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The Ancient Languages of Asia and the Americas
Cambridge University Press 2008; US$ 42.00A convenient, portable paperback derived from the acclaimed Cambridge Encyclopedia of the World's Ancient Languages. more...
The Languages of East and Southeast Asia
Oxford University Press, UK 2005; US$ 59.99This book introduces readers to the remarkable linguistic diversity of East and Southeast Asia. It combines serious but accessible treatments of diverse areas not usually found in a single volume: for example, word origins, cultural key words, tones and sounds, language families and typology, key syntactic structures, writing systems, communicative... more...
New Asian City
University of Minnesota Press 2011; US$ 75.00Under Jini Kim Watsons scrutiny, the Asian Tiger metropolises of Seoul, Taipei, and Singapore reveal a surprising residue of the colonial environment. Drawing on a wide array of literary, filmic, and political works, and juxtaposing close readings of the built environment, Watson demonstrates how processes of migration and construction in the... more...
The Columbia Companion to Modern East Asian Literature
Columbia University Press 2003; US$ 124.99This extraordinary one-volume guide to the modern literatures of China, Japan, and Korea is the definitive reference work on the subject in the English language. With more than one hundred articles that show how a host of authors and literary movements have contributed to the general literary development of their respective countries, this companion... more...
Functional Structure(s), Form and Interpretation
Taylor and Francis 2003; US$ 195.00The issue of how interpretation results from the form and type of syntactic structures present in language is one which is central and hotly debated in both theoretical and descriptive linguistics. This volume brings together a series of eleven new cutting-edge essays by leading experts in East Asian languages which shows how the study of formal structures... more...
Finding Wisdom in East Asian Classics
Columbia University Press 2011; US$ 28.99The perfect companion to courses in Asian civilization and culture, Finding Wisdom in East Asian Classics provides nonspecialists with essential background on frequently assigned texts. With essays addressing foundational materials in Chinese, Japanese, Korean, and Vietnamese traditions, including Confucianism, Buddhism, Daoism, and early modern... more...
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