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Chinese Literature and Culture Volume 7
ISBN: 9781540739384 / Angielski / Miękka / 156 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Editorial: The Subtle Science of Literary Translation Three Beggars Catalysts: A Response to Xiao Su's "Three Beggars" The Death and Life of Doctor Bethune It's Good to Lie Down Love An Interview with Yang Ting: A Story Needs to Be Original Three Poems Fifteen-Minute Company Commentary on "It's Good to Lie Down," a Short Story by Lin Peiyuan Poems by Four Ancient Child Prodigies Chinese Literature and Culture, an academic journal published three times a year, is devoted to translations of Chinese texts (works from the past or by contemporary authors), essays of cultural criticism, and...
Editorial: The Subtle Science of Literary Translation Three Beggars Catalysts: A Response to Xiao Su's "Three Beggars" The Death and Life of Doctor Be...
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Chinese Literature and Culture Volume 2
ISBN: 9781540894212 / Angielski / Miękka / 232 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This is the print version of the second issue of Chinese Literature and Culture (ISSN 2332-4287 print; ISSN 2334-1122 online), a journal published three times a year and available as a book series. This volume features: Six stories: "An Empty Home" by Xiu Bai, "Hunting Season" by Ying Chuan, "Journey of Conscience" by Yao Emei, "The Story of Hu Wenqing" by Wei Wei, "Defending the Teacher" by Xiao Su, and "Knowing Nobody, a Housemaid in Beijing" by Liu Qingbang, and Mu Tao's Lu Xun Prize winning essay: "Culture Has Blood and Flesh." From the runaway bride Peach in "An Empty Home" to the mute...
This is the print version of the second issue of Chinese Literature and Culture (ISSN 2332-4287 print; ISSN 2334-1122 online), a journal published thr...
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Inna Narpathu
ISBN: 9781495492419 / Tamil / Miękka / 52 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Inna Narpathu is a Tamil poetic work of didactic nature belonging to the Pathinenkilkanakku anthology of Tamil literature. This belongs to the 'post Sangam period corresponding to between 100 - 500 CE. The poems of Inna Narpathu are written in the Venpa meter. Inna Narpathu is a collection of 40 poems written by Kapilar describing the most undesirable things one should avoid. One of the meanings of the Tamil word Inna is one that brings unhappiness. Inna Narpathu includes four categories of harmful things one should avoid: a beautiful but disloyal wife, the wealth of a miser, a life under a...
Inna Narpathu is a Tamil poetic work of didactic nature belonging to the Pathinenkilkanakku anthology of Tamil literature. This belongs to the 'post S...
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27,90 |
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Chinese Literature and Culture Volume 8: Lu Xun Prize Winner Zhang Yawen's Battle for Life
ISBN: 9781542412438 / Angielski / Miękka / 124 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Perhaps the best way to celebrate life is to fight for it. There is so much in life and there is so much to say, and here we are lucky to be involved with a writer who is filled with the zest for life and is never tired of telling its stories. A seventy-something? Yes, she is. Yet when it comes to telling life's stories, she tells them like a seven year old, with as much excitement, without guile, and yet one cannot help being affected. And you feel she is telling your stories and they happened yesterday. I am not unfamiliar with the surroundings in which Yawen grew up. The bigger story...
Perhaps the best way to celebrate life is to fight for it. There is so much in life and there is so much to say, and here we are lucky to be involved ...
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119,73 |
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Rickshaw Boy: Camel Xiangzi by Lao She
ISBN: 9781542618090 / Chiński / Miękka / 254 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Rickshaw Boy or Camel Xiangzi is a novel by the Chinese author Lao She about the life of a fictional Beijing rickshaw man. It is considered a classic of 20th-century Chinese literature.
Rickshaw Boy or Camel Xiangzi is a novel by the Chinese author Lao She about the life of a fictional Beijing rickshaw man. It is considered a classic ...
