This book provides a refreshing and comprehensive analysis on colonial Taiwanese literature. It accentuates its thematic and stylistic richness, challenges the reductive “collaboration-resistance” bin
By exploring the rich terrain of Japanese colonial literature in Taiwan and Manchuria,Representing Empire investigates the interplay between imperialism, nationalism, and Pan-Asianism during the era o
With In Good Company, Bede Benjamin Bidlack derives a theory of the body from the French Jesuit Pierre Teilhard de Chardin using his own, first-time translation of the thought of Daoist Xiao Yingsou.
The seven essays that comprise this volume address the actual processes by which a discreet number of terms in modern Chinese and Japanese came into being, how they outdistanced all competitors, and t
No Moonlight in My Cup provides translations and commentaries for more than two hundred Sinitic poems (kanshi ??) from the Nara and Heian courts (710-1185) together with a detailed introduction to thi
In A Sense of the City, Follaco examines Nagai Kafu’s (1879-1959) urban representation, both at home and abroad, to define his position within the context of pre-war Japanese literature while touching
In Patchwork: Seven Essays on Art and Literature, translated by Duncan M. Campbell, the notable Chinese literary scholar Qian Zhongshu (1910-1998) discusses aspects of the artistic and literary tradit
In Modern China and the West: Translation and Cultural Mediation, the authors investigate the significant role translation plays in cultural mediation. Transnational organizations that bring about cro
By exploring the rich terrain of Japanese colonial literature in Taiwan and Manchuria, Representing Empire investigates the interplay between imperialism, nationalism, and Pan-Asianism during the era
Did East Asian literatures lack a concept of authorship before their integration into classical modernity? Distinguishing various author functions, which can be distributed among several individuals,
Cross-cultural Studies: China and the World, A Festschrift in Honor of Professor Zhang Longxi collects twelve essays by eminent scholars across several disciplines in Chinese and cross-cultural studie
