Tag: Chinese

• 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). …

  Cambria Press

  July 22, 2016

  AAS, Academic Libraries Book Recommendations, Asian Studies, Cambria Press, China, Chinese, History, Religious Studies

  Antonino Forte, Buddhist, Buddhological research, Cambria author, Cambria Press, Cambria publication, Central Asia, China, Chinese, East Asia, India, Japan, Khitan, Korea, maya, nirvana, Sinophone, Victor Mair, Vietnam

• Essential Books on Modern China on Amazon Kindle

  Here are a few outstanding Cambria Press books you can get (or give) on Amazon Kindle: The Jin Yong Phenomenon: Chinese Martial Arts Fiction and Modern Chinese Literary History by Ann Huss and Jianmei Liu (eds). $27.99 “A successful study of Jin Yong’s literature with valuable and insightful opinions … a pleasure to read.” —CLEAR…

  Cambria Press

  December 21, 2015

  AAS, Academic Libraries Book Recommendations, Asian Studies, Cambria Press, China, Chinese, Culture, Literary Criticism, Literary History, Literary Studies, Literature, MLA

  academic publisher, Cambria Press, China, Chinese, Chinese writers, Jin Yong, Louis Cha, martial arts fiction, Mo Yan, Sinophone

• Victor Mair (Cambria Sinophone World Series Editor) to give Distinguished Lecture at the University of Hong Kong this week

  Victor Mair (UPenn professor and Cambria Sinophone World Series Editor) to give Distinguished Lecture at the University of Hong Kong

  Cambria Press

  November 23, 2015

  Asian Studies, Cambria Press, Current Events

  Cambria Press, Cambria publication, Cambria Sinophone World Series, Chinese, Shu-mei Shih, Sinologist, sinology, University of Hong Kong, Victor Mair

• Authors to Watch: Minghui Hu and Johan Elverskog

  Cambria Press authors Professors Minghui Hu (University of California Santa Cruz) and Johan Elverskog (Southern Methodist University) are among the group of scholars who are making the bold exploration into historian Joseph Levenson’s observation that China used to be cosmopolitan on account of Confucianism. Levenson’s assertion was made at the height of the Cultural Revolution…

  Cambria Press

  October 22, 2015

  AAS, Academic Libraries Book Recommendations, Asian Studies, Cambria Press, China, Chinese

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• Baojuan (Precious Scrolls) of China explained by Eminent Sinologist Wilt Idema (Harvard University)

  What are the baojuan 寶卷 (precious scrolls) of China? Eminent Sinologist Wilt Idema (Harvard University) explains: Precious scrolls (baojuan) is the name of a genre of prosimetric texts (texts written in an alternation of prose and verse) on religious subjects and written in vernacular Chinese. The most recent catalogue of precious scrolls lists more than…

  Cambria Press

  October 5, 2015

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  #Book, Asian Studies, baojuan, Buddhist sutra, Cambria author, Cambria Press, Cambria publication, China, Chinese, Ming dynasty, Precious Scrolls, Qing dynasty, Sinologist, Sinophone, Victor Mair, Wilt Idema

• Cambria Press Author Wilt Idema of Harvard University Wins Special Book Award of China

  Cambria Press congratulates Dr. Wilt Idema of Harvard University on winning the prestigious Special Book Award of China. Leading Sinologist, Dr. Idema’s research interests range from Chinese women’s literature to traditional Chinese vernacular literature (fiction and drama). In recent years he also has published several collections of traditional popular ballads and prosimetric narratives. His most…

  Cambria Press

  August 28, 2015

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• Cambria Press Author Ross King (Head of Asian Studies, University of British Columbia) on Cantonese in The Economist

  Cambria Press Author Ross King, who is the Head of Asian Studies at the University of British Columbia (UBC), was interviewed by The Economist on bringing Cantonese back to the university. There are approximately 62 million people who speak Cantonese, but Mandarin is increasingly the language of choice for the Chinese diaspora, but UBC is…

  Cambria Press

  August 14, 2015

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• Cambria Press Book Review: CLEAR lauds The Chinese Prose Poem: A Study of Lu Xun’s Wild Grass (Yecao)

  Cambria Press congratulates Nicholas A. Kaldis on the glowing review of his book, The Chinese Prose Poem: A Study of Lu Xun’s Wild Grass (Yecao), in the journal CLEAR (Chinese Literature: Essays, Articles, Reviews). Kaldis’s book was reviewed by the distinguished scholar Jon Eugene von Kowallis, who praised the book, stating that it is “a comprehensive, well-balanced study” and…

  Cambria Press

  August 6, 2015

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• Cambria Sinophone World Series (general editor: Victor Mair)–NEW! Chinese Ethnic Minority Oral Traditions: A Recovered Text of Bai Folk Songs in a Sinoxenic Script

  In 1958 while conducting fieldwork in Yunnan, a professor came across a ricepaper booklet with strange script created from Chinese characters. This turned out to be a folksong booklet in Old Bai script. She safeguarded it carefully through the tumultuous Mao years until the 1990s, when the political environment had relaxed enough for her to…

  Cambria Press

  April 8, 2015

  AAS, Academic Libraries Book Recommendations, Asian Studies, China, Chinese

  AAS, Asian Studies, Bai folk songs, Bai People, Cambria Press, China, Chinese, Chinese ethnic minority, folklore, linguistics, scholarly monograph, Sinophone, Sinoxenic, Victor Mair

• #Humanities Scholarship – Important and Growing

  An excellent article from Inside Higher Ed regarding scholarship in the humanities, in which William (Bro) Adams, the head of the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH), said on Thursday that he wants to push humanities scholarship to become more directly connected to helping address the nation’s contemporary problems. There are also encouraging numbers from…

  Cambria Press

  January 20, 2015

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