This book examines the work of a group of young avant garde fiction writers who made their rebellious appearance on the ......more
This book offers a path-breaking survey of the various efforts to rethink, methodologically delimit, enact, and represen......more
Chinese Kinesthetic Forms is a collection of papers, originally presented at Harvard FAS CAMLab in Fall 2022, that chart......more
How does a reader learn to read an unfamiliar genre? The Novel in Nineteenth-Century Bengal answers this question by loo......more
The Dialectics of Absolute Nothingness investigates the appropriations, critiques, and innovative interpretations of Ger......more
Khitan and Mongol Imperial Women in the Chinese Imagination is a study and translation of two classic Chinese texts abou......more
While globalization is often credited with the eradication of ’traditional’ constraints tied to gender and caste, in rea......more
Little is known about the boy detective in Japanese detective fiction despite his popularity. Who is he, and what myster......more
The Chinese revolution was a forestry revolution. For decades, tree planting has been at the heart of Chinese environmen......more
Archipelagothic: Studies in the Philippine Gothic is a volume that brings together essays that examine the place of the ......more
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In Traces of the Real: The Absent Presence of Photography in South Asian Literature, Bidisha Banerjee brings together cu......more
This book examines Occidentalism, or the set of cultural, literary and political uses of ’the West’, in the works of can......more
Ihsan Abdel Kouddous (1919-1990) is the most popular and prolific writer of Arabic fiction in the twentieth century. The......more
Ihsan Abdel Kouddous (1919-1990) is the most popular and prolific writer of Arabic fiction in the twentieth century. The......more
A groundbreaking account of translation and identity in the Chinese literary tradition before 1850--with important ramif......more
A primer for those with no previous knowledge of Chinese, this book introduces readers to the fundamentals of classical ......more
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In this collection, Fatemeh Keshavarz and Ahmet T. Karamustafa bring together leading researchers from comparative liter......more
Verses on hunter and quarry from a giant of Arabic poetry Arguably the greatest poet of the Arabic language, Abū Nuwās w......more
A new account of racial logics in premodern Islamic literature. In Black Knights, Rachel Schine reveals how the Arabic-s......more
A new account of racial logics in premodern Islamic literature. In Black Knights, Rachel Schine reveals how the Arabic-s......more
Poet-Monks focuses on the literary and religious practices of Buddhist poet-monks in Tang-dynasty China to propose an al......more
A rich anthology of pre-Islamic and early Islamic poetry on the beauties and perils of the hunt In the poems of Fate the......more
Essays exploring the lasting impact of Habib Tanvir’s pioneering theatre which blended tradition with modernity in the p......more
Essays exploring the lasting impact of Habib Tanvir’s pioneering theatre which blended tradition with modernity in the p......more
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With the 1989 Beijing massacre fading from popular memory in the West, China from the mid-1990s to a few years ago felt ......more
Since the beginning of his artistic career in 1959, Bahram Beyzaie’s oeuvre has incorporated various aspects of Iranian,......more
An exploration of the burgeoning field of Anglophone Asian diaspora poetry, this book draws on the thematic concerns of ......more
Ghassan Kanafani (1936 - 1972) is perhaps the greatest Palestinian novelist whose books, including Men in the Sun and Re......more
Facing a transformed socio-political landscape after the An Lushan Rebellion (756-763), Tang dynasty elites questioned i......more
Amr Kamal is Associate Professor of French, Arabic, and Comparative Literature at the City College of New York and the C......more
Gregory Goulding is Assistant Professor in the Department of South Asia Studies at the University of Pennsylvania....more
Antonio Rigopoulos is Professor of Sanskrit Language and Literature at the Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, Italy. His ......more
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In recent years, manga and anime have attracted increasing scholarly interest beyond the realm of Japanese studies. This......more
In recent years, manga and anime have attracted increasing scholarly interest beyond the realm of Japanese studies. This......more
This book introduces the theory and practice of literary translation through the lens of original short stories translat......more
This volume contains Crimean Tatar folklore texts that had been collected by the noted Hungarian Turkologist Ignác Kúnos......more
Reframes cultural diplomacy as part of China’s ongoing quest for modernity beyond wealth and power...more
Reframes cultural diplomacy as part of China’s ongoing quest for modernity beyond wealth and power...more
Bao Ninh’s Contribution to Vietnamese and World Literature analyses and presents the works of Bao Ninh, the most well-kn......more
This volume examines the cultural legacy of Jewish emigration from the Maghreb and the Middle East in the years followin......more
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Representations of the struggle for gender justice in Asian literature This casebook investigates how diverse writers fr......more
Representations of the struggle for gender justice in Asian literature This casebook investigates how diverse writers fr......more
This book provides a concise introduction to the intellectual trends in contemporary Chinese literature from the 1950s t......more
