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The Edge of Knowing

The Edge of Knowing

Dreams, History, and Realism in Modern Chinese Literature

By Roy Bing Chan

Realism and the rhetoric of dreams intersected in modern Chinese literature from the May Fourth Era in the early twentieth century through the period just following the end of the Cultural Revolution in 1976. The...

ISBN: 9780295748115

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Symptoms of an Unruly Age

Symptoms of an Unruly Age

Li Zhi and Cultures of Early Modernity

By Rivi Handler-Spitz

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

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Heroines of the Qing

Heroines of the Qing

Exemplary Women Tell Their Stories

By Binbin Yang

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

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Novel Medicine

Novel Medicine

Healing, Literature, and Popular Knowledge in Early Modern China

By Andrew Schonebaum

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

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Writing the South Seas

Writing the South Seas

Imagining the Nanyang in Chinese and Southeast Asian Postcolonial Literature

By Brian C. Bernards

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

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Transforming Monkey

Transforming Monkey

Adaptation and Representation of a Chinese Epic

By Hongmei Sun

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

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Forming the Early Chinese Court

Forming the Early Chinese Court

Rituals, Spaces, Roles

By Luke Habberstad

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

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Fascism and Modernist Literature in Norway

Fascism and Modernist Literature in Norway

By Dean Krouk

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

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Many Faces of Mulian

Many Faces of Mulian

The Precious Scrolls of Late Imperial China

By Rostislav Berezkin

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

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God

God's Little Daughters

Catholic Women in Nineteenth-Century Manchuria

By Ji Li

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

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Literati Storytelling in Late Medieval China

Literati Storytelling in Late Medieval China

By Manling Luo

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

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Roy Andersson’s “Songs from the Second Floor”

Roy Andersson’s “Songs from the Second Floor”

Contemplating the Art of Existence

By Ursula Lindqvist

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

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Subversive Seduction

Subversive Seduction

Darwin, Sexual Selection, and the Spanish Novel

By Travis Landry

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

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Confucian Image Politics

Confucian Image Politics

Masculine Morality in Seventeenth-Century China

By Ying Zhang

During the Ming-Qing transition (roughly from the 1570s to the 1680s), literati-officials in China employed public forms of writing, art, and social spectacle to present positive moral images of themselves and negative images of their...

ISBN: 9780295998534

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Family Revolution

Family Revolution

Marital Strife in Contemporary Chinese Literature and Visual Culture

By Hui Faye Xiao

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

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Letters and Epistolary Culture in Early Medieval China

Letters and Epistolary Culture in Early Medieval China

By Antje Richter

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

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Women’s Poetry of Late Imperial China

Women’s Poetry of Late Imperial China

Transforming the Inner Chambers

By Xiaorong Li

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

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Rewriting Russia

Rewriting Russia

Jacob Gordin's Yiddish Drama

By Barbara J. Henry

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

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Dagur Kari

Dagur Kari's Noi the Albino

By Bjorn Nordfjord

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

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Verse Going Viral

Verse Going Viral

China's New Media Scenes

By Heather Inwood

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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