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The Shanghai Twins: It's Nighttime in Shanghai, Do You Know Where Your Children Are?
ISBN: 9781456574048 / Angielski / Miękka / 220 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The Shanghai Twins by Herman Franck, Esq. In 1935 my grandparents decided to leave their small town roots of Spokane, Washington and Lewiston Idaho, and moved to Shanghai, China. This period was quite an exciting time for Shanghai. There was a country inside a country known as the International Settlement. Within the safe walls of the international settlement, a french society, english society, russian society, german sector and American sector were set up, complete with their own courts, police, and state sovereignty. This was a time of contrasts in Shanghai. Many chinese would come to the...
The Shanghai Twins by Herman Franck, Esq. In 1935 my grandparents decided to leave their small town roots of Spokane, Washington and Lewiston Idaho, a...
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A Gathering of Spirits: Japan's Ghost Story Tradition: From Folklore and Kabuki to Anime and Manga
ISBN: 9781462029426 / Angielski / Miękka / 276 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "Prepare for a sampling of Japanese ghosts and spirits, from sources that include the world's oldest novel, the urban legends of contemporary Japanese schoolchildren, movies both classic and modern, anime, manga, and more." For hundreds of years Japan has lived in a reality consisting of the real world and the spirit world; sometimes the wall between the two worlds gets thin enough for spirits to cross over. In such a reality, ghost stories have been popular for centuries. Patrick Drazen, author of "Anime Explosion," looks at these stories: old and new, scary or funny or sad, looking at...
"Prepare for a sampling of Japanese ghosts and spirits, from sources that include the world's oldest novel, the urban legends of contemporary Japanese...
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Warrior Ghost Plays from the Japanese Noh Theater
ISBN: 9780939657605 / Angielski / Miękka / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Translations of six shura (battle)-Noh that have for the main character the ghost of a warrior whose story is told in the Tale of Heike. Each Noh has a detailed introduction and footnote.
Translations of six shura (battle)-Noh that have for the main character the ghost of a warrior whose story is told in the Tale of Heike. Each Noh has ...
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Undercurrents: Queer Culture and Postcolonial Hong Kong
ISBN: 9780774814690 / Angielski / Twarda / 186 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Undercurrents engages the critical rubric of "queer" to examine Hong Kong's screen and media culture during the transitional and immediate postcolonial period. Helen Hok-Sze Leung draws on theoretical insights from a range of disciplines to reveal parallels between the crisis and uncertainty of the territory's postcolonial transition and the queer aspects of its cultural productions. Leung explores Hong Kong cultural productions -- cinema, fiction, popular music and subcultural projects -- and argues that while there is no overt consolidation of gay and lesbian identities in... Undercurrents engages the critical rubric of "queer" to examine Hong Kong's screen and media culture during the transitional and immediate p... |
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Like Clouds or Mists: Studies and Translations of No Plays of the Genpei War
ISBN: 9781933947594 / Angielski / Miękka / 564 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This volume is organized to roughly follow the order of events presented in the Kakuichi-bon variant of the Heike. The essays and translations focus on a series of major events from the Heike: Kiyomori's rise (the "Gio" cycle of plays); Yoshinaka's push to the capital; the flight of the Heike and the battle of Ichi-no-tani; and the aftermath of the war. This volume is organized to roughly follow the order of events presented in the Kakuichi-bon variant of the Heike. The essays and translations focu... |
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Like Clouds or Mists: Studies and Translations of No Plays of the Genpei War
ISBN: 9781933947297 / Angielski / Twarda / 564 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This volume is organized to roughly follow the order of events presented in the Kakuichi-bon variant of the Heike. The essays and translations focus on a series of major events from the Heike: Kiyomori's rise (the "Gio" cycle of plays); Yoshinaka's push to the capital; the flight of the Heike and the battle of Ichi-no-tani; and the aftermath of the war. This volume is organized to roughly follow the order of events presented in the Kakuichi-bon variant of the Heike. The essays and translations focu... |
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262,86 |
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The Djinns of Eidgah
ISBN: 9781783190485 / Angielski / Miękka / 112 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Ashrafi and Bilal are orphaned siblings stranded and defined by the troubles in Kashmir. 18 year old Bilal is the pride of the region, part of a teenage football team set for great heights, and pushed to the limits by the violence around them. Haunted by hope, his sister is caught in the past, and Bilal is torn between escaping the myths of war and the cycles of resistance. Interweaving true stories and testimonies with Islamic storytelling, the play paints a magical portrait of a generation of radicalised kids, and a beautiful landscape lost to conflict. 'A play can be a means of...
