Cornell East Asia Series
I Love Bill and Other Stories

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

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

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"

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

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

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

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

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

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

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