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Hardcover. One of the more intriguing developments within medieval Japanese literature is the incorporation into the teaching of waka poetry of the practices of initiation ceremonies and secret transmissions found in esoteric Buddhism. This is a study of such texts. Series: Harvard-Yenching Institute Monograph Series. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: 1FPJ; 2GJ; DSBB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 231 x 165 x 29. Weight in Grams: 668.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
Harvard University Press United States
Number of pages
320
Condition
New
SKU
V9780674009561
ISBN
9780674009561
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 45.99
€ 38.60

Hardcover. "Rulin waishi" (The Unofficial History of the Scholars) is an 18th century landmark in the history of the Chinese novel. Through a close reading of this novel, the author seeks answers to such questions as: what accounts for the literati's enthusiasm for writing and reading novels? Series: Harvard-Yenching Institute Monograph Series. Num Pages: 325 pages. BIC Classification: 1FPC; 2GDC; DSBD; DSK; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 162 x 32. Weight in Grams: 658.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
Harvard University Press United States
Number of pages
325
Condition
New
SKU
V9780674010956
ISBN
9780674010956
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 43.99
€ 36.51

Hardcover. The goal of this volume is to consider the relationship of writing to materiality in China's literary history and to ponder the physical aspects of the production and circulation of writing. Editor(s): Zeitlin, Judith T.; Liu, Lydia H. Series: Harvard-Yenching Institute Monograph Series. Num Pages: 620 pages, 94 illustrations. BIC Classification: 2GDC; DSA; DSB; GTC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 163 x 46. Weight in Grams: 1036.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
Harvard University Press United States
Number of pages
620
Condition
New
SKU
V9780674010987
ISBN
9780674010987
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 57.45
€ 53.39

Hardcover. Series: Harvard East Asian Monographs. Num Pages: 276 pages. BIC Classification: 2GJ; DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 166 x 27. Weight in Grams: 570.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
Harvard University Asia Center
Condition
New
SKU
V9780674016521
ISBN
9780674016521
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 43.99
€ 36.51

Hardcover. Editor(s): Idema, Wilt L.; Li, Wai-yee; Widmer, Ellen. Series: Harvard East Asian Monographs. Num Pages: 525 pages. BIC Classification: 2GDC; DSBD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 233 x 181. Weight in Grams: 886.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
Harvard University Asia Center
Condition
New
SKU
V9780674017757
ISBN
9780674017757
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 57.45
€ 53.20

Hardcover. Examines some of the responses of Japanese authors to the transformation of Tokyo in the early decades of the 20th Century. This book explores the themes and formal strategies of the modernist literature that flourished in the 1920s, focusing on the work of Hagiwara Kyojiro (1899-1938) and Hayashi Fumiko (1903-1951). Series: Harvard East Asian Monographs. Num Pages: 288 pages, 16 b/w illustrations. BIC Classification: 2GDC; DSBH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 232 x 180 x 31. Weight in Grams: 644.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
Harvard University Asia Center
Condition
New
SKU
V9780674021297
ISBN
9780674021297
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 45.99
€ 38.48

Hardcover. Tells the story of the development of poetic competence to uncover the complexity of the concept and to identify the sources and exemplars of that complexity. This book demonstrates poetic competence through a person's ability to influence the attitudes and behaviour of others with poetic discourse. Series: Harvard-Yenching Institute Publications. Num Pages: 375 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 2GDC; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 232 x 181 x 27. Weight in Grams: 578.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
Harvard University Asia Center
Edition
First Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780674021402
ISBN
9780674021402
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 47.99
€ 40.44

Hardcover. Examines the influence of court culture on the creation of the anthology and the significance of imitation and convention in its lyrics. The author aims to situate the Huajian ji within larger questions of Chinese literary history, particularly the influence of cultural forces on the emergence of genres and the development of romantic literature. Series: Harvard East Asian Monographs. Num Pages: 400 pages. BIC Classification: 2GDC; DSBB; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 232 x 181 x 34. Weight in Grams: 716.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
Harvard University Asia Center
Number of pages
400
Condition
New
SKU
V9780674021426
ISBN
9780674021426
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 52.99
€ 44.37

Hardcover. Begins with three case studies, each of which probes one facet of the relationship between women and fiction in the early 19th Century. This book examines in turn the prefaces written by four women for a novel about women; the activities of a woman editor and writer of fiction; and writings on fiction by three leading literary women. Series: Harvard East Asian Monographs. Num Pages: 400 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FPC; 2GDC; 3JH; DSBF; DSK; JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 233 x 180 x 35. Weight in Grams: 750.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
Harvard University Press United States
Number of pages
400
Condition
New
SKU
V9780674021464
ISBN
9780674021464
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 52.99
€ 44.37

