Literature/Culture

Lotus Leaves

Selected Poems of Leung Ping Kwan Leung Ping Kwan Edited and translated by John Minford

Leung Ping Kwan is one of Hong Kong’s most acclaimed poets. His poems display a unique blend of the literary and the down-to-earth, the modern and the traditional, the serious and the humorous, the local and the universal.

$33.00 cloth 978-988-237-1910 January 2021 272 pages

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Dragons

Shorter Fiction of Leung Ping Kwan Leung Ping Kwan Edited by Laura Ng and John Minford

Translated by Wendy Chan, Jasmine Man, and David Morgan

These stories by Leung Ping Kwan, “See Mun and the Dragon” and “Drowned Souls,” are separated by over thirty years, and are in many ways very different, yet dragons play a prominent part in both. Both of these enchanting stories are anchored in the author’s idea of freedom and liberation.

$30.00 cloth 978-988-237-1903 January 2021 180 pages

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The Drunkard

Liu Yichang Edited by John Minford and Nick Hordern

Translated by Charlotte Yiu

The Drunkard is one of the first full-length stream-of-consciousness novels written in Chinese. As the unnamed narrator, a writer at odds with a philistine world, sinks to his drunken nadir, his plight can be seen to represent that of a whole intelligentsia, a whole culture, degraded by the brutal forces of history.

$39.00 cloth 978-988-237-1866

January 2021 300 pages

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The Teddy Bear Chronicles

Xi Xi

Edited by John Minford Translated by Christina Sanderson

For several decades Xi Xi has been widely known for her award-winning poetry and fiction. In this book, she writes about the teddy bears she began making in 2005, after treatment for cancer, in order to improve the mobility of her right hand.

$39.00 cloth 978-988-237-1859 January 2021 200 pages 140 illus.

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LITERATURE/CULTURE The Poetics of Early Chinese Thought

How the Shijing Shaped the Chinese Philosophical Tradition Michael Hunter

The modern imagination of classical Chinese thought has long been dominated by Confucius, Mozi, Mencius, and other “Masters” of the Warring States period. Michael Hunter argues that this approach neglects the far more central role of poetry, and the Shijing (Classic of Poetry) in particular, in the formation of the philosophical tradition.

$145.00 / £120.00 cloth 978-0-231-20122-3

July 2021 208 pages 2 illus. Top Graduate Zhang Xie

The Earliest Extant Chinese Southern Play Translated and introduced by Regina S. Llamas

Top Graduate Zhang Xie is the first extant play in the Chinese southern dramatic tradition and a milestone in the history of Chinese literature. Dating from the early fifteenth century, but possibly composed earlier, it relates the story of a talented scholar who sets off for the capital to take the imperial exams.

$105.00 / £81.00 cloth 978-0-231-19792-2 May 2021 288 pages

TRANSLATIONS FROM THE ASIAN CLASSICS

Photo Poetics

Chinese Lyricism and Modern Media Culture Shengqing Wu

Shengqing Wu explores how the new medium of photography was transformed by Chinese aesthetic culture. She details the complex negotiations between poetry and photography in the late Qing and early Republican eras, examining the ways traditional textual forms collaborated with the new visual culture.

$35.00 / £30.00 paper 978-0-231-19221-7 $140.00 / £108.00 cloth 978-0-231-19220-0 2020 384 pages 107 photos

GLOBAL CHINESE CULTURE

Zhou History Unearthed

The Bamboo Manuscript Xinian and Early Chinese Historiography Yuri Pines

Zhou History Unearthed offers both a novel understanding of early Chinese historiography and a fully annotated translation of Xinian (String of Years), the most notable historical manuscript from the state of Chu. Yuri Pines details the importance of Xinian and other recently discovered texts for our understanding of history writing in Zhou China.

$30.00 / £25.00 paper 978-0-231-19663-5 $120.00 / £93.00 cloth 978-0-231-19662-8 2020 352 pages 4 illus.

LITERATURE/CULTURE Spiritual Foundation of Chinese Culture

Cho-yun Hsu Translated by David Ownby

Through investigation of Chinese cultural ideals and life practices, Cho-yun Hsu constructs an original portrait of Chinese spiritual life. Apart from focusing on the exalted subtleties of the scholarly elite, he pays more attention to everyday people’s cultural ideas.

