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The Invention of China in Early Modern England: Spelling the Dragon
ISBN: 9783030840341 / Angielski / Miękka / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The Invention of China in Early Modern Englanddescribes how several different English communities became aware of China. It begins by describing how early modern intellectuals used the utopian ideal of China to license all kinds of progressive innovation before chronicling how England’s growing commerce in southeast Asia radically changed China’s representation in the English discourse community. For the new community of English merchants proposing to trade in Chinese goods, China became the seminal example in the growing discourse community of English Orientalism. It was an absolute or...
The Invention of China in Early Modern Englanddescribes how several different English communities became aware of China. It begins by describing how e...
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442,79 |
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Sword of the Demon Hunter: Kijin Gentosho (Light Novel) Vol. 3
ISBN: 9781685796600 / Angielski / Miękka / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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61,61 |
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Kuma Kuma Kuma Bear (Light Novel) Vol. 13
ISBN: 9781638588191 / Angielski / Miękka / 378 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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65,37 |
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Satya Pattanaikanka Sahityara Mati O Akasha
ISBN: 9781645603276 / Oriya / Miękka / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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64,74 |
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They Never Asked: Senryu Poetry from the WWII Portland Assembly Center
ISBN: 9780870712357 / Angielski / Miękka / 200 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In 1942, after the passage of Executive Order 9066, Japanese families were removed from their homes in Oregon and the Yakima Valley and sent to the Portland International Livestock Exposition Center, where they were housed in converted animal stalls. The Wartime Civil Control Administration kept internees at the Portland Assembly Center until September 1942, when they were transferred to newly built permanent internment camps at Minidoka, Heart Mountain, and Tule Lake. The Japanese American communities in Oregon and southern Washington were relatively small and many of the detainees knew...
In 1942, after the passage of Executive Order 9066, Japanese families were removed from their homes in Oregon and the Yakima Valley and sent to the Po...
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117,50 |
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Subaltern Sovereigns: Rituals of Rule and Regeneration in Highland Odisha, India
ISBN: 9783110458077 / Angielski / Twarda / 450 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The vast and ancient topic of kingship in India has mostly been studied from the perspectives of rulers and other elites. But what constitutes sovereignty viewed from "below"? This book — ethnographic and comparative in its essence — deals with indigenous conceptualizations of sovereignty taking as its starting point a local proverb that connects the ritual (Dasara) of the king with festivals performed by his "tribal" subjects. The first part of the book initially introduces some pan-Indian ideas of kingship and proceeds to discuss indigenous notions of sovereignty as represented in...
The vast and ancient topic of kingship in India has mostly been studied from the perspectives of rulers and other elites. But what constitutes soverei...
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530,95 |
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The Adventures of Ma Suzhen: 'An Heroic Woman Takes Revenge in Shanghai'
ISBN: 9783030890377 / Angielski / Miękka / 131 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The comic novel,The Adventures of Ma Suzhen,was written during a highpoint in the popularity ofxia“knight-errant” fiction. It is an action-packed tale of a young woman who takes revenge for her brother, Ma Yongzhen, a gangster and performing strongman, who has been murdered by a rival gang in China’s most cosmopolitan city, Shanghai. After publication of the book in 1923, the character of Ma Suzhen appeared on stage, and subsequently in a film made by the Mingxing Film Company. The book version translated here, displays a delightful combination of thexiaand popular“Mandarin Ducks and...
The comic novel,The Adventures of Ma Suzhen,was written during a highpoint in the popularity ofxia“knight-errant” fiction. It is an action-packed ...
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201,24 |
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Translation, Disinformation, and Wuhan Diary: Anatomy of a Transpacific Cyber Campaign
ISBN: 9783031168581 / Angielski / Miękka / 232 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. During the early days of the COVID-19 health crisis, Fang Fang’sWuhan Diaryprovided an important portal for people around the world to understand the outbreak, local response, and how the novel coronavirus was impacting everyday people. But when news of the international publication ofWuhan Diaryappeared online in early April of 2020, Fang Fang’s writings became the target of a series of online attacks by “Chinese ultra-nationalists.” Over time, these attacks morphed into one of the most sophisticated and protracted hate Campaigns against a Chinese writer in decades. Meanwhile, as...
During the early days of the COVID-19 health crisis, Fang Fang’sWuhan Diaryprovided an important portal for people around the world to understand th...
