An original classic on Confucian philosophy written in the middle of the 19th century. ...

1933. A collection of Oriental literary jewels including well-known selections of religious literature such as the Koran and the Vedas; philosophical, mystical and semi-religious literature with poems by Sadi and Attar and the Rubaiyat of Omar Khyyam; Romantic literature from Ottoman poets and a number of Chinese poems; and samples of national literature, essays, war songs and miscellaneous. ...

DIMSUM is a thrice-yearly publication of the Hong Kong International Literary Festival celebrating new Asian writing and exciting Asian voices. Dimsum is edited by Nury Vittachi and features: Xu Xi, Jake van der Kamp, Elsie Tu, Chetan Bhagat, Gavin Coates, Cyril Wong, Owen Schaefer, Sam Cheuk, Raymond Nakamura, Hamilton Walters, Chris Li, Grace Ong, Peter Gordon, Sharon Fujimoto-Johnson, Steven Schroeder, Ashok Gupta, Remo Notarianni, Alexis ...

This book is the first ever to examine India's urban bourgeoisie, its style and aspirations, as it is manifested in fiction and film. It begins by looking at heroines and notions of idealized womanhood in a historical perspective, and examines how these are reworked in modern narratives, how conflicts are resolved, and new models developed. A major theme is the redefinition of love and romance among the Indian middle classes, as part of the ...

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A comparative study of two first and second (A.D.) century Chinese poets, Pan Ku and Chang Heng, and an illumination of Han Dynasty life and thought through the poets' major compositions.
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At the time of his death in 1965 at the age of seventy-nine, 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 explores the attempt by Tanizaki's characters to construct ideal worlds: fantasies that were far removed from the concerns of ...

This is a tribute to one of the foremost writers and directors in Indonesia, with essays on his work, a script of his play "Geez!, and various reflections by his peers. <BR>Distributed for the Center for Southeast Asian Studies, University of Wisconsin-Madison ...

Markus fleshes out Tanehiko's diaries and the remarks of his contemporaries to create a picture of an author who, after years of spectacular success, fell victim to the Tenpo Reform promulgations against "morally inappropriate" publications and whose mysterious death sent shock waves through the publishing world. ...

Critical Discourses on Gopal Parajuli is a collection of critical commentaries about Parajuli's writings. "Gopal Parajuli is a poet extra-ordinary, who composes ambrosial messages as though they were transmitted via God. His soul evokes true purpose of vitality...he has the ability to transform words on paper into the ethers of universal magic...Formation of true meaning out of the emptiness of humanity's follies." -Michael Levy
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