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When I Was Born: Women's Autobiography in Modern China
ISBN: 9780299225100 / Angielski / Twarda / 276 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In the period between the 1920s and 1940s, a genre emerged in Chinese literature that would reveal crucial contradictions in Chinese culture that still exist today. At a time of intense political conflict, Chinese women began to write autobiography, a genre that focused on personal identity and self-exploration rather than the national, collective identity that the country was championing."When "I" Was Born: Women's Autobiography in Modern China" reclaims the voices of these particular writers, voices that have been misinterpreted and overlooked for decades. Tracing women writers as they move...
In the period between the 1920s and 1940s, a genre emerged in Chinese literature that would reveal crucial contradictions in Chinese culture that stil...
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Written on Water
ISBN: 9780231131391 / Angielski / Miękka / 218 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Known as "the Garbo of Chinese letters" for her elegance and the aura of mystery that surrounded her, Eileen Chang is regarded as one of the greatest and most influential modern Chinese novelists and cultural critics of the twentieth century. In "Written on Water," first published in 1945 and now available for the first time in English, Chang offers essays on art, literature, war, and urban life, as well as autobiographical reflections. Chang takes in the sights and sounds of wartime Shanghai and Hong Kong, with the tremors of national upheaval and the drone of warplanes in the background,... Known as "the Garbo of Chinese letters" for her elegance and the aura of mystery that surrounded her, Eileen Chang is regarded as one of the greate... |
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91,48 |
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Text and Ritual in Early China
ISBN: 9780295987873 / Angielski / Miękka / 362 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In Text and Ritual in Early China, leading scholars of ancient Chinese history, literature, religion, and archaeology consider the presence and use of texts in religious and political ritual. Through balanced attention to both the received literary tradition and the wide range of recently excavated artifacts, manuscripts, and inscriptions, their combined efforts reveal the rich and multilayered interplay of textual composition and ritual performance. Drawn across disciplinary boundaries, the resulting picture illuminates two of the defining features of early Chinese culture and... In Text and Ritual in Early China, leading scholars of ancient Chinese history, literature, religion, and archaeology consider the presence ... |
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135,14 |
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China Fictions / English Language : Literary Essays in Diaspora, Memory, Story
ISBN: 9789042023512 / Angielski / Miękka / 350 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The world is anything but unfamiliar with diaspora: Jewish, African, Armenian, Roma-Gipsy, Filipino/a, Tamil, Irish or Italian, even Japanese. But few have carried so global a resonance as that of China. What, then, of literary-cultural expression, the huge body of fiction which has addressed itself to that plurality of lives and geographies and which has come to be known as "After China"? This collection of essays offers bearings on those written in English, and in which both memory and story are central, spanning the USA to Australia, Canada to the UK, Hong Kong to Singapore, with yet...
The world is anything but unfamiliar with diaspora: Jewish, African, Armenian, Roma-Gipsy, Filipino/a, Tamil, Irish or Italian, even Japanese. But few...
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440,90 |
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Literary Societies of Republican China
ISBN: 9780739119334 / Angielski / Twarda / 602 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Denton and Hockx present thirteen essays treating a variety of literary organizations from China's Republican era (1911-1949). Interdisciplinary in approach, the essays are primarily concerned with describing and analyzing the social and cultural complexity of literary groupings and the role of these social formations in literary production of the period.
Denton and Hockx present thirteen essays treating a variety of literary organizations from China's Republican era (1911-1949). Interdisciplinary in ap...
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724,19 |
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Heroines of Jiangyong: Chinese Narrative Ballads in Women's Script
ISBN: 9780295988412 / Angielski / Twarda / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Heroines of Jiangyong is the first English translation of a set of verse narratives recorded in the unique women's script (nushu) of rural Jiangyong County, Hunan, in southern China. This selection of Chinese folk literature provides a rare window into the everyday life of rural daughters, wives, and mothers, as they transmit valuable lessons about surviving in a patriarchal society that is often harsh and unforgiving. Featuring strong female protagonists, the ballads deal with moral issues, dangers women face outside the family home, and the difficulties of childbirth. The... Heroines of Jiangyong is the first English translation of a set of verse narratives recorded in the unique women's script (nushu) of rural J... |
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439,34 |
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Heroines of Jiangyong: Chinese Narrative Ballads in Women's Script
ISBN: 9780295988429 / Angielski / Miękka / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Heroines of Jiangyong is the first English translation of a set of verse narratives recorded in the unique women's script (nushu) of rural Jiangyong County, Hunan, in southern China. This selection of Chinese folk literature provides a rare window into the everyday life of rural daughters, wives, and mothers, as they transmit valuable lessons about surviving in a patriarchal society that is often harsh and unforgiving. Featuring strong female protagonists, the ballads deal with moral issues, dangers women face outside the family home, and the difficulties of childbirth. The... Heroines of Jiangyong is the first English translation of a set of verse narratives recorded in the unique women's script (nushu) of rural J... |
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115,83 |
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Chinese Women Writers and the Feminist Imagination, 1905-1948
ISBN: 9780415474580 / Angielski / Miękka / 312 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Charting the literary works and life journeys of eight leading women writers in modern China, this study examines the politics and poetics of Chinese transcultural feminism within the boundaries of bourgeois feminist selfhood. It also explores the history of 20th century Chinese feminist consciousness and its centrality in the Chinese Revolution.
