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“julia c lin”

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  • Twentieth-century Chinese Women's Poetry: An Anthology

    An Anthology

    by Julia C. Lin ...
    Chinese women's writing is rich and abundant, although not well known in the West. Despite the brutal wars and political upheavals that ravaged twentieth-century China, the ranks of women in the literary world increased dramatically. This anthology introduces English language readers to a comprehensive selection of Chinese women poets from both the mainland and Taiwan. It spans the early 1920s and ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

  • TwentiethCentury Chinese Women's Poetry: An Anthology

    by Julia C. Lin ...
    This enticing anthology introduces English language readers to a comprehensive selection of twentieth century Chinese women poets from both the mainland and Taiwan. It includes 245 poems by forty poets, and spans the early 1920s and Republican China's literary renaissance through the end of the twentieth century. ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

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  • Nagarjuna's Middle Way

    Mulamadhyamakakarika

    by Mark Siderits, Shoryu Katsura ...
    Series series Classics of Indian Buddhism
    Winner of the 2014 Khyenste Foundation Translation Prize.Nagarjuna's renowned twenty-seven-chapter Fundamental Verses on the Middle Way (Mulamadhyamakakarika) is the foundational text of the Madhyamaka school of Mahayana Buddhist philosophy. It is the definitive, touchstone presentation of the doctrine of emptiness. Professors Siderits and Katsura prepared this translation using the four surviving ... Read more

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    by Wiwat Lertwiwatwongsa ...
    Series series ThaiFiction
    A writer grappling with his characters– or is it the other way around? –in an impish homage to Jean-Luc Godardand Anna Karina.Followed by 'A tale without a name',a layered short story plugged intothe age of the internetand human incommunicability.With these two short fictions,Wiwat Lertwiwatwongsa, a noted film critic,takes pole position in cutting-edge Thai writing. ... Read more

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  • The Book of Songs

    by The Arthur Waley Estate, Arthur Waley ...
    First published in 1937.The Book of Songs is a collection of ancient Chinese songs, dating from 800 to 600 B.C. Until this was published in 1937 it had not been translated into English since the middle of nineteenth century, when sinology was still in its infancy. For the first time the original meaning of 290 out of the 305 songs is given, use being made of the advances in the study of old ... Read more

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  • Mu Shiying

    by Hong Kong University Press ...
    Shanghai’s “Literary Comet” When the avant-garde writer Mu Shiying was assassinated in 1940, China lost one of its greatest modernist writers while Shanghai lost its most detailed chronicler of the city’s Jazz-Age nightlife. Mu’s highly original stream-of-consciousness approach to short story writing deserves to be re-examined and re-read. As Andrew Field argues, Mu advanced modern Chinese writing ... Read more

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  • The Columbia Anthology of Japanese Essays

    Zuihitsu from the Tenth to the Twenty-First Century

    Edited by Steven D. Carter ...
    A court lady of the Heian era, an early modern philologist, a novelist of the Meiji period, and a physicist at Tokyo University. What do they have in common, besides being Japanese? They all wrote zuihitsu—a uniquely Japanese literary genre encompassing features of the nonfiction or personal essay and miscellaneous musings. For sheer range of subject matter and breadth of perspective, the zuihitsu ... Read more

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    Upon his arrival in Japan in 1890, Lafcadio Hearn found himself enamored with the culture, people, and stories of the country, and would make Japan his home until his death in 1904. His collections of stories published during this time became the most popular of Hearn's writings, and earned him veneration worldwide as not only a great translator of Japanese mythology, but as a sensational teller ... Read more

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  • Kannani and Document of Flames

    Two Japanese Colonial Novels

    by Katsuei Yuasa ...
    Translated by Mark W. Driscoll ...
    This volume makes available for the first time in English two of the most important novels of Japanese colonialism: Yuasa Katsuei’s Kannani and Document of Flames. Born in Japan in 1910 and raised in Korea, Yuasa was an eyewitness to the ravages of the Japanese occupation. In both of the novels presented here, he is clearly critical of Japanese imperialism. Kannani (1934) stands alone within ... Read more

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