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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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96,90 |
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This Is All I Choose to Tell: History and Hybridity in Vietnamese American Literature
ISBN: 9781439902165 / Angielski / Twarda / 216 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In the first book-length study of Vietnamese American literature, Isabelle Thuy Pelaud probes the complexities of Vietnamese American identity and politics. She provides an analytical introduction to the literature, showing how generational differences play out in genre and text. In addition, she asks, can the term Vietnamese American be disassociated from representations of the war without erasing its legacy? Pelaud delineates the historical, social, and cultural terrains of the writing as well as the critical receptions and responses to them. She moves beyond the common focus on the... In the first book-length study of Vietnamese American literature, Isabelle Thuy Pelaud probes the complexities of Vietnamese American identity and ... |
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269,38 |
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This Is All I Choose to Tell: History and Hybridity in Vietnamese American Literature
ISBN: 9781439902172 / Angielski / Miękka / 216 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In this book-length study of Vietnamese American literature, Isabelle Thuy Pelaud probes the complexities of Vietnamese American identity and politics. She provides an analytical introduction to the literature, showing how generational differences play out in genre and text.
In this book-length study of Vietnamese American literature, Isabelle Thuy Pelaud probes the complexities of Vietnamese American identity and politics...
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102,81 |
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Scholar's Path, A: An Anthology of Classical Chinese Poems and Prose of Chen Qing Shan - A Pioneer Writer of Malayan-Singapore Literature
ISBN: 9789814317481 / Angielski / Miękka / 636 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. English translation and appreciation by Peter Chen and Michael Tan
Reviewed by Chan Chiu MingAn original English translation from the Chinese text: A companion edition of the book in Chinese is available — the original classical text translated into modern Chinese and profusely annotated by Associate Professor Dr Chan Chiu Ming of National Institute of Education, Singapore. English translation and appreciation by Peter Chen and Michael Tan
Reviewed by Chan Chiu MingAn original English translation from the Chinese text... |
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195,91 |
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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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710,17 |
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The Heritage of Soviet Oriental Studies
ISBN: 9780415599771 / Angielski / Twarda / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book examines the Russian/Soviet intellectual tradition of Oriental and Islamic studies, which comprised a rich body of knowledge especially on Central Asia and the Caucasus. The Soviet Oriental tradition was deeply linked to politics -- probably even more than other European 'Orientalisms'. It breaks new ground by providing Western and post-Soviet insider views especially on the features that set Soviet Oriental studies apart from what we know about its Western counterparts.
This book examines the Russian/Soviet intellectual tradition of Oriental and Islamic studies, which comprised a rich body of knowledge especially on C...
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799,10 |
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Mandelstam
ISBN: 9780521293471 / Angielski / Miękka / 340 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The first critical study of the life and works of Osip Mandelstam, who died in 1938 in one of Stalin's labour camps.
The first critical study of the life and works of Osip Mandelstam, who died in 1938 in one of Stalin's labour camps.
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233,87 |
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Chinese Language(s): A Look Through the Prism of the Great Dictionary of Modern Chinese Dialects
ISBN: 9783110219142 / Angielski / Twarda / 296 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The book uncovers the role The Great Dictionary of Modern Chinese Dialects plays in analyzing the spectrum of linguistic differentiation in China. The author starts by sketching the development and current state of Chinese dialectology and dialectal research. She then provides an analysis of the Dictionary and of the kind of information it provides. Looking at Chinese dialectology from a Western point of view, the author aims to understand and present the Chinese perspective. The book uncovers the role The Great Dictionary of Modern Chinese Dialects plays in analyzing the spectrum of linguistic differentiation i... |
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764,67 |
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The Sublime Figure of History: Aesthetics and Politics in Twentieth-Century China
ISBN: 9780804728461 / Angielski / Twarda / 328 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Through a comparative analysis of diverse texts and contexts, this book offers a cultural history of the interplay between the aesthetic and the political in the formation of personal and collective identity that crystallizes into the Chinese aesthetic of the sublime. It describes how various kinds of politics are aestheticized and how aesthetic manifestations are bound up with prevalent ideologies and politics. In this book, politics refers to various projects for fashioning a viable self, a workable personal and collective identity in the crisis-ridden history of modern China. These...
Through a comparative analysis of diverse texts and contexts, this book offers a cultural history of the interplay between the aesthetic and the polit...
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308,55 |
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Literati Identity and Its Fictional Representations in Late Imperial China
ISBN: 9780804731317 / Angielski / Twarda / 328 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book is a study of the intellectual and literary factors that in the mid-Qing dynasty contributed to the development of vernacular fiction of unprecedented scholarly and satirical sophistication. The author examines three works of vernacular fiction--Rulin waishi (ca. 1750), Yesou puyan (ca. 1780), and Jinghua yuan (1821/1828)--for their articulation of new perceptions of the literati, or Confucian scholar-gentry. He places the reevaluation of literati roles and privilege found in these novels within the context of scholarly and cultural developments, notably the...
This book is a study of the intellectual and literary factors that in the mid-Qing dynasty contributed to the development of vernacular fiction of unp...
