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The Poetics and Politics of Sensuality in China:

The “Fragrant and Bedazzling” Movement (1600-1930)

Xiaorong Li

ISBN: 9781604979527

"The scholarship in this study is impeccable. Each chapter presents an in-depth analysis of interesting and important writers or collections ... Many original sources are presented, discussed, and accurately translated for the first time. I doubt that anyone can match this author's mastery of the renegade tradition of 'sensuous poetry' during the Ming, Qing, and early Republican Period." —Ronald Egan, Stanford University Read More..

Reading John Banville Through Jean Baudrillard

Hedda Friberg-Harnesk

ISBN: 9781604979534

"Hedda Friberg-Harnesk’s brilliant new study offers an original and intimate analysis of John Banville’s preoccupations with disguise, duplicity, and simulation. In this incisive reading, deeply informed by the work of Jean Baudrillard, ... Friberg-Harnesk shows us how to read Banville, and to read him well, as a writer not just troubled by modernist problems of existence and representation, but determined to explore the creative and restorative strategies necessary to cope with them." —Professor John Brannigan, University College Dublin Read More..

Postcolonial Heritage and Settler Well-Being

The Historical Fictions of Roger McDonald

Christopher Lee

ISBN: 9781604979497

Beautifully written, Lee's book carves out critical space for Roger McDonald in the contemporary canon of historical fiction in Australia. Read More..

Spatial Imaginaries in Mid-Tang China:

Geography, Cartography, and Literature

Ao Wang

ISBN: 9781604979411

"Ao Wang’s new book, executed with critical insight and poetic sensitivity, encompasses diverse literary forms and lends new nuances to our understanding of mid-Tang literature. Imaginative and inspiring, it is a significant contribution to the study of medieval Chinese literature and cultural history." —Xiaofei Tian, Harvard University Read More..

Imperfect Understanding:

Intimate Portraits of Modern Chinese Celebrities

Christopher Rea

ISBN: 9781604979435

"This book is an extraordinary artifact of Chinese literary and social history. The people written about are among the most important figures of the Republican era, and the particular perspective on them presented by the essays is of both literary and historical importance. The introduction is excellent, full of the information the reader needs to make sense of the context in which the book was originally produced." —Theodore Huters, Professor Emeritus, UCLA; and Chief Editor, Research Centre for Translations Read More..

Chinese Women Writers and Modern Print Culture

Megan M. Ferry

ISBN: 9781604979381

"In Chinese Women Writers and Modern Print Culture, Professor Megan Ferry provides a meticulous analysis of the gendered spaces that modern Chinese publishers, editors, critics, propagandists, and policy makers created for the work of female authors, both before and after the Communist revolution of 1949. This detailed study of the textual and visual mechanisms that bring gender into being makes an important and original contribution to our understanding of print culture, both in China and beyond." —Michel Hockx, Professor of Chinese Literature and Director of the Liu Institute for Asia and Asian Studies, University of Notre Dame Read More..

Reading Lu Xun Through Carl Jung

Carolyn Brown

ISBN: 9781604979374

“This is truly a great contribution not only to Lu Xun studies but also to modern Chinese intellectual history. The approach is seminal and convincing. The arguments based on close reading of the texts are careful, coherent, and revealing. What Carolyn T. Brown has accomplished in this book is akin to a highly skilled doctor who makes an accurate etiological diagnosis." —Guoxiang Peng, Zhejiang University Read More..

Contemporary Taiwanese Women Writers:

An Anthology

Jonathan Stalling, Lin Tai-man, and Yanwing Leung

ISBN: 9781604979558

"These gems of short fiction by women writers from Taiwan are a wonderful treat. Beautifully translated into English, they unfold and flicker with wistful, comic, and enigmatic lights and shadows. The vignettes and snapshots imbue existential anxiety and street life with grim and exquisite lyricism, mixed with unstoppable yearnings for sunlight and romance." —Ban Wang, William Haas Professor in Chinese Studies and Professor of Comparative Literature, Stanford University Read More..

Gao Xingjian and Transmedia Aesthetics

Mabel Lee and Liu Jianmei

ISBN: 9781604979466

“No modern figure writing in Chinese better epitomizes the notion of global author than Gao Xingjian, a creative voice whose courage and ingenuity are indelibly imprinted on world literature. This new collection testifies to the enduring effect Gao has on scholars the world over. this book will be of great interest to modern scholars of Chinese and comparative literature as well as students of Gao Xingjian for generations to come.” —Christopher Lupke, Professor and Chair, Department of East Asian Studies, University of Alberta Read More..

The Monster as War Machine

Mabel Moraña

ISBN: 9781604979862

"A far-ranging, audacious, erudite, and exquisitely written examination of monsters and the monstrous. It spans the broad sweep of history, from the Classical and Medieval Periods to the present. Moraña achieves this immense feat through lucid yet vivid prose that thoughtfully weaves a series of what at first glance might appear to be divergent and scattered theories, into a set of intense and thought-provoking constellations of ideas and experiences.—Joanne Rappaport, Georgetown University; and President of LASA, 2016–2017 Read More..