Hardback. By examining how narrative strategies reinforce or contest deterministic paradigms, this work describes modern Chinese fiction's contribution to ethical and literary debates over the possibility for meaningful moral action. It analyses discourses of agency and fatalism and the ethical import of narrative structures. Series: Harvard East Asian Monographs. Num Pages: 325 pages. BIC Classification: 2GDC; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 233 x 165 x 28. Weight in Grams: 598.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
Harvard University, Asia Center
Condition
New
SKU
V9780674022676
ISBN
9780674022676
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 47.99
€ 40.44

Hardback. Writer Higuchi Ichiyo has been described as a consummate stylist of classical prose. Drawing critical momentum from the dialogical theory of Mikhail Bakhtin, the author explores in five of her best-known stories how traditional rhetoric and literary devices are engaged with discourses associated with modernity within the pages of her narratives. Series: Harvard East Asian Monographs. Num Pages: 250 pages. BIC Classification: 2GJ; DSBF; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 164 x 237 x 25. Weight in Grams: 550.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
Harvard University, Asia Center
Condition
New
SKU
V9780674022720
ISBN
9780674022720
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 43.99
€ 36.51

Hardback. Talks about the Reizei poets as participants in a collective institution devoted more to the continuity of family poetic practices and ideals than to the concept of individual expression that is central to modern poetic culture. This book features an appendix of 100 poems from over the centuries, by poets who were affiliated with the Reizei house. Series: Harvard-Yenching Institute Monograph Series. Num Pages: 450 pages, 7 charts, 15 halftones. BIC Classification: 1FPJ; 2GJ; DSBB; DSC; HBTG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 167 x 236 x 42. Weight in Grams: 916.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Harvard University, Asia Center
Edition
First Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780674024533
ISBN
9780674024533
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 51.81
€ 48.30

Hardback. Balancing analyses of plot, character, and motif with insights into the cultural and political milieu of the late Heian period, this title calls for a re-evaluation of late Heian fiction. It examines 3 texts - "The Tale of Sagoromo", "The Tale of the Hamamatsu Middle Counselor", and "Nezame at Night" - as heirs to the literary legacy of "Genji". Series: Harvard East Asian Monographs. Num Pages: 250 pages, 4 charts. BIC Classification: 2GJ; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 166 x 254 x 22. Weight in Grams: 494.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Harvard University, Asia Center United States
Edition
First Edition
Number of pages
250
Condition
New
SKU
V9780674025073
ISBN
9780674025073
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 43.99
€ 36.63

Hardback. The writer Nakagami Kenji (1946-1992) rose to fame in the mid-1970s for his vivid stories about a clan scarred by violence and poverty on the underside of the Japanese economy. This book is a study of Nakagami's life and oeuvre delving into the writer's literary world, exploring the genres, forms, and themes with which Nakagami worked. Series: Harvard East Asian Monographs. Num Pages: 275 pages, 10 b/w photographs. BIC Classification: 2GJ; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 236 x 164 x 26. Weight in Grams: 584.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Harvard University, Asia Center
Condition
New
SKU
V9780674026032
ISBN
9780674026032
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 43.99
€ 36.51

Hardback. The displacement in science of positivist notions of observation by a realist model of knowledge provided inspiration for Japanese writers. This work looks at the ideological incarnations of scientific realism in modernist works. It focuses on the struggle of science and art to reclaim the invisible as an object of representation and belief. Series: Harvard East Asian Monographs. Num Pages: 350 pages. BIC Classification: 2GJ; DSBH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 236 x 168 x 32. Weight in Grams: 716.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Harvard University, Asia Center
Number of pages
350
Condition
New
SKU
V9780674027947
ISBN
9780674027947
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 43.99
€ 36.45

Hardback. Fiction and drama repeatedly pose questions concerning relations both among people and between people and their possessions: What ties individuals together, whether permanently or temporarily? When can ownership be transferred, and when does an object define its owner? This book traces how these political questions were addressed in fiction. Series: Harvard East Asian Monographs. Num Pages: 325 pages, Illustrations, maps. BIC Classification: 2GDC; DSB. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 235 x 159 x 28. Weight in Grams: 612.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Harvard University, Asia Center
Condition
New
SKU
V9780674031562
ISBN
9780674031562
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 43.99
€ 37.51

