Asian Literature

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Writing Beijing

History and Knowledge of the Capital

By Naixi Feng
Subjects: Asian Studies, China, Literary Studies, Asian Literature, History, Intellectual History, Chinese History, Urban Studies
Series: China Understandings Today

The textual transformation of Beijing from a frontier outpost to the capital of China

Ambivalent Desires

Affect and Boys Love in China

By Liang Ge
Subjects: Asian Studies, China, Gender and Sexuality Studies, Queer Studies, Literary Studies, Asian Literature, Media Studies, Fan Studies, T.V. & Radio, New Media
Series: China Understandings Today

The cultural ecology of the Chinese boys love genre

Cold War and Sinophone Culture at the Borders

By Shuang Shen
Subjects: Asian Studies, China, Literary Studies, Asian Literature, Cultural Studies, Literary Criticism and Theory
Series: China Understandings Today

The cultural production of Sinophone communities outside of China during the Cold War

Sideways Developments

Queer and Trans Aesthetics of Global Hong Kong

By Kai Hang Cheang
Subjects: Literary Studies, Literary Criticism and Theory, Asian Literature, Asian Studies, China, Gender Studies, Gay and Lesbian Studies, Diaspora Studies, Sexuality Studies
Series: Global Queer Asias

A meditation on queer and trans persistence in global Hong Kong

Supernatural Japan

Izumi Kyoka and the Global Fantastic

By Pedro Thiago Ramos Bassoe
Subjects: Literary Studies, Asian Literature, 20th Century Literature, Asian Studies, Japan
Series: Michigan Monograph Series in Japanese Studies

Izumi Kyōka’s influence on modern literature of the fantastic

Modern Japanese Literary Studies

Edited by Seth Jacobowitz & Jonathan Eran Abel
Subjects: Literary Studies, Modern Literature, Asian Literature, Asian Studies, Japan
Series: Michigan Monograph Series in Japanese Studies

Explores new directions in modern Japanese literature

Reportage in the Chinese-Speaking World

Edited by Charles A. Laughlin & Li Guo
Subjects: History, Chinese History, Literary Studies, Asian Literature, Media Studies, Journalism, T.V. & Radio, New Media
Series: China Understandings Today

An exploration of the ethico-aesthetic genre in the Sinophone world

Creative Belonging

The Qiang and Multiethnic Imagination in Modern China

By Yanshuo Zhang
Subjects: Asian Studies, China, History, Chinese History, Media Studies, Cinema Studies, Literary Studies, Asian Literature, Cultural Studies, Race and Ethnicity, Anthropology, Cultural Anthropology
Series: China Understandings Today

An interdisciplinary study on the creative cultures produced by China's ethnic minorities

Intersex Figures in Modern Japanese Literature and Art

By Leslie Winston
Subjects: Asian Studies, Japan, Literary Studies, Asian Literature, Gender Studies, Gay and Lesbian Studies
Series: Michigan Monograph Series in Japanese Studies

How artists used metaphors of non-heteronormative bodies and sexualities to resist authoritative dicta

Teaching and Transformation in Popular Confucian Literature of the Late Qing

By Katherine L Alexander
Subjects: Asian Studies, China, Literary Studies, Asian Literature

How disasters compelled moral reformers to transform society and imagine new ways of reaching audiences in the Qing era

Gendered Memories

An Imaginary Museum for Ding Ling and Chinese Female Revolutionary Martyrs

By Xian Wang
Subjects: Asian Studies, China, Literary Studies, Asian Literature
Series: China Understandings Today

An imaginary museum of the legacies of Chinese female revolutionary martyrs

In Search of Admiration and Respect

Chinese Cultural Diplomacy in the United States, 1875–1974

By Yanqiu Zheng
Subjects: Asian Studies, China, Political Science, Cultural Studies, History, Chinese History, Art, Art History, Literary Studies, Asian Literature, Theater and Performance
Series: China Understandings Today

Reframes cultural diplomacy as part of China's ongoing quest for modernity beyond wealth and power

Samurai with Telephones

Anachronism in Japanese Literature

By Christopher Smith
Subjects: Asian Studies, Japan, Literary Studies, Asian Literature
Series: Michigan Monograph Series in Japanese Studies

