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A Catalog of Such Stuff As Dreams Are Made On by Bonnie S. McDougall (Translator); Kai-cheung Dung; Anders Hansson (Translator)
Category: Humour | Series: Weatherhead Books on Asia Ser.
Dung Kai-cheung's A Catalog of Such Stuff as Dreams Are Made On is a playful and imaginative glimpse into the consumerist dreamscape of late-nineties Hong Kong. First published in 1999, it comprises ninety-nine sketches of life just after the handover of the former British colony to China. Each of these ...Show more
History and Repetition by Kojin Karatani; Seiji Lippit (Editor)
Category: History | Series: Weatherhead Books on Asia Ser.
Kojin Karatani wrote the essays in History and Repetition during a time of radical historical change, triggered by the collapse of the Cold War and the death of the Showa emperor in 1989. Reading Karl Marx in an original way, Karatani developed a theory of history based on the repetitive cycle of crises ...Show more
In Black and White: A Novel by Jun'ichiro Tanizaki
Category: Fiction | Series: Weatherhead Books on Asia
Jun'ichiro Tanizaki's In Black and White is a literary murder mystery in which the lines between fiction and reality are blurred. The writer Mizuno is working on a story about the perfect murder. His fictional victim is modeled on an acquaintance, a fellow writer. When he notices that this man's real na ...Show more
The Song of Everlasting Sorrow - A Novel of Shanghai by Wang Anyi; Michael Berry (Translator); Susan Chan Egan (Translator)
Category: Fiction | Series: Weatherhead Books on Asia Ser.
Set in post-World War II Shanghai, The Song of Everlasting Sorrowfollows the adventures of Wang Qiyao, a girl born of the longtong, the crowded, labyrinthine alleys of Shanghai's working-class neighborhoods. Infatuated with the glitz and glamour of 1940s Hollywood, Wang Qiyao seeks fame in the Miss Shan ...Show more
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