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Twin Sisters
ISBN: 9781426901720 / Angielski / Miękka / 376 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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106,05 zł |
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Judge Bao and the Rule of Law: Eight Ballad-Stories from the Period 1250-1450
ISBN: 9789814304450 / Angielski / Miękka / 456 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Pure, orthodox and incorruptible, Judge Bao has been serving as the preeminent embodiment of justice in China for almost a thousand years, so much so his court cases have been adapted as stories, novels and plays over the centuries. Now, for the very first time a series of eight ballad-stories on Judge Bao, dating from the period 1250-1450, are offered in a complete and annotated translation. These texts will provide the reader a reflection of the legend of Judge Bao in its earliest phase of development, with an extended introduction placing the ballad-stories in context with the development...
Pure, orthodox and incorruptible, Judge Bao has been serving as the preeminent embodiment of justice in China for almost a thousand years, so much so ...
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140,05 zł |
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The Nine-Eyed Agate: Poems and Stories
ISBN: 9780739128756 / Angielski / Twarda / 228 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The Nine-Eyed Agate seeks to break stereotyped images of Tibet and Tibetans inside the PRC today, and in the diaspora, by presenting an outstanding personality who survived childhood during the Cultural Revolution, then going on to lead a rich and somewhat controversial career within the PRC. As a free-wheeling, restless traveller in samsara (the cycle of existence), Jangbu has explored every corner of the Tibetan plateau with a view to understanding the culture and history of his people, their plight, and the key issues that Tibet faces today. Widely read in world literature through Chinese...
The Nine-Eyed Agate seeks to break stereotyped images of Tibet and Tibetans inside the PRC today, and in the diaspora, by presenting an outstanding pe...
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485,94 zł |
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Lost Names: Scenes from a Korean Boyhood
ISBN: 9780520268128 / Angielski / Miękka / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In this classic tale, Richard E. Kim paints seven vivid scenes from a boyhood and early adolescence in Korea at the height of the Japanese occupation, 1932 to 1945. Taking its title from the grim fact that the occupiers forced the Koreans to renounce their own names and adopt Japanese names instead, the book follows one Korean family through the Japanese occupation to the surrender of the Japanese empire. Lost Names is at once a loving memory of family and a vivid portrayal of life in a time of anguish.
In this classic tale, Richard E. Kim paints seven vivid scenes from a boyhood and early adolescence in Korea at the height of the Japanese occupation,...
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108,26 zł |
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More Stories by Japanese Women Writers: An Anthology: An Anthology
ISBN: 9780765627339 / Angielski / Twarda / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This anthology introduces sixteen modern Japanese women writers spanning a century in time and a wide range of life circumstances and literary styles. No other collection offers usch a diversity of women's voices
This anthology introduces sixteen modern Japanese women writers spanning a century in time and a wide range of life circumstances and literary styles....
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700,25 zł |
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The Secret History of the Mongols: And Other Pieces
ISBN: 9780415612760 / Angielski / Miękka / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. First published in 1963.
The Secret History (so called merely because it was meant for the Mongols and not for the Chinese, ) has been chiefly studied from a learned point of view and its quality as literature and hence its value to the lay reader have been greatly overlooked. The Chinese version has been used, but with constant reference to the Mongol text. The parts selected (founded on story-tellers' tales) date from the middle of the thirteenth century. First published in 1963.
The Secret History (so called merely because it was meant for the Mongols and not for the Chinese, ) has been ch... |
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280,05 zł |
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The Way and Its Power: A Study of the Tao Tê Ching and Its Place in Chinese Thought
ISBN: 9780415612838 / Angielski / Miękka / 2 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. First published in 1934. Unlike previous translations, this translation of Lao Tzu's Tao Te Ching is based not on the medieval commentaries but on a close study of the whole of early Chinese literature.
First published in 1934. Unlike previous translations, this translation of Lao Tzu's Tao Te Ching is based not on the medieval commentari...
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280,05 zł |
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Ballads and Stories from Tun-Huang
ISBN: 9780415612647 / Angielski / Miękka / 6 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Over a century ago the Chinese discovered in a sealed-up cave in the west of China a collection of manuscripts dating from the fifth century to the end of the tenth. These included many specimens of popular literature of a kind that was not previously known to exist.
Over a century ago the Chinese discovered in a sealed-up cave in the west of China a collection of manuscripts dating from the fifth century to the en...
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228,18 zł |
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The Birth of China Seen Through Poetry
ISBN: 9789814335331 / Angielski / Miękka / 264 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Introduces Chinese culture to readers of English, using poetry from the various periods rendered into English verse to bring back to life past. This book offers the reader a direct glimpse into the human core of it via the universally accessible channel of poetry.
Introduces Chinese culture to readers of English, using poetry from the various periods rendered into English verse to bring back to life past. This b...
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93,37 zł |
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Hizumi
ISBN: 9781453861127 / Japoński / Miękka / 322 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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90,41 zł |
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Aijin to Urushi No Utuwa
ISBN: 9781456529383 / Japoński / Miękka / 324 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This story has love's affairs which people doesn't admit. I invites you to the story of mistress, but the story is merely beautiful.Lovers love each other.
This story has love's affairs which people doesn't admit. I invites you to the story of mistress, but the story is merely beautiful.Lovers love each o...
