Far Eastern list 13

The Cultural Revolution and Overacting

Dynamics between Politics and Performance

by Tuo Wang
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2014

The Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution, which took place in China between 1966 and 1976, was a major political and social tragedy in Chinese history. As part of an effort to understand how the state enforced control amid seeming chaos, this book looks at the ubiquitous revolutionary presentations...

Zeami

Performance Notes

by Motoyiko Zeami
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2008

Zeami (1363-1443), Japan's most celebrated actor and playwright, composed more than thirty of the finest plays of no drama. He also wrote a variety of texts on theater and performance that have, until now, been only partially available in English. Zeami: Performance Notes presents the full...

Envisioning The Tale of Genji

Media, Gender, and Cultural Production

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Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2008

Bringing together scholars from across the world, Haruo Shirane presents a fascinating portrait of The Tale of Genji's reception and reproduction over the past thousand years. The essays examine the canonization of the work from the late Heian through the medieval, Edo, Meiji, Taisho, Showa, and Heisei...

Literati Storytelling in Late Medieval China

by Manling Luo
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2015

Scholar-officials of late medieval China were not only enthusiastic in amateur storytelling, but also showed unprecedented interest in recording stories on different aspects of literati life. These stories appeared in diverse forms, including narrative poems, “tales of the marvelous,” “records...

The Poet-historian Qian Qianyi

by Lawrence C.H Yim
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2009

This book is the first English language study of Qian Qianyi (1582-1664) - a poet and literary critic during the Ming-Qing dynastic transition. Although Qian’s works constitute some of the greatest achievements in pre-modern Chinese lyric poetry, they have been largely understudied and are poorly...

C. T. Hsia on Chinese Literature

by C. T. Hsia
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2004

Best known for the groundbreaking works A History of Modern Chinese Fiction (1961) and The Classic Chinese Novel (1968), C. T. Hsia has gathered sixteen essays and studies written during his Columbia years as a professor of Chinese literature. Wider in range and scope, C. T. Hsia on Chinese Literature...

Novel Medicine

Healing, Literature, and Popular Knowledge in Early Modern China

by Andrew Schonebaum
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2016

By examining the dynamic interplay between discourses of fiction and medicine, Novel Medicine demonstrates how fiction incorporated, created, and disseminated medical knowledge in China, beginning in the sixteenth century. Critical readings of fictional and medical texts provide a counterpoint to...

Consuming Literature

Best Sellers and the Commercialization of Literary Production in Contemporary China

by Shuyu Kong
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2004

This book examines the changes taking place in literary writing and publishing in contemporary China under the influence of the emerging market economy. It focuses on the revival of literary best sellers in the Chinese book market and the establishment of a best-seller production machine. The author...

Practical Ethics for Our Time

by Eiji Uehiro
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2012

A scathing critique of the global consumer culture that's bound to cause controversy among Western readers, Practical Ethics for Our Time argues that Japan's future success as a nation depends upon the ability of its citizens to uphold traditional family values and to fashion new, environmentally...

Femininity, Self-harm and Eating Disorders in Japan

Navigating contradiction in narrative and visual culture

by Gitte Marianne Hansen
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2015

From the 1980s onwards, the incidence of eating disorders and self-harm has increased among Japanese women, who report receiving mixed messages about how to be women. Mirroring this, women’s self-directed violence has increasingly been thematised in diverse Japanese narrative and visual culture. This...

Translation in Modern Japan

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Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2010

The role of translation in the formation of modern Japanese identities has become one of the most exciting new fields of inquiry in Japanese studies. This book marks the first attempt to establish the contours of this new field, bringing together seminal works of Japanese scholarship and criticism...

Imagining Harmony

Poetry, Empathy, and Community in Mid-Tokugawa Confucianism and Nativism

by Peter Flueckiger
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2010

Many intellectuals in eighteenth-century Japan valued classical poetry in either Chinese or Japanese for its expression of unadulterated human sentiments. They also saw such poetry as a distillation of the language and aesthetic values of ancient China and Japan, which offered models of the good government...

Representing Children in Chinese and U.S. Children's Literature

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Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2016

Bringing together children’s literature scholars from China and the United States, this collection provides an introduction to the scope and goals of a field characterized by active but also distinctive scholarship in two countries with very different rhetorical traditions. The volume’s five sections...

Origins of Modern Japanese Literature

by Kojin Karatani
Language: English
Release Date: May 28, 1993

Since its publication in Japan ten years ago, the Origins of Modern Japanese Literature has become a landmark book, playing a pivotal role in defining discussions of modernity in that country. Against a history of relative inattention on the part of Western translators to modern Asian critical theory,...