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Pioneers Of Modern Japanese Poetry - Muro Saisei, Kaneko Mitsuharu, Miyoshi Tatsuji, Nagase Kiyoko

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 Presents a selection of work by four distinguished twentieth-century poets who made significant contributions to the development of modern Japanese poetry. A general introduction provides the literary and historical context for their achievement, while each poet's work is prefaced with notes on his/her life and career.
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Silvery World And Other Stories - Anthology Of Korean Literature

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 This anthology is an exciting new collection of Korean fiction in translation from the early years of the twentieth century that demonstrate the political and ideological divides that Koreans experienced during this time.
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Barbed Wire And Rice - Poems And Songs From Japanese Prisoner-Of-War Camps

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 From the Foreword by David McCann: ""... Bishop McKendree's gathering of songs and poems from the Japanese prisoner of war camps of World War II is a remarkable outcome to a brutal experience....These songs and poems will also tell the reader something of what their authors, composers, singers - and scribe - lived through."
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Stories From The Samurai Fringe - Hayashi Fusao'S Proletarian Short Stories And The Turn To Ultranationalism In Early Showa Japan

de Jeff E. Long

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 A cultural history of writer and literary critic Hayashi Fusao's (1903-1975) tenko experience, Stories from the Samurai Fringe examines Hayashi's tenko (ideological conversion) through a close reading of his proletarian short stories.
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Gendered Landscapes - Short Fiction By Modern And Contemporary Korean Women Novelists

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 Presents ten short stories and novellas by representative modern Korean women writers dating from the 1930s to the end of the 1990s. Signature pieces selected from the acclaimed novelists' repertoire, these narratives address issues related to Korean women as gendered beings in a Confucian-governed patriarchal society.
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Barbed Wire And Rice - Poems And Songs From Japanese Prisoner-Of-War Camps

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 From the Foreword by David McCann: â€œ... Bishop McKendree's gathering of songs and poems from the Japanese prisoner of war camps of World War II is a remarkable outcome to a brutal experience.... We can sense, but dimly, certain of the details of the physical environment, the personalities of the prisoners and of the guards, and the events which brought them together.â€
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Supernatural Beings From Japanese Noh Plays Of The Fifth Group

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 The plays of the fifth group, with their great variety, can be divided into a number of subgroups. However, it is often difficult to draw clearcut lines between groups as classifications differ from school to school, and from one scholar to another. The classification attempted in this book is based strictly on the dramatic and structural characteristics of the individual plays.
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Of Birds Crying - A Novel

de Minako Oba

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 In this psychological novel, memories spawn tales within tales and seemingly disparate elements are woven into a tapestry of extraordinary moments that reveals the authorâ€™s penetrating observations on the interdependency of humanity and nature in its wholeness.
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The Last Biwa Singer - A Blind Musician In Historyâ€”Imagination And Performance

de Hugh De Ferranti

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 Examines the traditions of Japanese blind singers who accompanied themselves on the biwa, and of the complex identity of Yamashika Yoshiyuki (1901-1996), a man widely portrayed as the last such â€œliving relicâ€ of the medieval bards called biwa hoshi. The author draws upon approaches from Japanese historical and literature studies, performance studies and ethnomusicology.
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The Residue Of Dreams - Selected Poems Of Jao Tsung-I

de Tsung-I Jao

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 Offers the first English language publication of the classical-style poems of Jao Tsung-i (b. 1917), a prominent artist-calligrapher, scholar-poet, and polymath living in Hong Kong. The Residue of Dreams contains a broad-ranging selection of Jaoâ€™s poems covering topics from the Second World War and his travels in Southeast Asia, to Nietzsche and the scribes of medieval Dunhuang.
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Negotiating Socialism In Rural China - Mao, Peasants, And Local Cadres In Shanxi, 1949â€“1953

de Xiaojia Hou

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 This is the first monograph in English on how China's agricultural collectivization began. This book challenges the conventional wisdom and explores how the national policy emerged from complex bureaucratic interactions among central, regional, local governments, and peasants.
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What The Doctor Overheard - Dr. Leopold Muller'S Account Of Music In Early Meiji Japan

