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The Edge of Knowing
Dreams, History, and Realism in Modern Chinese Literature
Reveals the historical impact of dream rhetoric on Chinese modernity and nation-building
Realism and the rhetoric of dreams intersected in modern Chinese literature from the May Fourth Era in the early twentieth century through the period...
ISBN: 9780295748115
more detailsSymptoms 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, and Cervantes. Emphasizing aesthetic patterns that transcend national boundaries,...
ISBN: 9780295746135
more detailsNovel 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 in the sixteenth century. Critical readings of fictional and medical...
ISBN: 9780295744315
more detailsHeroines 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 heroines of their exemplary...
ISBN: 9780295744261
more detailsSubversive Seduction
Darwin, Sexual Selection, and the Spanish Novel
Male-male rivalry and female passive choice, the two principal tenets of Darwinian sexual selection, raise important ethical questions in The Descent of Man--and in the decades since--about the subjugation of women. If female choice is...
ISBN: 9780295992198
more detailsThe Power of Song
Nonviolent National Culture in the Baltic Singing Revolution
The Power of Song shows how the people of Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania confronted a military superpower and achieved independence in the Baltic “Singing Revolution.” When attacked by Soviet soldiers in public displays of violent...
ISBN: 9780295994529
more detailsWriting 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 independently by adapting to their "New World" and mingling...
ISBN: 9780295999968
more detailsForming 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 divides between literary, political, and...
ISBN: 9780295742601
more detailsLetters and Epistolary Culture in Early Medieval China
Honorable Mention for the 2016 Kayden Book Award
This first book-length study in Chinese or any Western language of personal letters and letter-writing in premodern China focuses on the earliest period (ca. 3rd-6th cent. CE)...
ISBN: 9780295992785
more detailsGod's Little Daughters
Catholic Women in Nineteenth-Century Manchuria
God's Little Daughters examines a set of letters written by Chinese Catholic women from a small village in Manchuria to their French missionary, "Father Lin," or Dominique Maurice Pourquié, who in 1870 had returned to...
ISBN: 9780295741758
more detailsFamily Revolution
Marital Strife in Contemporary Chinese Literature and Visual Culture
As state control of private life in China has loosened since 1980, citizens have experienced an unprecedented family revolution—an overhaul of family structure, marital practices, and gender relationships. While the nuclear family has become a...
ISBN: 9780295993508
more detailsWomen’s Poetry of Late Imperial China
Transforming the Inner Chambers
This study of poetry by women in late imperial China examines the metamorphosis of the trope of the "inner chambers" (gui), to which women were confined in traditional Chinese households, and which in literature were...
ISBN: 9780295992297
more detailsRewriting Russia
Jacob Gordin's Yiddish Drama
Jacob Gordin was the first major playwright of the "Golden Age" of New York's Yiddish theater, which was not just entertainment but also a public forum, a force for education and acculturation, and a battleground...
ISBN: 9780295991337
more detailsTransforming 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 novel Journey to...
ISBN: 9780295743196
more detailsLiterati 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 stories appeared in diverse forms, including narrative poems,...
ISBN: 9780295994154
more detailsDagur Kari's Noi the Albino
Dagur Kari’s Noi the Albino (Noi albinoi, 2003) succeeded on the international festival circuit as a film that was both distinctively Icelandic and appealingly universal. Noi the Albino taps into perennial themes of escapism and...
ISBN: 9780295990095
more detailsMany 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 narrative in vernacular language,...
ISBN: 9780295742526
more detailsFascism 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 and modernist poets Asmund Sveen and Rolf Jacobsen, all...
ISBN: 9780295742298
more detailsRoy Andersson’s “Songs from the Second Floor”
Contemplating the Art of Existence
Swedish filmmaker Roy Andersson’s celebrated and enigmatic film Songs from the Second Floor, his first feature film in twenty-five years, won the Special Jury Prize at the Cannes Film Festival in 2000. The “songs” of...
ISBN: 9780295998251
more detailsVerse Going Viral
China's New Media Scenes
Verse Going Viral examines what happens when poetry, a central pillar of traditional Chinese culture, encounters an era of digital media and unabashed consumerism in the early twenty-first century. Heather Inwood sets out to unravel...
ISBN: 9780295993706
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