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This book analyses the critical reception of Pai Hsien-yung'sCrystal Boys, one of Taiwan's first recognized gay novels and one which has played an imp...
A rich heritage that needs to be documented Beginning in 1869, when the study of homosexuality can be said to have begun with the establishment of sex...
Self-portrayals
This volume gathers personal reflections on life and literature by 44 of China's leading authors. It aims to illustrate how Chinese society and its cr...
台灣文學的動物書寫專輯
這一專輯所選的作品主要凸顯台灣文學在全球動物文學研究的舞台上的地方認同。台灣的自然書寫涉及地理環境所...
白先勇專輯
白先勇，可以說是當代華文作家中，不論是在台灣、在中國、在東南亞、在其他各地的華人世界中，最負盛名、最...
The Encyclopedia of the Novel is the first reference book that focuses on the development of the novel throughout the world. Entries on individual wri...
Regarded as a pioneering classic study of 20th-century Chinese fiction, this volume covers some 60 years, from the Literary Revolution of 1917 through...
This encyclopaedia will be an indispensable resource and recourse for all who are thinking about cities and the urban, and the relation of cities to l...
Offering the first systematic overview of modern and contemporary Chinese literature from a translation studies perspective, this handbook provides st...
Literary critics such as C. T. Hsia called Pai Hsienyung a "rare talent" who according to another critic, "has absorbed the diverse techniques of cont...
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A New History
This is a comprehensive portrait of Taiwan. It covers the major periods in the development of this small but powerful island province/nation. The work...
This book explores Taiwan's development from its formal beginnings as a political entity to a home for a Ming-loyalist regime, to a Ch'ing prefecture ...
A Reading of Four Contemporary Taiwanese Writers
This dissertation is an attempt to define a Chinese "modernism," exemplified by the narrative practices of four major writers in Taiwan today, from th...
First Published in 2000. A rich heritage that needs to be documented Beginning in 1869, when the study of homosexuality can be said to have begun with...
The stories in this book appeared some thirty years ago over a period of time in the magazine Hsien-tai wen hsueh (Modern Literature), which Pai Hsien...
A Chapter-by-Chapter Guide
The Story of the Stone (also known as Dream of the Red Chamber) is widely held to be the greatest work of Chinese literature, beloved by readers ever ...
Queer Representation in Taiwanese Fiction, Film and Public Culture
This is the first book in English to analyse the stunning rise to prominence of cultures of dissident sexuality in Taiwan during the 1990s. Positioned...
Historical Dictionary of Modern Chinese Literature presents a broad perspective on the development and history of literature in modern China. This boo...
The A to Z of Modern Chinese Literature presents a broad perspective on the development and history of literature in modern China. It offers a chronol...
Contemporary Chinese Fiction from Taiwan
The first comprehensive English-language study of literary trends in the fiction of Taiwan over the last forty years, this pioneering work explores a ...
This book explores an important aspect of human existence: humor in self-translation, a virtually unexplored area of research in Humour Studies and Tr...
This new edition of Bradt's Taiwan continues to offer some of the most comprehensive coverage available and has been fully updated to reflect all the ...
Spectral Transitions
This book constitutes a timely intervention into debates over the status of Taiwan, at a moment when discussions of democracy and autocracy, imperiali...
How a Chinese Translation of British Political Humour Came Into Being
A study of Nam-fung's Chinese translation of Jonathan Lynn and Antony Jay's classic political satire, Yes Prime Minister, this monograph analyzes the ...
The Columbia Companion to Modern Chinese Literature features more than fifty short essays on specific writers and literary trends from the Qing period...
The Routledge International Encyclopedia of Queer Culture covers gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender and queer (GLBTQ) life and culture post-1945, wit...
Taiwan was able to solidly build and sustain a film industry only after locally-produced Mandarin films secured markets in Hong Kong and Southeast Asi...
Asia in Flight
This book offers an incisive and ambitious critique of Asian Diaspora culture, looking specifically at literature and visual popular culture. Sheng-me...
Multiple Voices and Cognitive Translatology
Drawing on the cognitive translatological paradigm, this book introduces a situation-embedded cognitive construction model of translation and explores...
Freedom in the Trenches
The Soldier-Writer, the Expatriate, and Cold War Modernism in Taiwan: Freedom in the Trenches argues that what appeared to be a "genesis" of new liter...
This book is about the impact of literature upon cities world-wide, and cities upon literature. It examines why the city matters so much to contempora...
Lesbianism, Patriarchalism and the Asian Family in Taiwan
This new book illustrates how Taiwanese lesbians negotiate their lives outside patriarchal families, while seeking varying ways to maintain working re...
Contemporary Chinese Fiction
The information on Muslims around the World is collected and presented in this book. The Muslim population percentage in major non-Muslim countries of...
Reading Chinese American Women's Fiction
In Diasporic Representations, author Pin-chia Feng examines the stratification of various diasporic subjectivities through close reading fiction by Ch...