$55.00 cloth 978-988-237-212-2 June 2021 330 pages

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Transmutations of Desire

Literature and Religion in Late Imperial China Qiancheng Li

Qiancheng Li examines the nuances of the trend toward love occupying center stage in the Chinese context. The emphasis is on readings of literary texts, including important Ming- and Qingdynasty works of drama, Buddhist texts, and other religious and philosophical works, in all their subtlety and evocative power.

$50.00 cloth 978-988-237-122-4 2020 310 pages

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Ordinary Days

A Memoir Leo Ou-fan Lee and Lee Yuk Ying Edited by John Minford Translated by Annie Ren Luman and Carol Ong

Ordinary Days is a memoir by the scholar and critic Leo Ou-fan Lee and his wife, Esther Lee Yuk Ying. Set partly against the backdrop of some of Hong Kong’s most turbulent years, partly in the far-flung diaspora of the Chinese intelligentsia, this is a revealing record of the inner life of a highly cultivated modern Chinese couple.

$30.00 cloth 978-988-237-196-5 January 2021 200 pages

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Keywords in Chinese Culture

Edited by Wai-yee Li and Yuri Pines

Like every culture, Chinese has its set of keywords: pivotal terms of political, ethical, literary, and philosophical discourse. This volume analyzes some of these keywords from different disciplinary and temporal perspectives, offering a new integrative study of their semantic richness, development trajectory, and distinct usages.

$55.00 cloth 978-988-237-119-4 2020 360 pages

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LITERATURE/CULTURE In the Shelter of the Pine

A Memoir of Yanagisawa Yoshiyasu and Tokugawa Japan Ōgimachi Machiko Translated by G. G. Rowley

In the early eighteenth century, the noblewoman Ōgimachi Machiko composed a memoir of Yanagisawa Yoshiyasu, the powerful samurai she had long served as a concubine. Elegant, poetic, and revealing, In the Shelter of the Pine is the most significant work of literature by a woman of Japan’s early modern era.

$35.00 / £30.00 paper 978-0-231-19951-3 $140.00 / £115.00 cloth 978-0-231-19950-6 June 2021 352 pages 4 illus. Japan on American TV

Screaming Samurai Join Anime Clubs in the Land of the Lost Alisa Freedman

Japan on American TV explores political, economic, and cultural issues underlying depictions of Japan in U.S. television comedies and the programs they inspired. The book examines six main categories of television portrayals representing different genres and comedic forms.

$16.00 / £13.99 paper 978-1-952-636-21-9 June 2021 168 pages

ASSOCIATION FOR ASIAN STUDIES

The Values in Numbers

Japanese Literature in a Global Information Age Hoyt Long

Hoyt Long offers both a reinterpretation of modern Japanese literature through computational methods and an introduction to the history, theory, and practice of looking at literature through numbers. He weaves explanations of these methods and their application together with reflection on the kinds of reasoning such methodologies facilitate.

$30.00 / £24.00 paper 978-0-231-19351-1 $95.00 / £74.00 cloth 978-0-231-19350-4 May 2021 480 pages 46 illus. Pleasure in Profit

Popular Prose in Seventeenth-Century Japan Laura Moretti

In the first comprehensive study of the birth of Japanese commercial publishing, Laura Moretti investigates the vibrant world of vernacular popular literature. She marshals new data on the magnitude of the seventeenth-century publishing business and highlights the diversity and porosity of its publishing genres.

$40.00 / £34.00 paper 978-0-231-19723-6 $140.00 / £108.00 cloth 978-0-231-19722-9 2020 432 pages 66 illus.

LITERATURE/CULTURE The Art of Useless

Fashion, Media, and Consumer Culture in Contemporary China Calvin Hui

Examining changing representations of the production and consumption of fashion in documentaries and films, Calvin Hui traces how culture contributes to China’s changing social relations through the cultivation of new identities and sensibilities. He explores the commodity chain of fashion on a transnational scale, from production to consumption to disposal, as well as media portrayals of the intersections of clothing with class, gender, and ethnicity.

