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Novelist as a Vocation

An exploration of a writer’s life from the Sunday Times bestselling author of Norwegian Wood

by Haruki Murakami ...

Translated by Philip Gabriel, Ted Goossen ...

Words have power. Yet that power must be rooted in truth and justice. Words must never stand apart from those principles.'You end this **collection…vowing to never let life, or writing, get so complicated again'**GuardianReaders who have long wondered where the mysterious novelist gets his ideas and what inspires his beautifully surreal worlds will be fascinated by this highly personal look at the ... Read more

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Words have power. Yet that power must be rooted in truth and justice. Words must never stand apart from those principles.'You end this **collection…vowing to never let life, or writing, get so complicated again'**GuardianReaders who have long wondered where the mysterious novelist gets his ideas and what inspires his beautifully surreal worlds will be fascinated by this highly personal look at the
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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 Lu Xun's stories both indict outdated Chinese traditions and embrace China's cultural richness and individuality.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

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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 Lu Xun's stories both indict outdated Chinese traditions and embrace China's cultural richness and individuality.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',
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The Monkey and the Monk: An Abridgment of The Journey to the West

An Abridgment of The Journey to the West

by ...

Anthony C. Yu’s celebrated translation of The Journey to the West reinvigorated one of Chinese literature’s most beloved classics for English-speaking audiences when it first appeared thirty years ago. Yu’s abridgment of his four-volume translation, The Monkey and the Monk, finally distills the epic novel’s most exciting and meaningful episodes without taking anything away from their true spirit. ... Read more

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Anthony C. Yu’s celebrated translation of The Journey to the West reinvigorated one of Chinese literature’s most beloved classics for English-speaking audiences when it first appeared thirty years ago. Yu’s abridgment of his four-volume translation, The Monkey and the Monk, finally distills the epic novel’s most exciting and meaningful episodes without taking anything away from their true spirit.
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The Gate

Translated by William F. Sibley ...

by Natsume Soseki ...

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

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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
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Botanical Imagination

Rethinking Plants in Modern Japan

by Jon L. Pitt ...

Series series The Environments of East Asia
Botanical Imagination explores the complicated legacy and enduring lure of plant life in modern Japanese literature and media. Using critical plant studies, Jon L. Pitt examines an unlikely group of writers and filmmakers in modern Japan, finding in their works a desire to "become botanical" in both content and form. For nearly one hundred years, a botanical imagination grew in response to moments ... Read more

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Botanical Imagination explores the complicated legacy and enduring lure of plant life in modern Japanese literature and media. Using critical plant studies, Jon L. Pitt examines an unlikely group of writers and filmmakers in modern Japan, finding in their works a desire to "become botanical" in both content and form. For nearly one hundred years, a botanical imagination grew in response to moments
... Read more
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

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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
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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

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'...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
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Writing Gender in Early Modern Chinese Women's Tanci Fiction

by Li Guo ...

Series series Comparative Cultural Studies
Women’s tanci, or “plucking rhymes,” are chantefable narratives written by upper-class educated women from seventeenth-century to early twentieth-century China. Writing Gender in Early Modern Chinese Women’s Tanci Fiction offers a timely study on early modern Chinese women’s representations of gender, nation, and political activism in their tanci works before and after the Taiping Rebellion (1850 ... Read more

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Women’s tanci, or “plucking rhymes,” are chantefable narratives written by upper-class educated women from seventeenth-century to early twentieth-century China. Writing Gender in Early Modern Chinese Women’s Tanci Fiction offers a timely study on early modern Chinese women’s representations of gender, nation, and political activism in their tanci works before and after the Taiping Rebellion (1850
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Cold Mountain Poems

Zen Poems of Han Shan, Shih Te, and Wang Fan-chih

by Han Shan ...

Translated by J. P. Seaton ...