Ashrafi and Bilal are orphaned siblings stranded and defined by the troubles in Kashmir. 18 year old Bilal is the pride of the region, part of a teena...
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61,44 |
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Théâtres d'Asie Et d'Orient: Traditions, Rencontres, Métissages
ISBN: 9789052018478 / Francuski / Miękka / 586 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Ce livre offre un panorama des formes theatrales traditionnelles ou modernes d Asie et d Orient, du Japon au Maroc en passant par la Turquie et Israel, pour la premiere fois reunies en un meme volume dans une perspective comparatiste. Deux espaces s y dessinent, d une part l Extreme-Orient et l Inde ou l art theatral est une evidence et appartient a la - grande - litterature, et d autre part le Moyen-Orient ou son statut est moins assure en raison de sa position mineure dans la hierarchie des arts. De meme, deux sortes de theatres se succedent, se completent ou s opposent: les formes...
Ce livre offre un panorama des formes theatrales traditionnelles ou modernes d Asie et d Orient, du Japon au Maroc en passant par la Turquie et Israel...
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319,80 |
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The Recognition of Sakuntala: A Play In Seven Acts
ISBN: 9780199540600 / Angielski / Miękka / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Kalidasa's play about the love of King Dusyanta for Sakuntala, a monastic girl, is the supreme work of Sanskrit drama by its greatest poet and playwright (c.4th century CE). Overwhelmingly erotic in tone and in performance, The Recognition of Sakuntala aimed to produce an experience of aesthetic rapture in the audience, comparable to certain types of mystical experience. The pioneering English translation of Sakuntala in 1789 caused a sensation among European composers and writers (including Goethe), and it continues to be performed around the world. This vibrant new verse translation...
Kalidasa's play about the love of King Dusyanta for Sakuntala, a monastic girl, is the supreme work of Sanskrit drama by its greatest poet and playwri...
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51,19 |
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Strange Eventful Histories: Identity, Performance, and Xu Wei's Four Cries of a Gibbon
ISBN: 9780674066854 / Angielski / Twarda / 275 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. When it comes to really knowing a person, is what you see really what you get? Is it ever all you get? In this first critical study and annotated translation of the dramatic masterpiece "Four Cries of a Gibbon" by the late-Ming dynasty Chinese playwright Xu Wei, author Shiamin Kwa considers the ways that people encounter and understand each other in extraordinary circumstances. With its tales of crimes redressed in the next world and girls masquerading as men to achieve everlasting fame, "Four Cries of a Gibbon" complicated issues of self and identity when it appeared in the late Ming...
When it comes to really knowing a person, is what you see really what you get? Is it ever all you get? In this first critical study and annotated tran...
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Akbar Ahmed - Two Plays: "Noor" and "The Trial of Dara Shikoh"
ISBN: 9780863564352 / Angielski / Miękka / 134 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Noor is the tale of three brothers attempting to rescue their sister Noor, who has been kidnapped during Ramadan. Each brother represents a different ideological position in the contemporary Islamic world. While exploring the crisis of modern Islam, Noor is a heartfelt treatise for religious tolerance. Ahmed points out that the play could be set in Baghdad but also Cairo, Karachi or Kabul. The Trial of Dara Shikoh tells the story of the eldest son of 17th century Mughal Emperor Shah Jahan. Heir apparent, Dara Shikoh is a learned scholar with a strong belief in the unity of different faiths:...
Noor is the tale of three brothers attempting to rescue their sister Noor, who has been kidnapped during Ramadan. Each brother represents a different ...
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Harlesden High Street
ISBN: 9781783190249 / Angielski / Miękka / 64 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Meet Karim, Rehaan and Ammi, three first and second generation Pakistani immigrants trying to make a living, a life and a home in the UK's cultural capital, London. Another day on Harlesden High Street and business is not going well. Karim needs to save for Ammi's operation and time is running out. Rehaan wants to marry Firoza but who will take a man with such pitiful prospects? Something has to change and it has to change soon, but what hope is there when all they can sell is toilet roll and jackfruit?
Harlesden High Street is a feast for the senses, an explosive exploration of... Meet Karim, Rehaan and Ammi, three first and second generation Pakistani immigrants trying to make a living, a life and a home in the UK's cultural ca...
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Teahouse
ISBN: 9789629961251 / Angielski / Miękka / 150 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Set in an old teahouse in Beijing, the play is typical of Lao She's art that seeks to provide a panoramic view of Chinese history and culture in their transformation from tradition to modernity. Teahouse spans fifty years in modern Chinese history from the collapse of the Qing dynasty and the Republican Revolution to the birth of the People's Republic. The play brings together over sixty characters, representing all walks of life in change. It is noted for its vivid portrayal of characters and lively use of Beijing dialect, but its main thrust lies in Lao She's vision of history, which is...
