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The Bloomsbury Handbook of Modern Chinese Literature in Translation

Offering the first systematic overview of modern and contemporary Chinese literature from a translation studies perspective, this handbook provides students, researchers and teachers with a context in whi…

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Yingjin Zhang
Zhang, Y: COMPANION TO MODERN CHINESE LITERATURE

This wide-ranging Companion provides a vital overview of modern Chinese literature in different geopolitical areas, from the 1840s to now. It reviews major accomplishments of Chinese literary scholarship …

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Wilt L. Idema
A Historical Taxonomy of Talking Birds in Chinese Literature

Parrots and mynahs have played a unique role in Chinese literature for two millennia. In this wide-ranging thematic study, Wilt L. Idema traces the development of the parrot and the mynah as characters in…

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Antje Richter
Health and the Art of Living: Illness Narratives in Early Medieval Chinese Literature

Health and the Art of Living offers reflections on health and illness in early medieval Chinese literature (ca. 200-ca. 600) through a range of literary sources-essays, prefaces, correspondence, religious…

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Haun Saussy
The Making of Barbarians

A groundbreaking account of translation and identity in the Chinese literary tradition before 1850—with important ramifications for today Debates on the canon, multiculturalism, and world literature ofte…

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Wendy Larson
Optimism, Literature, and Culture in American Capitalism and Chinese Socialism

This book examines the similarity between capitalism and socialism over the twentieth century as both systems found ways to encourage happiness and optimism in their citizens. Comparing radically differen…

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Hu Liu
Rewriting, Manipulation and Translator Subjectivity

This book presents an in-depth analysis of Howard Goldblatt's translation of Mo Yan's Life and Death Are Wearing Me Out (L&D). It explores how Goldblatt translates the original novel under the influen…

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Frances Wood
Great Books of China: From Ancient Times to the Present

A unique introduction to Chinese culture and civilization through concise and illuminating introductions to key literary works from antiquity to the present.

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Nicholas Morrow Williams
Dialogues in the Dark

Dialogues in the Dark traces how Chinese readers and scholars since the Han dynasty have variously interpreted the ancient poem "Heavenly Questions" (Tianwen), an enigmatic work attributed to Qu…

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Frances Weightman,
Marketing Chinese Children's Books

An exploration of the marketing, presentation and construction of popular Chinese children's authors for their youthful audience, parents and teachers, Marketing Chinese Children's Bookssurveys the intern…

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Jeffrey R. Tharsen
Chinese Euphonics

Welten Ostasiens - Worlds of East Asia - Mondes de l'Extrême Orient - volume 29

What did Old Chinese prose sound like? Supported by digital texts, modern technologies and historical linguistics, Chinese Euphonics is a deep dive into the types of sound patterns that occur throughout t…

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The Great Commentary on the Documents Classic / Shangshu Dazhuan尚書大傳

"In contrast to other traditional commentaries on early Chinese classics, The Great Commentary to the Documents Classic (Shangshu dazhuan), traditionally ascribed to Master Fu (260?-161? BCE) and to …

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Qu You, Zhenjun Zhang, Sidney Sondergard, Trever McKay
New Stories Told While Trimming the Wick

New Tales Told While Trimming the Wick by the talented scholar and poet of the Ming dynasty, Qu You (1347-1433), was the first work of fiction officially banned in China, but also the first internationall…

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Ping Wang
The Poetic Way of XIE Lingyun

"During the dark centuries between the fall of the Han dynasty in 220 CE and the golden age of reunified China under the Tang and Song dynasties (618-1279), the shi poetic form embraced new themes an…

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Eric Reinders,
Reading Tolkien in Chinese

Approaching translations of Tolkien's works as stories in their own right, this book reads multiple Chinese translations of Tolkien's writing to uncover the new and unique perspectives that enrich the mea…

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Jeffrey C Kinkley
China Mysteries

With the 1989 Beijing massacre fading from popular memory in the West, China from the mid-1990s to a few years ago felt more open than ever to global trade, communication, travel, and cultural and educati…

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Andrew H Plaks
The Four Masterworks of the Ming Novel

A reinterpretation of some of the great works of Chinese fiction of the late Ming dynasty In this book, Andrew Plaks reinterprets the great texts of Chinese fiction known as the “Four Masterworks of the …

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Andrew H Plaks
The Four Masterworks of the Ming Novel

A reinterpretation of some of the great works of Chinese fiction of the late Ming dynasty In this book, Andrew Plaks reinterprets the great texts of Chinese fiction known as the “Four Masterworks of the …

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Spring and Autumn Annals of Wu and Yue

An approachable and readable translation of a classic work of Chinese literature and landmark work of non-Western fiction writing.

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Spring and Autumn Annals of Wu and Yue

An approachable and readable translation of a classic work of Chinese literature and landmark work of non-Western fiction writing.

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