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Editore: Harvard University Asia Center, Cambridge, Mass., 2007
ISBN 10: 0674025911ISBN 13: 9780674025912
Da: Attic Books (ABAC, ILAB), London, ON, Canada
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Hardcover. Condizione: ex library-very good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very good. Harvard East Asian Monographs 293. x, [6], 344, [12] p. 24 cm. 6 maps, 2 figures. Green cloth in mylar-covered dustjacket taped to book. Ex library with labels on lower spine and rear endpapers. Ink stamps on text block edges and title.
Editore: Cambridge, Mass. [u.a.], Harvard University, Asia Center for the Harvard-Yenching Institute [u.a.], 2000., 2000
Da: Ganymed - Wissenschaftliches Antiquariat, Meldorf, Germania
Revised and enlarged. Gr.-8°. XXIV, 1181 Pages. Original Flexible Boards. Ex-Library-Copy. Library-Sticker on the Spine. Library-Stamp [dropped out] on Cutting and verso Title. No Markings in the Text! No Underlinings! No private Owner's Note! Volume bound in transparent, selfadhesive Foil. (Harvard-Yenching Institute Monograph Series, Volume 52).
Editore: Harvard University Asia Center, Cambridge, Mass., 1982
ISBN 10: 0674931769ISBN 13: 9780674931763
Da: Monroe Street Books, Middlebury, VT, U.S.A.
Libro Prima edizione
Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: None. 304 pages. Blue cloth, silver title to front and spine, no dust jacket. Light foxing to top edge, else like new. Record # 453738.
Editore: Harvard University Asia Center, Cambridge, Mass., 2009
ISBN 10: 0674035771ISBN 13: 9780674035775
Da: Attic Books (ABAC, ILAB), London, ON, Canada
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Hardcover. Condizione: ex library-very good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very good. xvi, 281 p. + list of Harvard East Asian Monographs. 24 cm. 21 b&w figures, 6 maps, 2 tables. Mylar-covered dustjacket taped to book. Ex library with labels on lower spine and top front cover. Ink stamps on text block edges and first pages.
Editore: Harvard University Asia Center, Cambridge, Mass., 1992
ISBN 10: 0674160886ISBN 13: 9780674160880
Da: Monroe Street Books, Middlebury, VT, U.S.A.
Libro Prima edizione
Condizione: Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Good. 439 pages. Light wear, rubbing to dust jacket edges and spine, small hole on front cover flap. Previous owner's signature on front fly leaf, else a very neat, tight copy. Record # 453853.
Editore: Harvard University, Asia Center, Cambridge, Mass., 2011
ISBN 10: 0674062442ISBN 13: 9780674062443
Da: Asia Bookroom ANZAAB/ILAB, Canberra, ACT, Australia
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2 maps, 24 tables, notes, bibliography, index, xiii + 353pp, dustjacket. Conventional portraits of Neo-Confucianism in China are built on studies of scholars active in the south, yet Xue Xuan (1389--1464), the first Ming Neo-Confucian to be enshrined in the Temple to Confucius, was a northerner. Why has Xue been so overlooked in the history of Neo-Confucianism? In this first systematic study in English of the highly influential thinker, author Khee Heong Koh seeks to redress Xue's marginalization while showing how a study interested mainly in "ideas" can integrate social and intellectual history to offer a broader picture of history. Significant in its attention to Xue as well as its approach, the book situates the ideas of Xue and his Hedong School in comparative perspective. Koh first provides in-depth analysis of Xue's philosophy, as well as his ideas on kinship organizations, educational institutions, and intellectual networks, and then places them in the context of Xue's life and the actual practices of his descendants and students. Through this new approach to intellectual history, Koh demonstrates the complexity of the Neo-Confucian tradition and gives voice to a group of northern scholars who identified themselves as Neo-Confucians but had a vision that was distinctly different from their southern counterparts.
