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23 produkter
The Oxford Handbook of Classical Chinese Literature
(1000BCE-900CE)
Av Wiebke Denecke, Wai-Yee Li m. fl.
Häftad, 2020
1181 kr
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This volume introduces readers to classical Chinese literature from its beginnings (ca. 10th century BCE) to the tenth century CE. It asks basic questions such as: How did reading and writing practices change over these two millennia? How did concepts of literature evolve? What were the factors …
Ideal Matches
A Romantic Comedy from Early Modern China
Av Wai-yee Li
Inbunden, 2027
372 kr
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What is authenticity? What is true love? How do we recognize a real work of art? Ideal Matches, Li Yu's comic masterpiece from the 1650's--here translated for the first time into English--explores these perennial questions. The play follows two luminaries who, weary of constant requests for their …
The Oxford Handbook of Classical Chinese Literature
Av Wiebke Denecke, Wai-Yee Li m. fl.
Inbunden, 2017
3194 kr
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This volume introduces readers to classical Chinese literature from its beginnings (ca. 10th century BCE) to the tenth century CE. It asks basic questions such as: How did reading and writing practices change over these two millennia? How did concepts of literature evolve? What were the factors …
Oxford Handbook of Classical Chinese Literature
Av Xiaofei Tian, Wai-Yee Li m. fl.
E-bok, 2017
675 kr
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This volume introduces readers to classical Chinese literature from its beginnings (ca. 10th century BCE) to the tenth century CE. It asks basic questions such as: How did reading and writing practices change over these two millennia? How did concepts of literature evolve? What were the factors …
Columbia Anthology of Yuan Drama
Av C. T. Hsia, Wai-yee Li m. fl.
Inbunden, 2014
1588 kr
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This anthology features translations of ten seminal plays written during the Yuan dynasty (1279-1368), a period considered the golden age of Chinese theater. By turns lyrical and earthy, sentimental and ironic, Yuan drama spans a broad emotional, linguistic, and stylistic range. Combining sung …
Columbia Anthology of Yuan Drama
Av C. T. Hsia, Wai-yee Li m. fl.
Häftad, 2014
423 kr
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This anthology features translations of ten seminal plays written during the Yuan dynasty (1279-1368), a period considered the golden age of Chinese theater. By turns lyrical and earthy, sentimental and ironic, Yuan drama spans a broad emotional, linguistic, and stylistic range. Combining sung …
Promise and Peril of Things
Literature and Material Culture in Late Imperial China
Av Wai-yee Li
Inbunden, 2022
1175 kr
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Winner, 2023 Choice Outstanding Academic TitleOur relationship with things abounds with paradoxes. People assign value to objects in ways that are often deeply personal or idiosyncratic yet at the same time rooted in specific cultural and historical contexts. How do things become meaningful? How do …
Promise and Peril of Things
Literature and Material Culture in Late Imperial China
Av Wai-yee Li
Häftad, 2022
299 kr
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Winner, 2023 Choice Outstanding Academic TitleOur relationship with things abounds with paradoxes. People assign value to objects in ways that are often deeply personal or idiosyncratic yet at the same time rooted in specific cultural and historical contexts. How do things become meaningful? How do …
A Topsy-Turvy World
Short Plays and Farces from the Ming and Qing Dynasties
Av Wilt Idema, Wai-yee Li m. fl.
Inbunden, 2023
1785 kr
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Playwriting in many forms flourished during the late Ming and early Qing dynasties. Shorter theatrical genres in particular offered playwrights opportunities for experimentation with both dramatic form and social critique. Despite their originality and wit, these short plays have been overshadowed …
A Topsy-Turvy World
Short Plays and Farces from the Ming and Qing Dynasties
Av Wilt Idema, Wai-yee Li m. fl.
Häftad, 2023
452 kr
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Playwriting in many forms flourished during the late Ming and early Qing dynasties. Shorter theatrical genres in particular offered playwrights opportunities for experimentation with both dramatic form and social critique. Despite their originality and wit, these short plays have been overshadowed …
The Confucius Chronicles
A Guide to the Texts That Made the Legend
Av Wai-yee Li
Inbunden, 2026
1209 kr
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Our ideas about Confucius come from the stories told about him. He often appears as the great sage of ancient China, handing down timeless moral precepts to his disciples and to posterity. Yet over the course of twenty-five centuries, Confucius has meant many different things to different people, …
The Confucius Chronicles
A Guide to the Texts That Made the Legend
Av Wai-yee Li
Häftad, 2026
308 kr
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Our ideas about Confucius come from the stories told about him. He often appears as the great sage of ancient China, handing down timeless moral precepts to his disciples and to posterity. Yet over the course of twenty-five centuries, Confucius has meant many different things to different people, …
Letter to Ren An and Sima Qian’s Legacy
Av Stephen Durrant, Wai-yee Li m. fl.
