  • Refining Nature in Modern Japanese Literature

    The Life and Art of Shiga Naoya

    by Nanyan Guo ...
    Series series AsiaWorld
    This book examines the literature of Shiga Naoya, who is highly regarded in modern Japan for his unique style and methods of describing his personal experiences and emotions. Contributing new findings to the field of scholarship on Shiga, this study focuses in particular on Shiga’s nature-inspired writings and discusses how he created some vivid images of nature that became famous and still linger ... Read more

    ₹3,959.24

  • Seven Lectures on Wang Guowei’s Renjian Cihua

    Series series China Perspectives
    Renjian cihua is a masterpiece of literary criticism written by Wang Guowei (1877–1927), a scholar of the Chinese classics who lived during the late Qing and early Republican periods. Since its publication in 1908 and 1909, it has been one of the most influential academic works in China. Elegantly written, Wang’s set of "remarks on ci poetry" (cihua) retains a traditional Chinese impressionistic ... Read more

    ₹7,385.52

  • 中国现当代小说名作欣赏

    “跟着名家读经典”丛书共12本,《中国现当代小说名作欣赏》是其中一本。本书精选29篇现当代小说名篇解读文章,文章作者包括孙绍振、韩石山、商金林、陈学超、梁归智、止庵等大家,而所选的这些名篇主要是被公认的名篇;内容言之成理的新观点、在某一学术领域上有新贡献或在文学欣赏理论上有新创建;文章发表之后得到广泛好评的。因此本书稿质量和价值均很高。本书可以为广大读者提供文学通识阅读背景、阅读知识和文化素养方面的帮助,有利于读者文学知识普及和人文素养的提高,亦可作为中学生语文学习的课外读物和教师授课的教学参考资料。 ... Read more

    ₹2,185.11 or Free with Kobo Plus

  • 李商隐诗歌

    by 欧丽娟著 ...
    本书撷取三十余首李商隐代表诗作,包括最著名、艺术成就最高的《无题》《锦瑟》《乐游原》等,详加解读相关意蕴、诗歌类型及诗史发展之流变。 ... Read more

    ₹1,710.99

  • 《钱注杜诗》与诗史互证方法

    by 郝润华著 ...
    《钱注杜诗》为钱谦益晚年所作,是杜甫诗注中的重要一种。本书结合时政背景与当时的学术思潮,考察了钱谦益的注杜动机与注杜目的,并从诗歌诠释学的角度,重点考察了《钱注杜诗》中的诗史互证方法,认为《钱注杜诗》是以经学的考证方法为基础,以史学的实证方法为架构,所进行的文学阐释,是诗史互证的典范著作,并进而考察了诗史互证方法对陈寅恪乃至二十一世纪学术研究走向的意义。 ... Read more

    ₹1,505.05

  • 简·奥斯汀在中国

    by 叶新 ...
    本专著是在概述英国经典作家在中国的译介过程、考证简奥斯汀小说在中国传播起点、若干史实的基础上,利用跨文化传播理论、安德烈?勒菲弗尔关于翻译的操控理论、罗兰?巴特的符号学理论等,对简?奥斯汀小说在中国翻译出版的典型性跨文化传播个案进行研究并取得阶段性成果。 ... Read more

    ₹1,180.45

  • Transpacific Attachments

    Sex Work, Media Networks, and Affective Histories of Chineseness

    by Lily Wong ...
    Series series Global Chinese Culture
    The figure of the Chinese sex worker—who provokes both disdain and desire—has become a trope for both Asian American sexuality and Asian modernity. Lingering in the cultural imagination, sex workers link sexual and cultural marginality, and their tales clarify the boundaries of citizenship, nationalism, and internationalism. In Transpacific Attachments, Lily Wong studies the mobility and ... Read more

    ₹2,225.82

  • From Comparison to World Literature

    by Longxi Zhang ...
    Series series SUNY series in Chinese Philosophy and Culture
    Reintroduces the concept of "world literature" in a truly global context, transcending past Eurocentrism.The study of world literature is on the rise. Until recently, the term "world literature" was a misnomer in comparative literature scholarship, which typically focused on Western literature in European languages. In an increasingly globalized era, this is beginning to change. In this collection ... Read more

    ₹3,164.51

  • 国学小书院——宋词鉴赏

    本套丛书本着由浅入深、循序渐进的原则,逐步引导青少年学习国学,掌握国学,热爱国学,直至将其发扬光大,辉耀千古。它是青少年学习国学的最佳版本,非常适合各级图书馆收藏和陈列。 ... Read more

    ₹863.16