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Wind and Stone
Stone Bridge Press 2010; US$ 14.95The story of Mizue, a housewife, and Kase, a traditional-style garden designer hired by her husband to landscape their home. As the garden takes shape, Mizue wakens to a new sensuality and desire, and her carefully structured life begins to crumble. Explores the psychology of human passion in an oblique language filled with references to art and aesthetic... more...
Reading Asian American Literature
Princeton University Press 1993; US$ 39.95A recent explosion of publishing activity by a wide range of talented writers has placed Asian American literature in the limelight. As the field of Asian American literary studies gains increasing recognition, however, questions of misreading and appropriation inevitably arise. How is the growing body of Asian American works to be read? What holds... more...
Japanese Tales
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group 2012; US$ 19.95Here are two hundred and twenty dazzling tales from medieval Japan, tales that welcome us into a fabulous, faraway world populated by saints and scoundrels, ghosts and magical healers, and a vast assortment of deities and demons. Stories of miracles, visions of hell, jokes, fables, and legends, these tales reflect the Japanese worldview during a classic... more...
The Book of Love
Henry Holt and Co. 2008; US$ 7.99An engaging, enlightening ?biography? of the ancient Hindu manuscript that became the world?s most famous sex manual The Kamasutra is one of the world?s best-known yet least-understood texts, its title instantly familiar but its actual contents widely misconstrued. In the popular imagination, it is a work of practical pornography, a how-to... more...
Stone Lake
Cambridge University Press 1992; US$ 42.00Stone Lake is a translation and study of the poetry of Fan Chengda (11261193), one of the most famous Chinese poets. more...
Service Economies
University of Minnesota Press 2010; US$ 83.00Service Economies presents an alternative narrative of South Korean modernity by examining how working-class labor occupies a central space in linking the United States and Asia to South Korea's changing global position from a U.S. neocolony to a subempire. Making surprising and revelatory connections, Jin-kyung Lee analyzes South Korean military... more...
Orientalism, Modernism, and the American Poem
Cambridge University Press 1996; US$ 40.00An exploration of the role of 'Oriental' influences on American modernist poetry. more...
New Literature and Philosophy of the Middle East
Palgrave Macmillan 2010; US$ 90.00Mohaghegh tracks the idea of 'chaos' into the contemporary philosophical and cultural imagination of the postcolonial world, exploring its vital role in the formation of an emergent avant-garde literature in the Middle East, concentrating on the writings of the twentieth-century Iranian new wave. more...
Placing the Modern Chinese Vernacular in Transnational Literature
Palgrave Macmillan 2011; US$ 90.001895-1925 was a critical historical period in Chinese literary history, when baihua (the vernacular) was elevated to become the national language and wenyan (classical Chinese) was eliminated from many literary practices, overturning the long-established linguistic hierarchy. This is the first book to concentrate not only on the triumph of the... more...
Taiwan Cinema
Palgrave Macmillan 2011; US$ 90.00Offering a groundbreaking study of Taiwan cinema, this book is the first study in English to cover its entire history. Hong provides helpful insight into how Taiwan cinema is taught and studied by taking into account not only the auteurs of New Taiwan Cinema, but also the history of popular genre films before the 1980s. The book will be essential... more...