$35.00 / £30.00 paper 978-0-231-192491 $145.00 / £120.00 cloth 978-0-231-192484 September 2021 280 pages

GLOBAL CHINESE CULTURE

In Remembrance of the Saints

The Rise and Fall of an Inner Asian Sufi Dynasty Muhammad Sadiq Kashghari Translated by David Brophy

In the late eighteenth century, Muhammad Sadiq Kashghari wrote an account of religious and political conflicts in the Tarim Basin, part of present-day Xinjiang, on the eve of the Qing conquest. This volume presents the complete, long recension of In Remembrance of the Saints, translated for the first time into any language.

$35.00 / £30.00 paper 978-0-231-19819-6 $105.00 / £81.00 cloth 978-0-231-19818-9 2020 304 pages 3 illus.

TRANSLATIONS FROM THE ASIAN CLASSICS

Kinship Novels of Early Modern Korea

Between Genealogical Time and the Domestic Everyday Ksenia Chizhova

The lineage novel flourished in Korea from the late seventeenth to the early twentieth century. Ksenia Chizhova foregrounds lineage novels and the domestic world in which they were read to recast the social transformations of Chosŏn Korea and the development of early modern Korean literature.

$35.00 / £30.00 paper 978-0-231-18781-7 $140.00 / £108.00 cloth 978-0-231-18780-0 2021 288 pages 4 illus.

PREMODERN EAST ASIA: NEW HORIZONS

Creative Lives

Interviews with Contemporary South Asian Diaspora Writers Edited by Chandani Lokuge and Chris Ringrose

Twelve acclaimed writers from the tradition of South Asian diasporic writing are interviewed by experts in the field about their political, thematic, and personal concerns as well as their working methods and the publishing scene. The book also includes an authoritative introduction to the field and essays on each writer and interviewer.

$34.00 paper 978-3-8382-1544-0 June 2021 260 pages 14 illus.

IBIDEM PRESS

Literary Information in China

A History Edited by Jack W. Chen, Anatoly Detwyler, Xiao Liu, Christopher M. B. Nugent, and Bruce Rusk

“Information” has become a core concept across the disciplines, yet it is still often seen as a unique feature of the Western world or the digital age. Leading experts turn to China’s textual tradition to show the significance of information for reconceptualizing the work of literary history, from its beginnings to the present moment.

$90.00 / £74.00 cloth 978-0-231-19552-2 May 2021 648 pages 24 illus. Staging Personhood

Costuming in Early Qing Drama Guojun Wang

Staging Personhood uncovers a hidden history of the Ming-Qing transition by exploring what it meant for the clothing of a deposed dynasty to survive onstage. Reading dramatic texts and performances against Qing sartorial regulations, Guojun Wang offers an interdisciplinary lens on the entanglements between Chinese drama and nascent Manchu rule.

$65.00 / £54.00 cloth 978-0-231-19190-6 2020 312 pages 36 illus.

Plum Shadows and Plank Bridge

Two Memoirs About Courtesans Mao Xiang and Yu Huai Translated and edited by Wai-yee Li

This volume presents two memoirs by famous men of letters, Reminiscences of the Plum Shadows Convent by Mao Xiang (1611–93) and Miscellaneous Records of Plank Bridge by Yu Huai (1616–96), that recall times spent with courtesans. They evoke the courtesan world in the final decades of the Ming dynasty and the aftermath of its collapse.

$20.00 / £16.99 paper 978-0-231-18685-8 $60.00 / £50.00 cloth 978-0-231-18684-1 2020 368 pages

TRANSLATIONS FROM THE ASIAN CLASSICS

Chinese Grammatology

Script Revolution and Literary Modernity, 1916–1958 Yurou Zhong

For nearly half of the twentieth century, reformers waged war on the Chinese script. In Chinese Grammatology, Yurou Zhong traces the origins, transmutations, and containment of this script revolution to provide a groundbreaking account of its formative effects on Chinese literature and culture and its lasting implications.

$35.00 / £30.00 paper 978-0-231-19263-7 $105.00 / £88.00 cloth 978-0-231-19262-0 2019 296 pages 11 illus.