Voices from Asia – serie
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11 produkter
Of Women, Outcastes, Peasants, and Rebels
A Selection of Bengali Short Stories
Häftad, 1990
460 kr
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Until now the large body of socially focused Bengali literature has remained little known to Western readers. This collection includes some of the finest examples of Bengali short stories--stories that reflect the turmoil of a changing society traditionally characterized by rigid hierarchical …
Himalayan Voices
An Introduction to Modern Nepali Literature
Häftad, 1991
493 kr
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While the natural splendor of Nepal has been celebrated in many books, very little of the substantial body of Nepali literature has appeared in English translation. Himalayan Voices provides admirers of Nepal and lovers of literature with their first glimpse of the vibrant literary scene in Nepal …
Shoshaman
A Tale of Corporate Japan
Av Shinya Arai
Häftad, 1991
443 kr
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Acknowledging no god but the corporate good, the shoshamen--high-powered professionals within Japan's integrated trading companies--serve as the unrelenting cogs of an economic machine. Or do they? Shoshaman takes us inside the world of Japan Inc. to explore the daily lives of the people who …
Rainbow
Av Dun Mao
Häftad, 1992
460 kr
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With this translation of the 1929 novel "Rainbow (Hong)", one of China's most influential works of fiction is at last available in English. "Rainbow" chronicles the political and social disruptions in China during the early years of the twentieth century. Inspired by the iconoclasm of the 'May …
Encounter
A Novel of Nineteenth-Century Korea
Häftad, 1992
525 kr
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This historical novel, Encounter (Mannam), by Hahn Moo-Sook, one of Asia's most honored writers, is a story of the resilience in the Korean spirit. It is told through the experiences of Tasan, a high-ranking official and foremost Neo-Confucian scholar at the beginning of the nineteenth century. …
Autobiography of Osugi Sakae
Av Sakae Osugi
Häftad, 1992
287 kr
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In the Japanese labor movement of the early twentieth century, no one captured the public imagination as vividly as Osugi Sakae (1885-1923): rebel, anarchist, and martyr. Flamboyant in life, dramatic in death, Osugi came to be seen as a romantic hero fighting the oppressiveness of family and …
Soil
Häftad, 1994
320 kr
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Nagatsuka Takashi's novel "The Soil", published in Japan in 1910, provides a moving and sensitive but unsentimental portrait of rural peasant life in Japan during the Meiji era. The community described is the author's native place, and the characters whose lives are described in vivid detail over a …
Lioness in Bloom
Modern Thai Fiction about Women
Häftad, 1996
320 kr
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Kepner's selection shows the many ways fiction has mirrored the lives of Thai women over the twentieth century. The spectrum is broad, encompassing the young and the old, the rural and the cosmopolitan, the privileged and the poor. Some writers address previously unacceptable themes: female …
Tokyo Stories
A Literary Stroll
Häftad, 2002
509 kr
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This anthology of translated short stories by Japanese writers captures the city of Tokyo through most of the twentieth century - a period of war, bombing, urbanization, and modernization, in short, constant change that has altered and continues to alter the very geography of the city. The eighteen …
Poem at the Right Moment
Remembered Verses from Premodern South India
Av Velcheru Narayana Rao, David Shulman
Häftad, 1998
398 kr
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A Poem at the Right Moment collects, and preserves, poems—called catus—that have circulated orally for centuries in South India. The poems are remarkable for their wit and precision, their lyrical insight on the commonplace, their fascination with sensual experience, and their exploration of the …
Poem at the Right Moment
Remembered Verses from Premodern South India
Av Velcheru Narayana Rao, David Shulman
Inbunden, 1998
936 kr
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A Poem at the Right Moment collects, and preserves, poems—called catus—that have circulated orally for centuries in South India. The poems are remarkable for their wit and precision, their lyrical insight on the commonplace, their fascination with sensual experience, and their exploration of the …
