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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

    ₹1,329.02

  • 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

  • H.P. Lovecraft: The Complete Works

    The Call of Cthulhu, The Tomb, Polaris, Beyond the Wall of Sleep... (Bauer Classics)

    Series Book 2 - All Time Best Writers
    Throughout his adult life, Lovecraft was never able to support himself from earnings as an author and editor. He was virtually unknown during his lifetime and was almost exclusively published in pulp magazines before he died in poverty at the age of 46, but is now regarded as one of the most significant 20th-century authors of supernatural horror fiction. Among his most celebrated tales are "The ... Read more

    Was ₹962.37 Now ₹191.70 or Free with Kobo Plus

  • 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

    ₹3,360.27

  • 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

    ₹3,576.80

  • The Complete Works of Rudyard Kipling (Illustrated) (Annotated)

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

    The Complete Works of Rudyard Kipling (Illustrated) gathers the breadth of Kipling's fiction, poetry, and journalism, from the imperial fables of The Jungle Book and Kim to the barrack-room ballads, children's tales, and sharply observed sketches of colonial life. Its style ranges from vigorous vernacular speech and rhythmic verse to richly symbolic animal allegory, placing Kipling at the ... Read more

    ₹279.00 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 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

    ₹1,033.67

  • 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

    ₹1,329.02

  • 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

    ₹805.34

  • 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

    ₹5,910.14

  • H.G. Wells: Masterpieces

    The Invisible Man, The Time Machine, The War of the Worlds, The Food of the Gods... (Bauer Classics)

    Series Book 42 - The Greatest Collection
    Prolific in many genres, he wrote dozens of novels, short stories, and works of social commentary, history, satire, biography and autobiography. His work also included two books on recreational war games. Wells is now best remembered for his science fiction novels and is often called the "father of science fiction".During his own lifetime, however, he was most prominent as a forward-looking, even ... Read more

    Was ₹962.37 Now ₹288.04 or Free with Kobo Plus

  • 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

    ₹794.95

  • A ogni gatto il suo autore

    Gatti e scrittori nel Giappone contemporaneo

    Dieci milioni di gatti abitano nelle case giapponesi, a testimonianza di una relazione che si è evoluta nei secoli. I primi arrivarono via nave dalla Cina insieme ai testi dei sutra buddhisti e vennero amati dagli aristocratici della corte di Kyōtō, prima di divenire gli attuali gatti domestici presenti un po’ ovunque, dalle stazioni ai templi, agli anime. Neko jita (lingua di gatto), Neko no ... Read more

    ₹966.99

  • 陈三立诗歌选注

    本书从《散原精舍诗》《散原精舍诗续集》《散原精舍诗别集》及《诗录》中精选了部分陈三立诗歌的优秀作品,从写作背景、字句、用典、诗歌意境等方面进行了注释。 ... Read more

    ₹2,883.36

  • 甲午戰爭詩諷諭性詩用之研究

    by 張柏恩 ...
    本論文以「甲午戰爭詩諷諭性詩用研究」為題,旨在以甲午戰爭詩 作整體性考察,尋找這些詩篇眾多、詩人思想背景各異的共性,把他們 聯繫起來的核心是「士階層」共同心靈結構的普遍特徵,也就是「政教 諷諭」。我們透過「詩用」行為這種「諷諭意圖」的意向性所建立的甲午 戰爭詩傳訊模式,來探討甲午戰爭詩的意義,分別從三個向度「集體諷 諭意識」、「諷諭類型與詩史體現」、「諷諭書寫策略與目的」,離開 文學本位的價值立場,從文學活動所關係到的社會文化行為這個視域, 去論述中國自古以來即普遍存在的「詩用」現象;面對中國千年不曾遭 遇的大變局甲午戰爭,知識階層的整體存在感是如何?甲午戰爭詩人的 「諷諭意圖」如何顯發?基於此,「甲午世代」詩人在「集體諷諭意識」之下,所創製甲午 戰爭詩的深層思維方式是什麼?也就是要問的是他們繼承傳統士人階層 的「諷諭性詩用模式」為何?然後接著從作者創作意向性觀之,「甲午 世代 ... Read more

    ₹1,684.16 or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Modern Chinese Metric Poetry and Its AI Interpretation

