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This book examines how Chinese thinkers and writers drew on foreign literature between 1918 and 1958 in order to construct China's independent cultural identity. By covering work by authors such as Lu Xun, Yuan Shu, Zhou Libo, Bing Xin, Ding Lin, Guo Xiaochuan, Ye...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2026-01-02
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In this Open Access book, the reader is presented with an outlook on current developments in Japanese Animal Ethics and how Ando Shoeki's depictions of non-human animals, as well as the examination of Chinese and Japanese traditions of animal description, could give a...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2025-12-19
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This book offers a profound exploration of the classic Chinese novel Dream of the Red Chamber, recognized as a masterpiece of traditional Chinese literature. Developed from a series of lectures at the Shanghai Library, the text features insights from ten prominent...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2025-06-10
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This book offers a detailed analysis of China’s original view of literature and art theory and critical practice from the ancient to the modern period, providing views on dancing, image making, the circulation of artifacts, critical theory, creative writing, art design,...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2024-11-21
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In diesem Open Access Buch nähert sich Nicole Marion Mueller mithilfe innovativer digitaler Methoden dem japanischen Übersetzungspluralismus im 20. Jahrhundert und seinen historischen Rahmenbedingungen an. Dabei bezieht sie sich auf Thomas Mann, der Japans...
Editeur :
J.B. Metzler
Parution :
2024-08-21
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This book presents the concept of Fenggu, one of the most important aesthetic categories of ancient China. As an inspiring aesthetic principle, it once encapsulated the particularities of various types of artistic creation and played an important role in...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2024-07-05
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This book investigates the ways in which the family unit is now perceived in South and Southeast Asia and the Asian diaspora: its numerous conceptions and the changes it has undergone over the last century and into the new one. The prevailing threads that run through a...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2024-06-24
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This book offers a key analysis of the changing perceptions of family in East Asian societies and the dynamic metamorphosis of “traditional” family units through the twentieth century and into the new millennium. The book focuses on investigations of the Asian family as...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2024-06-19
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This book has been groundbreaking for scholars of the Cultural Revolution, but hitherto was only available in Japanese and Chinese.This edition allows English-language readers to access the work for the first time. The author explains how political struggles within the...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2024-06-18
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This book systematically studies the literary output of female writers in contemporary China within the frame of literary theories of feminism. With tools from psychoanalysis, structuralism and deconstructionism, the two female authors, Meng and Dai, analyze 9 important...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2023-09-30
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This book considers how music, musicality, and ideologies of musicality are working within the specific construction of waka on the theme of male love in Kitamura Kigin’s Iwatsutsuji (1676) and Ihara Saikaku’s Nanshoku okagami (1687) by using a modified generative...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2023-08-30
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This book offers queer readings of Chinese Qing Dynasty zhiguai, ‘strange tales’, a genre featuring supernatural characters and events. In a unique approach interweaving Chinese philosophies alongside critical theories, this book explores tales which speak to...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2023-08-23
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Dieses Buch untersucht die besonderen Beiträge chinesischer Romanautoren zur China-Debatte im Hinblick auf die Schlüsselthemen chinesische Sprache, Machtdynamik und konfuzianische Tradition. Während China auf dem Vormarsch ist, debattieren chinesische Wissenschaftler...
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Springer VS
Parution :
2023-05-27
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This volume stems from the understanding that historiographical analyses of the Gita's reception overlook the element of its translation. It begins with this recognition and posits translation as fundamental to any understanding of the Gita's reception. It examines in...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2023-03-30
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The interest among Victorian readers in classical literature from Asia has been greatly underestimated.The popularity of the Arabian Nights andThe Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam is well documented. Yet this was also an era in which freethinkers consulted the Quran, in which...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2023-03-29
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The interest among Victorian readers in classical literature from Asia has been greatly underestimated.The popularity of the Arabian Nights andThe Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam is well documented. Yet this was also an era in which freethinkers consulted the Quran, in which...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2023-03-14
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This book is an anthology of research co-edited by Dr. Chia-rong Wu (University of Canterbury) and Professor Ming-ju Fan (National Chengchi University).This collection of original essays integrates and expands research on Taiwan literature because it includes both...
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Springer
Parution :
2023-02-03
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Words have power. Yet that power must be rooted in truth and justice.Words must never stand apart from those principles.'You end this collection…vowing to never let life, or writing, get so complicated again' GuardianReaders who have long wondered where the mysterious...
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Vintage Digital
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2022-11-08
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This book examines the Chinese fictions (xiaoshuo) published between 1898 and 1927 – three pivotal decades, during which China underwent significant social changes. It applies Narratology and Sociology of the Novel methods to analyze both the texts themselves and the...
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Springer
Parution :
2022-02-17
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This book explores Chinese novelists’ distinctive contributions to the China debate in terms of the key issues of Chinese language, power dynamics and Confucian tradition. As China is rising, Chinese scholars and policymakers are debating heatedly over China’s...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2022-01-03
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