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  • The Impact of Akira

    A Manga [R]evolution

    by Rémi Lopez ...
    Discover Katsuhiro Otomo’s visionary work and post-Akira Japanese comic culture.The catalyst of an era, of a world that was unaware of its downfall, Katsuhiro Otomo’s visionary work marked a turning point in the industry. First, in his homeland, Japan, in terms of graphics and plot on an entire generation of post-Akira artists who adopted his attention to detail, his realism and his dizzying views ... Read more

    $11.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Nineteen Ways of Looking at Wang Wei

    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

    $9.99 USD

  • Haruki Murakami

    Storytelling and Productive Distance

    by Chikako Nihei ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Contemporary Literature
    Haruki Murakami: Storytelling and Productive Distance studies the evolution of the monogatari, or narrative and storytelling in the works of Haruki Murakami. Author Chikako Nihei argues that Murakami’s power of monogatari lies in his use of distancing effects; storytelling allows individuals to "cross" into a different context, through which they can effectively observe themselves and reality. His ... Read more

    $52.99 USD

  • Letters of Four Seasons

    Translated by Richard L. Gage ...
    This book provides a rare opportunity to look over the shoulders of two prominent personalities as they exchange letters over a one-year period. They write about their impressions and reflections on travels and work, seasons and places, close friends and public figures they have known. Both are men of wide experience. Ikeda has visited China a number of times, contributing to the restoration of ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Wang Yangming: An Essential Biography

    Bresciani, Umberto, Wang Yangming – An Essential Biography, Passerino Editore, 2016. This is a biography – the first in Western languages - of an extraordinary man, who has fascinated countless people in the last five centuries. Wang Yangming was a philosopher, a military and political leader, and a poet and artist; but most of all a spiritual master for all those who came to him in search for a ... Read more

    $6.99 USD $5.99 USD 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

    $10.99 USD

  • 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

    $14.99 USD

  • The World of the Shining Prince

    Court Life in Ancient Japan

    by Ivan Morris ...
    Ivan Morris’s definitive and widely acclaimed portrait of the ceremonious and melancholy world of ancient Japan.Using The Tale of Genji and other major literary works from Japan’s Heian period as a frame of reference, The World of the Shining Prince recreates an era when women set the cultural tone. Focusing on the world of the emperor’s court—a world deeply admired by Virginia Woolf, among others ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • Modern Japanese Literature

    From 1868 to the Present Day

    by Donald Keene ...
    A collection of plays, essays, poetry, and reportage compiled by “the 20th-century’s premier scholar of Japanese literature” (Slate).Modern Japanese Literature is Donald Keene’s critically acclaimed companion volume to his landmark Anthology of Japanese Literature. Now considered the standard canon of modern Japanese writing translated into English, Modern Japanese Literature includes concise ... Read more

    $12.99 USD 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

    $14.99 USD

  • The Plum in the Golden Vase or, Chin P'ing Mei

    Volume One: The Gathering

    by David Tod Roy ...
    Series Book 56 - Princeton Library of Asian Translations
    In this first of a planned five-volume set, David Roy provides a complete and annotated translation of the famous Chin P'ing Mei, an anonymous sixteenth-century Chinese novel that focuses on the domestic life of Hsi-men Ch'ing, a corrupt, upwardly mobile merchant in a provincial town, who maintains a harem of six wives and concubines. This work, known primarily for its erotic realism, is also a ... Read more

    $30.99 USD

  • The History of Hentai Manga

    by Kimi Rito ...
    • A rare critical look at an infamous manga genre. • Latest book from Ankoku Seiun Award winning author • Book features interviews with a number of active hentai comic artists • Author has been a regular academic guest at AnimeExpo, America’s largest anime and manga culture event. • Subject matter suitable for both academic and entertainment reading. ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • The Hall of Uselessness

    Collected Essays

    by Simon Leys ...
    An NYRB Classics OriginalSimon Leys is a Renaissance man for the era of globalization. A distinguished scholar of classical Chinese art and literature and one of the first Westerners to recognize the appalling toll of Mao’s Cultural Revolution, Leys also writes with unfailing intelligence, seriousness, and bite about European art, literature, history, and politics and is an unflinching observer of ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • The Ink Dark Moon

