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  • The Tale of Genji

    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

    R19,00 or Free with Kobo Plus

  • 解愛:重返莊子與詩歌經典,在愛裏獲得重生

    by 蔡璧名 ...
    Series series 美好生活
    後來,我們都忘記:一路追求的,應該是幸福熱銷超過三十萬冊《正是時候讀莊子》、《穴道導引》作者蔡璧名最新作品偕同莊子與詩歌一起前行,在濃如酒的愛裏,保有淡如水的心陳文茜(《文茜的世界周報》主持人)/唐綺陽(占星專家)/鄧惠文(榮格分析師、 精神科醫師)/洪仲清(臨床心理師)/盧廣仲(音樂鬼才)/陳綺貞(創作天后)/邢本寧(編劇、本事劇團團長)/簡光明(屏東大學人文社會學院院長)/許悔之(詩人、藝術家、有鹿文化社長)/肆一(作家)/宋怡慧(作家、丹鳳高中圖書館主任)/蔡淇華(作家)————真愛推薦在情愛的路上,任憑自己跟著感覺走。感覺對了,就愛上了,就朝思暮想、無法自拔了。但,愛是什麼?如何追求、如何面對、如何放下?從小到大沒人教懂我們,卻牽引整整一生。作者蔡璧名開設的《莊子》系列課程,在臺大校園裡,總是座無虛席。其實... ... Read more

    R208,39

  • 讀懂古人的痛,就能跳過現代的坑:史上最潮的國學經典

    Series series 天際系列
    會考學測出題方式越來越新穎,讀透課文背後的故事才能活用解題得分!本書用最潮的網路用語及角度重新詮釋國學奧妙,精闢說書讓你拍案叫絕,隨手皆可應用!詩詞歌賦都是古人的人生經歷與智慧,以古鑑今,讀通古文才能通透人生使用方式!白居易是癡情暖男也是厭世社畜;學霸蘇軾超迷星座又愛嘴老闆;〈諫逐客書〉是地表最強「非自願離職書」;元稹與白居易堪稱大唐好基友**……**古文裡多得是職場高級酸,多得是同儕互爭兩相厭。以古文為鑑,照亮的不僅是國文成績,更是你的人生!國文讀的不只是字詞音律,更是文學背後所透露抒發的人生。作者出身清大中文系,曾任網站主編,以活潑現代的觀點切入,用幽默口語說書,讓古文與國學常識變得生動可親,更把文字沒寫出的時代背景與幽微心境一一闡明,帶著讀者穿越古代... ... Read more

    Was R152,51 Now R129,81

  • Yoko Tawada

    Voices from Everywhere

    Series series AsiaWorld
    Yöko Tawada: Voices from Everywhere is the first volume of criticism dedicated to the work of Yöko Tawada, one of the most highly acclaimed writers of her generation. Douglas Slaymaker has collected a range of essays including many that were featured at the 2006 MLA Conference, where a presidential panel featuring Yöko Tawada was organized by MLA President Marjorie Perloff, who has contributed a ... Read more

    R693,21

  • 走路──獨處的實踐

    by 龍應台 ...
    Series series 龍應台作品集
    龍應台首部圖文創作18****幅親手電腦繪圖 40****則自然思索▎走一條沒走過的路****做一件沒做過的事▕走路,就不會是觥籌交錯的時候。走路,就不會是把心分給他人的時候。走路,就不會是掛在網上、陷入其中的時候。即便是熙攘擁擠的市集,只要是走路,也是我帶著「自己」在熱的喧鬧中以冷靜聽、靜觀、靜思,更何況是行走山中野路,明月照亮青苔,溪水攪動碎星。只要走路,就一定是我的身體和我的「自己」單獨有約。新的一年,無論如何忙碌,每天走路,而且走路時,全神貫注,心無罣礙:1.走一條沒走過的路2.去菜市場,跟十個人說話3.去墳場走走4.在路邊一棵樹下,坐著5.找到沒有光的地方6.了解一種作物7.走進一方田... ... Read more

    Was R127,48 Now R108,27

  • Novelist as a Vocation

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

    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

    R239,42

  • 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

    R511,28

  • Questioning Borders

    Ecoliteratures of China and Taiwan

    by Robin Visser ...
    Series series Global Chinese Culture
    Indigenous knowledge of local ecosystems often challenges settler-colonial cosmologies that naturalize resource extraction and the relocation of nomadic, hunting, foraging, or fishing peoples. Questioning Borders explores recent ecoliterature by Han and non-Han Indigenous writers of China and Taiwan, analyzing relations among humans, animals, ecosystems, and the cosmos in search of alternative ... Read more