Based on Lu Xun’s works and book collections, this book explores the significant influence of Russian literature, art, a......more
What did Old Chinese prose sound like? Supported by digital texts, modern technologies and historical linguistics, Chine......more
Sinophone studies--the study of Sinitic-language cultures and communities around the world--has become increasingly inte......more
Sinophone studies--the study of Sinitic-language cultures and communities around the world--has become increasingly inte......more
Food as culture in literature and the arts This issue of Alif seeks to contribute to current scholarship on food and foo......more
Constance A. Cook is Professor of Chinese at Lehigh University, Christopher J. Foster is an independent scholar, and Sus......more
The monograph studies the Arab mahjari (émigré) writer Gibran Khalil Gibran (Kahlil Gibran) by examining his oeuvre as b......more
How ordinary forms of writing--including manuals, petitions, almanacs, and magazines--shaped the way colonial subjects u......more
How ordinary forms of writing--including manuals, petitions, almanacs, and magazines--shaped the way colonial subjects u......more
A fresh, graceful translation of one of the most important and timeless classics--the foundational work of Daoism--by aw......more
This book is the first annotated translation of the travelogues of Huang Maocai. A trained Chinese cartographer in the s......more
This book is the first annotated translation of the travelogues of Huang Maocai. A trained Chinese cartographer in the s......more
The present book examines Williams’s negotiation with cultural modes and systems of Chinese landscape tradition in his l......more
Since the 1990s, Arabic exile literature in Europe has increasingly become a literature written from the perspective of ......more
A vigorous translation scene across the nineteenth-century Ottoman Empire--government and private, official and amateur,......more
Since the 19th century, Arab migration from the Ottoman Empire to Latin America and Latin American travel to the Arab wo......more
This innovative study compares nineteenth-century Arabic translations of the Bible to determine how it emerged as a foun......more
Since its advent, Islam has been a representational force to be reckoned with, cross-pollinating world literatures in Af......more
This book takes the unique approach of combining cognitive approaches with more established close-reading methods in ana......more
"Ecocriticism and Turkey is the first in-depth study to explore Turkish literary and cultural engagements with the envir......more
This book intends to be a reaction to a remarkable paradox within Korean studies, easily encountered even by non-experts......more
This study presents a comprehensive and systematic examination of a revered Qurʾān manuscript, commonly attributed to th......more
Jean Tsui is Associate Professor of Chinese Literature in the Department of World Languages and Literatures at the Colle......more
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In this groundbreaking book, Matsuoka Shinpei--a leading scholar of noh theater--provides a detailed account of the birt......more
In this groundbreaking book, Matsuoka Shinpei--a leading scholar of noh theater--provides a detailed account of the birt......more
Dance to Freedom uncovers the untold tales of tawaifs, unrecognized heroes in India’s fight for independence. Highlighti......more
Zakariyya Tamir is Syria’s foremost writer of short stories, and his works are widely read across the Arab world. In thi......more
As they seek to explore evolving and conflicting ideas of nationhood and modernity, India’s writers have often chosen fo......more
Owing to Taiwan’s multi-ethnic nature and palimpsestic colonial past, Taiwanese literature is naturally multilingual. Al......more
The Japanese philosopher Miki Kiyoshi opens doors to all those interested in rethinking the problem of imagination, myth......more
The Japanese philosopher Miki Kiyoshi opens doors to all those interested in rethinking the problem of imagination, myth......more
Yanagawa Seigan (1789-1858) and his wife Kōran (1804-79) were two of the great poets of nineteenth-century Japan. They p......more
Yanagawa Seigan (1789-1858) and his wife Kōran (1804-79) were two of the great poets of nineteenth-century Japan. They p......more
Paper has become the most common writing material worldwide in the course of a two millennia history. This study provide......more
This book presents the concept of Fenggu, one of the most important aesthetic categories of ancient China. As an inspiri......more
This book offers a key analysis of the changing perceptions of family in East Asian societies and the dynamic metamorpho......more
This book investigates the ways in which the family unit is now perceived in South and Southeast Asia and the Asian dias......more
In Fuzzy Traumas, Tyran Grillo critically examines the portrayal of companion animals in Japanese literature in the wake......more
In Fuzzy Traumas, Tyran Grillo critically examines the portrayal of companion animals in Japanese literature in the wake......more
Denationalizing Identities explores the relationship between performance and ideology in the global Sinosphere. Wah Guan......more
Denationalizing Identities explores the relationship between performance and ideology in the global Sinosphere. Wah Guan......more
This collection brings together studies on vernacular manuscripts in regional Chinese dialects such as Cantonese and Hok......more
This groundbreaking study examines the unlikely merger of two Japanese cultural phenomena, an 11th-century aristocratic ......more
During the two difficult decades immediately following the 1947 Indian Independence, a new, commercially successful prin......more
During the two difficult decades immediately following the 1947 Indian Independence, a new, commercially successful prin......more