Editore: Harvard University Asia Center, Cambridge, Mass, 2015
ISBN 10: 0674504321ISBN 13: 9780674504325
Da: San Francisco Book Company, Paris, Francia
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Hardcover. Condizione: Very good. Cloth/no dust jacket Octavo. black cloth, gilt lettering, no dust jacket, 178 pp Standard shipping (no tracking) / Priority (with tracking) / Custom quote for large or heavy orders.
Editore: Harvard University Asia Center, Cambridge, Mass., 2010
ISBN 10: 0674056043ISBN 13: 9780674056046
Da: Dale Cournoyer Books, Victoria, BC, Canada
Libro Prima edizione
Hardcover. Condizione: Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Fine. First Edition. 293 pgs. Bibliography. Author's gift inscription on the front free endpaper.
Editore: Harvard University Asia Center, Cambridge, Mass., 2010
ISBN 10: 0674056035ISBN 13: 9780674056039
Da: Dale Cournoyer Books, Victoria, BC, Canada
Libro Prima edizione
Hardcover. Condizione: Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Fine. First Edition. 341 pgs. Bibliography. A fine copy.
Editore: Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Asia Center,, 2005
ISBN 10: 0674019520ISBN 13: 9780674019522
Da: David Strauss, FOLKINGHAM, Lincolnshire, Regno Unito
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Hardcover. Condizione: As New. Condizione sovraccoperta: As New. Harvard East Asian Monographs] xiv, 236 pp. [ISBN: 978-0674019522] Clothbound in dustwrapper. As NEW.
Editore: Harvard University Asia Center, Cambridge, Mass., 2003
Da: Carothers and Carothers, Albany, CA, U.S.A.
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Hardcover. Condizione: Good. No Jacket. xxii, 338 pages : facsimiles. Series: Harvard East Asian monographs ; 220. Publisher's binding sturdy, corners sharp; mild curl to front panel; front inner hinge tender, presentation inscription from author at upper fore-corner of front panel, contents fine. Lacks dust jacket. 1180 grams.
Editore: Cambridge (Mass.) ; London : Harvard University Asia Center, 2004
ISBN 10: 0674013948ISBN 13: 9780674013940
Da: Joseph Burridge Books, Chadwell Heath, Regno Unito
Libro Copia autografata
Hardcover. Condizione: Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Fine. 425 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm. The demise of state-owned enterprises, the transformation of collectives into shareholding cooperatives and the creation of investment opportunities through stock markets indicate China's movement from a socialist, state-controlled economy toward a socialist market economy. This is a guide to the topic. Inscribed by Author(s).
Editore: Harvard University Asia Center, Cambridge, Mass., 2000
ISBN 10: 067400244XISBN 13: 9780674002449
Da: Monroe Street Books, Middlebury, VT, U.S.A.
Libro Prima edizione
Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good. 543 pages. Lovely copy. Minor wear to dust jacket, else like new. Record # 453679.
Editore: Cambridge [Mass]-London, Harvard University Asia Center [HUP]. 2001, 2002
ISBN 10: 0674008405ISBN 13: 9780674008403
Da: Antiquariaat Schot, Hendrik-Ido-Ambacht, Paesi Bassi
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Original publisher's black cloth hardback, silver title spine, pictorial dustjacket, large 8vo: xviij, 332pp., [10]pp., illustrations, abbreviations, conclusion, notes, bibliography, index. Remained mark. Very fine copy.,
Editore: Harvard University, Asia Center., Cambridge, Mass., 2012
ISBN 10: 0674065816ISBN 13: 9780674065819
Da: Asia Bookroom ANZAAB/ILAB, Canberra, ACT, Australia
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125 black and white photographic illustrations, 486pp, indices, very good in dustjacket. 26 x 18.8cm. "Cultural Revolution Culture", often denigrated as nothing but propaganda, not only was liked in its heyday but continues to be enjoyed today. A Continuous Revolution sets out to explain its legacy. By considering Cultural Revolution propaganda art - music, stage works, prints and posters, comics, and literature - from the point of view of its longue duree, Barbara Mittler suggests that Cultural Revolution propaganda art was able to build on a tradition of earlier art works, and this allowed for its sedimentation in cultural memory and its proliferation in contemporary China. Taking the aesthetic experience of the Cultural Revolution (1966-1976) as her base, Mittler juxtaposes close readings and analyses of cultural products from the period with impressions given in a series of personal interviews conducted in the early 2000s with Chinese from diverse class and generational backgrounds. By including much testimony from these original voices, Mittler illustrates the extremely multifaceted and contradictory nature of the Cultural Revolution, both in terms of artistic production and of its cultural experience." (Publisher's description).