    R511,28

  • 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

    R467,46

  • 解讀馬一浮

    by 楊照 ...
    Series series 展讀民國人文
    以接續儒家道統為己任,以服膺宋明理學為特徵亂世中的「新儒家」衛道士▍齊聲推薦王汎森/中央研究院院士江仲淵/「歷史說書人History Storyteller」粉專創辦人呂芳上/中央研究院近代史研究所兼任研究員李隆獻/臺灣大學中文系特聘教授廖彥博/歷史作家蔡長林/中央研究院中國文哲研究所研究員(依姓氏筆畫排列)清末民初,西學東漸的巨大衝擊,傳統儒家的內核幾乎被掏空殆盡,此時一些針對經學權威的流派異軍突起,馬一浮所屬的「新儒家」就名列其中。馬一浮主張中國知識,乃至人類一切文明,皆被「六藝」所含納;他雖被稱為「一代儒宗」,但他不僅只歸宗儒家,同時也析解佛道,並聚焦於理學。馬一浮身為民初的領軍學者之一,卻被蔡元培、熊十力等人詬病「世故欠通」,宛如一名誤入民國畫卷的宋代士人。而當行到人生最後一里路,「儒林」頹敗,「智林」高懸,他所創立的「復興書院」也名存實亡。他不再教學與著述,僅遺下一些與佛道相關 ... Read more

    Was R233,18 Now R208,98

  • 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

    R1 861,49

  • 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

    R803,61

  • 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

    R584,53

  • 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

    R949,66

  • 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

    R365,34

  • 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

    Was R321,51 Now R288,14

  • 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

    Was R152,64 Now R136,80

  • 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

    R57,00

  • Many Faces of Mulian

    The Precious Scrolls of Late Imperial China

    The story of Mulian rescuing his mother’s soul from hell has evolved as a narrative over several centuries in China, especially in the baojuan (precious scrolls) genre. This genre, a prosimetric narrative in vernacular language, first appeared around the fourteenth century and endures as a living tradition. In exploring the evolution of the Mulian story, Rostislav Berezkin illuminates changes in ... Read more

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  • Histoires anciennes, revisitées

    Huit nouvelles fantastiques & satiriques

    Huit nouvelles fantastiques et satiriques d'un des plus grands écrivains chinois du XXe siècle, auteur de la Véridique histoire de Ah Q. La dernière oeuvre de fiction de Lu Xun, mort en 1936, l'année suivant la publication de Histoires anciennes, revisitées.Lu Xun reprend de très vieilles légendes chinoises et les met au service de la mission qu'il s'est assignée, celle de tenter de réformer la ... Read more

    R94,17

  • 讀書隨筆(三集)

    by 葉靈鳳 ...
    Series Book 3 - 讀書隨筆
    書寫隨筆,讓所讀之書逐一珍藏,是為愛書家、藏書家的賞心樂事,也是通往書籍世界的大門之路徑。香港著名文學家、藏書家──葉靈鳳的隨筆總匯,共分三集,本集收錄文集《晚晴雜記》,和報章專欄〈香港書錄〉、〈書魚閒話〉的多篇文章,另附譯文,合共七十九篇。內容談及個人讀寫所感,文壇人事,有關香港的書籍評介,愛書人的大敵,甚至譯文主題亦與書籍相關,體現葉氏的愛書情結。 ... Read more

    R294,38

  • 帕尔哈德与西琳

    Translated by 刘发俊 ...
    這是我國維吾爾族的古典詩人阿不都熱依木·那札爾(1770-1848)根據民間傳說創作的敘事長詩,是我國多民族文學寶庫中的珍貴遺產。 作品通過古代王子帕爾哈德富于傳奇色彩的一生及其和美麗的西琳公主的戀愛故事,歌頌了勞動,歌頌了勇敢、忠誠、不貪富貴、不畏強暴的高貴品德,反映了維吾爾族人民對幸福生活和美好理想的追求,也寄托了詩人對當時黑暗的封建社會的不滿。。 ... Read more

    Was R74,69 Now R66,94

  • 國際漢學研究趨勢:鄭清茂教授八秩華誕祝壽論文集上冊

    鄭清茂教授長年致力於中外漢學研究,對中日文學關係的闡發尤為貢獻卓著。此外,透過翻譯引介日本古典文學作品與重要漢學研究成果,既擴展臺灣學界視野,同時為後進提供了賡續研究的新展望。  時逢清茂先生八十華誕,「國際漢學研究新趨勢編輯委員會」特邀請鄭公散葉各地的私淑親炙撰文,涉論中國古典漢學與現當代文學、日本文學及西洋理論等研究課題,結集為冊,並敬邀先生同窗林文月教授賜序、莊因教授為封面題字,用申祝賀景仰之意。  本論文集呈現跨領域的學術匯集,除附應鄭清茂教授學貫中西的學術視野與成就外,更試圖體現當代漢學研究必須跨越傳統疆域概念的新趨勢。涉論中國古典漢學與現當代文學、日本文學及西洋理論等研究課題,為漢學研究重要的論文集。鄭清茂教授長年致力於中外漢學研究,對中日文學關係的闡發尤為貢獻卓著。此外,透過翻譯引介日本古典文學作品與重要漢學研究成果,既擴展臺灣學界視野,同時為後進提供了賡續研究的新展望。  ... Read more

    Was R180,57 Now R161,83