    Love Poems by Ono no Komachi anmd Izumi Shikibu, Women of the Ancient Court of Japan

    Series series Vintage Classics
    These translated poems were written by two women of the Heian court of Japan between the ninth and eleventh centuries A.D.The poems speak intimately of their authors' sexual longing, fulfillment and disillusionment. ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • 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

    $12.99 USD

  • Anime in the West Attraction, Benefits, Dangers Psychological and Spiritual Perspectives

    Author Erik Angus MacRae endeavors to explain the phenomenon of Anime/Japanese Animation from the perspective of a Canadian male who was born in the Nineties and grew up immersed in its culture.Two key points are important to grasp in approaching the book.Familiarity of the reader with the subject matter (various Anime series) is often assumedThe book is not friendly to the "Woke concepts"/"Cancel ... Read more

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  • Novel Medicine

    Healing, Literature, and Popular Knowledge in Early Modern China

    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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  • The Objectionable Li Zhi

    Fiction, Criticism, and Dissent in Late Ming China

    Iconoclastic scholar Li Zhi (1527–1602) was a central figure in the cultural world of the late Ming dynasty. His provocative and controversial words and actions shaped print culture, literary practice, attitudes toward gender, and perspectives on Buddhism and the afterlife. Although banned, his writings were never fully suppressed, because they tapped into issues of vital significance to ... Read more

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  • The Scholar and the State

    Fiction as Political Discourse in Late Imperial China

    by Liangyan Ge ...
    In imperial China, intellectuals devoted years of their lives to passing rigorous examinations in order to obtain a civil service position in the state bureaucracy. This traditional employment of the literati class conferred social power and moral legitimacy, but changing social and political circumstances in the Ming (1368–1644) and Qing (1644–1911) periods forced many to seek alternative careers ... Read more

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  • The Sing-song Girls of Shanghai

    by Bangqing Han ...
    Translated by Eileen Chang, Eva Hung ...
    Series series Weatherhead Books on Asia
    Desire, virtue, courtesans (also known as sing-song girls), and the denizens of Shanghai's pleasure quarters are just some of the elements that constitute Han Bangqing's extraordinary novel of late imperial China. Han's richly textured, panoramic view of late-nineteenth-century Shanghai follows a range of characters from beautiful sing-song girls to lower-class prostitutes and from men in ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • The Kojiki

    An Account of Ancient Matters

    Translated by Gustav Heldt ...
    Series series Translations from the Asian Classics
    Japan's oldest surviving narrative, the eighth-century Kojiki, chronicles the mythical origins of its islands and their ruling dynasty through a diverse array of genealogies, tales, and songs that have helped to shape the modern nation's views of its ancient past. Gustav Heldt's engaging new translation of this revered classic aims to make the Kojiki accessible to contemporary readers while ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • The Search for the Beautiful Woman

    A Cultural History of Japanese and Chinese Beauty

    by Cho Kyo ...
    Translated by Kyoko Iriye Selden ...
    Series series Asia/Pacific/Perspectives
    While a slender body is a prerequisite for beauty today, plump women were considered ideal in Tang Dynasty China and Heian-period Japan. Starting around the Southern Song period in China, bound feet symbolized the attractiveness of women. But in Japan, shaved eyebrows and blackened teeth long were markers of loveliness.For centuries, Japanese culture was profoundly shaped by China, but in complex ... Read more

    $70.99 USD

  • The Fall of Language in the Age of English

    Winner of the Kobayashi Hideo Award, The Fall of Language in the Age of English lays bare the struggle to retain the brilliance of one's own language in this period of English-language dominance. Born in Tokyo but raised and educated in the United States, Minae Mizumura acknowledges the value of a universal language in the pursuit of knowledge yet also embraces the different ways of understanding ... Read more

    $24.99 USD

  • The Forbidden Worlds of Haruki Murakami

    In an “other world” composed of language—it could be a fathomless Martian well, a labyrinthine hotel or forest—a narrative unfolds, and with it the experiences, memories, and dreams that constitute reality for Haruki Murakami’s characters and readers alike. Memories and dreams in turn conjure their magical counterparts—people without names or pasts, fantastic animals, half-animals, and talking ... Read more

    $16.99 USD