Asian Literature

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Teaching and Transformation in Popular Confucian Literature of the Late Qing

By Katherine L Alexander
Subjects: Asian Studies, China, Literary Studies, Asian Literature

How disasters compelled moral reformers to transform society and imagine new ways of reaching audiences in the Qing era

Gendered Memories

An Imaginary Museum for Ding Ling and Chinese Female Revolutionary Martyrs

By Xian Wang
Subjects: Asian Studies, China, Literary Studies, Asian Literature
Series: China Understandings Today

An imaginary museum of the legacies of Chinese female revolutionary martyrs

In Search of Admiration and Respect

Chinese Cultural Diplomacy in the United States, 1875–1974

By Yanqiu Zheng
Subjects: Asian Studies, China, Political Science, Political Behavior and Public Opinion, Cultural Studies, History, Chinese History, Art, Art History, Literary Studies, Asian Literature, Theater and Performance
Series: China Understandings Today

Reframes cultural diplomacy as part of China's ongoing quest for modernity beyond wealth and power

Samurai with Telephones

Anachronism in Japanese Literature

By Christopher Smith
Subjects: Asian Studies, Japan, Literary Studies, Asian Literature
Series: Michigan Monograph Series in Japanese Studies

What anachronisms reveal about historical narratives through Early Modern and Modern Japanese cultural products

Transnational Philippines

Cultural Encounters in Philippine Literature in Spanish

Edited by Rocío Ortuño Casanova & Axel Gasquet
Subjects: Asian Studies, South/Southeast Asia, Literary Studies, Asian Literature, Cultural Studies, Latinx Studies

A study of Philippine literary production that attempts to break the nation’s isolation from broader Spanish literature

Paris and the Art of Transposition

Early Twentieth Century Sino-French Encounters

By Angie Chau
Subjects: Asian Studies, China, Literary Studies, Asian Literature, Art, Art History
Series: China Understandings Today

How Chinese artists created a transnational imaginary

Cosmopolitan Love

Utopian Vision in D. H. Lawrence and Eileen Chang

By Sijia Yao
Subjects: Asian Studies, China, Literary Studies, Asian Literature, British and Irish Literatures, Cultural Studies

Analyzes the writing of D. H. Lawrence and Eileen Chang to envision how love crosses cultural boundaries

How Dark Is My Flower

Yosano Akiko and the Invention of Romantic Love

By Leith Morton
Subjects: Asian Studies, Japan, Literary Studies, Modern Literature, Asian Literature
Series: Michigan Monograph Series in Japanese Studies

Explores romantic love in modern Japanese literature through the work of the leading poet in the Myōjō circle

The Three Treasures

A Revised and Illustrated Study and Translation of Minamoto no Tamenori's Sanboe

By Edward Kamens & Ethan Bushelle
Subjects: Asian Studies, Japan, Literary Studies, Asian Literature
Series: Michigan Monograph Series in Japanese Studies

An updated, augmented, and illustrated study and translation of this landmark collection of Buddhist tales

Queer Subjects in Modern Japanese Literature

Male Love, Intimacy, and Erotics, 1886–2014

Edited by Stephen D. Miller
Subjects: Asian Studies, Japan, Gender Studies, Gay and Lesbian Studies, Literary Studies, Asian Literature
Series: Michigan Monograph Series in Japanese Studies

Minor Salvage

The Korean War and Korean American Life Writings

By Stephen Hong Sohn
Subjects: Asian Studies, Korea, Literary Studies, Asian Literature, History, Asian and Southeast Asian History

Explores the forgotten archives and life writings of Korean War refugees

Peony Pavilion Onstage

Four Centuries in the Career of a Chinese Drama

By Catherine Swatek
Subjects: Theater and Performance, Literary Studies, Asian Literature, Asian Studies, China
Series: Michigan Monographs in Chinese Studies

One of the few full-length English-language studies of Chinese drama and the only one to focus on the pivotal Kun opera Peony Pavilion

The Journey

Stories by K. C. Das

By K.C. Das & K.C. Das
Translated by Phyllis Granoff
Subjects: Literary Studies, Asian Literature, Asian Studies, South/Southeast Asia
Series: Michigan Papers on South and Southeast Asia

This exceptional collection of stories explores human emotions and motivations in all their untidiness.