Editore: Harvard University Asia Center., Cambridge, Mass., 2017
ISBN 10: 0674977009ISBN 13: 9780674977006
Da: Asia Bookroom ANZAAB/ILAB, Canberra, ACT, Australia
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Maps, black and white photographic illustrations, xii + 362pp, notes, bibliography, index, 23.5 x 16cm. A very good hardback copy in dustjacket. Harvard East Asian Monographs 407. "Ennobling Japan's Savage Northeast is the first comprehensive account in English of the discursive life of the Tohoku region in postwar Japan from 1945 through 2011. The Northeast became the subject of world attention with the March 2011 triple disaster of earthquake, tsunami, and nuclear meltdown. But Tohoku's history and significance to emic understandings of Japanese self and nationhood remain poorly understood. When Japan embarked on its quest to modernize in the mid-nineteenth century, historical prejudice, contemporary politics, and economic calculation together led the state to marginalize Tohoku, creating a "backward" region in both fact and image. After 1945, a group of mostly local intellectuals attempted to overcome this image and rehabilitate the Northeast as a source of new national values. This early postwar Tohoku recuperation movement has proved to be a critical source for the new Kyoto school's neoconservative valorization of native Japanese identity, fueling that group's antimodern, anti-Western discourse since the 1980s. Nathan Hopson unravels the contested postwar meanings of Tohoku to reveal the complex and contradictory ways in which that region has been incorporated into Japan's shifting self-images since World War II." Publisher's description.
Editore: Harvard University Asia Center, Cambridge, Mass, 2004
ISBN 10: 0674017269ISBN 13: 9780674017269
Da: AussieBookSeller, Truganina, VIC, Australia
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Paperback. Condizione: new. Paperback. This textbook for beginning students contains 35 lessons of increasing difficulty designed to introduce students to the basic patterns of Classical Chinese and to provide practice in reading a variety of texts. The lessons are structured to encourage students to do more work with dictionaries and other references as they progress through the book.The Introduction provides an overview of the grammar of Literary Chinese. Part I presents eight lessons on sentence structure, parts of speech, verbs, and negatives. Part II consists of sixteen intermediate-level lessons, and Part III offers five advanced-level selections. Part IV has six lessons based on Tang and Song dynasty prose and poetry. This textbook for beginning students contains 35 lessons of increasingly difficulty designed to introduce students to the basic patterns of Classical Chinese and to give them practice in reading a variety of texts. The lessons are structured to encourage students to move beyond reliance on the glossaries provided in the text and to become increasingly familiar with dictionaries and other reference works. The Introduction to the book summarizes the grammar of Literary Chinese. Part I presents eight lessons on parts of speech, verbs, negatives, and the basic sentence structures. Each lesson contains a grammatical overview, a short text with glossary and notes, and practice exercises. Part II consists of sixteen intermediate-level lessons based on increasingly long and complex texts. The advanced-level, Part III, focuses on selections from five important early Chinese authors. Part IV has six lessons based on Tang and Song dynasty prose and poetry. Appendixes provide further discussions of grammatical issues, chronologies and maps, and a glossary of function words. Shipping may be from our Sydney, NSW warehouse or from our UK or US warehouse, depending on stock availability.
