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102 produkter
Soft Burial
A Novel
Av Fang Fang
Häftad, 2025
255 kr
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Shortlisted, 2025 Baifang Schell Book Prize, China Books ReviewFang Fang’s Soft Burial begins with a mysterious, nameless protagonist. Decades earlier she was pulled out of a river in a state of near-death; upon regaining consciousness, she discovered that her entire memory had been erased. The …
The Handsome Monk and Other Stories
Häftad, 2019
225 kr
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Tsering Döndrup is one of the most popular and critically acclaimed authors writing in Tibetan today. In a distinct voice rich in black humor and irony, he describes the lives of Tibetans in contemporary China with wit, empathy, and a passionate sense of justice. The Handsome Monk and Other Stories …
The Blue Wolf
A Novel of the Life of Chinggis Khan
Inbunden, 2008
833 kr
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One of the world's most ruthless warriors, Chinggis Khan conquered nearly all of Asia in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries, transforming the scattered and impoverished Mongols into an exceptionally proud and powerful nation. In this riveting and thoroughly researched portrait, Japan's celebrated …
Meeting with My Brother
A Novella
Av Mun-yol Yi
Häftad, 2019
156 kr
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Yi Mun-yol's Meeting with My Brother is narrated by a middle-aged South Korean professor, also named Yi, whose father abandoned his family and defected to the North at the outbreak of the Korean War. Many years later, despite having spent most of his life under a cloud of suspicion as the son of a …
Who Ate Up All the Shinga?
An Autobiographical Novel
Av Wan-suh Park
Häftad, 2022
225 kr
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Park Wan-suh is a best-selling and award-winning writer whose work has been widely translated and published throughout the world. Who Ate Up All the Shinga? is an extraordinary account of her experiences growing up during the Japanese occupation of Korea and the Korean War, a time of great …
Loud Sparrows
Contemporary Chinese Short-Shorts
Av Aili Mu, Julie Chiu m. fl.
Häftad, 2008
586 kr
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Extremely short stories-known as short-shorts-have become a global phenomenon, but nowhere have they been embraced as enthusiastically as in mainland China, Hong Kong, and Taiwan. The form's artistic and aesthetic freedoms allow authors to capture the tone, texture, and chaos of their rapidly …
Sachiko
A Novel
Av Shūsaku Endō
Inbunden, 2020
947 kr
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In novels such as Silence, Endō Shūsaku examined the persecution of Japanese Christians in different historical eras. Sachiko, set in Nagasaki in the painful years between 1930 and 1945, is the story of two young people trying to find love during yet another period in which Japanese Christians were …
Kiku's Prayer
A Novel
Av Shusaku Endo
Inbunden, 2012
586 kr
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Kiku's Prayer is told through the eyes of Kiku, a self-assured young woman from a rural Japanese village who falls in love with Seikichi, a devoted Catholic man. Practicing a faith still banned by the government, Seikichi is imprisoned but refuses to recant under torture. Kiku's efforts to …
The Birth of Chinese Feminism
Essential Texts in Transnational Theory
Av Lydia Liu, Rebecca Karl m. fl.
Häftad, 2013
316 kr
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He-Yin Zhen (ca. 1884-1920?) was a theorist who figured centrally in the birth of Chinese feminism. Unlike her contemporaries, she was concerned less with China's fate as a nation and more with the relationship among patriarchy, imperialism, capitalism, and gender subjugation as global historical …
Light and Dark
A Novel
Häftad, 2016
304 kr
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Light and Dark, Natsume Soseki's longest novel and masterpiece, although unfinished, is a minutely observed study of haute-bourgeois manners on the eve of World War I. It is also a psychological portrait of a new marriage that achieves a depth and exactitude of character revelation that had no …
The Sing-song Girls of Shanghai
Av Bangqing Han
Inbunden, 2005
2913 kr
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Desire, virtue, courtesans (also known as sing-song girls), and the denizens of Shanghai's pleasure quarters are just some of the elements that constitute Han Bangqing's extraordinary novel of late imperial China. Han's richly textured, panoramic view of late-nineteenth-century Shanghai follows a …
The Sing-song Girls of Shanghai
Av Bangqing Han
Häftad, 2007
403 kr
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Desire, virtue, courtesans (also known as sing-song girls), and the denizens of Shanghai's pleasure quarters are just some of the elements that constitute Han Bangqing's extraordinary novel of late imperial China. Han's richly textured, panoramic view of late-nineteenth-century Shanghai follows a …
The Breaking Jewel
A Novel
Av Makoto Oda
Häftad, 2003
549 kr
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Set on an island in the South Pacific during the final days of World War II, when the tide has turned against Japan and the war has unmistakably become one of attrition, The Breaking Jewel offers a rare depiction of the Pacific War from the Japanese side and captures the essence of Japan's doomed …
A Dictionary of Maqiao
Av Shaogong Han
Inbunden, 2003
798 kr
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One of the most-talked about works of fiction to emerge from China in recent years, this novel about an urban youth "displaced" to a small village in rural China during the Cultural Revolution is a fictionalized portrait of the author's own experience as a young man. Han Shaogong was one of …
Lonely Woman
Inbunden, 2004
803 kr
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Replete with madwomen, murderers, musicians, and mystics, Lonely Woman dramatically interweaves the lives of five women. It remains Takako Takahashi's most sustained and multifaceted fictional realization of her concept of "loneliness." Her fiction typically features a woman for whom dreams and …
A Private Life
Av Ran Chen
Inbunden, 2004
745 kr
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From one of China's most celebrated contemporary novelists comes this riveting tale of a young woman's emotional and sexual awakening. Set in the turbulent decades of the Cultural Revolution and the Tian'anmen Square incident, A Private Life exposes the complex and fantastical inner life of a young …
Writing Women in Modern China
The Revolutionary Years, 1936-1976
Inbunden, 2005
2208 kr
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Revolution, foreign occupation, and political, cultural, and economic upheavals defined mid-twentieth-century Chinese society. This new anthology, a sequel to the acclaimed first volume, compiled by Dooling and Kristina Torgeson and covering the early twentieth century, includes an impressive range …
Writing Women in Modern China
The Revolutionary Years, 1936-1976
Häftad, 2005
383 kr
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Revolution, foreign occupation, and political, cultural, and economic upheavals defined mid-twentieth-century Chinese society. This new anthology, a sequel to the acclaimed first volume, compiled by Dooling and Kristina Torgeson and covering the early twentieth century, includes an impressive range …
What Is Modernity?