Häftad, 2018
550 kr
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Sima Qian (first century BCE), the author of Record of the Historian (Shiji), is China’s earliest and best-known historian, and his “Letter to Ren An” is the most famous letter in Chinese history. In the letter, Sima Qian explains his decision to finish his life’s work, the first comprehensive …
Letter to Ren An and Sima Qian's Legacy
Av Hans van Ess, Michael Nylan m. fl.
E-bok, 2016
625 kr
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Sima Qian (first century BCE), the author of Record of the Historian (Shiji), is China’s earliest and best-known historian, and his “Letter to Ren An” is the most famous letter in Chinese history. In the letter, Sima Qian explains his decision to finish his life’s work, the first comprehensive …
Letter to Ren An and Sima Qian’s Legacy
Av Stephen Durrant, Wai-yee Li m. fl.
Inbunden, 2016
876 kr
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Sima Qian (first century BCE), the author of Record of the Historian (Shiji), is China’s earliest and best-known historian, and his “Letter to Ren An” is the most famous letter in Chinese history. In the letter, Sima Qian explains his decision to finish his life’s work, the first comprehensive …
Trauma and Transcendence in Early Qing Literature
Av Wilt L. Idema, Wai-yee Li m. fl.
Inbunden, 2006
600 kr
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The collapse of the Ming dynasty and the Manchu conquest of China were traumatic experiences for Chinese intellectuals, not only because of the many decades of destructive warfare but also because of the adjustments necessary to life under a foreign regime. History became a defining subject in …
Readability of the Past in Early Chinese Historiography
Av Wai-yee Li
Inbunden, 2008
445 kr
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The past becomes readable when we can tell stories and make arguments about it. When we can tell more than one story or make divergent arguments, the readability of the past then becomes an issue. Therein lies the beginning of history, the sense of inquiry that heightens our awareness of …
Women and National Trauma in Late Imperial Chinese Literature
Av Wai-yee Li
Inbunden, 2014
699 kr
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The Ming–Qing dynastic transition in seventeenth-century China was an epochal event that reverberated in Qing writings and beyond; political disorder was bound up with vibrant literary and cultural production. Women and National Trauma in Late Imperial Chinese Literature focuses on the discursive …
Enchantment and Disenchantment
Love and Illusion in Chinese Literature
Av Wai-yee Li
Häftad, 2014
551 kr
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In a famous episode of the eighteenth-century masterpiece The Dream of the Red Chamber, the goddess Disenchantment introduces the hero, Pao-yu, to the splendors and dangers of the Illusory Realm of Great Void. The goddess, one of the divine women in Chinese literature who inspire contradictory …
Enchantment and Disenchantment
Love and Illusion in Chinese Literature
Av Wai-yee Li
Inbunden, 2016
2387 kr
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In a famous episode of the eighteenth-century masterpiece The Dream of the Red Chamber, the goddess Disenchantment introduces the hero, Pao-yu, to the splendors and dangers of the Illusory Realm of Great Void. The goddess, one of the divine women in Chinese literature who inspire contradictory …
Enchantment and Disenchantment
Love and Illusion in Chinese Literature
Av Wai-yee Li
E-bok, 2014
738 kr
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In a famous episode of the eighteenth-century masterpiece The Dream of the Red Chamber, the goddess Disenchantment introduces the hero, Pao-yu, to the splendors and dangers of the Illusory Realm of Great Void. The goddess, one of the divine women in Chinese literature who inspire contradictory …
Gender and Friendship in Chinese Literature
Av Wai-yee Li
Inbunden, 2024
2286 kr
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Canvasing a range of materials that include early tales of exemplarity, medieval song lyrics, Ming-Qing poetry and plucked rhymes, twentieth century writings about revolutionaries, opera stars, missionaries, and contemporary fiction, this volume illustrates the discourse and representation of …
Keywords in Chinese Culture
Av Wai–yee Li, Yuri Pines m. fl.
Inbunden, 2020
682 kr
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What elevates a mere word to the status of keyword? What does it mean to translate a keyword and map its meaning against other languages?Like every major culture, Chinese has its set of “keywords”: pivotal terms of political, ethical, literary and philosophical discourse. Tracing the origins, …
