Kategoria BISAC: Literary Criticism >> Asian - General

Here is a collection of short stories by the contemporary woman writer Masuda Mizuko, who has been writing actively since the late 1970s and is anthologized in major collections of Japanese women's literary writing, such as Josei sakka shirizu. Throughout her writing, Masuda examines themes of selfhood and autonomy, loneliness and desire, and the deep tensions in female-male relations. Her fiction explores issues of female subjectivity and female biology in ways that are unique and intriguing. These collected stories illustrate the powerful way Masuda's fiction taps into an undercurrent of...

The 26 scholars contributing to this volume have helped shape the field of Indonesian studies over the last three decades. They represent a broad geographic background Indonesia, the Netherlands, the United Kingdom, Australia, the United States, Canada and have studied in a wide array of key disciplines anthropology, history, linguistics and literature, government and politics, art history, and ethnomusicology. Together they reflect on the arc of our field, the development of Indonesian studies over recent tumultuous decades. They consider what has been achieved and what still needs to be...

The 26 scholars contributing to this volume have helped shape the field of Indonesian studies over the last three decades. They represent a broad geographic background Indonesia, the Netherlands, the United Kingdom, Australia, the United States, Canada and have studied in a wide array of key disciplines anthropology, history, linguistics and literature, government and politics, art history, and ethnomusicology. Together they reflect on the arc of our field, the development of Indonesian studies over recent tumultuous decades. They consider what has been achieved and what still needs to be...

Although Chinese narrative, and especially the genres of colloquial fiction, have been subjected to intensive scholarly scrutiny, no comprehensive volume has provided a framework that would permit an overall view of the tradition. The distinguished contributors to this volume have taken an important first step in making possible the consideration of Chinese narrative at the level of comparative and general literary scholarship.

Originally published in 1977.

The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously...

From the pen of Gilbert Parker comes one of the most popular Canadian novels of the late nineteenth century. First published simultaneously in Canada and the United States in 1896, "The Seats of the Mighty" is set in Quebec City in 1759, against the backdrop of the conflict between the English and the French over the future of New France. Written and published after Parker s move to England, the novel attempts to romanticize French Canada without alienating his English and American readership. The novel s enduring popularity led to a stage version in 1897 and a silent film in 1914. "

"It is rare indeed to find so many important themes in U.S.-China relations addressed with both humor and analytical verve. No American businessman can afford to sit down at the negotiating table without having perused this book It will delight professionals and general readers alike."--Vera Schwarcz, Wesleyan University

"Den Leventhal hits the mark with his personable memoir that presents B-School quality case studies for market entry development in the international arena. His easy-going, and often times humorous, narrative belies the hard-hitting realities of opening new business...

Die chinesische Literatur kann im 20. Jahrhundert dank der Wandlung Chinas zum Nationalstaat die Isolation uberwinden und in den Dialog mit der Weltliteratur eintreten. Keine andere Epoche ist deshalb so gut dokumentiert, wissenschaftlich aufgearbeitet und durch Ubersetzungen erschlossen. Dabei lassen sich mehrere deutlich ausgepragte Phasen unterscheiden: Am Anfang steht die Orientierung an der westlichen Moderne, wodurch sich in den dreiiger Jahren eine eigenstandige, innovative Literatur entfalten kann. Diese Entwicklung endet mit der Proklamation der Volksrepublik China. Bis zum Ende...