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Paperback. Num Pages: 280 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; 2GDC; CBDX; LA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 150 x 103 x 10. Weight in Grams: 186.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Hippocrene Books
Edition
Bilingual
Number of pages
280
Condition
New
SKU
V9780781812153
ISBN
9780781812153
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 20.99
€ 16.39

Hardcover. This book explores how Japanese writers in Korea, Manchuria, and Taiwan used narratives of romantic and familial love in order to traverse the dangerous currents of empire. Num Pages: 214 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1FPJ; 2GJ; DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 17. Weight in Grams: 352.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230619890
ISBN
9780230619890
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 92.45
€ 71.60

Paperback. Translator(s): Watson, Burton. Num Pages: 356 pages. BIC Classification: 2GDC; BG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 202 x 128 x 25. Weight in Grams: 408.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1969
Publisher
Columbia University Press United States
Number of pages
356
Condition
New
SKU
V9780231033213
ISBN
9780231033213
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 50.85
€ 43.99

Paperback. Watson's account of Chinese writing from the time of the Chou dynasty (1100--249 B.C.) to the Latter Han (25-220) is accompanied by a chronology, biographical information, and a selected list of translations. Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: 2GDC; CF; DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 200 x 133 x 19. Weight in Grams: 454.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1972
Publisher
Columbia University Press United States
Number of pages
304
Condition
New
SKU
V9780231086714
ISBN
9780231086714
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 40.99
€ 21.89

Paperback. Spanning the first three decades of this century to the Sino-Japanese War, these twenty-two works of fiction, drama, autobiography, essays, and poetry, each newly translated and prefaced by the author's photograph and a short biographical sketch, introduce women whose literary careers coincided with an era of tremendous social, political, and cultural turbulence. Editor(s): Dooling, Amy D.; Torgeson, Kristina M. Series: Modern Asian Literature Series. Num Pages: 320 pages, 18 illustrations. BIC Classification: 2GDC; DNF; DQ; DSBF; DSBH; JFC; JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 155 x 258 x 32. Weight in Grams: 562.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1997
Publisher
Columbia University Press United States
Number of pages
320
Condition
New
SKU
V9780231107013
ISBN
9780231107013
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 40.99
€ 29.12

The first book of its kind: a collection of the most important genres of Japanese performance--noh, kyogen, kabuki, and puppet theater--in one comprehensive, authoritative volume. Editor(s): Brazell, Karen. Series: Translations from the Asian Classics. Num Pages: 464 pages, 200 illus. BIC Classification: 2GJ; DD; DQ; DSG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 175 x 248 x 30. Weight in Grams: 1271.
Publication date
1998
Publisher
Columbia University Press United States
Number of pages
464
Condition
New
SKU
V9780231108720
ISBN
9780231108720
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 124.82
€ 89.19

The fourth book in a multivolume history of modern Japanese literature by one of the world's most accomplished translators and scholars of Japanese culture and literature, this volume offers unparalleled insight into Japanese poetry, drama, and criticism. Num Pages: 698 pages, glossary, index. BIC Classification: 1FP; 2GJ; DSBH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 240 x 158. Weight in Grams: 1044.
Publication date
1999
Publisher
Columbia University Press United States
Number of pages
698
Condition
New
SKU
V9780231114387
ISBN
9780231114387
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 124.82
€ 101.69

Paperback. The Tokugawa family ruled Japan from 1603 to 1867 keeping the island nation isolated from the rest of the world for more than 250 years. This book chronicles the period's literary output, providing the history of premodern Japanese literature. It presents various genres that arose, including haiku, Kabuki, and the prose of the merchant class. Num Pages: 606 pages. BIC Classification: 1FPJ; 2GJ; DSBD; DSBF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 154 x 29. Weight in Grams: 850.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1999
Publisher
Columbia University Press United States
Number of pages
606
Condition
New
SKU
V9780231114677
ISBN
9780231114677
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 46.99
€ 35.07

Collects works of fiction, poetry, drama, and essay-writing from a pivotal time in Japanese history. This book reflects the political, social, and intellectual changes that occurred in Japanese society during this period. It reveals the influences in the development of Japanese literature. It includes biographical introductions for each writer. Series: Modern Asian Literature Series. Num Pages: 880 pages. BIC Classification: 2GJ; 3JH; 3JJ; DQ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 254 x 178 x 58. Weight in Grams: 1543.
Publication date
2005
Publisher
Columbia University Press United States
Number of pages
880
Condition
New
SKU
V9780231118606
ISBN
9780231118606
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 138.68
€ 113.58

Paperback. Includes various literary, personal, and journalistic responses to the events in the mid-twentieth-century Chinese society. This work reflects the diversity, liveliness, humor, and cosmopolitanism of women's writing from the period. It also reveals the ways in which women writers imagined and inscribed new meanings to Chinese feminism. Series: Weatherhead Books on Asia. Num Pages: 336 pages. BIC Classification: 2GDC; DQ; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 18. Weight in Grams: 544.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
Columbia University Press United States
Number of pages
336
Condition
New
SKU
V9780231132176
ISBN
9780231132176
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 40.99
€ 20.62

Contemporary Taiwanese literature has often been neglected and misrepresented by literary historians both inside and outside of Taiwan. Chang provides a comprehensive and fluent history of late twentieth-century Taiwanese literature by placing this vibrant tradition within the contexts of a modernizing local economy, a globalizing world economy, and a postcolonial and post-Cold War world order. Num Pages: 288 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FPCW; 2GDC; DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 239 x 164 x 25. Weight in Grams: 635.
Publication date
2004
Publisher
Columbia University Press United States
Number of pages
288
Condition
New
SKU
V9780231132343
ISBN
9780231132343
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 69.34
€ 43.99