Editore: Harvard University Asia Center, Cambridge, Mass, 1995
ISBN 10: 0674304985ISBN 13: 9780674304987
Da: CitiRetail, Stevenage, Regno Unito
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Paperback. Condizione: new. Paperback. This work provides a history of the Rinzai Zen monastic institution in Medieval Japan. This work provides a history of the Rinzai Zen monastic institution in Medieval Japan. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.
Editore: Harvard University Asia Center, Cambridge Mass., 2006
ISBN 10: 0674022661ISBN 13: 9780674022669
Da: Renaissance Books, Victoria, BC, Canada
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Hardcover. Condizione: Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Fine. First Printing of the First Edition. Fine, unread copy, in a fine jacket. Large volume weighs over 2 kilos, so extra postage required.
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Editore: Harvard University, Asia Center, Cambridge, Mass, 2019
ISBN 10: 0674241193ISBN 13: 9780674241190
Da: CitiRetail, Stevenage, Regno Unito
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Paperback. Condizione: new. Paperback. The Anime Boom in the United States is a comprehensive and empirically grounded study of the expansion of anime marketing and sales into the United States. Using the example of Japanese animation, it examines the supporting organizational and cultural processes that constitute a transnational system for globalizing and localizing cultural commodities.Drawing on field research, survey data, and in-depth interviews with Japanese and American professionals in the animation industry, the authors investigate anime's arrival in the United States beginning in the 1960s, and explores the transnational networks of anime production and marketing as well as the cultural and artistic processes the genre has inspired.This detailed study of the anime boom in the United States is the starting point for a wider investigation of the globalization of contemporary culture and the way in which global creative industries operate in an age of media digitalization and convergence. It is an indispensable guide for all those interested in understanding the dynamics of power structures in cultural and media globalization. The Anime Boom in the United States is a comprehensive and empirically grounded study of the expansion of anime marketing and sales into the United States. It explores the transnational networks of anime production and marketing while also investigating the cultural and artistic processes the art form inspired. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.
Editore: Harvard University, Asia Center, Cambridge, Mass, 2019
ISBN 10: 0674241169ISBN 13: 9780674241169
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Paperback. Condizione: new. Paperback. Powers of the Real analyzes the cultural politics of cinema's persuasive sensory realism in interwar Japan. Examining cultural criticism, art, news media, literature, and film, Diane Wei Lewis shows how representations of women and signifiers of femininity were used to characterize new forms of pleasure and fantasy enabled by consumer culture and technological media. Drawing on a rich variety of sources, she analyzes the role that images of women played in articulating the new expressions of identity, behavior, and affiliation produced by cinema and consumer capitalism. In the process, Lewis traces new discourses on the technological mediation of emotion to the 1923 Great Kanto Earthquake and postquake mass media boom. The earthquake transformed the Japanese film industry and lent urgency to debates surrounding cinema's ability to reach a mass audience and shape public sentiment, while the rise of consumer culture contributed to alarm over rampant materialism and "feminization."Demonstrating how ideas about emotion and sexual difference played a crucial role in popular discourse on cinema's reach and its sensory-affective powers, Powers of the Real offers new perspectives on media history, the commodification of intimacy and emotion, film realism, and gender politics in the "age of the mass society" in Japan. Powers of the Real analyzes the cultural politics of cinema's persuasive sensory realism in interwar Japan. Examining cultural criticism, art, news media, literature, and film, Lewis offers new perspectives on media history, the commodification of intimacy and emotion, film realism, and gender politics in the age of the mass society in Japan. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.
