Malaysian Chinese (Mahua) literature is marginalized on several fronts. In the international literary space, which privileges the West, Malaysia is considered remote. The institutions of modern Chinese literature favor mainland China, Taiwan, and Hong Kong. Within Malaysia, only texts in Malay, the national language, are considered national literature by the state. However, Mah...(展开全部)

作者普实克（1906－1980），欧洲最负盛名的中国文学与文化学者，前捷克斯洛伐克科学院院士，东方研究所所长。他所领导的东方研究所曾是二十世纪五六十年代欧洲最有成就的中国文学研究中心。六十年代初，他和美国夏志清教授关于后者所著《中国现代小说史》的讨论，曾在欧美引起很大反 响。 编者李欧梵，台湾大学外文系毕业，美国哈佛大学博士，香港科技大学人文荣誉博士。现为哈佛大学东亚系荣休教授，香港中文大学讲座教授，“中央研究院”院士，曾任教于普林斯顿大学、印第安纳大学、芝加哥大学、香港科技大学、哈佛大学等著名学府。主要著述包括：《铁屋中的呐喊》、《中国现代作家的浪漫一代》、《西潮的彼岸》、《中西文学的徊想》、《狐狸洞话语》、《现代性的追求》、《上海摩登》、《我的哈佛岁月》等二十多种，并出版有小说《范柳原忏情录》和《东方猎手》。 译者郭建玲，浙江金华人。二〇〇七年毕...(展开全部)

The Edge of Knowing explores the relationship between the rhetoric of dreams and realist literary practice in modern Chinese literature from the May Fourth Era in the early twentieth century through the period just following the end of the Cultural Revolution in 1976. The writers' attention to dreams demonstrates the multiple influences of Western psychology, utopian desire for...(展开全部)

Realism and the rhetoric of dreams intersected in modern Chinese literature from the May Fourth Era in the early twentieth century through the period just following the end of the Cultural Revolution in 1976. The Edge of Knowing investigates this relationship, showing how writers’ attention to dreams demonstrates the multiple influences of Western psychology, utopian desire for...(展开全部)

During the first thirty years under communism, China completely banned crime fiction. After Mao, however, crime genres of all kinds-old and new, Chinese and Western-sprang up in profusion. Crime narrative again became one of the most prolific and best-loved forms of Chinese popular culture, and it often embodied the Chinese people's most trenchant and open critiques of their ne...(展开全部)

Table of Contents Illustrations Note on Romanization Preface: An Invitation to Explore the City 1 Introduction: The City in Modern Chinese Cultural History 2 Urban Configurations: Small Town, Ancient Capital, Modern Metropolis 3 Mapping the Ancient Capital of Beijing 4 The Symbolic Triumph of Chinese Tradition in Beijing 5 Reading the Illegible Metropolis of Shanghai 6 Th...(展开全部)

A formidable and influential work, Language and Death sheds a highly original light on issues central to Continental philosophy, literary theory, deconstruction, hermeneutics, and speech-act theory. Focusing especially on the incompatible philosophical systems of Hegel and Heidegger within the space of negativity, Giorgio Agamben offers a rigorous reading of numerous philosophi...(展开全部)

A formidable and influential work, Language and Death sheds a highly original light on issues central to Continental philosophy, literary theory, deconstruction, hermeneutics, and speech-act theory. Focusing especially on the incompatible philosophical systems of Hegel and Heidegger within the space of negativity, Giorgio Agamben offers a rigorous reading of numerous philosophi...(展开全部)

A fascinating persuasive history of how sugar has shaped the world, from European colonies to our modern diets. In this eye-opening study, Sidney Mintz shows how Europeans and Americans transformed sugar from a rare foreign luxury to a commonplace necessity of modern life, and how it changed the history of capitalism and industry. He discusses the production and consumption of ...(展开全部)

The Chinese essay is arguably China’s most distinctive contribution to modern world literature, and the period of its greatest influence and popularity—the mid-1930s—is the central concern of this book. What Charles Laughlin terms "the literature of leisure" is a modern literary response to the cultural past that manifests itself most conspicuously in the form of short, informa...(展开全部)