    中国现代格律诗与AI导读

    本书搜罗四位诗友作品:肖瑞琪、贾理果、赵鸿天、苏学宽。五绝 题《现代格律诗及AI导读》之序/苏学宽诗词格律美,承载见吾辈。古韵述今时,诵读人若醉。跋/肖瑞琪我们四个诗友,一起学习创作格律诗已有十数年之久,在此书中选入的三百余首诗词只是秋色中的一叶,全豹中的一斑,但它们是我们生活诸多角度的侧视图,同时也显示出我们对格律诗词的热爱。静坐下来,冲一杯咖啡,泡一杯茶,选一件生活中有趣的事情、一段令人动情的回忆、一幅印象深刻的景色、一张旅游途中照下的相片......,开始构思、择字、低吟、修改,......这一过程充满了挑战,但在成诗后并与诗友分享,这是一种何等的精神享受!格律诗词创作,成了我们生活中的一部分,它充实了我们的时光,增进了我们的友情,成了我们抒发情感的管道,使我们的快乐升华,使我们的忧虑得到缓解,它也教会了我们如何捕捉、欣赏、... ... Read more

    ₹1,022.10

  • 第一次遇见莎士比亚

    by 胡鹏 ...
    马克思称莎士比亚为“人类最伟大的戏剧天才”,可其人究竟如何?出身商贾之家,未受过完整教育,早早结婚,又早早离家,在伦敦混迹市井,随即一朝发迹,在戏剧界、文学界一跃成名。他跌宕起伏而又神秘的一生,同那个时代的英国历史风物一起,被镶嵌在其作品中。从《哈姆莱特》《威尼斯商人》到《亨利四世》《暴风雨》,莎士比亚的剧作至今仍在被诵读、被演绎,而其中蕴含的对社会与历史、人性与情感的独到见解,亦不因时间的变迁而蒙尘。莎士比亚绝不仅仅属于一个国家、一个时代。他是世界的,他属于所有世纪。 ... Read more

    ₹2,268.74 or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Chinese Grammatology

    Script Revolution and Literary Modernity, 1916–1958

    by Yurou Zhong ...
    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 script. They declared it an archaic hindrance to modernization, portraying the ancient system of writing as a roadblock to literacy and therefore science and democracy. Movements spanning the political ... Read more

    ₹3,181.98

  • Dragon in Ambush

    The Art of War in the Poems of Mao Zedong

    Dragon in Ambush by Jeremy Ingallsis a critique and new translation of the first twenty poems of Mao Zedong’s published poetry. This seminal work stands out from previous translations of Mao’s poems in seeing them as an expression of his core political beliefs, rather than for their poetic effect. Instead, Dr. Ingalls shows in consummate detail that Mao was careful and deliberate in employing ... Read more

    ₹8,946.39

  • Perspectives on East Asia

    Series Book 130 - Studi e saggi
    This volume is a collection of eight articles by different scholars from Japan, China, and Italy. Although the topics covered belong to different fields, such as literature, history, linguistics and sociology, all of the included works are geographically focused on cultural aspects of East Asia.The interdisciplinary character of the collection is meant to provide a broader perspective on the ... Read more

    ₹1,444.03 or Free with Kobo Plus

  • 张少康文集·第三卷:文赋集释 夕秀集

    by 张少康 ...
    本书收入《文赋集释》《夕秀集》两本著作。其中,《文赋集释》综贯古今学者之说,对其文意及理论内涵加以诠释。《夕秀集》讨论了古代文论与当代文艺学之关系、中国文学观念之自觉、《文心雕龙》之意境论、古代诗论与画论、山水画南北宗等问题。 ... Read more

    ₹3,460.03

  • 唐诗宋词十五讲

    by 葛晓音著 ...
    本书共分15讲,内容包括:走向高潮的初唐诗、盛唐气象、中唐两大诗派、唐五代词、宋初词风的转变、苏轼和词的诗化等。 ... Read more

    ₹2,291.65

  • 中国小说叙事模式的转变

    by 陈平原著 ...
    本书分为八章,内容包括中国小说叙事时间的转变、中国小说叙事角度的转变、中国小说叙事结构的转变、传统的创造性转化、传统文体之渗入小说、“史传”传统与“诗骚”传统等。 ... Read more

    ₹2,148.42