Hardback. Tao Yuanming (365-427), although dismissed as a poet following his death, is now considered one of China's greatest writers. This book studies the posthumous reputation of a central figure in Chinese literary history, the mechanisms at work in the reception of his works, and the canonization of Tao himself. Series: Harvard East Asian Monographs. Num Pages: 400 pages, 1 halftone. BIC Classification: 2GDC; DSBB; DSC. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 233 x 162 x 28. Weight in Grams: 598.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Harvard University, Asia Center United States
Number of pages
400
Condition
New
SKU
V9780674031845
ISBN
9780674031845
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 52.99
€ 44.37

Hardback. From his forays into science fiction to his psychological novels and films, Abe Kobo weaves together a range of 'voices': the styles of science and the language of literary forms. This book argues that the crisis of identity and postwar anomie in Abe's works is inseparable from the need to marshal these different scientific and literary voices. Series: Harvard East Asian Monographs. Num Pages: 325 pages, 13 halftones. BIC Classification: 2GJ; DSB. Category: (UF) Further/Higher Education. Dimension: 235 x 159 x 28. Weight in Grams: 636.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Harvard University, Asia Center
Number of pages
325
Condition
New
SKU
V9780674032781
ISBN
9780674032781
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 43.99
€ 36.63

Hardback. Focuses on the career of Kobayashi Hideo (1902-1983), one of the seminal figures in the history of modern Japanese literary criticism, whose interpretive vision was forged amidst the cultural and ideological crises that dominated intellectual discourse between the 1920s and the 1940s. Series: Harvard East Asian Monographs. Num Pages: 300 pages. BIC Classification: 2GJ; DSB. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 235 x 159 x 25. Weight in Grams: 567.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Harvard University Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780674032842
ISBN
9780674032842
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 43.99
€ 36.63

Paperback. The poetry of the Late Tang often looked backward, and many poets of the period distinguished themselves through the intensity of their retrospective gaze. Chinese poets had always looked backward to some degree, but for many Late Tang poets the echoes and traces of the past had a singular aura. This book presents the literary history of the Tang. Series: Harvard East Asian Monographs. Num Pages: 596 pages. BIC Classification: 2GDC; DSBB; DSC. Category: (UF) Further/Higher Education. Dimension: 229 x 153 x 40. Weight in Grams: 846.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Harvard University, Asia Center United States
Number of pages
596
Condition
New
SKU
V9780674033283
ISBN
9780674033283
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 26.99
€ 23.74

Hardback. For centuries, readers of Tao Qian have felt directly addressed by his poetic voice. This book revisits Tao's approach to his readers by attempting to situate it within the particular poetics of address that characterized the Six Dynasties classicist tradition. Series: Harvard East Asian Monographs. Num Pages: 275 pages. BIC Classification: 1FPC; 2GDC; DSB; HBJF; HBLA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 236 x 160 x 28. Weight in Grams: 652.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Harvard University, Asia Center United States
Number of pages
275
Condition
New
SKU
V9780674053212
ISBN
9780674053212
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 43.99
€ 36.63

Hardback. A study that investigates the poetics and thematics of the Silla sequence, uncovering what is known about the actual historical event and the assumptions and concerns that guided its re-creation as a literary artifact and then helped shape its reception among contemporary readers. Series: Harvard East Asian Monographs. Num Pages: 550 pages, 2 maps. BIC Classification: 2GJ; CJB; DCF; DSB; HRAC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 155 x 46. Weight in Grams: 1043.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Harvard University, Asia Center United States
Edition
Bilingual
Number of pages
550
Condition
New
SKU
V9780674053304
ISBN
9780674053304
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 56.32
€ 52.13

Hardback.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Harvard University, Asia Center
Number of pages
360
Condition
New
SKU
V9780674056039
ISBN
9780674056039
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 47.99
€ 40.44

Hardback. A discharged official in mid-Ming China faced significant changes in his life. This book explores three such officials in the sixteenth century - Wang Jiusi, Kang Hai, and Li Kaixian - who turned to literary endeavors when forced to retire. Series: Harvard-Yenching Institute Monograph Series. Num Pages: 314 pages. BIC Classification: 1FPC; 2GDC; 3JB; DSBD; HBTB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 28. Weight in Grams: 567.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Harvard University, Asia Center
Number of pages
314
Condition
New
SKU
V9780674056046
ISBN
9780674056046
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 43.99
€ 36.51

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