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1	Soul of Chaos: Critical Perspectives on Gao Xingjian more books like this by Professor Kwok-Kan Tam (Editor) add to wishlist Gao Xingjian, the Nobel Laureate in Literature 2000, is a writer of many talents, being a novelist, playwright, stage director, painter, translator and critic at the same time. His novels, "Soul Mountain" and "One Man's Bible", and his many later plays seek to rediscover the self in its original consciousness, which is translingual and ... see all copies from $17.02! new only from $21.60! \| SVS
2	Scenes for Mandarins: The Elite Theater of the Ming more books like this by Professor Cyril Birch add to wishlist An introduction to the Ming period of Chinese drama and literature, this book contains highlights from six of the best plays of that time, as well as commentary on each play. see all copies from $2.28! new only from $2.58! \| first editions
3	Green Peony and the Rise of the Chinese Martial Arts Novel more books like this by Margaret B Wan add to wishlist Explores the development of the Chinese martial arts novel. see all copies from $72.14! new only from $72.14! \| SVS
4	A Brief History of Chinese Fiction more books like this by Lu Hsun add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99! new only from $34.57! \| first editions \| SVS
5	Rereading the Stone: Desire and the Making of Fiction in Dream of the Red Chamber more books like this by Anthony C Yu add to wishlist The 18th-century "Hongloumeng", known in English as "Dream of the Red Chamber" or "The Story of the Stone" is considered to be one of the greatest of Chinese novels, blending realism and romance, psychological motivation and fate, daily life and mythical occurences, as it narrates the decline of a powerful Chinese family. This study examines the ... see all copies from $22.00! new only from $24.99! \| signed copies \| SVS
6	A brief history of Chinese fiction more books like this by Lu Hsun add to wishlist see all copies from $3.99! first editions
7	Competing Discourses: Orthodoxy, Authenticity, and Engendered Meanings in Late Imperial Chinese Fiction more books like this by Maram Epstein add to wishlist In the traditional Chinese symbolic vocabulary, the construction of gender was never far from debates about ritual propriety, desire, and even cosmic harmony. Competing Discourses maps the aesthetic and semantic meanings associated with gender in the Ming-Qing vernacular novel through close readings of five long narratives: Marriage Bonds to ... see all copies from $25.00! new only from $40.50!
8	Strange Writing: Anomaly Accounts in Early Medieval China more books like this by Robert Ford Campany add to wishlist In this book, the first comprehensive study in a Western language of the zhiguai genre in its formative period, Company sets forth a new view of the nature of the genre and the reasons for its emergence. see all copies from $29.79! new only from $29.95!
9	From Historicity to Fictionality: The Chinese Poetics of Narrative more books like this by Sheldon Hsiao-Peng Lu add to wishlist "A comprehensive and ambitious study of Chinese Narrative." - Choice This is the first comprehensive work in English on the complex history and theory of traditional Chinese narrative. It describes the major Chinese conventions and strategies for interpreting narrative works, both historical and fictional, from the earliest narratives through ... see all copies from $20.48! new only from $27.77! \| first editions
10	A History of Modern Chinese Fiction: Third Edition more books like this by Chih-Tsing Hsia, David D Wang (Introduction by) add to wishlist "The great virtue of this book is that it provides a practical acquaintance with the writing itself by means of copious passages of translation from representative novels". - New York Times Book Review. "C. T. Hsia's book is by now an acknowledged classic. It truly opened up a new field and prepared the way for generations of American scholars to ... see all copies from $10.15! new only from $25.00! \| SVS
11	The Beauty and the Book: Women and Fiction in Nineteenth-Century China more books like this by Ellen Widmer add to wishlist Women entered the book trade in significant numbers in China during the late 16th Century, when it became acceptable for women from 'good families' to write poetry and seek to publish their collected poems. At about the same time, a boom in the publication of fiction began, and semi-professional novelists emerged. This study begins with three case ... see all copies from $31.13! new only from $42.94!
