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The Execution of Mayor Yin and Other Stories from the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution, Revised Editionby Ruoxi [Jo-Hsi] Chen; Howard Goldblatt; Perry Link
Indiana University Press 2004; US$ 15.95Praise for the first edition: "... in the great tradition of Orwell and Solzhenitsyn; its true subject is the survival -- and sometimes the defeat -- of the human spirit in its lonely quest for integrity." -- Time "The almost childlike directness of Chen's tales... is captured in the very lightly revised translations of this new edition... Highly recommended." -- Choice A classic of modern world literature, this collection of stories provides a vivid and poignant eyewitness view of everyday life in China during the Cultural Revolution. For this edition, Howard Goldblatt has thoroughly revised the text and updated... more...
Narrating China Jia Pingwa and his fictional worldby Yiyan Wang
Taylor & Francis 2005; US$ 188.00Presents an examination of Jia Pingwa's writings, emphasizing his importance, prominence and relevance to Chinese society. This book discusses his works in the light of 'cultural nationalism', showing how he links the cultural identity of China with the cultural authenticity of his local Shaanxi Province. more...
Return to Dragon Mountainby Jonathan D. Spence
Penguin Group Inc. 2007; US$ 12.99The renowned historian captures a critical moment in Chinese history Celebrated China scholar Jonathan Spence vividly brings to life seventeenth-century China through this biography of Z hang Dai, recognized as one of the finest historians and essayists of the Ming dynasty. Born in 1597, Z hang Dai was forty-seven when the Ming dynasty, after more than two hundred years of rule, was overthrown by the Manchu invasion of 1644. Having lost his fortune and way of life, Z hang Dai fled to the countryside and spent his final forty years recounting the time of creativity and renaissance during Ming rule before the violent upheaval of its collapse. This absorbing tale of Z hang Dai?s life illuminates the transformation of a culture and reveals... more...
The Poet-historian Qian Qianyiby Lawrence C.H Yim
Taylor & Francis 2009; US$ 138.00Lawrence Yim focuses on Qians poetic theory and practice, providing a critical study of his theory of poetic-history ( shishi ) and poems from the Toubi ji . He also examines the role played by history in early Qing verse, rethinking the nature of loyalism and historical memory in seventeenth-century China. more...
Chen Jiru (1558-1639)by Jamie Greenbaum
BRILL 2007; US$ 173.00Chen Jiru (1558-1639) was one of the great late-Ming arbiters of culture and taste, and the impact of his innovations can still be traced in present-day China. In late Ming, when culture and taste enjoyed a social prestige beyond their usual standing, Chen's influence appears even greater than it may have otherwise. This is the first major work in any language to examine Chen's background, make a contrastive study of the genres he utilised in forging his literary reputation, ?and to examine the use that publishers and others have made since of the literary personae he constructed. A study clearly of interest to historians of early Modern China, as well as to those who study cultural and print histories of both East and West. more...
The Poetry of He Zhu (1052-1125)by Stuart H. Sargent
BRILL 2007; US$ 166.00The Northern Song poet He Zhu is best known for his lyrics (ci) but also produced shi poetry of subtlety, wit, and feeling. This study examines the latter as a response to the options available to a late-eleventh century writer in the pentametrical and heptametrical forms of Ancient Verse, Regulated Verse, and Quatrains. more...
The Great Recreationby Daniel Bryant
BRILL 2008; US$ 260.00Offers an account of the Ming poet Ho Ching-ming and his place in the Chinese poetic tradition, arguing for a reevaluation of the 'Archaist' school and Ming poetry in general within Chinese literary history. more...
Embracing the Lieby Charles J. Alber
ABC-CLIO 2004; US$ 155.00This volume is the first serious attempt to reconstruct Ding Ling's biography during the last few decades of her life. Most Westerners know her as a progressive woman writer who became famous during the May 4 Movement, championed its values in Yan'an and was criticized in the rectification campaigns that followed. Few know about her life afterward and the arduous process of rehabilitation. Here for the first time readers will learn about her life in the Great Northern Wasteland, solitary confinement in Qincheng prison, her visit to the United States, participation in the spiritual pollution campaign, and finally, the attempt to launch the journal China. All of this puts a new perspective on the life of one of China's most preeminent... more...
The Mountain Poems of Meng Hao-janby Meng Hao-jan; David Hinton
Archipelago Books 2004; US$ 9.99Meng Hao-jan (689-740 C.E.) is generally considered to be one of Chinas most important poets, but there has never been an edition of his work in English. Chan (Zen) Buddhism was coming to maturity and becoming widely practiced among the intelligentsia of China. Chan not only clarified anew the spiritual ecology of early Taoist thought, it also emphasized the old Taoist idea that deep understanding lies beyond words. In poetry, this gave rise to a much more distilled language, especially in its concise imagism, which opened new inner depths, non-verbal insights, and outright enigma. It was in the work of Meng Hao-jan that this poetic revolution began, a revolution that marked the beginning of Chinese poetrys first great... more...
Within the Human Realmby J. D. Schmidt
Cambridge University Press 1994; US$ 38.00This book is a study of the poetry of Huang Zunxian, the nineteenth century Chinese writer. more...









