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One of the hallmarks of the Arabic literature of the Mamluk era is the very frequent use of semantic ambiguity, a rhetor......more

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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

Huda J. Fakhreddine explores the ’new genre’ of the Arabic prose poem as a poetic practice and a critical lens. This poe......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

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

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"Students of the prestigious Tokyo Metropolitan Nurturing High School are given remarkable freedom--if they can win, bar......more

Introduction.- "My Country"/ "Our Country".- Inclusion, Factionalism and the Nation in the Writings of Lloyd Fernando.- ......more

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Spatial Literary Studies in China explores the range of vibrant and innovative research being done in China today. Chine......more

A unique Mamluk manuscript tells the story of a Damascene jurist. Ibn al-Zamlakani’s story revolves around a dramatic ep......more

Tells the story of a Chinese intellectual community in London in the 1930s and ’40s. Chiang Yee and His Circle celebrate......more

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

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

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

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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

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

Keep students engaged in online literature classes.This volume considers the challenges and opportunities of online lite......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

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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

This book analyzes precarious conditions and their manifestations in recent South Asian literature in English. Themes 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

Richard Ranasinghe de Vulpian is a brilliant and enigmatic British jewelry appraiser. Seigi Nakata is a young college st......more

Chapter 1: Introduction.- Chapter 2: The writing and rewriting of an exemplary shouchaoben: Zhang Yang’s The Second Hand......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 book adopts an integrated approach to the study of contact literature through collaboration between theories of Wor......more

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

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

This book offers new insights into the twelfth-century Persian poet Nezami Ganjavi. Challenging the dominant interpretat......more

Includes 50 images, with a large number of paintings from Gao Xingjian’s private collection. Gao Xingjian won the Nobel ......more

A brilliant new translation of the short improvisational fiction and memoirs of Lu Xun, the father of modern Chinese lit......more

This title is part of UC Press’s Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to ......more

This title is part of UC Press’s Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to ......more

This title is part of UC Press’s Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to ......more

This seminal book is the first sustained critical work that engages with the varieties of literature following the tripl......more

In the early twentieth century, a group of artists and intellectuals reinterpreted the Middle Eastern trickster figure N......more

In various ways, Chinese diasporic communities seek to connect and re-connect with their "homelands" in literature, film......more

Studies of Chinese culture and literature often neglect the importance of the various vocabulary terms for the self and ......more

"Students of the prestigious Tokyo Metropolitan Advanced Nurturing High School are given remarkable freedom--if they can......more

The history of Baghdad in the 18th and 19th centuries had predominantly been written by two groups. The first group is B......more