12	The Scholars more books like this by Jingzi Wu add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99! new only from $95.73! \| SVS
13 view cover	Four major plays of Chikamatsu more books like this by Monzaemon Chikamatsu add to wishlist Chikamatsu Monzaemon (1653-1725) wrote some 130 plays, chiefly for the puppet theater, many of which are still performed today, and he is thought to have written the first major tragedies about the common man. This edition contains four of his most important plays including three popular domestic dramas and one history play. see all copies from $3.82! new only from $27.60! \| SVS
14 view cover	Corruption and Realism in Late Socialist China: The Return of the Political Novel more books like this by Jeffrey C Kinkley add to wishlist As China's centrally planned economy and welfare state have given way to a more loosely controlled version of "late socialism," public concern about economic reform's downside has found expression in epic novels about official corruption and its effects. While the media shied away from dealing with these issues, novelists stepped in to fill the ... see all copies from $29.70! new only from $57.00! \| SVS
15	History and Legend: Ideas and Images in the Ming Historical Novels more books like this by Shelley Hsueh-Lun Chang add to wishlist The first study of the Ming historical novels written from a historian's perspective see all copies from $5.40! new only from $70.80! \| first editions
16	Literati and Self-Re/Presentation: Autobiographical Sensibility in the Eighteenth-Century Chinese Novel more books like this by Martin W Huang add to wishlist This study of the traditional Chinese novel focuses on autobiographical features of The Dream of the Red Chamber (Honglu meng), The Scholars (Rulin waishi), and the relatively neglected Humble Words of an Old Rustic (Yesou puyan). The author seeks to answer the question why the Chinese novel was becoming increasingly autobiographical during the ... see all copies from $36.75! new only from $51.00!
17	Journey to the West more books like this by Anthony C Yu (Editor) add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99! first editions
18 view cover	The Hsi-Yu-Chi: A Study of Antecedents to the Sixteenth-Century Chinese Novel more books like this by Glen Dudbridge add to wishlist A study of the early versions of the classic Chinese novel known to readers in English as Monkey. Dr Dudbridge examines a long tradition of earlier versions in narrative and dramatic form through which the great episodic cycle slowly took shape. The two main fields of interest are popular culture and folklore and the development of Chinese ... see all copies from $31.37! new only from $31.37! \| first editions
19 view cover	The Literature of China in the Twentieth Century more books like this by Professor Kam Louie, Professor Bonnie S McDougall add to wishlist In this ground-breaking book, Bonnie S. McDougall and Kam Louie present the first comprehensive, integrated survey of twentieth-century Chinese literature. The Literature of China in the Twentieth Century traces the development of Chinese literature from the Boxer Rebellion, when the strains of Western influence first emerged, to the Tiananmen ... see all copies from $9.99! new only from $45.94!
20	Modern Drama from Communist China more books like this by Walter M. Meserve (Editor), Ruth I. Meserve (Editor) add to wishlist see all copies from $2.50! first editions \| SVS
21	Monkey more books like this by Cheng'en Wu, Arthur Waley add to wishlist Written in the middle of the 16th century, this Chinese classic tells the story of Tripitaka's journey to India and what happens on the way. Its true theme is man's pilgrimage through life, with Monkey, Pigsy and Sandy symbolizing diverse elements of human nature. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $13.81! \| first editions
22 view cover	The Heart of Time: Moral Agency in Twentieth-Century Chinese Fiction more books like this by Sabina Knight add to wishlist By examining how narrative strategies reinforce or contest deterministic paradigms, this work describes modern Chinese fiction's unique contribution to ethical and literary debates over the possibility for meaningful moral action. How does Chinese fiction express the desire for freedom as well as fears of attendant responsibilities and abuses? How ... see all copies from $32.79! new only from $45.95!
23 view cover	Ideology, Power, Text: Self-Representation and the Peasant Other' in Modern Chinese Literature more books like this by Yi-Tsi Mei Feuerwerker add to wishlist The division between the scholar-gentry class and the people was an enduring theme of the traditional Chinese agrarian-bureaucratic state. Twentieth-century elites recast this as a division between intellectuals and peasants and made the confrontation between the writing/intellectual self and the peasant other a central concern of literature. The ... see all copies from $57.84! new only from $65.95!
24 view cover	The literature of China in the twentieth century more books like this by Bonnie S. McDougall, Kam Louie add to wishlist In this ground-breaking book, Bonnie S. McDougall and Kam Louie present the first comprehensive, integrated survey of twentieth-century Chinese literature. The Literature of China in the Twentieth Century traces the development of Chinese literature from the Boxer Rebellion, when the strains of Western influence first emerged, to the Tiananmen ... see all copies from $12.00! new only from $31.97!
25 view cover	The Columbia Anthology of Modern Chinese Literature more books like this by Professor Joseph S M Lau add to wishlist "The Columbia Anthology of Modern Chinese Literature" has long been a definitive resource for Chinese literature in translation, offering a complete overview of twentieth-century writing from China, Taiwan, and Hong Kong, and making inroads into the twenty-first century as well. In this new edition Joseph S. M. Lau and Howard Goldblatt have ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $24.08! \| first editions \| SVS

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