Book Excerpt: “Zhang Yimou: Globalization and the Subject of Culture” by Wendy Larson ympics and is back again 14 years later to to oversee the 2022 Winter Olympics’ opening and closing ceremonies. Share this:FacebookTwitterEmailLinkedInPrintTumblrPinterestRedditLike this:Like Loading...
Mo Yan Speaks—On politics, literature, translators, and more Most English readers became familiar with Mo Yan after he was awarded the 2012 Nobel Prize for Literature—with this prize, however, came assumptions, based on a poorly translated remark, that the writer was silent against the status quo and thus complicit with it. His latest book Mo Yan Speaks shows, however, that, far from being silent, Mo Yan has spoken... Share this:FacebookTwitterEmailLinkedInPrintTumblrPinterestRedditLike this:Like Loading...
Forthcoming: “Memory in Folk Epics of China” by Anne E. McLaren In pre-contemporary China, folk epics performed at village level helped create a sense of regional as opposed to national identity. This is the first book-length study in the West on the folk epics of the Han Chinese people, who are the majority population of China. These folk epics provide an unparalleled resource for understanding the importance of “the local” in... Share this:FacebookTwitterEmailLinkedInPrintTumblrPinterestRedditLike this:Like Loading...
Book Excerpt: “Taking China to the World” by Theodore Huters The following is an excerpt from Taking China to the World: The Cultural Production of Modernity by Theodore Huters: In The Communist Manifesto, Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels characterized communism as a specter haunting late-nineteenth-century Europe, one whose leaders tried desperately to exorcise. For the past century of Chinese history, following the the pivotal cultural reform movement named after the... Share this:FacebookTwitterEmailLinkedInPrintTumblrPinterestRedditLike this:Like Loading...
Cambria Press Author Carolyn T. Brown Speaks at the Library of Congress Dr. Carolyn T. Brown, former director of the John W. Kluge Center at the Library of Congress, recently gave a talk about her latest book Reading Lu Xun Through Carl Jung (Cambria Press, 2018) at the Library of Congress. Below are excerpts of her speech and here is the link to the video of the entire speech. *This book is... Share this:FacebookTwitterEmailLinkedInPrintTumblrPinterestRedditLike this:Like Loading...
Cambria Press Publication Review: Opening to China Congratulations to Professor Charlotte Furth on the outstanding review of her book, Opening to China: A Memoir of Normalization, 1981–1982, by China Review International. The review notes that For those who saw China at this time, this book is a touching reminder of the tentativeness of the whole affair – how Americans and Chinese alike were desperate to meet and... Share this:FacebookTwitterEmailLinkedInPrintTumblrPinterestRedditLike this:Like Loading...
Cambria Press Publication Excerpt by the Association of Asian Studies (AAS) Read the #AsiaNow piece from the Association for Asian Studies, Inc. (AAS) about Professor Charlotte Furth’s new book Opening to China, which Ian Johnson, Beijing correspondent for The New York Times, and author of “The Souls of China: The Return of Religion After Mao,” praises because “Charlotte Furth’s memoir provides a window into a China that few of us can... Share this:FacebookTwitterEmailLinkedInPrintTumblrPinterestRedditLike this:Like Loading...
Cambria Press Publication Review: The Chinese Prose Poem Congratulations to to Dr. Nicholas A. Kaldis, Associate Professor of Asian and Asian American Studies at SUNY Binghamton, on another excellent review of his book, The Chinese Prose Poem: A Study of Lu Xun’s Wild Grass (Yecao), in the journal Frontiers of Literary Studies in China. The book review notes that “The Chinese Prose Poem is a well-crafted, critical, and... Share this:FacebookTwitterEmailLinkedInPrintTumblrPinterestRedditLike this:Like Loading...
Forthcoming: Buddhist Transformations and Interactions The following is an announcement from Dr. Victor H. Mair, Professor of Chinese Language and Literature at the University of Pennsylvania and general editor of the Cambria Sinophone World Series. “It is with great pleasure that I announce the forthcoming publication of Buddhist Transformations and Interactions: Essays in Honor of Antonino Forte (Cambria Press, 2017). We have chosen today to... Share this:FacebookTwitterEmailLinkedInPrintTumblrPinterestRedditLike this:Like Loading...
China’s Response to Territorial Disputes The Economist recently reported that “the Permanent Court of Arbitration, an international tribunal in The Hague, has declared China’s “historic claims” in the South China Sea invalid. It was an unexpectedly wide-ranging and clear-cut ruling, and it has enraged China.” As the region and the United States anxiously await China’s response, Colonel Thomas Drohan’s new book, A New Strategy for Complex... Share this:FacebookTwitterEmailLinkedInPrintTumblrPinterestRedditLike this:Like Loading...