Charting the literary works and life journeys of eight leading women writers in modern China, this study examines the politics and poetics of Chinese ...
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270,31 |
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Resisting Manchukuo: Chinese Women Writers and the Japanese Occupation
ISBN: 9780774813365 / Angielski / Miękka / 216 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "Resisting Manchukuo" reveals the literary world of Japanese-occupied Manchuria (Manchukuo, 1932-45) and examines the lives, careers, and literary legacies of seven prolific Chinese women writers during the occupation.In Manchukuo, a complex blend of fear and freedom produced an environment in which Chinese women writers could articulate dissatisfaction with the overtly patriarchal and imperialist nature of the Japanese cultural agenda while working in close association with colonial institutions.The first book in English on women's history in twentieth-century Manchuria, "Resisting...
"Resisting Manchukuo" reveals the literary world of Japanese-occupied Manchuria (Manchukuo, 1932-45) and examines the lives, careers, and literary leg...
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144,78 |
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Accidental Incest, Filial Cannibalism, and Other Peculiar Encounters in Late Imperial Chinese Literature
ISBN: 9780674031562 / Angielski / Twarda / 325 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This work traces how political questions were addressed in late imperial Chinese fiction through extreme situations such as husbands and wives torn apart in periods of political upheaval and families so disrupted that incestuous encounters became inevitable.
This work traces how political questions were addressed in late imperial Chinese fiction through extreme situations such as husbands and wives torn ap...
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172,54 |
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The Naked Gaze: Reflections on Chinese Modernity
ISBN: 9780674031746 / Angielski / Twarda / 350 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A study of visuality in early modern and modern China, focusing less on imagery, and more on how vision itself has been conceived, imagined, and deployed in a variety of discursive contexts.
A study of visuality in early modern and modern China, focusing less on imagery, and more on how vision itself has been conceived, imagined, and deplo...
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192,86 |
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Reading Tao Yuanming: Shifting Paradigms of Historical Reception (427 - 1900)
ISBN: 9780674031845 / Angielski / Twarda / 350 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This is a study of the posthumous reputation of Tao Yuanming, a central figure in Chinese literary history. It focuses on readers' interpretive negotiations with Tao's works and on changes in hermeneutical practices, critical vocabulary, and cultural demands.
This is a study of the posthumous reputation of Tao Yuanming, a central figure in Chinese literary history. It focuses on readers' interpretive negoti...
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213,19 |
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China's Literary and Cultural Scenes at the Turn of the 21st Century
ISBN: 9780415420785 / Angielski / Twarda / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. China's literary and cultural production at the turn of the twenty-first century is marked by heterogeneity, plurality, and diversity. This title offers an introduction to some of the important works published at the turn of twenty-first century. It explor
China's literary and cultural production at the turn of the twenty-first century is marked by heterogeneity, plurality, and diversity. This title offe...
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700,05 |
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Literary Societies of Republican China
ISBN: 9780739119341 / Angielski / Miękka / 602 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Literary Societies in Republican China provides a new and comprehensive perspective on the fascinating literary world of the most turbulent period in recent Chinese history: the Republican era of 1911-1949. Wedged between the fall of the Empire and the founding of the Communist state, the Republican period witnessed enormous social, political, and cultural changes. Traditionally the period is seen as one of transition: from the country being partially colonized and occupied to being an independent nation-state, from Confucianism to socialism, from writing in classical Chinese to writing in...
Literary Societies in Republican China provides a new and comprehensive perspective on the fascinating literary world of the most turbulent period in ...
