Xiaofei Tian, Tianjin renmin chuban she, 2014 In this book on the sixteenth-century masterpiece of classical Chinese novel, Plum in the Golden Vase (Jin ping mei), Tian Xiaofei gives a chapter-by-chapter commentary on the novel, making detailed comparisons of the two...
Karen Thornber, “Ecoambiguity, Community, and Development Toward a Politicized Ecocriticism” Edited by Louise Westling, Cambridge University Press, 2014 The Cambridge Companion to Literature and the Environment is an authoritative guide to the exciting new...
Edited by C. T. Hsia, Wai-yee Li, and George Kao, Columbia University Press, 2014 This anthology features translations of ten seminal plays written during the Yuan dynasty (1279-1368), a period considered the golden age of Chinese theater. By turns lyrical and earthy,...
David Der-wei Wang, Columbia University Press, 2015 In this book, David Der-wei Wang uses the lyrical to rethink the dynamics of Chinese modernity. Although the form may seem unusual for representing China’s social and political crises in the mid-twentieth...