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The Last Biwa Singer: A Blind Musician in History--Imagination and Performance
ISBN: 9781933947433 / Angielski / Miękka / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This work is an exposition of the traditions of Japanese blind singers who accompanied themselves on the biwa, and of the complex identity of Yamashika Yoshiyuki (1901-1996), a man widely portrayed as the last such living relic of the medieval bards called biwa hoshi. The author draws upon approaches from Japanese historical and literature studies, performance studies and ethnomusicology in an examination of history, which yielded on the one hand images of blind singers that still circulate in Japan, and on the other a particular tradition of musical story-telling and rites in regional...
This work is an exposition of the traditions of Japanese blind singers who accompanied themselves on the biwa, and of the complex identity of Yamashik...
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96,90 |
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Years of Sadness: Selected Autobiographical Writings of Wang Anyi
ISBN: 9781933947471 / Angielski / Miękka / 204 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This anthology focuses on autobiographical works by Wang Anyi, the most prolific and critically acclaimed woman writer in contemporary China, highlighting a personal and emotional dimension of her writing that is essential to a deeper understanding of her creativity and productivity. The three pieces selected for this volume--A Woman Writer's Sense of Self, Utopian Verses, and Years of Sadness--explore some of the most fundamental and complex issues concerning Wang's identity as a woman and as a writer in early post-socialist China, the creative and emotional challenges she faced during her...
This anthology focuses on autobiographical works by Wang Anyi, the most prolific and critically acclaimed woman writer in contemporary China, highligh...
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110,23 |
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Voices of Taiwanese Women: Three Contemporary Plays
ISBN: 9781939161574 / Angielski / Miękka / 180 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This anthology presents three new translations representing an aspect of modern Asian drama as yet unavailable to readers in English: the community-based theaters of Taiwan, working in Chinese languages beyond Mandarin. Community theater (shequ juchang) contrasts with the more mainstream theater that has emerged in Taiwan from the 1980s onward--a theater dominated by male playwrights, centered in the capital city of Taipei, and, despite its roots as an experimental "Little Theater Movement," increasingly commercial and professionalized. Community theater, conversely, maintains the more... This anthology presents three new translations representing an aspect of modern Asian drama as yet unavailable to readers in English: the community... |
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140,54 |
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Voices of Taiwanese Women: Three Contemporary Plays
ISBN: 9781939161772 / Angielski / Twarda / 180 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This anthology presents three new translations representing an aspect of modern Asian drama as yet unavailable to readers in English: the community-based theaters of Taiwan, working in Chinese languages beyond Mandarin. Community theater (shequ juchang) contrasts with the more mainstream theater that has emerged in Taiwan from the 1980s onward--a theater dominated by male playwrights, centered in the capital city of Taipei, and, despite its roots as an experimental "Little Theater Movement," increasingly commercial and professionalized. Community theater, conversely, maintains the more... This anthology presents three new translations representing an aspect of modern Asian drama as yet unavailable to readers in English: the community... |
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77,52 |
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Twenty-One Grams of Spirit and Seven Ounces of Desire
ISBN: 9789715506021 / Angielski / Miękka / 220 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Tries to make the case, through sixty-four pieces, that while measure is not meaning, it helps shape it. This collection captures the struggle to make sense of measures that science is known for and goes further by speculating on what they could mean in our lives, and not just in the closeted halls of science labs and institutions.
Tries to make the case, through sixty-four pieces, that while measure is not meaning, it helps shape it. This collection captures the struggle to make...
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150,29 |
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I Will Come Again
ISBN: 9781540803511 / Chiński / Miękka / 356 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book includes the face life, the feeling life, the reality life, the thought life and the political life of Mr. Ge Qiu Shan. Through the book readers would deeply know his personality and his era.
This book includes the face life, the feeling life, the reality life, the thought life and the political life of Mr. Ge Qiu Shan. Through the book rea...
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Beneath the Red Banner: Zhen Hongqi Xia by Lao She
ISBN: 9781544184104 / Chiński / Miękka / 142 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Lao She, pen name of Shu Qingchun. He was a banner person, belonging to the "Red Banner" of the "Manchurian eight banners." He lived in the last years of the Qing Dynasty, when the society is turbulent and the people lived in destitution. Seeing the Qing Dynasty on the decline, his and Beijing people's life are broken...