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328,15 |
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Beginning Indonesian Through Self-Instruction: Book 2, Lessons 1-15
ISBN: 9780877275305 / Angielski / Miękka / 434 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The second volume of a three-volume complete curriculum for learning Indonesian at the beginning and intermediate levels. Includes an extensive Indonesian-English glossary (over 2,600 words) and a complete answer key. Additionally, every exercise in the series is included on a DVD, available separately. For more information about ordering the DVD, contact SEAP at SEAP-Pubs@cornell.edu. The second volume of a three-volume complete curriculum for learning Indonesian at the beginning and intermediate levels. Includes an extensive Ind... |
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127,29 |
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Beginning Indonesian Through Self-Instruction, Book 3: Lessons 16-25
ISBN: 9780877275312 / Angielski / Miękka / 448 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The third volume in a three-volume complete curriculum for learning Indonesian at the beginning and intermediate levels.Includes an extensive Indonesian-English glossary (over 2,600 words) and a complete answer key. Additionally, every exercise in the series is included on a DVD, available separately. For more information about ordering the DVD, contact SEAP at SEAP-Pubs@cornell.edu. The third volume in a three-volume complete curriculum for learning Indonesian at the beginning and intermediate levels.Includes an extensive Indon... |
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87,59 |
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The Book of Songs
ISBN: 9780415612654 / Angielski / Miękka / 2 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. First published in 1937, 'The Book of Songs' is a collection of ancient Chinese songs, dating from 800 to 600 B.C. The original meaning of 290 out of the 305 songs is given, use being made of the advances in the study of old Chinese.
First published in 1937, 'The Book of Songs' is a collection of ancient Chinese songs, dating from 800 to 600 B.C. The original meaning of 290 out of ...
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225,25 |
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The Life and Times of Po Chü-I: 772-846 Ad
ISBN: 9780415612715 / Angielski / Miękka / 6 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. First published in 1949, this book gives the biographical background to the many poems of Po Chu-i (A.D 772-846) and traces the connection between his literary career and the disturbed political life of the time. The volume also provides new translations in whole or in part of about a hundred poems by Po Chu-I."
First published in 1949, this book gives the biographical background to the many poems of Po Chu-i (A.D 772-846) and traces the connection between his...
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237,10 |
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Chinese Poems
ISBN: 9780415612661 / Angielski / Miękka / 2 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. First published in 1946, this is a collection of Arthur Waley's translations of Chinese poetry. The book includes some poems from 'The Book of Songs' and '170 Chinese Poems', 'More Translations' and 'The Temple'. Some old translations have been revised and new notes and explanatory material added.
First published in 1946, this is a collection of Arthur Waley's translations of Chinese poetry. The book includes some poems from 'The Book of Songs' ...
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237,10 |
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The Ring of Recollection : Transgenerational Haunting in the Novels of Shashi Deshpande
ISBN: 9789042031005 / Angielski / Twarda / 305 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In The Ring of Recollection, Nancy Batty challenges the critical orthodoxy that Shashi Deshpande's fiction is transparently realistic and narrowly focused on domestic and women's issues. This study shifts attention towards the labyrinthine structure and modernist style of most of Deshpande's writing. Features hitherto viewed as deviations from her realism, or even as flaws, are re-situated in the light of a gothic poetics that works to uncover a structural trope of transgenerational secrecy, beginning with Deshpande's early detective fiction and extending to her most recent work. Linking a...
In The Ring of Recollection, Nancy Batty challenges the critical orthodoxy that Shashi Deshpande's fiction is transparently realistic and narrowly foc...
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441,93 |
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Tales of Magistrate Bao and His Valiant Lieutenants: Selections from Sanxia Wuyi
ISBN: 9789622017757 / Angielski / Miękka / 428 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Murder, mystery, and courtroom drama -- Chinese style! "Sanxia wuyi" (later revised and called "Qixia wuyi") is a semi-historical narrative of adventure, crime-detection, and courtroom drama. It revolves around the famed Song dynasty magistrate, Bao Zheng (999-1072), who is more commonly known as Magistrate Bao (Bao Gong) and is the quintessential incorruptible government official. This novel, derived from the oral narrative attributed to the Qing storyteller Shi Yukun (fl. 1870s), was first published in 1879, after undergoing a complex and fascinating textual evolution. The non-historical...
Murder, mystery, and courtroom drama -- Chinese style! "Sanxia wuyi" (later revised and called "Qixia wuyi") is a semi-historical narrative of adventu...
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88,11 |
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Later Mohist Logic, Ethics, and Science
ISBN: 9789622011427 / Angielski / Twarda / 700 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This a general account of the school of Mo-tzu, its social basis as a movement of craftsmen, its isolated place in the Chinese tradition, and the nature of its later contributions to logic, ethics, and science. It assesses the relation of Mohist thinking to the structure of the Chinese language, and grapples with the textual dynamics of later Mohist writings, particularly in regard to grammar and style, technical terminology, the use and significance of stock examples, and overall organization. Includes edited and annotated Chinese text with an English translation and commentary, a glossary,...
This a general account of the school of Mo-tzu, its social basis as a movement of craftsmen, its isolated place in the Chinese tradition, and the natu...
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200,80 |
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When We Say "Hiroshima": Selected Poems Volume 23
ISBN: 9780939512898 / Angielski / Miękka / 74 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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61,60 |
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Tamil Love Poetry: The Five Hundred Short Poems of the Ainkurunuru, an Early Third-Century Anthology
ISBN: 9780231150651 / Angielski / Miękka / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Dating from the early decades of the third century C.E., the Ainkurunuru is believed to be the world's earliest anthology of classical Tamil love poetry. Commissioned by a Cera-dynasty king and composed by five masterful poets, the anthology illustrates the five landscapes of reciprocal love: jealous quarreling, anxious waiting and lamentation, clandestine love before marriage, elopement and love in separation, and patient waiting after marriage. Despite its centrality to literary and intellectual traditions, the Ainkurunuru remains relatively unknown beyond specialists. Martha Ann Selby,...
Dating from the early decades of the third century C.E., the Ainkurunuru is believed to be the world's earliest anthology of classical Tamil love poet...
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