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90,41 zł |
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Speculative Japan 2: The Man Who Watched the Sea and Other Tales
ISBN: 9784902075182 / Angielski / Miękka / 278 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A selection of outstanding works of fantasy and science fiction from Japan, published here in English for the first time to reveal new and very different slices of the Japanese imagination. Following the success of the first Speculative Japan book, Volume 2 explores the visions of best-selling authors across a range of genres, from the heart-warming fantasy of Awa Naoko to the cold, lonely outer spaces of Tani Koshu. Explore the Japanese view of speculative fiction, and discover the similarities and differences that make cross-cultural literature so satisfying.
A selection of outstanding works of fantasy and science fiction from Japan, published here in English for the first time to reveal new and very differ...
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77,14 zł |
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The Art of War
ISBN: 9781456472641 / Angielski / Miękka / 204 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This great Chinese classic is finally presented, in its entirety, with the true elegance and simplicity of which it is worthy. Skillfully worded and carefully edited, this modern translation flows easily across the pages. Uncluttered by the scholarly notes and endless commentary found in other editions, Sun Tzu's wisdom unfolds to today's reader as if he were a student at the master's feet. As significant today as it was 2500 years ago, the Art of War teaches us to look beyond the conflicts and battles of life and see the true goals and opportunities. It teaches us the value of planning, of...
This great Chinese classic is finally presented, in its entirety, with the true elegance and simplicity of which it is worthy. Skillfully worded and c...
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49,50 zł |
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Things Japanese Volume II: A collection of poetry and prose
ISBN: 9781453869284 / Angielski / Miękka / 50 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A collection of poetry and prose that celebrates contemporary writing on things Japanese.
A collection of poetry and prose that celebrates contemporary writing on things Japanese.
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31,59 zł |
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Bubble
ISBN: 9781461029120 / Chiński / Miękka / 190 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Bufan is the young founder of Genesis International, a software upstart in the go-go dates of the late nineties. While dealing with the crazy up-and-downs of running an enterprise in internet time, Bufan also has to deal with his fiancee, the ambitious marketing VP of the company, who may have her eye on a quick buck. Bufan's secretary is out to protect her boss from harm, but is in over her head. Finally, a mysterious newspaper reporter may be able to help Bufan, but at a cost that can be too high. Will Bufan be able to save his company from the financial turmoil of the times, and find true...
Bufan is the young founder of Genesis International, a software upstart in the go-go dates of the late nineties. While dealing with the crazy up-and-d...
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45,16 zł |
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Tanatos
ISBN: 9781463540012 / Japoński / Miękka / 314 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The psychological novels which is realized as probable incidents.
The psychological novels which is realized as probable incidents.
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90,41 zł |
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Haiku Poetics in Twentieth Century Avant-Garde Poetry
ISBN: 9780739148761 / Angielski / Twarda / 262 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Haiku Poetics in Twentieth Century Avant-Garde Poetry is the first study to examine the historical importance of haiku in theorizing a global poetic, tracing its spread from translations to practice, and following its permutations into diverse modernist avant-garde poetry. While Haiku Poetics is an investigation into the cultural borrowing of haiku, it also documents interpretation and transformation, as even the translators George Aston and Paul-Louis Couchoud moved beyond translation in the acquisition of haiku. The French translations focused on Yosa Buson's visual haiku, while the English...
Haiku Poetics in Twentieth Century Avant-Garde Poetry is the first study to examine the historical importance of haiku in theorizing a global poetic, ...
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556,92 zł |
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Singing Like a Cricket, Hooting Like an Owl: Selected Poems of Yi Kyu-Bo
ISBN: 9781885445681 / Angielski / Twarda / 106 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Kyu-bo Yi (1168-1241), the greatest of the classical Korean poets, was born into a very turbulent period of history, when the Koryo kingdom was threatened from the north by barbarians and from within by the ongoing struggle for supremacy among the various factions. His poems, confessional and transcendent, describe moments of personal illumination in the course of everyday life.
Kyu-bo Yi (1168-1241), the greatest of the classical Korean poets, was born into a very turbulent period of history, when the Koryo kingdom was threat...
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560,20 zł |
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White Poppies and Other Stories
ISBN: 9781933947235 / Angielski / Twarda / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The stories collected here illuminate two recent phenomena in China. The first migration--the up to the mountains, down to the villages movement of the late 1960s to 1970s--where approximately twelve to fourteen million educated urban youth left the cities to work on farms, and the large voluntary migration since the 1990s of tens of millions of peasants into the cities. The stories collected here illuminate two recent phenomena in China. The first migration--the up to the mountains, down to the villages movement of... |
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560,20 zł |
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Toward Dusk and Other Stories
ISBN: 9784902075175 / Angielski / Miękka / 248 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Yoshiyuki Junnosuke was a sensual writer, whose style is reminiscent of that of novelists such as Tanizaki Jun'ichiro and Nagai Kafu. His works deal with the possibility of emotional purity in the relationships between men and women. Often, the relationship is examined through the agency of the protagonist's association with prostitutes. In the preface to New Writing in Japan, Mishima Yukio says of Yoshiyuki: "The delicacy of Yoshiyuki's language and sensibility is probably more subtle and sophisticated than that of any Japanese writer since the war...The idee fixe of Japanese youth... Yoshiyuki Junnosuke was a sensual writer, whose style is reminiscent of that of novelists such as Tanizaki Jun'ichiro and Nagai Kafu. His works dea... |
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81,96 zł |
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