Writings of Takeuchi Yoshimi
Häftad, 2005
617 kr
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Regarded as one of the foremost thinkers in postwar Japan, Takeuchi Yoshimi (1910-1977) questioned traditional Japanese thought and radically reconfigured an understanding of the subject's relationship to the world. His works were also central in drawing Japanese attention to the problems inherent …
Contemporary Japanese Thought
Inbunden, 2005
1296 kr
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Appearing for the first time in English, the writings in this collection reflect some of the most innovative and influential work by Japanese intellectuals in recent years. The volume offers a rare and much-needed window into the crucial ideas and positions currently shaping Japanese thought …
Contemporary Japanese Thought
Häftad, 2005
632 kr
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Appearing for the first time in English, the writings in this collection reflect some of the most innovative and influential work by Japanese intellectuals in recent years. The volume offers a rare and much-needed window into the crucial ideas and positions currently shaping Japanese thought …
I Love Dollars and Other Stories of China
Av Wen Zhu
Inbunden, 2007
304 kr
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In five richly imaginative novellas and a short story, Zhu Wen depicts the violence, chaos, and dark comedy of China in the post-Mao era. A frank reflection of the seamier side of his nation's increasingly capitalist society, Zhu Wen's fiction offers an audaciously plainspoken account of the often …
In the Beginning, Woman Was the Sun
The Autobiography of a Japanese Feminist
Inbunden, 2006
1467 kr
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"In the beginning, woman was truly the sun. An authentic person. Now she is the moon, a wan and sickly moon, dependent on another, reflecting another's brilliance."-Hiratsuku Raicho Raicho Hiratsuka (1886-1971) was the most influential figure in the early women's movement in Japan. In 1911, she …
In the Beginning, Woman Was the Sun
The Autobiography of a Japanese Feminist
Häftad, 2010
736 kr
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"In the beginning, woman was truly the sun. An authentic person. Now she is the moon, a wan and sickly moon, dependent on another, reflecting another's brilliance."-Hiratsuku Raicho Raicho Hiratsuka (1886-1971) was the most influential figure in the early women's movement in Japan. In 1911, she …
Loud Sparrows
Contemporary Chinese Short-Shorts
Av Aili Mu, Julie Chiu m. fl.
Inbunden, 2006
947 kr
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Extremely short stories-known as short-shorts-have become a global phenomenon, but nowhere have they been embraced as enthusiastically as in mainland China, Hong Kong, and Taiwan. The form's artistic and aesthetic freedoms allow authors to capture the tone, texture, and chaos of their rapidly …
Azaleas
A Book of Poems
Av Kim Sowol
Inbunden, 2007
2032 kr
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Available for the first time in English, Azaleas is a captivating collection of poems by a master of the early Korean modernist style. Published in 1925, Azaleas is the only collection Kim Sowol (1902-1934) produced during his brief life, yet he remains one of Korea's most beloved and well-known …
Azaleas
A Book of Poems
Av Kim Sowol
Häftad, 2007
568 kr
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Available for the first time in English, Azaleas is a captivating collection of poems by a master of the early Korean modernist style. Published in 1925, Azaleas is the only collection Kim Sowol (1902-1934) produced during his brief life, yet he remains one of Korea's most beloved and well-known …
There a Petal Silently Falls
Three Stories by Ch'oe Yun
Av Ch'oe Yun
Inbunden, 2008
1503 kr
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Ch'oe Yun is a Korean author known for her breathtaking versatility, subversion of authority, and bold exploration of the inner life. Readers celebrate her creative play with fantasy and admire her deep engagement with trauma, history, and the vagaries of remembrance. In this collection's title …
There a Petal Silently Falls
Three Stories by Ch'oe Yun
Av Ch'oe Yun
Häftad, 2020
225 kr
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Ch'oe Yun is a Korean author known for her breathtaking versatility, subversion of authority, and bold exploration of the inner life. Readers celebrate her creative play with fantasy and admire her deep engagement with trauma, history, and the vagaries of remembrance.In this collection's title …
The Song of Everlasting Sorrow
A Novel of Shanghai
Av Anyi Wang
Inbunden, 2008
2561 kr
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Set in post-World War II Shanghai, The Song of Everlasting Sorrow follows the adventures of Wang Qiyao, a girl born of the longtong, the crowded, labyrinthine alleys of Shanghai's working-class neighborhoods. Infatuated with the glitz and glamour of 1940s Hollywood, Wang Qiyao seeks fame in the …
