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Cambria Press Publication Review: Supernatural Sinophone Taiwan and Beyond
ByCambria Press May 16, 2018May 15, 2018

Congratulations to Professor Chia-rong Wu on the excellent review of his book, Supernatural Sinophone Taiwan and Beyond, in the journal Modern Chinese Literature and Culture (MCLC). The review praises the book, noting that it is “a most welcome addition to the burgeoning field of Sinophone studies” and “makes important contributions to…

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Cambria Press Publication Review: Central American Avant-Garde Narrative
ByCambria Press May 15, 2018May 15, 2018

Congratulations to Professor Adrian Kane on the excellent review of his book, Central American Avant-Garde Narrative: Literary Innovation and Cultural Change (1926–1936), in the journal Chasqui: revista de literatura latinoamericana. The review notes that: While other studies have centered on poetry and manifestos, in Central American Avant-Garde Narrative Kane turns to the…

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Author Interview with Carolyn T. Brown on Reading Lu Xun Through Carl Jung
ByCambria Press May 4, 2018May 4, 2018

The following is an interview with Dr. Carolyn T. Brown, author of the new book Reading Lu Xun Through Carl Jung, which is part of the Cambria Sinophone World Series, headed by Victor Mair (University of Pennsylvania). Why did you decide to write this book? Carolyn T. Brown: The…

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Cambria Press Publication Review: Chinese Avant-garde Fiction
ByCambria Press May 1, 2018

Congratulations to Professor Zhansui Yu on the outstanding review of his book, Chinese Avant-garde Fiction: Quest for Historicity and Transcendent Truth, in China Quarterly. The book review notes: “The experimental literary production of the People’s Republic of China during the 1980s, which was freed from many of the aesthetic…

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Cambria Press Author Carolyn T. Brown – Speech at AAS 2018 Reception
ByCambria Press March 29, 2018April 12, 2018

Cambria Press author Dr. Carolyn T. Brown, retired Director of the Office of Scholarly Programs and the John W. Kluge Center of the Library of Congress, gave a speech about her book, Reading Lu Xun Through Carl Jung, at the Cambria Press reception at the AAS 2018 conference in Washington,…

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Cambria Press Author Megan M. Ferry – Speech at AAS 2018 Reception
ByCambria Press March 29, 2018March 29, 2018

Cambria Press author Professor Megan Ferry, Associate Professor of Chinese and Asian Studies and Chair of the Modern Languages and Literatures Department at Union College, gave a speech about her book, Chinese Women Writers and Modern Print Culture, at the Cambria Press reception at the AAS 2018 conference in Washington,…

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#MLA18 Book Launch: The Monster as War Machine
ByCambria Press December 13, 2017December 14, 2017

Meet Dr. Mabel Moraña, William H. Gass Professor in Arts and Sciences at Washington University in St. Louis and winner of the 2013 MLA Katherine Singer Kovacs Prize, on Saturday (January 6) at 11:30 a.m. at the Cambria Press booth (101) for a book signing for her latest book, The…

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The Monster as War Machine – Book Excerpts
ByCambria Press December 12, 2017

Cambria Press is proud to announce the publication of the new book, The Monster as War Machine, by by Mabel Moraña, William H. Gass Professor in Arts and Sciences at Washington University in St. Louis and winner of the 2013 MLA Katherine Singer Kovacs Prize. See below for excerpts from…

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Cambria Press Publication Review: The Rimbaud of Leeds
ByCambria Press April 25, 2017May 12, 2017

Congratulations to Dr Christine Regan on the outstanding review of her book The Rimbaud of Leeds: The Political Character of Tony Harrison’s Poetry by the journal English – Journal of the English Association. The journal review commends the book for being: Meticulously researched … an unusually astute and impressively well…

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Cambria Press author I-Hsien Wu (AAS 2017 speech)
ByCambria Press March 30, 2017March 30, 2017

Cambria Press author I-Hsien Wu (City University of New York) spoke about her new book Eroticism and Other Literary Conventions in Chinese Literature: Intertextuality in The Story of the Stone at the Cambria Press reception. This book is in the Cambria Press Sinophone World Series headed by Professor Victor Mair (University of Pennsylvania)….

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