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China Tidal Wave
BRILL 2008; US$ 36.00There is great social tension in the aftermath of ?Tiananmen Square?, uncertainty about political and economic policy and the constant burden of over-population. Serious flooding of the Yellow River adds more than a hundred million to the ?floating population? of destitute and semi-destitute peasant refugees. Disaster is imminent ... more...
A Concise History of Chinese Literature
BRILL 2011; US$ 318.00Adopting new theoretical perspectives and using updated research, this book by a leading Chinese scholar seeks to provide a coherent, panoramic description of the development of premodern Chinese literature and its major characteristics. more...
Six Records of a Life Adrift
Hackett Publishing Company, Inc. 2011; US$ 12.50"Shen Fu's Six Records of a Life Adrift is the most intimate document at our disposal of private life in late imperial China. Graham Sanders now provides us with a new translation for the 21st century, which is not only well researched but also highly readable.". Wilt Idema, Harvard University. "This delightful nineteenth-century... more...
Yijing, Shamanic Oracle of China
Jessica Kingsley Publishers 2011; US$ 39.95This new translation of the Yijing offers a traditional reading that refreshes and expands on the original text making it relevant for the modern world. It provides a detailed commentary explaining the underlying structure, philosophy and history of the book, and gives practical instructions for consulting the oracle using yarrow sticks or coins. more...
Chinese Literature
Oxford University Press, USA 2011; US$ 9.99Perhaps nowhere else has literature been as conscious a collective endeavor as in China, and China's survival over three thousand years may owe more to its literary traditions than to its political history. This Very Short Introduction tells the story of more...
Die Narratologie der Liebe
De Gruyter 2012; US$ 140.00This study contributes both to research on the literary presentation of love and to research on the writer Arnim. The study presents pioneering work by developing, on a systematic basis, a narratological and semiological concept of love and then successfully applies this concept to Achim von Arnim?s novel Gräfin Dolores. It profiles Gräfin Dolores... more...
Kulturtransfer über Epochen und Kontinente
De Gruyter 2012; US$ 126.00China?s modernization has been marked by a critical examination of both native and foreign traditions. How can deep upheaval be harnessed creatively? How can new attitudes be formed by adapting and transforming cultural knowledge? The historical novel Wu Zixu (1946) by Feng Zhi (1905-93), the father of German studies in China and inventor of the Chinese... more...
Clouded Leopard
D & M Publishers 2008; US$ 19.95Wade Davis has been called 'a rare combination of scientist, scholar, poet and passionate defender of all of life?s diversity?? Driven by the desire to discover new plants for healing and visions, as well as to learn about other ways of knowing the wild, he journeys from the rain forests of Borneo to the mountains of Tibet, from the ice floes of... more...
Book of the Edge
BOA Editions Ltd. 2010; US$ 14.00The first US poetry translation of an award-winning younger Turkish poet and controversial investigative journalist. more...
C. T. Hsia on Chinese Literature
Columbia University Press 2004; US$ 59.99-- Choloe Starr, The China Quarterly more...









