Do all cultures and historical periods have a concept corresponding to the English word emotion? This collection of essays is concerned with the closest candidate within the Chinese language, namely the term qíng. What is the meaning of this term in different periods and genres? What are the types of discourse in which it is typically found? This volume contains two essays on t...(展开全部)

Do all cultures and historical periods have a concept corresponding to the English word emotion? This collection of essays is concerned with the closest candidate within the Chinese language, namely the term qíng. What is the meaning of this term in different periods and genres? What are the types of discourse in which it is typically found? This volume contains two essays on t...(展开全部)

In a famous episode of the eighteenth-century masterpiece The Dream of the Red Chamber, the goddess Disenchantment introduces the hero, Pao-yü, to the splendors and dangers of the Illusory Realm of Great Void. The goddess, one of the divine women in Chinese literature who inspire contradictory impulses of attachment and detachment, tells Pao-yü that the purpose of his dream vis...(展开全部)

In a famous episode of the eighteenth-century masterpiece The Dream of the Red Chamber, the goddess Disenchantment introduces the hero, Pao-yü, to the splendors and dangers of the Illusory Realm of Great Void. The goddess, one of the divine women in Chinese literature who inspire contradictory impulses of attachment and detachment, tells Pao-yü that the purpose of his dream vis...(展开全部)

This book is in the Cambria Sinophone World Series, headed by Victor Mair (University of Pennsylvania). Despite the “nonhuman” turn in the humanities, studies of animals in Chinese culture are still quite limited in number, while studies of insects in literature are even rarer and tend to focus on only a few aspects, such as cricket fights. The available studies on insects in C...(展开全部)

『三搬當一燒』，我搬家的次數太多，平時也就『丟三臘四』的，一累了精神渙散，越是怕丟的東西越是要丟。倖存的老照片就都收入全集內，藉此保存。— 張愛玲 對照記裡收藏了『張愛玲』大大小小的私房照，生活的、家族的，還有那些不經世事記憶裡的。喜愛張愛玲的你是不容許錯過的『對照記』。 本書是張愛玲首度披露的自傳式圖文集，書中所羅列的照片，都經過她親自篩選，從童年、青年到中年，每張照片並配有張愛玲特殊風格的說明文字，充份展現她不同時期的心情與風貌。讀書如見人，本書絕對可以填補『張迷』長年以來的遺憾，一償親賭張愛玲真面目的美夢！

『三搬當一燒』，我搬家的次數太多，平時也就『丟三臘四』的，一累了精神渙散，越是怕丟的東西越是要丟。倖存的老照片就都收入全集內，藉此保存。— 張愛玲 對照記裡收藏了『張愛玲』大大小小的私房照，生活的、家族的，還有那些不經世事記憶裡的。喜愛張愛玲的你是不容許錯過的『對照記』。 本書是張愛玲首度披露的自傳式圖文集，書中所羅列的照片，都經過她親自篩選，從童年、青年到中年，每張照片並配有張愛玲特殊風格的說明文字，充份展現她不同時期的心情與風貌。讀書如見人，本書絕對可以填補『張迷』長年以來的遺憾，一償親賭張愛玲真面目的美夢！

The Ming–Qing dynastic transition in seventeenth-century China was an epochal event that reverberated in Qing writings and beyond; political disorder was bound up with vibrant literary and cultural production. Women and National Trauma in Late Imperial Chinese Literature focuses on the discursive and imaginative space commanded by women. Encompassing writings by women and by me...(展开全部)

The Ming–Qing dynastic transition in seventeenth-century China was an epochal event that reverberated in Qing writings and beyond; political disorder was bound up with vibrant literary and cultural production. Women and National Trauma in Late Imperial Chinese Literature focuses on the discursive and imaginative space commanded by women. Encompassing writings by women and by me...(展开全部)

Masculinity, fast-changing and regularly declared to be in the throes of crisis, is attracting more popular and scholarly debate in China than ever before. At the same time, Chinese literature since 1989 has been characterized as brimming with countercultural ‘attitude’. This book probes the link between literary rebellion and manhood in China, showing how, as male writers crit...(展开全部)