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The Chinese Love Story from the Tenth to the Fourteenth Century
PaperbackOriginal price $36.95 - Original price $36.95Original price $36.95$49.99$49.99 - $49.99Current price $49.99| /Traces the development of the Chinese love story during the Song and Yuan dynasties.Product DetailsISBN-13: 9781438492551 Media Type: Paperback Pub...
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Fear of Seeing: A Poetics of Chinese Science Fiction
PaperbackOriginal price $35.00 - Original price $35.00Original price $35.00$49.99$49.99 - $49.99Current price $49.99| /A new wave of cutting-edge, risk-taking science fiction has energized twenty-first-century Chinese literature. These works capture the anticipation...
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Mahakavi K. V. Simon: The Milton of the East
HardcoverOriginal price $120.00 - Original price $120.00Original price $120.00$147.99$147.99 - $147.99Current price $147.99| /The first English study of poet K. V. Simon (1883-1944), with sample translations, including of his 12,000-line epic Vedaviharam, and a critical bi...
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The Chinese May Fourth Generation and the Irish Literary Revival: Writers and Fighters
HardcoverOriginal price $109.99 - Original price $109.99Original price $109.99$122.99$122.99 - $122.99Current price $122.99| /Product DetailsISBN-13: 9789819952687 Media Type: Hardcover Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan Publication Date: 10-07-2023 Pages: 425 Product Dimension...
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A Topsy-Turvy World: Short Plays and Farces from the Ming and Qing Dynasties
PaperbackOriginal price $45.00 - Original price $45.00Original price $45.00$60.99$60.99 - $60.99Current price $60.99| /Playwriting in many forms flourished during the late Ming and early Qing dynasties. Shorter theatrical genres in particular offered playwrights opp...
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The Czech Manuscripts: Forgery, Translation, and National Myth
HardcoverOriginal price $59.95 - Original price $59.95Original price $59.95$78.99$78.99 - $78.99Current price $78.99| /The Czech Manuscripts is dedicated to one of the most important literary forgeries on the model of Macpherson's Ossianic poetry. The Queen's Court ...
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On the Edge: Feeling Precarious in China
PaperbackOriginal price $35.00 - Original price $35.00Original price $35.00$49.99$49.99 - $49.99Current price $49.99| /Charismatic artists recruit desperate migrants for site-specific performance art pieces, often without compensation. Construction workers threaten ...
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On the Edge: Feeling Precarious in China
HardcoverOriginal price $140.00 - Original price $140.00Original price $140.00$170.99$170.99 - $170.99Current price $170.99| /Charismatic artists recruit desperate migrants for site-specific performance art pieces, often without compensation. Construction workers threaten ...
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Afterlives of Letters: The Transnational Origins of Modern Literature in China, Japan, and Korea
PaperbackOriginal price $35.00 - Original price $35.00Original price $35.00$49.99$49.99 - $49.99Current price $49.99| /When East Asia opened itself to the world in the nineteenth century, Chinese, Japanese, and Korean intellectuals had shared notions of literature b...
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Daoist Master Changchun's Journey to the West: To the Court of Chinggis Qan and Back
HardcoverOriginal price $34.95 - Original price $34.95Original price $34.95$47.99$47.99 - $47.99Current price $47.99| /The Hsu-Tang Library presents authoritative and eminently readable translations of classical Chinese literature, in bilingual editions, ranging acr...
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The Emperor of China in a House of Ill Repute: Songs of the Imperial Visit to Datong
HardcoverOriginal price $34.95 - Original price $34.95Original price $34.95$47.99$47.99 - $47.99Current price $47.99| /The Hsu-Tang Library presents authoritative and eminently readable translations of classical Chinese literature, in bilingual editions, ranging acr...
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Master Incapable: A Medieval Daoist on the Liberation of the Mind
HardcoverOriginal price $34.95 - Original price $34.95Original price $34.95$47.99$47.99 - $47.99Current price $47.99| /The Hsu-Tang Library presents authoritative and eminently readable translations of classical Chinese literature, in bilingual editions, ranging acr...
