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I Love Bill and Other Stories

Book cover. A bird's-eye view of a hotel lobby with spiraling floors. A banner is superimposed over it with the title "I Love Bill and Other Stories," translated by Todd Foley, foreword by Xudong Zhang. The author is Wang Anyi.

Author: Wang Anyi

I Love Bill and Other Stories showcases the work of Wang Anyi, one of China's most prolific and highly regarded writers, in two novellas and three short stories.

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31.95

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Publication Year: 2023

Publication Number: 214

ISBN: 978-1-5017-7106-4

Untamed Shrews: Negotiating New Womanhood in Modern China

Book cover with political cartoon bisected by title. Above title is a woman breastfeeding while delivering a political speech, below title men take notes.

Author: Shu Yang

Untamed Shrews traces the evolution of unruly women in Chinese literature, from the reviled "shrew" to the celebrated "new woman." Notorious for her violence, jealousy, and promiscuity, the character of the shrew personified the threat of unruly femininity to the Confucian social order and served as a justification for punishing any woman exhibiting these qualities. In this book, Shu Yang connects these shrewish qualities to symbols of female empowerment in modern China.

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46.45

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Publication Year: 2023

Publication Number: 213

ISBN: 9781501770616

Bandits in Print: "The Water Margin" and the Transformations of the Chinese Novel

Book cover. A woodblock print of a man fighting a tiger with Chinese text below it. Cover is bisected by a band reading "Bandits in Print: "The Water Margin" and the Transformations of the Chinese Novel" by Scott Gregory.

Author: Scott Gregory

Bandits in Print examines the world of print in early modern China, focusing on the classic novel The Water Margin (Shuihu zhuan). Depending on which edition a reader happened upon, The Water Margin could offer vastly different experiences, a characteristic of the early modern Chinese novel genre and the shifting print culture of the era.

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26.95

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Publication Year: 2023

Publication Number: 212

ISBN: 9781501769689

Celebrating Sorrow: Medieval Tributes to "The Tale of Sagoromo"

Book cover of Celebrating Sorrow. Above the title is a Japanese painting of a woman in medieval Japanese clothing. Below title is a section of the same painting, with a man playing the flute.

Author: Charo B. D'Etcheverry

Celebrating Sorrow explores the medieval Japanese fascination with grief in tributes to The Tale of Sagoromo, the classic story of a young man whose unrequited love for his foster sister leads him into a succession of romantic tragedies as he rises to the imperial throne. Charo B. D'Etcheverry translates a selection of Sagoromo-themed works, highlighting the diversity of medieval Japanese creative practice and the persistent and varied influence of a beloved court tale.

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39.95

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Publication Year: 2022

Publication Number: 205

ISBN: 9781501764776

Cultural Imprints: War and Memory in the Samurai Age

Book cover. A photograph of samurai armor with the title "Cultural Imprints: War and Memory in the Samurai Age" and editors "Elizabeth Oyler and Katherine Saltzman-Li" superimposed over it.

Author: Elizabeth Oyler and Katherine Saltzman-Li, eds.

Cultural Imprints draws on literary works, artifacts, performing arts, and documents that were created by or about the samurai to examine individual "imprints," traces holding specifically grounded historical meanings that persist through time. The contributors to this interdisciplinary volume assess those imprints for what they can suggest about how thinkers, writers, artists, performers, and samurai themselves viewed warfare and its lingering impact at various points during the "samurai age," the long period f

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49.95

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Publication Year: 2022

Publication Number: 211

ISBN: 9781501761621

The Ends of Meter in Modern Japanese Poetry

Book cover. Banner across the middle reads "The Ends of Meter in Modern Japanese Poetry: Translation and Form" over "Scott Mehl". Above the title is an art print of a woman surrounded by flowers. Below the title is the woman's blurry reflection.

Author: Scott Mehl

In The Ends of Meter in Modern Japanese Poetry, Scott Mehl analyzes the complex response of Meiji-era Japanese poets and readers to the challenge introduced by European verse and the resulting crisis in Japanese poetry. Amidst fierce competition for literary prestige on the national and international stage, poets and critics at the time recognized that the character of Japanese poetic culture was undergoing a fundamental transformation, and the stakes were high: the future of modern Japanese verse.

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49.95

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Publication Year: 2022

Publication Number: 210

ISBN: 9781501761171

The Pitfalls of Piety for Married Women: Two Precious Scrolls of the Ming Dynasty

Book cover. A woodblock print of women studying a text in imperial China is bisected by the title "The Pitfalls of Piety for Married Women: Two Precious Scrolls of the Ming Dynasty" and author "Wilt L. Idema."

Author: Edited and translated by Wilt L. Idema

The Pitfalls of Piety for Married Women shows how problematic the practice of Buddhist piety could be in late imperial China. Two thematically related "precious scrolls" (baojuan) from the Ming dynasty, The Precious Scroll of the Red Gauze and The Precious Scroll of the Handkerchief, illustrate the difficulties faced by women whose religious devotion conflicted with the demands of marriage and motherhood.

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55.00

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Publication Year: 2021

ISBN: 9781501758362

Coming Home to a Foreign Country: Xiamen and Returned Overseas Chinese, 1843–1938

Book cover. A band across the middle reads "Coming Home to a Foreign Country: Xiamen and Returned Overseas Chinese, 1843–1938 by Ong Soon Keong". Above and below the band are sections from an old painting of boats in the Xiamen harbor.

Author: Ong Soon Keong

Ong Soon Keong explores the unique position of the treaty port Xiamen (Amoy) within the China-Southeast Asia migrant circuit and examines its role in the creation of Chinese diasporas. Coming Home to a Foreign Country addresses how migration affected those who moved out of China and later returned to participate in the city's economic revitalization, educational advancement, and urban reconstruction. Ong shows how the mobility of overseas Chinese allowed them to shape their personal and community identities for pragmatic and political gains.

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65.00

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Publication Year: 2021

ISBN: 9781501756184

Disruptions of Daily Life: Japanese Literary Modernism in the World

Book cover featuring an illustration of a woman stepping past curtains onto a stage, facing the audience, her back to the viewer. A band across the middle of the image reads "Disruptions of Daily Life: Japanese Literary Modernism in the World by Arthur M. Mitchell."

Author: Arthur M. Mitchell

Disruptions of Daily Life explores the mass media landscape of early twentieth century in order to uncover the subversive societal impact of four major Japanese authors: Tanizaki Jun'ichirō, Yokomitsu Riichi, Kawabata Yasunari, and Hirabayashi Taiko. Arthur Mitchell examines this literature against global realities through a modernist lens, studying an alternative modernism that challenges the Western European model.

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55.00

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Publication Year: 2020

ISBN: 9781501752919

Counting Dreams: The Life and Writings of the Loyalist Nun Nomura Bōtō

Blue book cover. A band across the center reads "Counting Dreams: The Life and Writings of the Loyalist Nun Nomura Bōtō by Roger K. Thomas" Above the band is a drawing of a Buddhist nun looking into the distance. Below the title band is some Japanese calligraphy

Author: Roger K. Thomas

Counting Dreams tells the story of Nomura Bōtō, a Buddhist nun, writer, poet, and activist who joined the movement to oppose the Tokugawa Shogunate and restore imperial rule. Banished for her political activities, Bōtō was imprisoned on a remote island until her comrades rescued her in a dramatic jailbreak, spiriting her away under gunfire. Roger K.

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64.95

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Publication Year: 2021

ISBN: 9781501759994

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