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

The Dialectics of Absolute Nothingness investigates the appropriations, critiques, and innovative interpretations of Ger......more

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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

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In Traces of the Real: The Absent Presence of Photography in South Asian Literature, Bidisha Banerjee brings together cu......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

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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

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

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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

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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

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

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

This volume examines the cultural legacy of Jewish emigration from the Maghreb and the Middle East in the years followin......more

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

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

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

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

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

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

The Japanese philosopher Miki Kiyoshi opens doors to all those interested in rethinking the problem of imagination, myth......more

"Ecocriticism and Turkey is the first in-depth study to explore Turkish literary and cultural engagements with the envir......more

This study presents a comprehensive and systematic examination of a revered Qurʾān manuscript, commonly attributed to th......more

This book intends to be a reaction to a remarkable paradox within Korean studies, easily encountered even by non-experts......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

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

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 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

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

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

This book examines Chinese traditional poetry with an emphasis on the sources of pleasure in creating and enjoying class......more