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The Asian Family in Literature and Film Challenges and Contestations-South Asia, Southeast Asia and Asian Diaspora, Volume II
This book investigates the ways in which the family unit is now perceived in South and Southeast Asia and the Asian diaspora: its numerous...
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Chinese Science Fiction Concepts, Forms, and Histories
This volume brings together emerging approaches and addresses shifting paradigms in Chinese science fiction studies, offering a window on fan...
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Contest for Citizenship and Collective Violence During China’s Cultural Revolution
This book has been groundbreaking for scholars of the Cultural Revolution, but hitherto was only available in Japanese and Chinese. This edition...
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Religionspolitik und politische Religion in Japan und Europa Debatten um Polytheismus, Nationalismus und Kolonialismus
In der neueren Debatte um das Wechselverhältnis von Religion und Politik hat Japan bislang keine Rolle gespielt; zu Unrecht, wie der vorliegende Band...
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Post-Colonial Approaches in Kazakhstan and Beyond Politics, Culture and Literature
This book explores the postcolonial discourse and decolonization processes in modern Kazakhstan and beyond. It pays particular attention to such...
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The Asian Family in Literature and Film Changing Perceptions in a New Age-East Asia, Volume I
This book offers a key analysis of the changing perceptions of family in East Asian societies and the dynamic metamorphosis of “traditional” family...
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Cultural Mobilities Between China and Italy
This book offers a critical analysis of global mobilities across China and Italy in history. In three periods in the twentieth century, new patterns...
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Gender, Islam and Sexuality in Contemporary Indonesia
This Open Access book explores the complex interplay between gender, Islam and sexuality in Indonesia, the country with the world's largest Muslim...
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Concise Reader of Chinese Literature History
This book includes the history of Chinese literature before 1949. It firstly outlines the development process of Chinese literature and basic...
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(Im)possible Worlds to Conquer A Critical Reading of Dr. B. R. Ambedkar’s Waiting for Visa
With multidisciplinary examination, this book explores Waiting for Visa, Ambedkar's autobiographical writing. This investigation ranges from Dalit...
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Environment and Narrative in Vietnam
Environment and Narrative in Vietnambrings together essays about Vietnam’s natural environments and environmental crises from the perspective of...
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Defining Waka Musically Songs of Male Love in Premodern Japan
This book considers how music, musicality, and ideologies of musicality are working within the specific construction of waka on the theme of male love...
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Taiwan Literature in the 21st Century A Critical Reader
This book is an anthology of research co-edited by Dr. Chia-rong Wu (University of Canterbury) and Professor Ming-ju Fan (National Chengchi...
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The Literature and Cultural Ecology of Imperial Examinations in the Ming Dynasty
The book examines the relationship between imperial examinations and literature from the perspective of restoring the cultural ecology of imperial...
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Hallucinatory Realism in Chinese Literature Essays on Mo Yan and His Novels in China
This edited collection of 14 essays presents the most enlightening research findings on Mo Yan and his novels. The authors of the contributions are...
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Emerging from the Horizon of History Modern Chinese Women’s Literature, 1917–1949
This book systematically studies the literary output of female writers in contemporary China within the frame of literary theories of feminism. With...
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Ethnographic Narratives as World Literature Uneven Entanglements in European and South Asian Writing
This book links world-literary studies with anthropology and ethnography. It shows how ethnographic narratives can represent a compelling point of...
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Queering Gender, Sexuality, and Becoming-Human in Qing Dynasty Zhiguai Querying the Strange Tales
This book offers queer readings of Chinese Qing Dynasty zhiguai, ‘strange tales’, a genre featuring supernatural characters and events. In a unique...
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Chinese Creative Writing Studies
This book introduces Chinese creative writing to the English-speaking world, considering various aspects of literary and creative theories in...
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Masterpieces on Japan by Foreign Authors From Goncharov to **uet
This open access book includes forty-one chapters about foreign observers’ discourses on Japan. These include a wide range of perspectives from the...
