Asian Cultural Studies | Asian-American Studies - Interest
Mar.31.2008
Jiang and Ming, a loving Chinese couple with two kids, disappointed by their inadequate material life in China, decide to divorce so Jiang can marry a rich but much older overseas Chinese, Humphrey, in order to enjoy a good life in America.After being in a wealthy but loveless marriage with...
|
|
Feb.14.2008
“This is an enchanting tale of love: a man dreams of a woman, while she dreams of the man who is dreaming of her. It reminds me of Silk by Alessandro Baricco, and One Thousand and One Nights, but Alev Croutier has a voice of her own, soft and poetic, like music in a Turkish garden...
|
Feb.09.2008
3000 haiku about cherry trees, cherry blossoms, and blossom-viewing: the most haiku about a single theme ever found in one book. The haiku are divided into 60 chapters, chronological (following the viewing from the wait to the trip home), phenomenological (buds, types of trees, bloom, drinking,...
|
Feb.09.2008
Fly-ku! translates and essays about 1000 haiku about flies and our relationship with them, including the question found in the subtitle used on the cover (not the same as the official one on the copyright page -- as an author-publisher, i can do that): To Swat of Not to Swat. Translations of...
|
Feb.09.2008
17-syllabet Japanese poems about human foibles, sans season (i.e., not haiku), were introduced a half-century ago by RH Blyth in two books, "Edo Satirical Verse Anthologies" and "Japanese Life and Character in Senryu." Blyth regretted having to introduce not the best senryu, but...
|
Feb.09.2008
900+ translated haiku, all on the sea cucumber and most over a hundred years old, with a good measure of natural history.
You might know about Ponge and his object poems, but the sea cucumber, a featureless and formless (protean) animal without a ganglia of brain, is the ultimate "thing,...
|
Jan.18.2008
Bridging the Pacific: Searching for Cross-Cultural Understanding between the United States and China
A collection of essays that intertwine his personal experiences with the politics of China and the United States, his native culture and his adopted one.
|
Jan.14.2008
A moving and uplifting tale of two children and their parents, and the beloved pet doves that help them to understand one another.
"Fei, fei — fly, fly, little birds, but always come home to me!"
Mei-Mei and Di-Di are head-over-heels in love with their new doves. Like devoted parents, the...
|
- « first
- ‹ previous
- 1
- 2
- 3