Series series Shambhala Library
The incomparable poetry of Han Shan (Cold Mountain) and his sidekick Shih Te, the rebel poets who became icons of Chinese poetry and Zen, has long captured the imagination of poetry lovers and Zen aficionados. Popularized in the West by Beat Generation writers Gary Snyder and Jack Kerouac, these legendary T’ang era (618–907) figures are portrayed as the laughing, ragged pair who left their poetry ... Read more

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The incomparable poetry of Han Shan (Cold Mountain) and his sidekick Shih Te, the rebel poets who became icons of Chinese poetry and Zen, has long captured the imagination of poetry lovers and Zen aficionados. Popularized in the West by Beat Generation writers Gary Snyder and Jack Kerouac, these legendary T’ang era (618–907) figures are portrayed as the laughing, ragged pair who left their poetry
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Novel Medicine

Healing, Literature, and Popular Knowledge in Early Modern China

by Andrew Schonebaum ...

Series series Modern Language Initiative Books
By examining the dynamic interplay between discourses of fiction and medicine, Novel Medicine demonstrates how fiction incorporated, created, and disseminated medical knowledge in China, beginning in the sixteenth century. Critical readings of fictional and medical texts provide a counterpoint to prevailing narratives that focus only on the “literati” aspects of the novel, showing that these texts ... Read more

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By examining the dynamic interplay between discourses of fiction and medicine, Novel Medicine demonstrates how fiction incorporated, created, and disseminated medical knowledge in China, beginning in the sixteenth century. Critical readings of fictional and medical texts provide a counterpoint to prevailing narratives that focus only on the “literati” aspects of the novel, showing that these texts
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The Complete Confucius: The Analects, The Doctrine Of The Mean, and The Great Learning

by Confucius ...

Confucius (/kənˈfjuːʃəs/ kən-FEW-shəs; 551–479 BC) was a Chinese philosopher and politician of the Spring and Autumn period.The philosophy of Confucius, also known as Confucianism, emphasized personal and governmental morality, correctness of social relationships, justice and sincerity. His followers competed successfully with many other schools during the Hundred Schools of Thought era only to be ... Read more

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Confucius (/kənˈfjuːʃəs/ kən-FEW-shəs; 551–479 BC) was a Chinese philosopher and politician of the Spring and Autumn period.The philosophy of Confucius, also known as Confucianism, emphasized personal and governmental morality, correctness of social relationships, justice and sincerity. His followers competed successfully with many other schools during the Hundred Schools of Thought era only to be
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Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-tung

by Mao Tse-tung ...

Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-tung, also known as the Little Red Book, is a compilation of statements and sayings by Mao Tse-tung (Mao Zedong), the founding father of the People's Republic of China. Published in 1966, it was a key tool in the Cultural Revolution, a decade-long sociopolitical movement aimed at purging remnants of capitalist and traditional elements from Chinese society. The book ... Read more

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Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-tung, also known as the Little Red Book, is a compilation of statements and sayings by Mao Tse-tung (Mao Zedong), the founding father of the People's Republic of China. Published in 1966, it was a key tool in the Cultural Revolution, a decade-long sociopolitical movement aimed at purging remnants of capitalist and traditional elements from Chinese society. The book
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The Tale of Genji

by Murasaki Shikibu ...

The Tale of Genji (源氏物語 Genji monogatari) is a classic work of Japanese literature written by the noblewoman and lady-in-waiting Murasaki Shikibu in the early years of the 11th century. The original manuscript no longer exists. It was made in "concertina" or "orihon" style: several sheets of paper pasted together and folded alternately in one direction then the other, around the peak of the Heian ... Read more

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The Tale of Genji (源氏物語 Genji monogatari) is a classic work of Japanese literature written by the noblewoman and lady-in-waiting Murasaki Shikibu in the early years of the 11th century. The original manuscript no longer exists. It was made in "concertina" or "orihon" style: several sheets of paper pasted together and folded alternately in one direction then the other, around the peak of the Heian
... Read more
Anton Chekhov: The Collected Novellas and Short Stories in Multiple Translations (Unabridged)

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

by Anton Chekhov ...

Translated by Julius West, Julian Hawthorne, Marian Fell, Herman Bernstein, Robert Edward Crozier Long, Thomas Seltzer, Constance Garnett, C.E. Bechhofer Roberts, S.S. Koteliansky, Gilbert Cannan, J. M. Murry, B. Roland Lewis ...

