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The Eternal Present of the Past
BRILL 2007; US$ 182.00Drawing together illustration, theater, and literature, this study examines a late Ming conception of the stage as a mystical space for temporal conflation that allowed the past to be reborn in the present and to uphold the continuity of the cultural tradition. more...
Chinese Poetry in Times of Mind, Mayhem and Money
BRILL 2008; US$ 166.00Chinese Poetry in Times of Mind, Mayhem and Money is a groundbreaking study covering a range of contemporary authors and issues, from Haizi to Yin Lichuan and from poetic rhythm to exile-bashing. Its rigorous scholarship, literary sensitivity and lively style make it eminently fit for classroom use. more...
Historical Dictionary of Modern Chinese Literature
Scarecrow Press 2009; US$ 99.99Historical Dictionary of Modern Chinese Literature presents a broad perspective on the development and history of literature in modern China. This book offers a chronology, introduction, bibliography, and over 300 cross-referenced dictionary entries on authors, literary and historical developments, trends, genres, and concepts that played a central... more...
Sound and Sight
Stanford University Press 2010; US$ 50.00As the first book-length study of the Yongming poets, this book focuses on unraveling the complexity and hybridity of the poetic voices beneath their seemingly "technical" pursuit of prosodic innovation. more...
The Inner Quarters and Beyond
BRILL 2010; US$ 185.00Only recently has the enormous literary output of women writers of the Ming and Qing periods (1368-1911) been rediscovered. Through these valuable texts, we apprehend in ways not possible earlier the complexity of women?s experiences in the inner quarters and their varied responses to challenges facing state and society. Writing in many genres, women... more...
Text, Performance, and Gender in Chinese Literature and Music
BRILL 2009; US$ 185.00Wilt Idema is one of the world's leading scholars and translators of Chinese literature, with research interests ranging from classical poetry to premodern fiction, performance literature and women's writing. His oeuvre is exceptional in its inclusiveness and its ability to let different historical periods, genres and issues speak to one another,... more...
The Book of Literary Design
Hong Kong University Press 1999; US$ 36.00This volume presents a fresh translation of the Wenxin diaolong that is at once authoritative and elegant. It may well be regarded as a standard reference by students of sinology and comparative literature. more...
The Fragile Scholar
Hong Kong University Press 2004; US$ 40.00The Fragile Scholar examines the pre-modern construction of Chinese masculinity from the popular image of the fragile scholar (caizi) in late imperial Chinese fiction and drama. The book is an original contribution to the study of the construction of masculinity in the Chinese context from a comparative perspective (Euro-American). more...
Jumping Through Hoops
Hong Kong University Press 2003; US$ 40.00This book is a collection of nine intense and dramatic stories that sheds new light on the experiences of Chinese women during the Second World War. more...
Once Iron Girls
Lexington Books 2009; US$ 28.99Once Iron Girls: Essays on Gender by Post-Mao Chinese Literary Women, brings together twenty-five essays of seven prominent writers, whose fiction and poetry have become classics in the teaching and study of Chinese women. Showcasing the feminist thinking and rhetoric of a unique generation of Chinese women writers, this anthology contributes to the... more...









