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Literary Culture in Taiwan
Columbia University Press 2004; US$ 49.99-- Robert Hegel, Washington University more...
Pocket I-Ching
Tuttle Publishing 2012; US$ 9.99In this easy-to-follow pocket edition, the ancient Chinese system of predicting the future has been made simple, opening the hidden world of the l-Ching to the nonspecialist. The method of divining the 64 prophetic hexagrams, and the way to interpret their meaning correctly, is clearly explained, and?to give extra assistance?each hexagram is divided... more...
The Promise and Premise of Creativity
Bloomsbury Publishing 2012; US$ 80.00The Promise and Premise of Creativity considers literature in the larger context of globalization and "the clash of cultures." Refuting the view that the study of literature is "useless," Eoyang argues that it expands three distinct intellectual skills: creative imagination, vicarious sympathy, and capacious intuition.With... more...
City at the End of Time ????
Hong Kong University Press, HKU 2012; US$ 50.00Written by Leung Ping-kwan in the 1980s and 1990s, this volume of poetry evokes the complexity of Hong Kong city life in the critical moments preceding the 1997 handover. The poet muses upon the problems of cultural identity and the passing of time, and explores the relationship between poetry and other genres and media within a cross-cultural and... more...
Lao She in London
Hong Kong University Press, HKU 2012; US$ 18.00London is blacker than lacquer Lao She remains revered as one of Chinas great modern writers. His life and work have been the subject of volumes of critique, analysis and study. However, the four years the young aspiring writer spent in London between 1924 and 1929 have largely been overlooked. Dr Anne Witchard, a specialist in the... more...
In Such Hard Times
Copper Canyon Press 2012; US$ 12.99The world's first substantial selection of English translations of this great T'ang Dynasty poet. more...
I Ching Made Easy
HarperCollins 2013; US$ 14.99With fifteen cents and five minutes, you too can use and understand the I Ching With six coins (one dime and five pennies) and this easy-to-use guide, tapping into the synchronicity of the universe is simpler and more rewarding than ever. more...
I Ching Made Easy
HarperCollins 2013; Not AvailableWith fifteen cents and five minutes, you too can use and understand the I Ching With six coins (one dime and five pennies) and this easy-to-use guide, tapping into the synchronicity of the universe is simpler and more rewarding than ever. more...
Shared Grammaticalization
John Benjamins Publishing Company 2013; US$ 149.00Double-negative periphrastic litotes have been for nearly three centuries the usual way to express necessitive predicates in Japanese and Korean. These constructions do not, however, go back to the earliest stages of these languages and should not be invoked as evidence of a possible common origin. But Korean also has a double-affirmative periphrastic... more...
Tsao Hsueh-chin's Dream of the Red Chamber
John Wiley & Sons, Inc. 1999; US$ 5.99The original CliffsNotes study guides offer a look into critical elements and ideas within classic works of literature. CliffsNotes on Dream of the Red Chamber explores China ’s best-known novel, a massive, sprawling story set during the Ching Dynasty, China ’s last feudal society. Following the ups and downs of four leading aristocratic... more...