Hardback. Written in the mid-thirteenth century, this book chronicles the epic Genpei war, a civil conflict that marked the end of the power of the Heike clan and changed the course of Japanese history. It depicts the emerging world of the medieval samurai. Series: Translations from the Asian Classics. Num Pages: 232 pages, 24 figures, 3 maps. BIC Classification: 2GJ; DNF; DSBB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 239 x 162 x 19. Weight in Grams: 434.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
Columbia University Press United States
Number of pages
232
Condition
New
SKU
V9780231138024
ISBN
9780231138024
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 92.46
€ 64.81

Presents a portrait of "The Tale of Genji's" reception and reproduction, taking into consideration a wide variety of genres from no plays to Genji paintings to the modern novel. This volume explores the popularization of the Genji, considering parody, pastiche, and re-creation in various popular and mass media. Editor(s): Shirane, Haruo. Num Pages: 416 pages, 80 illus. BIC Classification: 2GJ; DSBB; DSK. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 229 x 152. Weight in Grams: 726.
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Columbia University Press United States
Number of pages
416
Condition
New
SKU
V9780231142366
ISBN
9780231142366
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 110.95
€ 89.19

Translation previously published in: The Huainanzi. New York: Columbia University Press, 2010. Translator(s): Meyer, Andrew Seth. Series: Translations from the Asian Classics. Num Pages: 176 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FPC; 2GDC; DSBB; HBJF; HBLA; JWL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 213 x 144 x 16. Weight in Grams: 328.
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Columbia University Press United States
Number of pages
176
Condition
New
SKU
V9780231153324
ISBN
9780231153324
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 78.59
€ 34.46

Paperback. Illustrator(s): Wood, Amanda. Num Pages: 216 pages, 140. BIC Classification: 2GDC; CJB. Category: (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 280 x 216 x 18. Weight in Grams: 588.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Columbia University Press United States
Number of pages
216
Condition
New
SKU
V9780231156233
ISBN
9780231156233
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 31.99
€ 23.06

Hardcover.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
272
Condition
New
SKU
V9780312239220
ISBN
9780312239220
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 79.36

Hardback. This work argues that adaptation (hon'an) was a valid form of contemporary Japanese translation that fostered creative appropriation across many genres and among a diverse group of writers and artists. In addition, it invites readers to reconsider adaptation in the context of translation theory. Num Pages: 190 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1FPJ; 2GJ; CFP; DSBF; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 18. Weight in Grams: 344.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
St Martin's Press United States
Number of pages
190
Condition
New
SKU
V9780312239954
ISBN
9780312239954
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 63.99

Hardback. This volume discusses six Japanese authors (Soseki, Mishima, Akiko Yosano, Hiroshi Yosano, Endo and Murakami), analysing the encounter between their traditional Japanese group consciousness and western individualism. Num Pages: 224 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1FPJ; 1QFH; 2GJ; DSBH; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 19. Weight in Grams: 440.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
224
Condition
New
SKU
V9780333743102
ISBN
9780333743102
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 50.84

Hardback. China has a long-standing writing tradition and many Chinese texts have become world treasures. Whilst certain socio-political changes acted as agents for reform of the teaching of composition, the shape these reforms are taking has been due to many different influences, coming both from inside the countries themselves and from foreign sources. Editor(s): Shum, Mark Shiu Kee; Zhang, De Lu. Series: Studies in Writing. Num Pages: 272 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2GDC; CJA; CJCW. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 17. Weight in Grams: 581.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
Springer-Verlag New York Inc. United States
Number of pages
272
Condition
New
SKU
V9780387263922
ISBN
9780387263922
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 101.69

Hardback.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Springer-Verlag New York Inc. United States
Number of pages
418
Condition
New
SKU
V9780387485744
ISBN
9780387485744
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 157.17

Series: Princeton Legacy Library. Num Pages: 472 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FPC; 2GDC; BGL; DSB; HRKN1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 25. Weight in Grams: 828.
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Number of pages
472
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691638980
ISBN
9780691638980
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 175.67
€ 114.97

Paperback. Num Pages: 204 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; 2GDC; CFP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 153 x 12. Weight in Grams: 310.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Hippocrene Books Inc.,U.S. United States
Edition
Bilingual
Number of pages
218
Condition
New
SKU
V9780781812160
ISBN
9780781812160
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 20.99
€ 16.66

Paperback. Num Pages: 486 pages, 15,000+ entries. BIC Classification: 2AB; 2GDC; CBDX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 185 x 116 x 27. Weight in Grams: 380.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Hippocrene Books Inc.,U.S. United States
Edition
Bilingual
Number of pages
486
Condition
New
SKU
V9780781812368
ISBN
9780781812368
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 26.99
€ 17.32

Hardcover. The area of cognitive processing of Chinese and Japanese attracts a great deal of attention by leading cognitive psychologists. The interactive-activation model provides the phonologic-orthographic links in processing both language systems. This volume helps readers understand this topic. Editor(s): Leong, C. K.; Tamaoka, Katsuo. Series: Neuropsychology and Cognition. Num Pages: 322 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2GDC; 2GJ; CFD; JNC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 155 x 19. Weight in Grams: 636.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1998
Publisher
Springer
Edition
Reprinted from READING AND WRITING, 10:3-5, 1998
Condition
New
SKU
V9780792354796
ISBN
9780792354796
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 157.59

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