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304,15 |
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The Literary Field of Twentieth Century China
ISBN: 9780700710737 / Angielski / Twarda / 252 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. At least since the late nineteenth century onwards, Chinese literature as a form of cultural production has been taking place within a specific social space, including writers, critics, journalists, editors, publishers, printers and booksellers. Focusing on people as well as on texts, and looking at what writers did as well as at what they wrote, the essays in this volume draw a vivid and variegated picture of Chinese literary life throughout the modern period. The book treats differences between periods, but also traces the continuities that have characterised modern Chinese literary... At least since the late nineteenth century onwards, Chinese literature as a form of cultural production has been taking place within a specific soc... |
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700,05 |
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A History of Pain: Trauma in Modern Chinese Literature and Film
ISBN: 9780231141628 / Angielski / Twarda / 432 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The portrayal of historical atrocity in fiction, film, and popular culture can reveal much about the function of individual memory and the shifting status of national identity. In the context of Chinese culture, films such as Hou Hsiao-hsien's City of Sadness and Lou Ye's Summer Palace and novels such as Ye Zhaoyan's Nanjing 1937: A Love Story and Wang Xiaobo's The Golden Age collectively reimagine past horrors and give rise to new historical narratives. Michael Berry takes an innovative look at the representation of six specific historical traumas in modern...
The portrayal of historical atrocity in fiction, film, and popular culture can reveal much about the function of individual memory and the shifting st...
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Reflections on Dream of the Red Chamber
ISBN: 9781604975246 / Angielski / Twarda / 332 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book is the much awaited English translation of Liu Zaifu's book, Reflections on Dream of the Red Chamber. The book consists of three parts-reflections on Dream of the Red Chamber, comments on Dream of the Red Chamber, and discussions on Dream of the Red Chamber. There is also an appendix, "A Discussion of the Philosophy in Dream of the Red Chamber," a speech delivered by Liu Zaifu at the Institute of Philosophy, Central University and at the Chinese Department of Tunghai University, Taiwan, in December 2005. The first part comprises two hundred and four personal reflections on all...
This book is the much awaited English translation of Liu Zaifu's book, Reflections on Dream of the Red Chamber. The book consists of three parts-refle...
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468,07 |
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From Ah Q to Lei Feng: Freud and Revolutionary Spirit in 20th Century China
ISBN: 9780804700757 / Angielski / Twarda / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. When Freudian sexual theory hit China in the early 20th century, it ran up against competing models of the mind from both Chinese tradition and the new revolutionary culture. Chinese theorists of the mind--both traditional intellectuals and revolutionary psychologists-- steadily put forward the anti-Freud: a mind shaped not by deep interiority that must be excavated by professionals, but shaped instead by social and cultural interactions. Chinese novelists and film directors understood this focus and its relationship to Mao's revolutionary ethos, and much of the literature of...
When Freudian sexual theory hit China in the early 20th century, it ran up against competing models of the mind from both Chinese tradition and the ne...
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304,15 |
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Chinese Poetry in Times of Mind, Mayhem and Money
ISBN: 9789004163829 / Angielski / Twarda / 518 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Chinese Poetry in Times of Mind, Mayhem and Money is a groundbreaking contribution to scholarship, well-suited to classroom use in that it combines rigorous analysis with a lively style. Covering the period from the 1980s to the present, it is organized around the notions of text, context and metatext, meaning poetry, its socio-political and cultural surroundings, and critical discourse in the broadest sense. Authors and issues studied include Han Dong, Haizi, Xi Chuan, Yu Jian, Sun Wenbo, Yang Lian, Wang Jiaxin, Bei Dao, Yin Lichuan, Shen Haobo and Yan Jun, and everything from the...
Chinese Poetry in Times of Mind, Mayhem and Money is a groundbreaking contribution to scholarship, well-suited to classroom use in that it comb...
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699,50 |
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Gao Xingjian's Idea of Theatre: From the Word to the Image
ISBN: 9789004168282 / Angielski / Twarda / 248 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book argues that Gao Xingjian's Idea of Theatre can only be explained by his broad knowledge and use of various Chinese and Western theatrical, literary, artistic and philosophical traditions. The author aims to show how Gao's theories of the theatre of anti-illusion, theatre of conscious convention, of the "poor theatre" and total theatre, of the neutral actor and the actor - jester - storyteller are derived from the Far Eastern tradition, and to what extent they have been inspired by 20th century Euro-American reformers of theatre such as Antonin Artaud, Bertolt Brecht, Vsevolod...
This book argues that Gao Xingjian's Idea of Theatre can only be explained by his broad knowledge and use of various Chinese and Western theatr...
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