India and the Traveller: Aspects of Travelling Identity, a collection of essays on travel writings related to India, foc......more

Uneasy Translations: Self, Experience and Indian Literature interweaves the personal journey of an academic into reflect......more

Owing to Taiwan’s multi-ethnic nature and palimpsestic colonial past, Taiwanese literature is naturally multilingual. Al......more

Tang poetry is one of the most valuable cultural inheritances of Chinese history. Its distinctive aesthetics, delicate l......more

Tang poetry is one of the most valuable cultural inheritances of Chinese history. Its distinctive aesthetics, delicate l......more

Analysing materials from literature and film, this book considers the fates of women who did not or could not buy into t......more

American Literary Studies in Postmillennial India critically investigates multiple perspectives demonstrated by American......more

This book explores Chinese novelists’ distinctive contributions to the China debate in terms of the key issues of Chines......more

Transnational East Asian Studies demonstrates how transnationalism as a mode of intellectual enquiry has wide-ranging in......more

The present volume focuses on the colophons found in several pothi manuscripts from Central, South and South East Asia. ......more

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Reflecting on the "clash of civilizations" as its point of departure, this book is based on a series of sixteen of the a......more

Examining a range of South Asian Anglophone diasporic fiction and poetry, this monograph opens a new dialogue between di......more

Examining a range of South Asian Anglophone diasporic fiction and poetry, this monograph opens a new dialogue between di......more

This book studies negotiations of gender politics in the process of nation formation in the aftermath of the Partition. ......more

This book is an interdisciplinary study of Japan during the socially euphoric years of the Bubble Economy in the 1980s. ......more

Malaysian Chinese (Mahua) literature is marginalized on several fronts. In the international literary space, which privi......more

Malaysian Chinese (Mahua) literature is marginalized on several fronts. In the international literary space, which privi......more

This edited book offers a collection of fresh and critical essays that explore the representation of the migrant subject......more

This edited volume contains an excellent collection of contributions and presents various informative topics under the c......more

This book offers a stimulating introduction to the Hokkien music drama known as liyuanxi (’pear garden theatre’), heir a......more

A vigorous translation scene across the nineteenth-century Ottoman Empire-government and private, official and amateur, ......more

This is a translation from Hebrew of renowned author Rachman Chaim’s first book and constitutes critique of Israel’s ins......more

During the early days of the COVID-19 health crisis, Fang Fang’s Wuhan Diary provided an important portal for people aro......more

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The comic novel, The Adventures of Ma Suzhen, was written during a highpoint in the popularity of xia "knight-errant" fi......more

The late 16th-century novel Jin Ping Mei has been described as a landmark in the development of the narrative art form, ......more

Since the 19th century, Arab migration from the Ottoman Empire to Latin America and Latin American travel to the Arab wo......more

Since its advent, Islam has been a representational force to be reckoned with, cross-pollinating world literatures in Af......more

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This book brings together fourteen articles by prominent critics of Malaysian Anglophone literature from five different ......more

Chinese Whispers examines multiple contact zones between the Anglophone and Sinophone worlds, investigating how poetry b......more

Chinese Whispers examines multiple contact zones between the Anglophone and Sinophone worlds, investigating how poetry b......more

A unique Mamluk manuscript tells the story of a Damascene jurist. Ibn al-Zamlakani composed a maqama that narrate the im......more

The Invention of China in Early Modern England describes how several different English communities became aware of China......more

This book presents Yi Hwang (1501-1570)--better known by his pen name, Toegye--Korea’s most eminent Confucian philosophe......more

Shibata Renzaburō and the Reinvention of Modernism in Postwar Japanese Popular Literature explores the life and work of ......more

This book is the first comprehensive study of the reception of Tennessee Williams in China, from rejection and/or misgiv......more

This book is the English version of Chandi Purana, written in Odia by Sarala Das. Indigenous and secular, the Chandi Pur......more

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization......more

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization......more

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization......more

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization......more

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization......more

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization......more

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization......more

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization......more

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization......more

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization......more

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization......more

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization......more

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization......more

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization......more

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization......more

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization......more

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization......more

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization......more

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization......more

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization......more

A masterpiece of world literature, Honglou Meng (Dream of the Red Chamber) by Cao Xueqin (1715-1763) is widely considere......more

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization......more

The volume is aimed at preserving invaluable knowledge about Ainu, a language-isolate previously spoken in Hokkaido, Sak......more

Voices from the Desert is the fifth and concluding volume of Marcel Kurpershoek’s Corpus Oral Poetry & Narratives from C......more

A wide-ranging introductory guide for readers making their first steps into the world of manga, this book helps readers ......more

A wide-ranging introductory guide for readers making their first steps into the world of manga, this book helps readers ......more

Since the 1990s, Arabic exile literature in Europe has increasingly become a literature written from the perspective of ......more

Winner, 2023 Harry Levin Prize, American Comparative Literature Association Beginning in the late Qing era, Chinese writ......more

Winner, 2023 Harry Levin Prize, American Comparative Literature Association Beginning in the late Qing era, Chinese writ......more

The Seats of the Mighty is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1896. Hansebooks is editor of t......more

This work presents the complete collection of oral poetry by ad-Dindān, a bedouin poet of the Duwāsir tribe in southern ......more

The Story of a Desert Knight is the second volume of a trilogy entitled Oral Poetry and Narratives from Central Arabia. ......more

This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 International licence. It is free to read at......more

Through a close-reading of a corpus of novels featuring young protagonists in their path toward adulthood, the book show......more

Language, Style and Variation in Contemporary Indian English Literary Texts is a volume which examines the linguistic an......more

North Korea, the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK), is firmly fixed in the Western imagination as a barbaric ......more