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Chinese Literature in the Second Half of a Modern Centuryby Pang-Yuan Chi; David Der-wei Wang
Indiana University Press 2000; US$ 35.15"... an important contribution to the study of recent Chinese literature." -- Choice "This fine, scholarly survey of Chinese literature since 1949... discusses such trends as modernism, nativism, realism, root-seeking and 'scar' literature, 'misty' poets, and political, feminist, and societal issues in modern Chinese literature." -- Library Journal This volume is a survey of modern Chinese literature in the second half of the twentieth century. It has three goals: (1) to introduce figures, works, movements, and debates that constitute the dynamics of Chinese literature from 1949 to the end of the century; (2) to... more...
Contemporary Taiwanese Cultural Nationalismby A-Chin Hsiau
RoutledgeCurzon 2000; US$ 190.00Drawing on a wide range of Chinese historical and contemporary texts, this book addresses diverse subjects including nationalist literature; language ideology; the crafting of a national history and the impact of Japanese colonialism. more...
Turkishby Celia Kerslake; Gö; Asli ksel
Routledge 2005; US$ 68.95Turkish belongs to the Turkic family of languages, which have been spoken for many centuries across a vast territory from the Balkans to China. Within this family, which includes such languages as Uighur, Uzbek, Tatar and Kazakh, Turkish forms part of the southwestern or Oghuz branch. Its closest relatives are Gagauz (spoken by less than 200,000 people of Orthodox Christian religion, mostly in southern Moldova), Azerbaijanian (spoken by up to 20 million people in Iran and Azerbaijan) and Turkmen (spoken by some 3 million people in Turkmenistan and by about 400,000 in Iraq). more...
A Grammar of Khamby David E. Watters; R. M. W. Dixon; Keren Rice
Cambridge University Press 2002; US$ 45.00This is a comprehensive grammatical documentation of Kham, a previously undescribed language from west-central Nepal, belonging to the Tibeto-Burman language family. The book, based on extensive fieldwork, provides copious examples throughout the exposition. It will be a valuable resource for typologists and general linguists alike. more...
The Monster That Is Historyby David Der-Wei Wang
University of California Press 2004; US$ 15.95In ancient China a monster called Taowu was known for both its vicious nature and its power to see the past and the future. Over the centuries Taowu underwent many incarnations until it became identifiable with history itself. Since the seventeenth century, fictive accounts of history have accommodated themselves to the monstrous nature of Taowu. Moving effortlessly across the entire twentieth-century literary landscape, David Der-wei Wang delineates the many meanings of Chinese violence and its literary manifestations. Taking into account the campaigns of violence and brutality that have rocked generations of Chinese?often in the name of enlightenment, rationality, and utopian plenitude?this book places its arguments along two related axes:... more...
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...
Medieval Tibeto-Burman languagesby C.I. Beckwith
BRILL 2002; US$ 82.00This work approaches Tibeto-Burman comparative-historical linguistics according to the classical Indo-European model. Articles are included on: Old Zhangzhung, early classical Newari, Pyu, Old Burmese and early Meithei. Glossaries of several early Tibeto-Burman languages are included. 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...
Mao's Harvestby Helen F. Siu; Zelda Stern
Oxford University Press 2006; US$ 30.00This volume is one of the first collections to reach the West of the stories, essays, and poems published by writers of the "Mao Generation"--the first generation of Chinese to grow up under socialism. Drawn from both official Chinese literary journals and underground magazines, these previously untranslated stories provide a fascinating portrait of China in the seventies. more...
Early Mystics in Turkish Literatureby Mehmed Fuad Koprulu
Taylor & Francis 2006; US$ 44.95Sheds light on the early development of Turkish literature and attempts to show the continuity in this development between Turks and Anatolia. This book addresses this topic within the context of other subjects, including Sufism, Islam and the genesis of Turkish culture in the Muslim world. It is a contribution to the study of Turkish literature. more...