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

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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
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Bandits in Print

"The Water Margin" and the Transformations of the Chinese Novel

by Scott W. Gregory ...

Bandits in Print examines the world of print in early modern China, focusing on the classic novel The Water Margin (Shuihu zhuan). Depending on which edition a reader happened upon, The Water Margin could offer vastly different experiences, a characteristic of the early modern Chinese novel genre and the shifting print culture of the era.Scott W. Gregory argues that the traditional novel is best u ... Read more

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Bandits in Print examines the world of print in early modern China, focusing on the classic novel The Water Margin (Shuihu zhuan). Depending on which edition a reader happened upon, The Water Margin could offer vastly different experiences, a characteristic of the early modern Chinese novel genre and the shifting print culture of the era.Scott W. Gregory argues that the traditional novel is best u
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Confucian Image Politics

Masculine Morality in Seventeenth-Century China

by Ying Zhang ...

During the Ming-Qing transition (roughly from the 1570s to the 1680s), literati-officials in China employed public forms of writing, art, and social spectacle to present positive moral images of themselves and negative images of their rivals. The rise of print culture, the dynastic change, and the proliferating approaches to Confucian moral cultivation together gave shape to this new political ... Read more

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During the Ming-Qing transition (roughly from the 1570s to the 1680s), literati-officials in China employed public forms of writing, art, and social spectacle to present positive moral images of themselves and negative images of their rivals. The rise of print culture, the dynastic change, and the proliferating approaches to Confucian moral cultivation together gave shape to this new political
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Nineteen Ways of Looking at Wang Wei

by Eliot Weinberger, Octavio Paz ...

A new expanded edition of the classic study of translation, finally back in printThe difficulty (and necessity) of translation is concisely described in Nineteen Ways of Looking at Wang Wei, a close reading of different translations of a single poem from the Tang Dynasty—from a transliteration to Kenneth Rexroth’s loose interpretation. As Octavio Paz writes in the afterword, “Eliot Weinberger’s ... Read more

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A new expanded edition of the classic study of translation, finally back in printThe difficulty (and necessity) of translation is concisely described in Nineteen Ways of Looking at Wang Wei, a close reading of different translations of a single poem from the Tang Dynasty—from a transliteration to Kenneth Rexroth’s loose interpretation. As Octavio Paz writes in the afterword, “Eliot Weinberger’s
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Silk and Insight (Kinu to Meisatsu): A Novel

by Yukio Mishima, Frank Gibney ...

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

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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
The Columbia Companion to Modern Chinese Literature

Edited by Kirk Denton ...

The Columbia Companion to Modern Chinese Literature features more than fifty short essays on specific writers and literary trends from the Qing period (1895–1911) to the present. The volume opens with thematic essays on the politics and ethics of writing literary history, the formation of the canon, the relationship between language and form, the role of literary institutions and communities, the ... Read more

$85.43 NZD

The Columbia Companion to Modern Chinese Literature features more than fifty short essays on specific writers and literary trends from the Qing period (1895–1911) to the present. The volume opens with thematic essays on the politics and ethics of writing literary history, the formation of the canon, the relationship between language and form, the role of literary institutions and communities, the
... Read more
Tale of Genji: A Reader's Guide

by William J. Puette ...

Series series Tuttle Classics
"Those who wish to deepen their acquaintance with Murasaki's wondrous world will certainly find Puette's guide most helpful." —The Japan TimesThis is the most complete reader's guide available on Japan's highly revered novel, the eleventh-century classic, The Tale of Genji, by Murasaki Shikibu, referred to by Nobel Laureate Yasunari Kawabata as the "highest pinnacle of Japanese literature." ... Read more

$19.77 NZD

"Those who wish to deepen their acquaintance with Murasaki's wondrous world will certainly find Puette's guide most helpful." —The Japan TimesThis is the most complete reader's guide available on Japan's highly revered novel, the eleventh-century classic, The Tale of Genji, by Murasaki Shikibu, referred to by Nobel Laureate Yasunari Kawabata as the "highest pinnacle of Japanese literature."
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Xueqin and Xakespeare

Reading The Story of the Stone through Hamlet

by Judith Forsyth ...

