Chinese Cinema:Identity, Power, and Globalization
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Releasing Date:2024-04Categories:Films & Video
In Chinese Cinema: Identity, Power, and Globalization, a variety of scholars explore the history, aesthetics, and politics of Chinese cinema as the Chinese film industry grapples with its place as the second largest film industry in the world. Exploring the various ways that Chinese cinema engages with global politics, market fo... Read More
Studies in Colloquial Chinese and Its History:Dialect and Text
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Releasing Date:2024-04Categories:Language Learning
Studies in Colloquial Chinese and Its History: Dialect and Text presents cutting-edge research into issues regarding prestige colloquial languages in China in their spoken forms and as well as their relationship to written forms and the colloquial literary language. These include the standard regional languages and prestige dial... Read More
Ozu:A Closer Look
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Releasing Date:2024-04Categories:Films & Video
Based on a close reading of Japanese director Yasujiro Ozu’s extant films, this book provides insights into the ways the director created narrative structures and used symbolism to construct meaning in his films. Against critics’ insistence that Ozu was indifferent to plot and unlikely to use symbols, Geist demonstrates otherwis... Read More
Chiang Yee and His Circle:Chinese Artistic and Intellectual Life in Britain, 1930–1950
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Releasing Date:2024-04Categories:Professionals & Academics Historical Figures
This book, Chiang Yee and His Circle: Chinese Artistic and Intellectual Life in Britain, 1930–1950, celebrates the life and work of Chiang Yee (1903–1977), a Chinese writer, poet, and painter who made his home in London, England during the 1930s and 1940s. It examines Chiang’s relationship with his circle of friends and colleagu... Read More
Rebel Men:Masculinity and Attitude in Postsocialist Chinese Literature
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Releasing Date:2024-04Categories:Cultural History
Masculinity, fast-changing and regularly declared to be in the throes of crisis, is attracting more popular and scholarly debate in China than ever before. At the same time, Chinese literature since 1989 has been characterized as brimming with countercultural ‘attitude’. This book probes the link between literary rebellion and m... Read More
The Making of Chinese-Sinophone Literatures as World Literature
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Releasing Date:2024-04Categories:Theory
In The Making of Chinese-Sinophone Literatures as World Literature, Kuei-fen Chiu and Yingjin Zhang aim to bridge the distance between the scholarship of world literature and that of Chinese and Sinophone literary studies. This edited volume advances research on world literature by bringing in new developments in Chinese/Sinopho... Read More
The Many Faces of Ruan Dacheng:Poet, Playwright, Politician in Seventeenth-Century China
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Releasing Date:2024-04Categories:Professionals & Academics Historical Figures
The Many Faces of Ruan Dacheng: Poet, Playwright, Politician in Seventeenth-Century China is the first monograph in English on a controversial Ming dynasty literary figure. It examines and re-assesses the life and work of Ruan Dacheng (1587–1646), a poet, dramatist, and politician in the late Ming period. Ruan Dacheng was in his... Read More
Searching for Sweetness:Women’s Mobile Lives in China and Lesotho
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Releasing Date:2024-04Categories:Africa Religion
Traversing from the rapidly urbanising county-level city of Fuqing to the remote mountainous kingdom of Lesotho in Southern Africa, Searching for Sweetness is one of the first and most extensive ethnographies linking rural-to-urban migration in China with Chinese migration to Africa. Against the backdrop of China’s national stru... Read More
The Last of China’s Literati:The Music, Poetry and Life of Tsar Teh-yun
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Releasing Date:2024-04Categories:Professionals & Academics Historical Figures
In this biography of Tsar Teh-yun, centenarian poet, calligrapher, and qin master, Professor Bell Yung tells the story of a life steeped in the refined arts faithful to the traditional way of the Chinese literati. Set in the two cities of Shanghai and Hong Kong, this book recounts the experiences of an individual who lived throu... Read More
Frames of Anime:Culture and Image-Building
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Releasing Date:2024-04Categories:Cultural History
Japanese anime has long fascinated the world, and its mythical heroes and dazzling colors increasingly influence popular culture genres in the West. Tze-yue G. Hu analyzes the “language-medium” of this remarkable expressive platform and its many socio-cultural dimensions from a distinctly Asian frame of reference, tracing its la... Read More
The Old Shanghai A–Z
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Releasing Date:2024-04Categories:Chinese Culture Historical Study
This richly anecdotal guide to every street in Shanghai details many landmarks and stories associated with its best known avenues. A definitive index to the street names of Shanghai, some of which have disappeared or been removed, allows historians, researchers, tourists and the just plain curious to navigate the city in its pre... Read More
Reluctant Heroes:Rickshaw Pullers in Hong Kong and Canton, 1874–1954
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Releasing Date:2024-04Categories:Social Sciences
Through the history of rickshaw pullers in Hong Kong and Canton, Reluctant Heroes provides a rich portrait of the urban milieu and life in two contrasting yet interrelated cities in South China. Fung Chi Ming explains the dynamics between the rickshaw pullers’ participation in collective action and the intervention of the Britis... Read More
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