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Contemporary Chinese films are popular with audiences worldwide, but a key reason for their success has gone unnoticed: many of the films are adapted from brilliant literary works. This book puts these landmark films in the context of their literary origins and explores how the best Chinese directors adapt fictional narratives and styles for film.

Nearly two million people died in Cambodia between 1975 and 1979 as a result of the Khmer Rouge's genocidal regime. Cambodians who were educated, teachers, artists, and authors were among the first to be killed. One generation later, literature is re-emerging from the ashes.

In this analysis of Western and Chinese concepts of efficacy, Francois Jullien delves into the metaphysical preconceptions of the two civilizations to account for diverging patterns of action in warfare, politics, and diplomacy.

This title provides a portrait of South Koreans in the 1990s - a decade that saw a return to civilian rule, and a loosening of social control. It shows how these changes impacted the lives of Korean men and women and the very definition of what it means to be ""male"" and ""female"" in Korea.

This study of the dramatic economic transformation of the Japanese village of Tanohata explores how the isolated fishing community has entered the mainstream of Japanese culture since the 1950s. It documents how the traditional role of the rural household has acted as a basis for innovation.

An attempt to understand Shinto's continuing relevance to the cultural identity of contemporary Japanese. Through an investigation of one of Japan's venerated Shinto shrines, it addresses what appears to western eyes to be an exotic and incongruous blend of superstition and reason.

In Indonesia, light skin colour has been desirable throughout recorded history. Seeing Beauty, Sensing Race explores Indonesia's changing beauty ideals and traces them to a number of influences.

Brings together the fieldwork of over eighty scholars and covers the nine major countries of the region: Burma (Myanmar), Cambodia, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, the Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, and Vietnam. Each section begins with an introduction by a country editor followed by short essays offering vivid and intimate portraits set against the background of contemporary Southeast Asia.

The fiction of Mori Ogai, written after the death of Emperor Meiji in 1912, secured his promiment place in modern Japanese literature. This collection of stories, set in the Tokugawa Period, provide a means for Ogai to deal with contemporary moral and philosophical values and themes.

This is a persuasive, multilayered analysis of a vital but little-examined sector of the Japanese workforce--the female permanent blue-collar worker. Through personal accounts of factory life, the author examines why these women work, what satisfaction they find in remaining in the workforce, and how they meet the demands of work and household, caught in a contradiction between traditional socio-cultural ideology and modern economic reality.

Addresses the critical question of how to approach the study of women's writing. It explores various methods of engaging in a meaningful way with a rich corpus of poetry and prose written by women of the late Ming and Qing periods, much of it rediscovered by the author in rare book collections in China and the United States.

Case studies fascinate because they link individual instances to general patterns and knowledge to action without denying the priority of individual situations over the generalizations derived from them. This volume considers the use of cases to produce empirical knowledge in premodern China.

Shanghai in the 1920s and 1930s was a shadowy world of crime and social injustice. It was home to Huo Sang and Bao Lang, Chinese counterparts to Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes and Dr Watson. Cheng Xiaoqing, ""The Grand Master"" of twentieth-century Chinese detective fiction, had encountered Conan Doyle's popular stories as an adolescent.

Addresses the influence of the Japanese philosophers that preceded Nishida Kitaro, and the logic of basho, the cornerstone of Nishida's mature philosophical system. This book includes a translation of one of Nishida's texts, that demonstrates the analysis of the logic of basho as an aid to deciphering the philosopher's early work.

The letters of Eshinni (1182-1268?), a Buddhist nun and the wife of Shinran (1173-1262), the founder of the Shin school of Buddhism, were discovered in 1921. James C. Dobbins usesthese letters to shed new light on life and religion in medieval Japan.

The second in a series of collected essays looking at Indian Buddhism.

Liu Kang examines China's ideological struggles in political discourse, intellectual debate, popular culture, avant-garde literature, the news media and the internet. He argues that globalization is a historical condition in which the country's reform and opening up has unfolded.

Kona is one of the world's premium coffees. Its small-scale cultivation on family farms means that it is especially susceptible to price swings and market gluts. This text offers a portrait of the farmers, millers, landowners and labourers who struggled to keep themselves and their industry alive.

This text is a comprehensive guide for teachers of Samoan oratory and the Samoan language. It is also an authoritative resource book for students of the language. The author's descriptions of Samoan culture provide the necessary social contexts for learning these important speech registers.

This text explains how the Hawaiians of the 19th century were divested of their land, and how the past continues to shape the island's present as Hawaiians now debate the structure of land-claim settlements.

Eleanor Hadley was a woman ahead of her time. Her personal story provides a colourful backdrop to her substantive discussions of early postwar policies, which were created to provide Japan with a more efficient and competitive economy.

Using primary sources and oral history, the contributors to this volume examine how Okinawan identity was constructed in the various countries to which Okinawans migrated. They also look at how their experiences were shaped by the Japanese nation-building project and by globalization.

This volume brings together three plays by Victoria Nalani Kneubuhl. They are ""The Conversion of Ka'ahumanu"", ""Emmalehua"" and ""Ola Na Iwi"".

In Good Company is a celebration of life in Hawai'i, beyond Waikiki and Diamond Head. Its characters work 16-hour-shifts at airport drive-ins, play pool with cursed hitmen and wrestle their high school sweethearts in Chinatown bars.

This title addresses central issues in the history of chinese attitudes towards sex and gender from 500BC to AD 400. It reveals the use of the image of copulation as a metaphor for various human relations in some of the most revered and influential texts in the Chinese tradition.

The ""Zhongyong"" - translated here as ""Focusing the Familiar"" has been regarded as a document of enormous wisdom for more than two millennia and is one of Confucianism's most sacred and seminal texts. This translation seeks to provide a distinctly philosophical interpretation.