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132,80 |
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Robinson Crusoe in Asia
ISBN: 9789811640537 / Angielski / Miękka / 306 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This collection of essays expands the study of that immensely widely read and much-adapted novel, beyond the first book –The Life and Strange Surprising Adventures of Robinson Crusoe(usually known simply asRobinson Crusoe) – to take in the far less well-knownFarther Adventuresand the almost unreadSerious Reflections, beyond Defoe’s texts, to their re-writing and adaptation and beyond the Atlantic and South American context to an Asian and Pacific context. The essays consider both how Asia is represented in the books (in terms of politics, economics, religion), and how the book has...
This collection of essays expands the study of that immensely widely read and much-adapted novel, beyond the first book –The Life and Strange Surpri...
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563,56 |
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Modern Villainess: It’s Not Easy Building a Corporate Empire Before the Crash (Light Novel) Vol. 3
ISBN: 9781638587019 / Angielski / Inna Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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57,76 |
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Conjugal Relationships in Chinese Culture: Sino-Western Discourses and Aesthetics on Marriage
ISBN: 9789811998409 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book reviews the presentation of conjugal relationships in Chinese culture and their perception in the West. It explores the ways in which the act of marriage is represented/misrepresented in different literary genres, as well as in cultural adaptations. It looks at the gendered characteristics at play that affect conjugal relationships in Chinese societal practices more widely. It also distinguishes between the essential features that give rise to nuptial arrangements from the Chinese perspective, looking at what in which Sino and/or Western mentalities differ in terms of notions of...
This book reviews the presentation of conjugal relationships in Chinese culture and their perception in the West. It explores the ways in which the a...
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563,56 |
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The Siren's Lament: Essential Stories
ISBN: 9781782278092 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A new selection and translation of short stories by a hugely prominent classic Japanese writer, filled with eroticism and fantasy
A new selection and translation of short stories by a hugely prominent classic Japanese writer, filled with eroticism and fantasy
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69,36 |
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Three Yuan Plays by Yang Zi: In English Translation with Full Annotations
ISBN: 9781793653413 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This is an English translation of three plays by Yang Zi-a Yuan dynasty playwright, court official, and ocean-shipping tycoon-with extensive annotations of the Chinese originals. The author conveys the way a Yuan zaju play was composed, especially in the use of its extrametrical characters.
This is an English translation of three plays by Yang Zi-a Yuan dynasty playwright, court official, and ocean-shipping tycoon-with extensive annotatio...
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470,18 |
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To Every You I've Loved Before (Light Novel)
ISBN: 9781685797270 / Angielski / Miękka / 326 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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57,76 |
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To Me, The One Who Loved You (Light Novel)
ISBN: 9781685797287 / Angielski / Miękka / 326 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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70,41 |
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Chinese Creative Writing Studies
ISBN: 9789819909308 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book introduces Chinese creative writing to the English-speaking world, considering various aspects of literary and creative theories in research in Chinese writing. It covers recent trends such as cross-media practices, pedagogy in creative writing in China, Taiwan and Hong Kong, specifically, and looks at how Chinese classical culture brings new interpretations to creative writing within a global context. Consisting of 14 chapters by established scholars and experts, writers, and poets working in various genres within the Chinese writing tradition, the book presents data accrued from...
This book introduces Chinese creative writing to the English-speaking world, considering various aspects of literary and creative theories in research...
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523,30 |
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Orientalism and Reverse Orientalism in Literature and Film: Beyond East and West
ISBN: 9780367615246 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Acknowledging the significance of Edward Said’s Orientalism for contemporary discourse, the contributors to this volume deconstruct, rearrange and challenge elements of his thesis, looking at the new conditions and opportunities offered by globalization.
Acknowledging the significance of Edward Said’s Orientalism for contemporary discourse, the contributors to this volume deconstruct, rearrange and c...
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220,35 |
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Reading South Vietnam's Writers: The Reception of Western Thought in Journalism and Literature
ISBN: 9789819910427 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This edited book examines how South Vietnam’s (formerly the Republic of Vietnam 1955-1975) literary and journalistic writers were perceived and - potentially - influenced by Western thought, led by thinkers such as Jean-Paul Sartre, Franz Kafka, Sigmund Freud, Thomas Mann, Martin Heidegger, Hermann Hesse, Edmund Husserl, Stefan Zweig, Graham Greene, and Somerset Maugham. The book reveals the dynamism and diversity of Western thought in individual literary texts, as well as among the authors themselves. The volume considers how writers and their texts engaged with issues that are socially,...
This edited book examines how South Vietnam’s (formerly the Republic of Vietnam 1955-1975) literary and journalistic writers were perceived and - po...
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563,56 |
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Imagining the Self in South Asian and African Literatures
ISBN: 9783031276040 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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483,04 |
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A Topsy-Turvy World: Short Plays and Farces from the Ming and Qing Dynasties
ISBN: 9780231208963 / Angielski / Inna Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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773,33 |
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