A Guide to Chinese Literature

By Wilt Idema & Lloyd L. Haft
Translated by Lloyd Haft
Subjects: Literary Studies, Asian Literature, Asian Studies, China
Series: Michigan Monographs in Chinese Studies

A comprehensive overview of China's 3,000 years of literary history, from its beginnings to the present day

The Tower of Myriad Mirrors

A Supplement to <em>Journey to the West</em>

By Tung Yueh, Yueh Tung
Translated by Shuen-fu Lin, and Larry J. Schulz
Subjects: Literary Studies, Asian Literature, Asian Studies, China
Series: Michigan Classics in Chinese Studies

Mixing slapstick and satire, Monkey’s enlightenment offers a glimpse into late Ming intellectual history

Gendered Power

Educated Women of the Meiji Empress' Court

By Mamiko Suzuki
Subjects: Asian Studies, Japan, Gender Studies, Women's Studies, History, Asian and Southeast Asian History, Literary Studies, Asian Literature
Series: Michigan Monograph Series in Japanese Studies

Examines the contributions of three powerful Meiji women and how their own education and ideas about Japanese women’s potential shaped how females were to participate in modern society

Beyond the Gender Gap in Japan

By Gill Steel
Subjects: Asian Studies, Japan, Gender Studies, Women's Studies, History, Asian and Southeast Asian History, Political Science, Cultural Studies, Literary Studies, Asian Literature
Series: Michigan Monograph Series in Japanese Studies

Gives critical attention to the issue of Japan’s low level of gender equality and the conflicting information from surveys of women reporting a high sense of well-being

Textures of Mourning

Calligraphy, Mortality, and The Tale of Genji Scrolls

By Reginald Jackson
Subjects: Asian Studies, Japan, Literary Studies, Asian Literature, Cultural Studies, Theater and Performance, Gender Studies
Series: Michigan Monograph Series in Japanese Studies

Unfolds the intimate relationship between mourning, writing, reading, painting, and viewing, through The Tale of Genji and its legacy

On the Bullet Train with Emily Brontë

Wuthering Heights in Japan

By Judith Pascoe
Subjects: Literary Studies, British and Irish Literatures, Asian Literature, Asian Studies, Japan

Reveals how and why Brontë’s novel won a huge following in Japan and has been reimagined by writers and manga artists

 

Remembering Tanizaki Jun’ichiro and Matsuko

Diary Entries, Interview Notes, and Letters, 1954-1989

By Anthony Chambers
Subjects: Asian Studies, Japan, Literary Studies, Asian Literature, Biography, Memoir
Series: Michigan Monograph Series in Japanese Studies

An essential companion for Tanizaki scholars and aficionados alike, providing a glimpse of the man from those closest to him

Childhood Years

A Memoir

By Jun'ichiro Tanizaki
Subjects: Asian Studies, Japan, Literary Studies, Asian Literature, Memoir
Series: Michigan Monograph Series in Japanese Studies

Set against the modernization of Japan, this memoir offers a moving look at famed novelist Tanizaki' Jun'ichirō’s early years

 

The Gourmet Club

A Sextet

By Jun'ichiro Tanizaki
Translated by Anthony Chambers & Paul McCarthy
Subjects: Asian Studies, Japan, Literary Studies, Asian Literature, 20th Century Literature
Series: Michigan Monograph Series in Japanese Studies

Six short stories by Tanizaki Jun'ichiro (1886–1965), capturing the breadth of his literary oeuvre

Red Roofs and Other Stories

By Jun'ichiro Tanizaki
Translated by Paul McCarthy & Anthony Chambers
Subjects: Asian Studies, Japan, Literary Studies, Asian Literature, 20th Century Literature
Series: Michigan Monograph Series in Japanese Studies

Four short stories by master storyteller, Tanizaki Jun'ichiro, newly translated into English

The Magellan Fallacy

Globalization and the Emergence of Asian and African Literature in Spanish

By Adam Lifshey
Subjects: Cultural Studies, African Studies, Literary Studies, Asian Literature, Asian Studies, South/Southeast Asia, African American Studies

Now available in paperback—the award-winning first study of Spanish-language literature of Southeast Asia and West Africa

Ecoambiguity

Environmental Crises and East Asian Literatures

By Karen Thornber
Subjects: Cultural Studies, Literary Studies, Asian Literature, Literary Criticism and Theory, Nature/Environment

Delving into the complex, contradictory relationships between humans and the environment in Asian literatures

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