What anachronisms reveal about historical narratives through Early Modern and Modern Japanese cultural products

Transnational Philippines

Cultural Encounters in Philippine Literature in Spanish

Edited by Rocío Ortuño Casanova & Axel Gasquet
Subjects: Asian Studies, Southeast Asia, Literary Studies, Asian Literature, Cultural Studies, Latinx Studies

A study of Philippine literary production that attempts to break the nation’s isolation from broader Spanish literature

Paris and the Art of Transposition

Early Twentieth Century Sino-French Encounters

By Angie Chau
Subjects: Asian Studies, China, Literary Studies, Asian Literature, Art, Art History
Series: China Understandings Today

How Chinese artists created a transnational imaginary

Cosmopolitan Love

Utopian Vision in D. H. Lawrence and Eileen Chang

By Sijia Yao
Subjects: Asian Studies, China, Literary Studies, Asian Literature, British and Irish Literatures, Cultural Studies

Analyzes the writing of D. H. Lawrence and Eileen Chang to envision how love crosses cultural boundaries

How Dark Is My Flower

Yosano Akiko and the Invention of Romantic Love

By Leith Morton
Subjects: Asian Studies, Japan, Literary Studies, Modern Literature, Asian Literature
Series: Michigan Monograph Series in Japanese Studies

Explores romantic love in modern Japanese literature through the work of the leading poet in the Myōjō circle

The Three Treasures

A Revised and Illustrated Study and Translation of Minamoto no Tamenori's Sanboe

By Edward Kamens & Ethan Bushelle
Subjects: Asian Studies, Japan, Literary Studies, Asian Literature
Series: Michigan Monograph Series in Japanese Studies

An updated, augmented, and illustrated study and translation of this landmark collection of Buddhist tales

Queer Subjects in Modern Japanese Literature

Male Love, Intimacy, and Erotics, 1886–2014

Edited by Stephen D. Miller
Subjects: Asian Studies, Japan, Gender Studies, Gay and Lesbian Studies, Literary Studies, Asian Literature
Series: Michigan Monograph Series in Japanese Studies

Minor Salvage

The Korean War and Korean American Life Writings

By Stephen Hong Sohn
Subjects: Asian Studies, Korea, Literary Studies, Asian Literature, History, Asian History

Explores the forgotten archives and life writings of Korean War refugees

The Journey

Stories by K. C. Das

By K.C. Das & K.C. Das
Translated by Phyllis Granoff
Subjects: Literary Studies, Asian Literature, Asian Studies, South/Southeast Asia
Series: Michigan Papers on South and Southeast Asia

This exceptional collection of stories explores human emotions and motivations in all their untidiness.

Gendered Power

Educated Women of the Meiji Empress' Court

By Mamiko Suzuki
Subjects: Asian Studies, Japan, Gender Studies, Women's Studies, History, Asian History, Literary Studies, Asian Literature
Series: Michigan Monograph Series in Japanese Studies

Examines the contributions of three powerful Meiji women and how their own education and ideas about Japanese women’s potential shaped how females were to participate in modern society

Beyond the Gender Gap in Japan

By Gill Steel
Subjects: Asian Studies, Japan, Gender Studies, Women's Studies, History, Asian History, Political Science, Cultural Studies, Literary Studies, Asian Literature
Series: Michigan Monograph Series in Japanese Studies

Gives critical attention to the issue of Japan’s low level of gender equality and the conflicting information from surveys of women reporting a high sense of well-being

Textures of Mourning

Calligraphy, Mortality, and The Tale of Genji Scrolls

By Reginald Jackson
Subjects: Asian Studies, Japan, Literary Studies, Asian Literature, Cultural Studies, Theater and Performance, Gender and Sexuality Studies
Series: Michigan Monograph Series in Japanese Studies

Unfolds the intimate relationship between mourning, writing, reading, painting, and viewing, through The Tale of Genji and its legacy

On the Bullet Train with Emily Brontë

Wuthering Heights in Japan

By Judith Pascoe
Subjects: Literary Studies, British and Irish Literatures, Asian Literature, Asian Studies, Japan

Reveals how and why Brontë’s novel won a huge following in Japan and has been reimagined by writers and manga artists

 

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