Editore: Harvard University, Asia Center, Cambridge, Mass, 1995
ISBN 10: 0674796748ISBN 13: 9780674796744
Da: CitiRetail, Stevenage, Regno Unito
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Hardcover. Condizione: new. Hardcover. At the time of his death in 1965, at the age of 79, Tanizaki Jun'ichiro had been writing fiction, plays, essays, poems, and translations almost without interruption for more than fifty-five years. In this series of meditations on seven of Tanizaki's novels and novellas, the renowned translator Anthony Chambers focuses on the thread of fantasy that Tanizaki weaves throughout his work. He examines Tanizaki's subtle use of storytelling devices to evoke his characters' alternate sense of reality and to encourage the reader's participation in their fantasies. Employing his intimate knowledge of Tanizaki's works, Chambers superbly evokes the beauty and truth Tanizaki's characters find in their ideal worlds. In this series of meditations on seven of Tanizaki Junichiros novels and novellas, Chambers focuses on the thread of fantasy that Tanizaki weaves throughout his work. He examines Tanizakis subtle use of storytelling devices to evoke his characters alternate sense of reality and to encourage the readers participation in their fantasies. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.
Editore: Harvard University, Asia Center, Cambridge, Mass, 2001
ISBN 10: 0674005139ISBN 13: 9780674005136
Da: CitiRetail, Stevenage, Regno Unito
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Hardcover. Condizione: new. Hardcover. In this study of desire in Late Imperial China, Martin W. Huang argues that the development of traditional Chinese fiction as a narrative genre was closely related to changes in conceptions of the fundamental nature of desire. He further suggests that the rise of vernacular fiction during the late Ming dynasty should be studied in the context of contemporary debates on desire, along with the new and complex views that emerged from those debates. Desire and Fictional Narrative in Late Imperial China shows that the obsession of authors with individual desire is an essential quality that defines traditional Chinese fiction as a narrative genre. Thus the maturation of the genre can best be appreciated in terms of its increasingly sophisticated exploration of the phenomenon of desire. In this new study of desire in Late Imperial China, Martin Huang argues that the development of traditional Chinese fiction as a narrative genre was closely related to changes in conceptions of the fundamental nature of desire. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.
Editore: Harvard University, Asia Center, Cambridge, Mass, 2003
ISBN 10: 0674010957ISBN 13: 9780674010956
Da: CitiRetail, Stevenage, Regno Unito
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Hardcover. Condizione: new. Hardcover. Rulin waishi (The Unofficial History of the Scholars) is more than a landmark in the history of the Chinese novel. This eighteenth-century work, which was deeply embedded in the intellectual and literary discourses of its time, challenges the reader to come to grips with the mid-Qing debates over ritual and ritualism, and the construction of history, narrative, and lyricism. Wu Jingzi's (170154) ironic portrait of literati life was unprecedented in its comprehensive treatment of the degeneration of mores, the predicaments of official institutions, and the Confucian elite's futile struggle to reassert moral and cultural authority. Like many of his fellow literati, Wu found the vernacular novel an expressive and malleable medium for discussing elite concerns.Through a close reading of Rulin waishi, Shang Wei seeks to answer such questions as What accounts for the literati's enthusiasm for writing and reading novels? Does this enthusiasm bespeak a conscious effort to develop a community of critical discourse outside the official world? Why did literati authors eschew publication? What are the bases for their social and cultural criticisms? How far do their criticisms go, given the authors' alleged Confucianism? And if literati authors were interested solely in recovering moral and cultural hegemony for their class, how can we explain the irony found in their works? The 18th-century Chinese novel Rulin waishi (The Unofficial History of the Scholars), Wu Jingzis (1701-54) ironic portrait of literati life, challenges the reader to come to grips with the mid-Qing debates over ritual and ritualism, and the construction of history, narrative, and lyricism. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.