Series series Routledge Studies in Comparative Literature
This monograph offers a detailed consideration of the five-volume novel written by Cao Xueqin and translated into English as The Story of the Stone, when read through William Shakespeare’s drama Hamlet, Prince of Denmark, A Tragedy in Five Acts. The book builds on the superlative David Hawkes/John Minford English language translation, which is inspired by resonances between the English ... Read more

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This monograph offers a detailed consideration of the five-volume novel written by Cao Xueqin and translated into English as The Story of the Stone, when read through William Shakespeare’s drama Hamlet, Prince of Denmark, A Tragedy in Five Acts. The book builds on the superlative David Hawkes/John Minford English language translation, which is inspired by resonances between the English
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Symptoms of an Unruly Age

Li Zhi and Cultures of Early Modernity

by Rivi Handler-Spitz ...

Symptoms of an Unruly Age compares the writings of Li Zhi (1527–1602) and his late-Ming compatriots to texts composed by their European contemporaries, including Montaigne, Shakespeare, and Cervantes. Emphasizing aesthetic patterns that transcend national boundaries, Rivi Handler-Spitz explores these works as culturally distinct responses to similar social and economic tensions affecting early ... Read more

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Symptoms of an Unruly Age compares the writings of Li Zhi (1527–1602) and his late-Ming compatriots to texts composed by their European contemporaries, including Montaigne, Shakespeare, and Cervantes. Emphasizing aesthetic patterns that transcend national boundaries, Rivi Handler-Spitz explores these works as culturally distinct responses to similar social and economic tensions affecting early
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The Breaking Jewel

A Novel

by Makoto Oda ...

Translated by Donald Keene ...

Series series Weatherhead Books on Asia
Set on an island in the South Pacific during the final days of World War II, when the tide has turned against Japan and the war has unmistakably become one of attrition, The Breaking Jewel offers a rare depiction of the Pacific War from the Japanese side and captures the essence of Japan's doomed imperial aims. The novel opens as a small force of Japanese soldiers prepares to defend a tiny and ... Read more

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Set on an island in the South Pacific during the final days of World War II, when the tide has turned against Japan and the war has unmistakably become one of attrition, The Breaking Jewel offers a rare depiction of the Pacific War from the Japanese side and captures the essence of Japan's doomed imperial aims. The novel opens as a small force of Japanese soldiers prepares to defend a tiny and
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沈伯俊评点《三国演义》

by （明）罗贯中著, 沈伯俊评校 ...

《三国演义》是中国文学史上第一部成熟的长篇小说，问世六百余年，对中华民族的精神生活和民族性格产生了广泛而深刻的影响。沈伯俊先生多年来沉潜《三国》，不仅对《三国》版本进行了精心校理，而且对《三国》丰厚的思想内涵、人物形象以及三国文化等进行了全面而细致的研究。他的《三国》评点本，从形式上看，有全书总评、回前总评、文中夹评、回末尾评，这是对“评点”文化在形式上的继承。从内容上看，不仅有评，有注，而且有褒，有贬，以当代意识俯瞰三国，常常三言两语，画龙点睛，带领读者漫游绚丽多彩的三国世界。 ... Read more

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《三国演义》是中国文学史上第一部成熟的长篇小说，问世六百余年，对中华民族的精神生活和民族性格产生了广泛而深刻的影响。沈伯俊先生多年来沉潜《三国》，不仅对《三国》版本进行了精心校理，而且对《三国》丰厚的思想内涵、人物形象以及三国文化等进行了全面而细致的研究。他的《三国》评点本，从形式上看，有全书总评、回前总评、文中夹评、回末尾评，这是对“评点”文化在形式上的继承。从内容上看，不仅有评，有注，而且有褒，有贬，以当代意识俯瞰三国，常常三言两语，画龙点睛，带领读者漫游绚丽多彩的三国世界。
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