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 Despite their significance, the writings on Japanese music by Prussian medical scientist and physician Leopold MÃ¼ller, published in Yokohama from 1874 to 1876, have been nearly forgotten and marginalized even in historical research on the courtly gagaku traditions. This study, with full translation into both English and Japanese, illuminates and reassesses MÃ¼ller's pioneering contribution.
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Anthology Of Kokugaku Scholars - 1690â€“1898

de John R. Bentley

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 Kokugaku "national study" is an academic field of study that spans a number of disciplines, including philology, poetry, literature, linguistics, history, religion, and philosophy. This anthology contains 26 essays by 13 influential Kokugaku scholars, covering roughly two centuries of thought, from 1690 down to the beginning of the Meiji Restoration in 1868.
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Gendered Landscapes - Short Fiction By Modern And Contemporary Korean Women Novelists

70,30€ + 10% EM CARTÃO

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 Presents ten short stories and novellas by representative modern Korean women writers dating from the 1930s to the end of the 1990s. Signature pieces selected from the acclaimed novelists' repertoire, these narratives address issues related to Korean women as gendered beings in a Confucian-governed patriarchal society.
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Good Dogs - Edification, Entertainment, And Kyokutei Bakin'S "Nanso Satomi Hakkenden"

de Glynne Walley

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 Explores the intersection of didacticism, Chinese vernacular scholarship, social criticism, and commercial storytelling in late Tokugawa Japan through an examination of a masterpiece of 19th century popular fiction: the novel Nanso- Satomi hakkenden.
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What The Doctor Overheard - Dr. Leopold Muller'S Account Of Music In Early Meiji Japan

70,30€ + 10% EM CARTÃO

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 Despite their significance, the writings on Japanese music by Prussian medical scientist and physician Leopold MÃ¼ller, published in Yokohama in a series from 1874 to 1876, have been nearly forgotten. This study with full translation into both English and Japanese illuminates and reassesses MÃ¼ller's pioneering contribution.
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The Wind From Vulture Peak - The Buddhification Of Japanese Waka In The Heian Period

de Stephen D. Miller

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 Addresses the history of the gradual incorporation of Buddhist concepts into Heian waka poetry and the development among court poets of a belief in the production of that poetry as a Buddhist practice in itself.
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Across The Perilous Sea - Japanese Trade With China And Korea From The Seventh To The Sixteenth Centuries

de Kristen Lee Hunter

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 Originally published as Le commerce extÃšrieur du Japon des origines au XVIe siÃžcle in 1988, this new edition of the landmark French study chronicles Japan's transformation from an importer of continental luxury items, raw materials, and techniques to an exporter of high-quality merchandise over nearly a millennium.
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Reading Wang Wenxing - Critical Essays

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 The first book-length study of Wang Wenxing in English offering biographic, cultural, textual, literary and linguistic readings of his work. The essays cover Wang's writing principles, typology of characters, analysis of lexicon, musicality, relationship to Modernist writers of the West, relationship to Lu Xun, and issues of translation.
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Portrait Of A Suburbanite - Poems Of Choi Seung-Ja

de Seung-Ja Choi

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 Presents a translation of Choi Seung-jaâ€™s anthology Portrait of a Suburbanite. Published in the series of 100 Prominent Korean Poets, the poems were selected from four of Choiâ€™s previous works: Love of This Age, Merry Diary, House of Memory and My Tomb, Green.
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The Residue Of Dreams - Selected Poems Of Jao Tsung-I

de Tsung-I Jao

59,48€ + 10% EM CARTÃO

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 Presents the first English-language publication of the classical-style poems of Jao Tsung-i (born 1917), a prominent artist-calligrapher, scholar-poet, and polymath living in Hong Kong. Jaoâ€™s poems in various traditional forms reflect the tumultuous history of twentieth-century China, but also demonstrate the enduring resonance of its classical culture.
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Still Hear The Wound - Toward An Asia, Politics, And Art To Comeâ€”Selected Essays

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 Introduces English language readers for the first time to work by an emerging group of critics and artists addressing the legacies of colonial violence in present-day Japan. The volume contains translated essays, and an accompanying DVD with artist interviews.
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Voices Of Taiwanese Women - Three Contemporary Plays

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 Presents three new translations representing an aspect of modern Asian drama as yet unavailable to readers in English: the community-based theatres of Taiwan, working in Chinese languages beyond Mandarin.
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Reading Wang Wenxing - Critical Essays

156,82€ + 10% EM CARTÃO

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 A book-length study of Wang Wenxing in English offering biographic, cultural, textual, literary, and linguistic readings of his work. The essays cover Wang's writing principles, typology of characters, analysis of lexicon, employment of stream-of-consciousness, musicality, relationship to Modernist writers of the West, relationship to Lu Xun, and issues of translation.
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