Editore: Harvard University, Asia Center, Cambridge, Mass, 2019
ISBN 10: 0674241177ISBN 13: 9780674241176
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Hardcover. Condizione: new. Hardcover. In this groundbreaking interdisciplinary study, Maram Epstein identifies filial piety as the dominant expression of love in Qing dynasty texts. At a time when Manchu regulations made chastity the primary metaphor for obedience and social duty, filial discourse increasingly embraced the dramatic and passionate excesses associated with late-Ming chastity narratives.Qing texts, especially those from the Jiangnan region, celebrate modes of filial piety that conflicted with the interests of the patriarchal family and the state. Analyzing filial narratives from a wide range of primary texts, including local gazetteers, autobiographical and biographical nianpu records, and fiction, Epstein shows the diversity of acts constituting exemplary filial piety. This context, Orthodox Passions argues, enables a radical rereading of the great novel of manners The Story of the Stone (ca. 1760), whose absence of filial affections and themes make it an outlier in the eighteenth-century sentimental landscape. By decentering romantic feeling as the dominant expression of love during the High Qing, Orthodox Passions calls for a new understanding of the affective landscape of late imperial China. In this groundbreaking study, Maram Epstein identifies filial piety as the dominant expression of love in Qing dynasty texts. By decentering romantic feeling as the dominant expression of love during the High Qing, Orthodox Passions calls for a new understanding of the affective landscape of late imperial China. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.
Editore: Harvard University, Asia Center, Cambridge, Mass, 2003
ISBN 10: 0674010973ISBN 13: 9780674010970
Da: CitiRetail, Stevenage, Regno Unito
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Hardcover. Condizione: new. Hardcover. Despite Taiwan's rise as an economic force in the world, modernity has not led to a Weberian process of disenchantment or curbed religiosity. To the contrary, other factors--social, economic, political--have stimulated religion. How and why this has happened are central issues in this book.One part of Taiwan's flourishing religious culture is the elaborate and colorful procession of local gods accompanied by troupes of musicians and dancers. Among them are performers with outlandishly painted faces portraying underworld generals who serve the gods and punish the living. Through their performances, these troupes claim to exorcise harmful forces from the community. In conducting fieldwork among these troupes, Donald Sutton confronted their claims to a long history--when all evidence indicated that the troupes had been insignificant until the 1970s--and their assertions of devotion to tradition given the diversity of performances. Concentrating on the stylistic variations in performances, the author describes the troupes as organizations shaped by the "market forces" of supply and demand in the culture of religious festivals. By focusing on performances as the nexus of market and art, he shows how bodily performance is the site where religious statements are made and the power of the gods made visible. Despite Taiwans rise as an economic force in the world, modernity has not led to a Weberian process of disenchantment or curbed religiosity. To the contrary, other factorssocial, economic, politicalhave stimulated religion. How and why this has happened are central issues in this book. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.
Editore: Harvard University, Asia Center, Cambridge, Mass, 2004
ISBN 10: 0674010949ISBN 13: 9780674010949
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Hardcover. Condizione: new. Hardcover. To discuss the supernatural in China is "to talk of foxes and speak of ghosts." Ming and Qing China were well populated with foxes, shape-changing creatures who transgressed the boundaries of species, gender, and the metaphysical realm. In human form, foxes were both immoral succubi and good wives/good mothers, both tricksters and Confucian paragons. They were the most alien yet the most common of the strange creatures a human might encounter.Rania Huntington investigates a conception of one kind of alien and attempts to establish the boundaries of the human. As the most ambiguous alien in the late imperial Chinese imagination, the fox reveals which boundaries around the human and the ordinary were most frequently violated and, therefore, most jealously guarded. Each section of this book traces a particular boundary violated by the fox and examines how maneuvers across that boundary change over time: the narrative boundaries of genre and texts; domesticity and the outside world; chaos and order; the human and the non-human; class; gender; sexual relations; and the progression from animal to monster to transcendent. As "middle creatures," foxes were morally ambivalent, endowed with superhuman but not quite divine powers; like humans, they occupied a middle space between the infernal and the celestial. Ming and Qing China were well populated with foxes, shape changers who transgressed the boundaries of species, gender, and the metaphysical realm. In human form, they were immoral succubi and good wives/good mothers, tricksters and Confucian paragons. Huntington investigates the fox as alien and attempts to establish the boundaries of the human. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.
