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The Poetry of He Zhu (1052-1125)
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...
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...
The Great Recreation
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...
Reading Chinese Script
Taylor and Francis 1999; US$ 115.00This volume uses unique properties of Chinese script to focus on morphological analyses during the character and word recognition process, though some of the reported work also pertains to the use of phonological information. In addition, this volume contains work on syntactic and pragmatic processes during sentence reading and three chapters that... 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...
Authorship and Cultural Identity in Early Greece and China
Cambridge University Press 2010; US$ 74.00Explores how the earliest poetry in Greece (Homeric epic and lyric) and China (the Canon of Songs) evolved. more...
Historical Chinese Letter Writing
Continuum International Publishing 2010; US$ 140.00Focussing on Qing Dynasty (1644-1911) letter writing, this compendium is an outstanding study of historical Chinese communication. Letter writing is a pivotal yet neglected medium of historical Chinese communication. The epistolary format is key to sinological research. As historical letters have a specific vocabulary and rhetorical structure it is... more...
Translating China
Channel View Publications 2009; US$ 54.95A collection of essays on translating various types of text into and from Chinese. It focuses on how such translations have been produced and propagated from ancient to modern times, and their sociocultural impact on the evolution of Chinese history and Chinese translatology. more...
Corpus-Based Contrastive Studies of English and Chinese
Taylor and Francis 2010; US$ 133.00This book is concerned with cross-linguistic contrast of major grammatical categories in English and Chinese, two most important yet genetically different world languages. This genetic difference has resulted in many subsidiary differences that are, among other things, related to grammar. Compared with typologically related languages, cross-linguistic... more...
Searching for Mr. Chin
Temple University Press 2010; US$ 40.00What do twentieth-century fictional images of the Chinese reveal about the construction of nationhood in the former West Indian colonies? In her groundbreaking interdisciplinary work, Searching for Mr. Chin, Anne-Marie Lee-Loy seeks to map and understand a cultural process of identity formation: “Chineseness” in the West Indies. Reading... more...









