Resultaten gefilterd op "Cornell East Asia Series"

Silvery World and Other Stories

• Paperback | Engels
• This anthology is an exciting new collection of Korean fiction in translation from the early years of the twentieth century that demonstrate the polit... Lees meer

Principles of Poetry

Sakutaro Hagiwara

• Paperback | Engels
• This work comprises the first complete English translation of Shi no Genri, one of the most important attempts at a theory of literature written in th... Lees meer

Description and Explanation in Korean Linguistics

• Paperback | Engels
• This volume brings together fifteen new papers on Korean linguistics originally presented at the Ninth International Conference on Korean Linguistics,... Lees meer

Dragonflies

• Paperback | Engels | Cornell East Asia Series, | nr. 115
• Dragonflies is an anthology containing twelve selections ranging from short stories to novellas, and spans the century from the May Fourth Movement to... Lees meer

Across the Perilous Sea

Charlotte Von Verschuer

• Hardcover | Engels
• Originally published as Le commerce extérieur du Japon des origines au XVIe siécle in 1988, this new edition of the landmark French study chronicles J... Lees meer

Japan's National Security

Peter J Katzenstein, Nobuo Okawara

• Paperback | Engels | Cornell East Asia Series, | nr. 58
• Japan's National Security offers a detailed examination of Japan's distinctive security policy. It traces in considerable detail the evolution of Japa... Lees meer

The Wind from Vulture Peak

Stephen D Miller

• Hardcover | Engels
• The Wind from Vulture Peak addresses the history of the gradual incorporation of Buddhist concepts into Heian waka poetry and the development among co... Lees meer

Selected Poems of Kim Namjo (Ceas)

Namjo Kim

• Paperback | Engels | Cornell East Asia Series, | nr. 63
• A generous selection of poems by one of Korea's most honored and highly regarded poets. Kim Namjo published her first book of poems, Life (Moksum) , i... Lees meer

Conflict in Modern Japanese History

• Paperback | Engels
• First published by Princeton University Press in 1982, this volume depicts the conflict and uncertainty that have bedeviled modern Japan. The eighteen... Lees meer

Cultural Imprints

• Hardcover | Engels
• Cultural Imprints draws on literary works, artifacts, performing arts, and documents that were created by or about the samurai to examine individual "... Lees meer

Backed Against the Sea (Ceas)

Wen-Hsing Wang

• Paperback | Engels | Cornell East Asia Series | nr. 67
• Written as the ludicrous and disturbing ramblings of an errant, pseudo-intellectual urbanite secluding himself from the underworld in an impoverished ... Lees meer

The Minjian Avant-Garde

Chang Tan

• Hardcover | Engels
• The Minjian Avant-Garde studies how experimental artists in China mixed with, brought changes to, and let themselves be transformed by minjian, the vo... Lees meer

Visioning Eternity

Thomas D Looser

• Paperback | Engels
• In one of the more remarkable public events of the Tokugawa world, the shogun responded to a deepening crisis in 1840s by sponsoring a huge, "once-in-... Lees meer

Like a Knife

Andrew F Jones

• Paperback | Engels | Cornell East Asia Series | nr. 57
• The first comprehensive study of Chinese popular music in a Western language. Drawing on extensive interviews with singers, songwriters and critics, a... Lees meer

Indian Summer

Mieko Kanai

• Paperback | Engels | New Japanese Horizons
• Indian Summer (Koharu biyori) is the title of a relatively short novel by Kanai Mieko (b. 1947), recognized by critics both inside and outside Japan a... Lees meer

The Return of the Gods

David G Goodman

• Paperback | Engels | Cornell East Asia Series, | nr. 116
• First published in 1988 and now available in a photo-reprint paperback edition, this book provides an important perspective on the theatre, culture, a... Lees meer

The Secret Island and the Enticing Flame

Edwin A Cranston

• Hardcover | Engels
• The three "essays" in this book draw on the translator's work on love poetry--classical waka and the tanka of Yosano Akiko (1878-1942)--but also intro... Lees meer

I Love Bill and Other Stories

Anyi Wang

• Paperback | Engels
• I Love Bill and Other Stories showcases the work of Wang Anyi, one of China's most prolific and highly regarded writers, in two novellas and three sho... Lees meer

Xuanhe Catalogue of Paintings

• Paperback | Engels
• Xuanhe Catalogue of Paintings is the first complete translation of the well-known document produced at the court of Emperor Huizong (r. 1100-1125). Da... Lees meer

Pioneers of Modern Japanese Poetry

• Paperback | Engels, Japans | New Japanese Horizons
• This bilingual book presents a generous selection of work by four distinguished twentieth-century poets who made significant contributions to the deve... Lees meer

Strange Tales from Strange Lands

Wanlong Zheng

• Paperback | Engels | Cornell East Asia Series, | nr. 66
• A powerful depiction of the tensions generated by conflicts of sexuality and ethnicity in contemporary China. These tensions evolved partly from the s... Lees meer

I Saw a Pale Horse and Selected Poems from Diary of a Vagabond

Fumiko Hayashi

• Hardcover | Engels
• Hayashi Fumiko, one of the most popular prose writers of the Showa era, began writing as a down-and-out poet wandering the streets of 1920s Tokyo. In ... Lees meer

Land of Volcanic Ash

Sakae Kubo

• Paperback | Engels
• Kubo Sakae's Land of Volcanic Ash (Kazanbaichi) is recognized as the major socialist realist drama of pre-war Japan. The play, which describes the str... Lees meer

The Prophet and Other Stories (Ceas)

Chong-Jun Yi

• Hardcover | Engels | Cornell East Asia Series | nr. 101
• Yi Ch'ōng-Jun was born in 1939 and graduated from the department of German language and literature at Seoul National University in 1966. He has long b... Lees meer