A History of Contemporary Chinese Literature
ISBN: 9789004157545 / Angielski / Twarda / 636 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This groundbreaking book by the eminent Peking University professor Hong Zicheng covers the literary scene in China during the 1949-1999 period, primarily focusing on fiction, poetry, drama, and prose writing. Reprinted sixteen times since its publication in the PRC in 1999 it is now available in English translation at last. The first section of the book deals with the 1949-1976 period. Often derided and ignored as an arid era for literature by both Chinese and overseas critics, Professor Hong describes the literature that was popular and officially acceptable at the time, and the cultural...
This groundbreaking book by the eminent Peking University professor Hong Zicheng covers the literary scene in China during the 1949-1999 period, prima...
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Fictional Authors, Imaginary Audiences: Modern Chinese Literature in the Twentieth Century
ISBN: 9789629961053 / Angielski / Miękka / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. While modern Chinese fiction does not necessarily constitute a reliable portrait of Chinese life, it can reveal fascinating insights into Chinese writers and their audiences. This book examines poetry, drama, film, and the visual arts, revealing their political and social context. Surveying the major trends in fiction at the end of the century, the book shows how some writers reinvented themselves as hooligans or pop stars while others reaffirmed their old alliance with the remnants of the cultural establishment.
While modern Chinese fiction does not necessarily constitute a reliable portrait of Chinese life, it can reveal fascinating insights into Chinese writ...
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133,61 zł |
Selected Short Stories of Shen Congwen
ISBN: 9789629961107 / Chiński / Miękka / 300 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Shen Congwen (1902?-1988) was one of modern China's great writers and one of the finest Chinese prose stylists of all time. Literary critics and historians have pointed to his power as a stylist and his ability to create characters with rich and realistic souls. Readers credit him with having described beautiful and fulfilling styles of life, even in materially primitive surroundings, that conjure up the "health and dignity" prized by the Crescent Moon writers. He wrote many works exposing the abuses of the military in the countryside, and the vanity of the urban bourgeoisie. Most of the... Shen Congwen (1902?-1988) was one of modern China's great writers and one of the finest Chinese prose stylists of all time. Literary critics and hi... |
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Yes Prime Manipulator: How a Chinese Translation of British Political Humor Came Into Being
ISBN: 9789629961800 / Angielski / Miękka / 280 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This is a descriptive study of the author's Chinese translation of Jonathan Lynn and Antony Jay's Yes Prime Minister, a work characterized by British political humor. Adopting a target-oriented approach, the book aims primarily to uncover the regularities that mark the relationships between the function, process, and final product of a translated text.
This is a descriptive study of the author's Chinese translation of Jonathan Lynn and Antony Jay's Yes Prime Minister, a work characterized by B...
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203,23 zł |
From a Cottager's Sketchbook: Chinese-English Bilingual Edition
ISBN: 9789629962197 / Angielski / Miękka / 600 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Liang Shih-chiu (1903-1987), a literary critic and theorist of many talents, was the first person to translate the complete works of Shakespeare into Chinese. Literary historians remember him chiefly for his conservative leanings and his infamous "war of words" with Lu Xun, the acknowledged leader of leftist writers in the 1930s. The essays in this collection consider a variety of topics, tempering social satire of postwar China with light humor, while highlighting Liang's versatile literary style. At a time when the common cry was "to write as one would speak," and a battle line was drawn...
Liang Shih-chiu (1903-1987), a literary critic and theorist of many talents, was the first person to translate the complete works of Shakespeare into ...
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128,26 zł |
Cold Literature: Selected Works by Gao Xingjian
ISBN: 9789629962456 / Angielski / Miękka / 500 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Gao Xingjian is the first Chinese Nobel Laureate in Literature. The Swedish Academy summarized his achievements as follows: "An oeuvre of universal validity, bitter insights and linguistic ingenuity, which has opened new paths for the Chines novel and drama." The collection, which aims to present the diversity of Gao's literary talents, contains the highlights of his essays, stories, plays and poems.
Gao Xingjian is the first Chinese Nobel Laureate in Literature. The Swedish Academy summarized his achievements as follows: "An oeuvre of universal va...
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187,16 zł |
Love and Women in Early Chinese Fiction
ISBN: 9789629963057 / Angielski / Twarda / 300 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book focuses on how women and love are portrayed in chuanqi fiction, a genre of Chinese literature of the Tang dynasty. It argues that the emergence of "love" as a theme in Chinese literature is closely related to the historical background of the Tang dynasty.
This book focuses on how women and love are portrayed in chuanqi fiction, a genre of Chinese literature of the Tang dynasty. It argues that the...
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240,78 zł |
Wandering Spirits: Chen Shiyuan's Encyclopedia of Dreams
ISBN: 9780520252943 / Angielski / Twarda / 312 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Dreams have been taken seriously in China for at least three millennia. Wandering Spirits is a translation and study of the most comprehensive work on dream culture in traditional China--Lofty Principles of Dream Interpretation (Mengzhan yizhi), compiled in 1562 by Chen Shiyuan and periodically reprinted up to the modern era. The best introduction to the diversity of ideas held by the educated class about dreams, this unique treatise compiles various theories, Chen's own comments concerning the nature of dreams and their role in waking life, and almost seven hundred examples...
Dreams have been taken seriously in China for at least three millennia. Wandering Spirits is a translation and study of the most comprehensive ...
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Three Kingdoms and Chinese Culture
ISBN: 9780791470121 / Angielski / Miękka / 219 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This is the first book-length treatment in English of Three Kingdoms (Sanguo yanyi), often regarded as China's first great classical novel. Set in the historical period of the disunion (220-280 AD), Three Kingdoms fuses history and popular tradition to create a sweeping epic of heroism and political ambition. The essays in this volume explore the multifarious connections between Three Kingdoms and Chinese culture from a variety of disciplines, including history, literature, philosophy, art history, theater, cultural studies, and communications, demonstrating the diversity of backgrounds...
This is the first book-length treatment in English of Three Kingdoms (Sanguo yanyi), often regarded as China's first great classical novel. Set in the...
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Herself an Author: Gender, Agency, and Writing in Late Imperial China
ISBN: 9780824831868 / Angielski / Twarda / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Grace Fong has written a wonderful history of female writers' participation in the elite conventions of Chinese poetics. Fong's recovery of many of these poets, her able exegesis and elegant, analytical grasp of what the poets were doing is a great read, and her bilingual presentation of their poetry gives the book additional power. This is a persuasive and elegant study. --Tani Barlow, author of The Question of Women in Chinese Feminism In this quietly authoritative book, Grace Fong has brought a group of women poets back to life. Previously ignored by scholars because of their... Grace Fong has written a wonderful history of female writers' participation in the elite conventions of Chinese poetics. Fong's recovery of many of... |
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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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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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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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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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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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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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274,66 zł |
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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172,97 zł |
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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181,81 zł |
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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203,23 zł |