Haiyan Lee is professor of East Asian languages and cultures, and of comparative literature at Stanford University. She is the author of Revolution of the Heart: A Genealogy of Love in China, 1900–1950 (Stanford University Press, 2007), and The Stranger and the Chinese Moral Imagination (Stanford University Press, 2014).
11 Ebooks de Wilt L. Idema
Mouse vs. Cat in Chinese Literature
In literatures worldwide, animal fables have been analyzed for their revealingly anthropomorphic views, but until now little attention has been given to the animal tales of China. The complex, compet …
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Heroines of Jiangyong
Heroines of Jiangyong is the first English translation of a set of verse narratives recorded in the unique women’s script (nushu) of rural Jiangyong County, Hunan, in southern China. This selection o …
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Meng Jiangnü Brings Down the Great Wall
Meng Jiangnü Brings Down the Great Wall brings together ten versions of a popular Chinese legend that has intrigued readers and listeners for hundreds of years. Elements of the story date back to the …
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Escape from Blood Pond Hell
These translations of The Precious Scroll of the Three Lives of Mulian and Woman Huang Recites the Diamond Sutra are late-nineteenth-century examples of baojuan (literally, ‘precious scrolls’), a Chi …
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Two Centuries of Manchu Women Poets
This anthology presents substantial selections from the work of twenty Manchu women poets of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. The poems, inspired by their daily life and reflections, provide …
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Wilt L. Idema: Metamorphosis of Tianxian pei
This volume is the most extensive social and cultural history of twentieth century Huangmei Opera to date. A regional Chinese theater originating in the Anqing countryside, Huangmei Opera gained popu …
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Wilt Lukas Idema: PASSION, POVERTY AND TRAVEL
Translations from Chinese popular literature of the late-imperial and early republican periods are still very rare, and selections that are devoted to a specific genre or dialect rarer still. These t …
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Wilt Lukas Idema & Stephen H West: GENERALS OF THE YANG FAMILY, THE: FOUR EARLY PLAYS
This book offers a complete translation of four early plays of the Yang Family Generals. The story of the Yang Family Generals, particularly its female generals, was a perennial favorite on the Chine …
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The Pitfalls of Piety for Married Women
The Pitfalls of Piety for Married Women shows how problematic the practice of Buddhist piety could be in late imperial China. Two thematically related ‘precious scrolls’ (baojuan) from the Ming dynas …
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Pitfalls of Piety for Married Women
The Pitfalls of Piety for Married Women shows how problematic the practice of Buddhist piety could be in late imperial China. Two thematically related "precious scrolls" (baojuan) from the …
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€193.03
The Kitchen God and His Wives
The Kitchen God and His Wives is a modern folk epic on the origin of the Stove God, widely venerated across China. In this tale, the Stove God (or Kitchen God) begins as a mortal man who owes his wea …
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