"For hundreds of years, into the twentieth century, the culture groups in the areas we now know as China, Japan, Korea, and Vietnam shared a great many politica...
"This book is intended for scholars of modern Chinese and Sinophone literature. It will also appeal more broadly to scholars of translation studies and comparat...
"More than with Lima, this book deals with a specific social formation, the criollos or Creoles, particularly the beneme ritos or descendants of conquistadors, ...
"A leading authority in Chinese Studies and hailed as the most important living Chinese historian of our times, Professor Ying-shih Yu received the John W. Klug...
""Fragrant and bedazzling" (xiangyan) is a Chinese phrase synonymous with sensual and bewitching feminine beauty and, in literature, eroticism. Sensual literatu...
"Very often in Buddhist art, especially Buddhist art of ancient China, one can see small figures, mostly Buddhas, depicted in the halo and/or aureole of a Buddh...
"This is the first study that adopts a comprehensive, thorough, and interdisciplinary approach toward early Chinese lost-wax castings. With more than 80 images,...
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