Lao She, pen name of Shu Qingchun. He was a banner person, belonging to the "Red Banner" of the "Manchurian eight banners." He lived in the last years...
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Four Generations Under One Roof-Part II: Si Shi Tong Tang by Lao She
ISBN: 9781544123332 / Chiński / Miękka / 318 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Four Generations Under One Roof is a classic among modern Chinese novels and the representative work of Lao she. Set during the outbreak of the Marco polo bridge incident and the occupation of Peiping by the Japanese, this book depicts the life of the Qi family, with four generations under one roof. It vividly and clearly describes the honor or disgrace, ups and downs and life and death of the people of various sorts.
Four Generations Under One Roof is a classic among modern Chinese novels and the representative work of Lao she. Set during the outbreak of the Marco ...
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Four Generations Under One Roof-Part I: Si Shi Tong Tang by Lao She
ISBN: 9781542930390 / Chiński / Miękka / 428 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Four Generations Under One Roof is a classic among modern Chinese novels and the representative work of Lao she. Set during the outbreak of the Marco polo bridge incident and the occupation of Peiping by the Japanese, this book depicts the life of the Qi family, with four generations under one roof. It vividly and clearly describes the honor or disgrace, ups and downs and life and death of the people of various sorts.
Four Generations Under One Roof is a classic among modern Chinese novels and the representative work of Lao she. Set during the outbreak of the Marco ...
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59,66 |
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Legend of the Wheel Ranger: Chinese Edition
ISBN: 9781544202822 / Chiński / Miękka / 112 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Many claim this novel series as "the most marvelous martial art novel in the world." It is the most famous and longest works of San Ji Lee. San Ji Lee, after the name of Li Shoumin. Chinese martial arts and fantasy fiction writer. Once known as "the king of modern martial arts." It presents splendid imagination with a vividly graceful language, a representative novel in martial art and fantasy literature.
Many claim this novel series as "the most marvelous martial art novel in the world." It is the most famous and longest works of San Ji Lee. San Ji Lee...
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Your Pracepta: Step VI
ISBN: 9781544685458 / Angielski / Miękka / 166 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This is the Sixth volume of the massive republishing effort to bring all Seven Steps of Yogananda's Praecepta back to light.
This is the Sixth volume of the massive republishing effort to bring all Seven Steps of Yogananda's Praecepta back to light.
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The Pearl Assassin Vol 2: Chinese Edition
ISBN: 9781544202600 / Chiński / Miękka / 300 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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51,84 |
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Slapping the Table in Amazement: A Ming Dynasty Story Collection
ISBN: 9780295742120 / Angielski / Twarda / 928 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Slapping the Table in Amazement is the unabridged English translation of the famous story collection Pai'an jingqi by Ling Mengchu (1580-1644), originally published in 1628. The forty lively stories gathered here present a broad picture of traditional Chinese society and include characters from all social levels. We learn of their joys and sorrows, their views about life and death, and their visions of the underworld and the supernatural. Ling was a connoisseur of popular literature and a seminal figure in the development of Chinese literature in the vernacular, which... Slapping the Table in Amazement is the unabridged English translation of the famous story collection Pai'an jingqi by Ling Mengchu (1... |
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Slapping the Table in Amazement: A Ming Dynasty Story Collection
ISBN: 9780295742137 / Angielski / Miękka / 928 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Slapping the Table in Amazement is the unabridged English translation of the famous story collection Pai'an jingqi by Ling Mengchu (1580-1644), originally published in 1628. The forty lively stories gathered here present a broad picture of traditional Chinese society and include characters from all social levels. We learn of their joys and sorrows, their views about life and death, and their visions of the underworld and the supernatural. Ling was a connoisseur of popular literature and a seminal figure in the development of Chinese literature in the vernacular, which... Slapping the Table in Amazement is the unabridged English translation of the famous story collection Pai'an jingqi by Ling Mengchu (1... |
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213,31 |
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Ke Am Lich: Truyen Ngan
ISBN: 9781546345268 / Wietnamski / Miękka / 214 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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59,87 |
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