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Gao Xingjian's Idea of Theatre
BRILL 2008; US$ 132.00This book argues that Gao Xingjian's Idea of Theatre can only be explained by his broad knowledge and use of various Chinese and Western theatrical, literary, artistic and philosophical traditions. more...
Asian American Literature
Edinburgh University Press 2008; US$ 99.99This critical study of Asian American literature discusses work by internationally successful writers such as Maxine Hong Kingston, Chang-rae Lee, Bharati Mukherjee, Amy Tan and others in their historical, cultural and critical contexts. The focus of this book is on contemporary writing, from the 1970s onwards, although it also traces over a hundred... more...
Mandarins: Stories by Ryunosuke Akutagawa
Archipelago Books 2007; US$ 16.00Stunning tales from master storyteller: superbly nuanced prose, subtly exposing the human psyche. Borges loved him. more...
Lake of Heaven
Lexington Books 2008; US$ 38.99Lake of Heaven is the story of a traditional mountain village in Japan that is destroyed in the process of constructing a dam. It tells of the lives of the displaced villagers as they struggle to retain their traditional culture_including their stories, dances, music, mythology, and dreams_in the face of displacement, environmental destruction, and... more...
The Analects of Confucius
Random House Publishing Group 2010; US$ 15.00"To quietly persevere in storing up what is learned, to continue studying without respite, to instruct others without growing weary--is this not me?" --Confucius Confucius is recognized as China's first and greatest teacher, and his ideas have been the fertile soil in which the Chinese cultural tradition has flourished. Now, here is a translation... more...
Writing the Love of Boys
University of Minnesota Press 2011; US$ 75.00Despite its centuries-long tradition of literary and artistic depictions of love between men, around the fin de siFcle Japanese culture began to portray same-sex desire as immoral. Writing the Love of Boys looks at the response to this mindset during the critical era of cultural ferment between the two world wars as a number of Japanese writers challenged... more...
The Song of Everlasting Sorrow
Columbia University Press 2008; US$ 21.99Set in post-World War II Shanghai, The Song of Everlasting Sorrow follows the adventures of Wang Qiyao, a girl born of the longtong, the crowded, labyrinthine alleys of Shanghai's working-class neighborhoods. Infatuated with the glitz and glamour of 1940s Hollywood, Wang Qiyao seeks fame in the Miss Shanghai beauty pageant, and this fleeting moment... more...
Girl Reading Girl in Japan
Taylor and Francis 2012; US$ 44.95Girl Reading Girl provides the first overview of the cultural significance of girls and reading in modern and contemporary Japan with emphasis on the processes involved when girls read about other girls. The collection examines the reading practices of real life girls from differing social backgrounds throughout the twentieth century while a... more...
Guru English
Princeton University Press 2011; US$ 31.95Guru English is a bold reconceptualization of the scope and meaning of cosmopolitanism, examining the language of South Asian religiosity as it has flourished both inside and outside of its original context for the past two hundred years. The book surveys a specific set of religious vocabularies from South Asia that, Aravamudan argues, launches... more...
Reading Contemporary Indonesian Muslim Women Writers
Amsterdam University Press 2009; US$ 52.50The first study to discuss the construction of gender and Islamic identities in the works of contemporary Indonesian Muslim female writers more...