Editore: Harvard University, Asia Center, Cambridge, Mass, 2004
ISBN 10: 067401393XISBN 13: 9780674013933
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Paperback. Condizione: new. Paperback. One of the most exciting recent developments in the study of Chinese literature has been the rediscovery of an extremely rich and diverse tradition of women's writing of the imperial period (221 B.C.E.-1911 C.E.). Many of these writings are of considerable literary quality. Others provide us with moving insights into the lives and feelings of a surprisingly diverse group of women living in Confucian China, a society that perhaps more than any other is known for its patriarchal tradition.Because of the burgeoning interest in the study of both premodern and modern women in China, several scholarly books, articles, and even anthologies of women's poetry have been published in the last two decades. This anthology differs from previous works by offering a glimpse of women's writings not only in poetry but in other genres as well, including essays and letters, drama, religious writing, and narrative fiction. The authors have presented the selections within their respective biographical and historical contexts. This comprehensive approach helps to clarify traditional Chinese ideas on the nature and function of literature as well as on the role of the woman writer. Offers a glimpse of women's writings not only in poetry but in other genre as well, including essays and letters, drama, religious writing, and narrative fiction. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.
Editore: Harvard University, Asia Center, Cambridge, Mass, 2005
ISBN 10: 0674017730ISBN 13: 9780674017733
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Hardcover. Condizione: new. Hardcover. Since the late 1960s a ubiquitous feature of popular culture in Japan has been the "idol," an attractive young actor, male or female, packaged and promoted as an adolescent role model and exploited by the entertainment, fashion, cosmetic, and publishing industries to market trendy products. This book offers ethnographic case studies regarding the symbolic qualities of idols and how these qualities relate to the conceptualization of selfhood among adolescents in Japan and elsewhere in East Asia. The author explores how the idol-manufacturing industry absorbs young people into its system of production, molds them into marketable personalities, commercializes their images, and contributes to the construction of ideal images of the adolescent self. Since the relationship between the idols and their consumers is dynamic, the study focuses on the fans of idols as well. Ultimately, Aoyagi argues, idol performances substantiate capitalist values in the urban consumer society of contemporary Japan and East Asia. Regardless of how crude their performances may appear in the eyes of critics, the idols have helped establish the entertainment industry as an agent of public socialization by driving public desires toward the consumption of commoditized fantasies. Since the late 1960s a ubiquitous feature of popular culture in Japan has been the idol, an attractive young actor packaged and promoted as an adolescent role model and exploited for marketing. This book offers ethnographic case studies on the symbolic qualities of idols and how they relate to the conceptualization of self among adolescents. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.
Editore: Harvard University, Asia Center, Cambridge, Mass, 2006
ISBN 10: 0674021347ISBN 13: 9780674021341
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Hardcover. Condizione: new. Hardcover. In 1817 a Cantonese scholar was mocked in Beijing as surprisingly learned for someone from the boondocks; in 1855 another Cantonese scholar boasted of the flourishing of literati culture in his home region. Not without reason, the second man pointed to the Xuehaitang (Sea of Learning Hall) as the main factor in the upsurge of learning in the Guangzhou area. Founded in the 1820s by the eminent scholar-official Ruan Yuan, the Xuehaitang was indeed one of the premier academies of the nineteenth century.The celebratory discourse that portrayed the Xuehaitang as having radically altered literati culture in Guangzhou also legitimated the academy's place in Guangzhou and Guangzhou's place as a cultural center in the Qing empire. This study asks: Who constructed this discourse and why? And why did some Cantonese elites find this discourse compelling while others did not? To answer these questions, Steven Miles looks beyond intellectual history to local social and cultural history. Arguing that the academy did not exist in a scholarly vacuum, Miles contends that its location in the city of Guangzhou and the Pearl River Delta embedded it in social settings and networks that determined who utilized its resources and who celebrated its successes and values. Founded in the 1820s, the Xuehaitang (Sea of Learning Hall) was a premier academy of its time. Miles examines the discourse that portrayed it as having radically altered Guangzhou literati culture. He argues that the academy's location embedded it in social settings that determined who used its resources and who celebrated its successes and values. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.