Set in an old teahouse in Beijing, the play is typical of Lao She's art that seeks to provide a panoramic view of Chinese history and culture in their...
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Shanghai: A Novel by Yokomitsu Riichivolume 33
ISBN: 9781929280018 / Angielski / Miękka / 248 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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The Columbia Anthology of Yuan Drama
ISBN: 9780231122665 / Angielski / Twarda / 432 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. 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 arias with declaimed verses and doggerels, dialogues and mime, and jokes and acrobatic feats, Yuan drama formed a vital part of China's culture of performance and entertainment in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries. To date, few Yuan-dynasty plays have been translated into English. Well-known...
This anthology features translations of ten seminal plays written during the Yuan dynasty (1279-1368), a period considered the golden age of Chinese t...
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The Columbia Anthology of Yuan Drama
ISBN: 9780231122672 / Angielski / Miękka / 432 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. 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 arias with declaimed verses and doggerels, dialogues and mime, and jokes and acrobatic feats, Yuan drama formed a vital part of China's culture of performance and entertainment in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries. To date, few Yuan-dynasty plays have been translated into English. Well-known...
This anthology features translations of ten seminal plays written during the Yuan dynasty (1279-1368), a period considered the golden age of Chinese t...
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The Columbia Anthology of Modern Chinese Drama: Abridged Edition
ISBN: 9780231165020 / Angielski / Twarda / 656 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This condensed anthology reproduces close to a dozen plays from Xiaomei Chen's well-received original collection, The Columbia Anthology of Modern Chinese Drama, along with her critical introduction to the historical, cultural, and aesthetic evolution of twentieth-century Chinese spoken drama. Comprising representative works from the Republican era to postsocialist China, the book encapsulates the revolutionary rethinking of Chinese theater and performance that began in the late Qing dynasty and vividly portrays the uncertainty and anxiety brought on by modernism, socialism, political...
This condensed anthology reproduces close to a dozen plays from Xiaomei Chen's well-received original collection, The Columbia Anthology of Modern ...
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The Columbia Anthology of Modern Chinese Drama: Abridged Edition
ISBN: 9780231165037 / Angielski / Miękka / 656 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This condensed anthology reproduces close to a dozen plays from Xiaomei Chen's well-received original collection, The Columbia Anthology of Modern Chinese Drama, along with her critical introduction to the historical, cultural, and aesthetic evolution of twentieth-century Chinese spoken drama. Comprising representative works from the Republican era to postsocialist China, the book encapsulates the revolutionary rethinking of Chinese theater and performance that began in the late Qing dynasty and vividly portrays the uncertainty and anxiety brought on by modernism, socialism, political...
This condensed anthology reproduces close to a dozen plays from Xiaomei Chen's well-received original collection, The Columbia Anthology of Modern ...
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215,21 |
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Turandot: The Chinese Sphinx
ISBN: 9781495228193 / Angielski / Miękka / 86 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Thank you for checking out this book by Theophania Publishing. We appreciate your business and look forward to serving you soon. We have thousands of titles available, and we invite you to search for us by name, contact us via our website, or download our most recent catalogues. Too true is all you've heard through common rumour, The Princess Turandot's ferocious humour Has many princes caused to lose their life In seeking to obtain her as a wife. Her beauty is so wonderful, that all As willing victims to her mandate fall; In vain do various painters daily vie To limn her rosy cheek, her...
Thank you for checking out this book by Theophania Publishing. We appreciate your business and look forward to serving you soon. We have thousands of ...
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The Mid Night Violin: Maybe There Is a Life After Death? and Maybe It's Not Just Our Lives Continuing, Our Past Chronicles, and the Souls Th
ISBN: 9781500452483 / Chiński / Miękka / 270 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Maybe there is a life after death? And maybe it's not just our lives continuing, our past chronicles, and the souls that circled us from other life times, will find its way to be our companionship again, in the this life and maybe in the next life time too. This novel is based on a real story- Is it a coincidence or a real phenomena of reincarnation? You'll be the judge. 1989, when a sassy writer, Tseng Li Wha, in her thirties, constantly gets silent phone calls in the deepest of the nights, she hears the voice of the phantom, sighs from the other end of the phone, waking her up, night after...
Maybe there is a life after death? And maybe it's not just our lives continuing, our past chronicles, and the souls that circled us from other life ti...
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