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Symptoms of an Unruly Age
Li Zhi and Cultures of Early Modernity
Symptoms of an Unruly Age compares the writings of Li Zhi (1527–1602) and his late-Ming compatriots to texts composed by their European contemporaries, including Montaigne, Shakespeare,...
ISBN: 9780295746135
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Bhakti and Power
Debating India's Religion of the Heart
Bhakti, a term ubiquitous in the religious life of South Asia, has meanings that shift dramatically according to context and sentiment. Sometimes translated as “personal devotion,”...
ISBN: 9780295745503
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Heroines of the Qing
Exemplary Women Tell Their Stories
Heroines of the Qing introduces an array of Chinese women from the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries who were powerful, active subjects of their own lives and who wrote themselves as the...
ISBN: 9780295744261
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Republic Café
Inspired by Alain Resnais’s Hiroshima mon amour, and sharing the spirit of Tomas Transtromer’s Baltics and Yehuda Amichai’s Time, Republic Café is a meditation...
ISBN: 9780295744537
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Jade Mountains and Cinnabar Pools
The History of Travel Literature in Imperial China
First-hand accounts of travel provide windows into places unknown to the reader, or new ways of seeing familiar places. In Jade Mountains and Cinnabar Pools, the first book-length treatment...
ISBN: 9780295744476
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Novel Medicine
Healing, Literature, and Popular Knowledge in Early Modern China
By examining the dynamic interplay between discourses of fiction and medicine, Novel Medicine demonstrates how fiction incorporated, created, and disseminated medical knowledge in China, beginning...
ISBN: 9780295744315
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Writing the South Seas
Imagining the Nanyang in Chinese and Southeast Asian Postcolonial Literature
Postcolonial literature about the South Seas, or Nanyang, examines the history of Chinese migration, localization, and interethnic exchange in Southeast Asia, where Sinophone settler cultures evolved...
ISBN: 9780295999968
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Transforming Monkey
Adaptation and Representation of a Chinese Epic
Able to shape-shift and ride the clouds, wielding a magic cudgel and playing tricks, Sun Wukong (aka Monkey or the Monkey King) first attained superstar status as the protagonist of the sixteenth-century...
ISBN: 9780295743196
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A Queer Love Story
The Letters of Jane Rule and Rick Bébout
A Queer Love Story presents the first fifteen years of letters between Jane Rule – novelist and the first widely recognized “public lesbian” in North America – and Rick Bébout, journalist...
ISBN: 9780774835442
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Forming the Early Chinese Court
Rituals, Spaces, Roles
Forming the Early Chinese Court builds on new directions in comparative studies of royal courts in the ancient world to present a pioneering study of early Chinese court culture. Rejecting...
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Mobilizing Krishna's World
The Writings of Prince Sāvant Singh of Kishangarh
Savant Singh (1694–1764), the Rajput prince of Kishangarh-Rupnagar, is famous for commissioning beautiful works of miniature painting and composing devotional (bhakti) poetry to Krishna under the...
ISBN: 9780295742236
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Many Faces of Mulian
The Precious Scrolls of Late Imperial China
The story of Mulian rescuing his mother’s soul from hell has evolved as a narrative over several centuries in China, especially in the baojuan (precious scrolls) genre. This genre, a prosimetric...
ISBN: 9780295742526
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On Cold Mountain
A Buddhist Reading of the Hanshan Poems
In this first serious study of Hanshan (“Cold Mountain”), Paul Rouzer discusses some seventy poems of the iconic Chinese poet who lived sometime during the Tang dynasty (618–907). Hanshan’s...
ISBN: 9780295742687
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Fascism and Modernist Literature in Norway
Fascism and Modernist Literature in Norway illuminates the connections between literature and politics in interwar Europe. Focusing on the works of Nobel Prize-winning novelist Knut Hamsun...
ISBN: 9780295742298
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Zuo Tradition / Zuozhuan
Commentary on the "Spring and Autumn Annals" Volume 1
Zuo Tradition (Zuozhuan; sometimes called The Zuo Commentary) is China’s first great work of history. It consists of two interwoven texts - the Spring and Autumn Annals (Chunqiu,...
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Reading Orientalism
Said and the Unsaid
The late Edward Said remains one of the most influential critics and public intellectuals of our time, with lasting contributions to many disciplines. Much of his reputation derives from the phenomenal...
ISBN: 9780295741635
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The Drunken Man's Talk
Tales from Medieval China
This collection of short stories, anecdotes, and poems was likely compiled during the 13th century. Tales of romantic love—including courtship, marriage, and illicit affairs—unify the collection...
ISBN: 9780295741765
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The Scholar and the State
Fiction as Political Discourse in Late Imperial China
In imperial China, intellectuals devoted years of their lives to passing rigorous examinations in order to obtain a civil service position in the state bureaucracy. This traditional employment of...
ISBN: 9780295994185
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Urbanization in Early and Medieval China
Gazetteers for the City of Suzhou
The heart of Urbanization in Early and Medieval China consists of translations of three gazetteers written during the Han (206 BCE–220 CE), Tang (618–907), and Northern Song (960–1126)...
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Literati Storytelling in Late Medieval China
Scholar-officials of late medieval China were not only enthusiastic in amateur storytelling, but also showed unprecedented interest in recording stories on different aspects of literati life. These...
ISBN: 9780295994154
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