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Heart Eater traces the author’s childhood and how she went from being a nameless, abandoned nine-month-old baby in Seoul......more
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This book systematically examines Chinese astroarchaeology from the Neolithic period onwards, aiming to reconstruct prem......more
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Gu, Wu and Moratto explore how Chinese Science Fiction transcends cultural and linguistic barriers with its unique blend......more
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3 captivating short stories by one of Japan’s most prominent 20th-century writers, showcasing his characteristic blend o......more
Zen poems of everyday awakening. A fresh translation of short poems by the Japanese Zen poet Ryokan that reads well as m......more
Hoaxes! Jokes! Farces and fun! China’s Chaplin introduces the imagination of Xu Zhuodai (1880-1958), a comic dynamo who ......more
The nonfiction writing of Naguib Mahfouz, presented in English for the first time. The first Arabic language writer to w......more
Syaman Rapongan is a chronicler of his people, the Tao, an Indigenous community who live on Orchid Island near the islan......more
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This volume offers the first annotated English translation of Ḍiyāʾal-Dīn Baranī’s The Accounts of the Barmakids, based ......more
Arabic erotic literature has a long and rich history going back as far as the ninth century. Far from being the pursuit ......more
Exile is Arrival is an anthology of poems from some of the most important voices in Kurdish poetry. A language underrepr......more
In the nineteenth century, Tamil Nadu in South India and the Tamil-speaking regions of Sri Lanka were shaken by an extra......more
Early Daoist Hagiographies offers an engaging new translation of six key Daoist texts that illuminate the interplay betw......more
An Indigenous hunter laments the decline in the flying squirrel population and reflects on how animals perceive the worl......more
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The Story of the Western Wing, one of China’s most famous love operas, tells the story of Student Zhang and a teenage gi......more
Guohua Zhu unveils the last two decades of Chinese literary theory and research, offering a glimpse into the evolving di......more
Lee Chiao’s epic Wintry Night Trilogy, comprising Wintry Night, Deserted Village, and Lone Lamp, is widely revered as a ......more
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A treasure trove of over 3000 proverbs, humorous and wise anecdotes, and popular quotations--ancient and modern--from th......more
In this essay, I have attempted a "philosophical critique." In short, I have tried to summarize my thoughts on the found......more
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An intimate voice from the heart of the Victorian drawing-room returns: discover the restored journals and letters of Me......more
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Employing the idea of interculturality to study Middle Eastern adaptations of Greek tragedy from the turn of 20th centur......more
Bama is a Tamil Dalit feminist writer and novelist. This book presents a dedicated study of Bama’s work as a writer and ......more
Step into the timeless world of Sheikh Saadi Shirazi, one of the greatest Persian poets and moral philosophers, with thi......more
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A Great Classic of Japanese literature and the masterpiece of novelist Ihara Saikaku--now in a completely new and revise......more
’A long time ago, when animals could talk, there lived in a forest four wise creatures-a hare, a jackal, an otter and a ......more
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A landmark English translation of Sindhi literature’s most famous classic. Shah Abdul Latif’s Risalo, loosely translated......more
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’Something rose out of the bottom of the pool. It looked like a giant snail, but its head was part human, its body and l......more
THREE CLASSIC WORKS OF CHINESE PHILOSOPHY TOGETHER IN ONE VOLUME. Tao Te Ching by Lao Tzu is a profound philosophical gu......more
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Translation of texts attributed to Zhengjue from the Ts°ung jung lu....more
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"Nervous takes the focus from the abstract and does what doctors (and historians) failed to do: makes her story, her pai......more
The classic story of Japan’s origins--now in a fully revised and reader-friendly edition. The Kojiki is Japan’s oldest s......more
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Hutom Pyanchar Naksha (literally, ’Sketches by Hutom the Owl’), a set of satirical portraits in Bengali about ordinary l......more
’Just you wait and see, ’ I told him. ’I’ll make you a cheese omelette you’ll never forget.’ And I did. It was a bit mes......more
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’I have discovered their secret. Now I know why they look so cool, so refreshed, while we who walk the streets of Old De......more
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Picture Gallery (1888) by Edward Rehatsek (1819-1891) is an English translation of the Persian moral miscellany Nigāris......more
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