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An Anthology of Poetry by Buddhist Nuns of Late Imperial China
HardcoverOriginal price $34.95 - Original price $34.95Original price $34.95$47.99$47.99 - $47.99Current price $47.99| /The Hsu-Tang Library presents authoritative and eminently readable translations of classical Chinese literature, in bilingual editions, ranging acr...
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The Misadventures of Master Mugwort: A Joke Book Trilogy from Imperial China
HardcoverOriginal price $34.95 - Original price $34.95Original price $34.95$47.99$47.99 - $47.99Current price $47.99| /The Hsu-Tang Library presents authoritative and eminently readable translations of classical Chinese literature, in bilingual editions, ranging acr...
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Writing Violence: The Politics of Form in Early Modern Japanese Literature
PaperbackOriginal price $35.00 - Original price $35.00Original price $35.00$49.99$49.99 - $49.99Current price $49.99| /Edo-period Japan was a golden age for commercial literature. A host of new narrative genres cast their gaze across the social landscape, probed the...
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Writing Violence: The Politics of Form in Early Modern Japanese Literature
HardcoverOriginal price $140.00 - Original price $140.00Original price $140.00$170.99$170.99 - $170.99Current price $170.99| /Edo-period Japan was a golden age for commercial literature. A host of new narrative genres cast their gaze across the social landscape, probed the...
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Writing Early China
HardcoverOriginal price $99.00 - Original price $99.00Original price $99.00$117.99$117.99 - $117.99Current price $117.99| /Edward L. Shaughnessy is Creel Distinguished Service Professor of Early China in the Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations at the Un...
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Poetry, History, Memory: Wang Jingwei and China in Dark Times
PaperbackOriginal price $39.95 - Original price $39.95Original price $39.95$55.99$55.99 - $55.99Current price $55.99| /Wang Jingwei, poet and politician, patriot and traitor, has always been a figure of major academic and popular interest. Until now, his story has n...
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The Inscription of Things: Writing and Materiality in Early Modern China
PaperbackOriginal price $35.00 - Original price $35.00Original price $35.00$49.99$49.99 - $49.99Current price $49.99| /Why would an inkstone have a poem inscribed on it? Early modern Chinese writers did not limit themselves to working with brushes and ink, and their...
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Conversations with Orhan Pamuk
PaperbackOriginal price $25.00 - Original price $25.00Original price $25.00$37.99$37.99 - $37.99Current price $37.99| /In over thirty interviews conducted between 1982 and 2022, Conversations with Orhan Pamuk reveals a writer of intense literary and political engage...
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Spring Comes Riding in a Carriage: Maiden's Bookshelf
HardcoverOriginal price $19.95Original price $19.95 - Original price $19.95Original price $19.95Current price $18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /A more intimate and romantic entry in the Maiden's Bookshelf series, this tale of doomed romance brings together the so-called "God of Literature" ...
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China and the Chinese Language: The Chinese Language, A Chinese Library, Taoism, China and Ancient
PaperbackOriginal price $14.97 - Original price $14.97Original price $14.97$15.99$15.99 - $15.99Current price $15.99| /The following Lectures were delivered during at Columbia University, in the city of New York, to inaugurate the foundation by General Horace W. Car...
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Questioning Borders: Ecoliteratures of China and Taiwan
PaperbackOriginal price $35.00 - Original price $35.00Original price $35.00$49.99$49.99 - $49.99Current price $49.99| /Indigenous knowledge of local ecosystems often challenges settler-colonial cosmologies that naturalize resource extraction and the relocation of no...
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The Specter of Materialism: Queer Theory and Marxism in the Age of the Beijing Consensus
PaperbackOriginal price $25.95 - Original price $25.95Original price $25.95$37.99$37.99 - $37.99Current price $37.99| /In recent years, queer theory appears to have made a materialist turn away from questions of representation and performativity to those of disposse...
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