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        Literature & Literary Studies
        March 2017

        Asia in Western fiction

        by Robin Winks

        Any reader who has ever visited Asia knows that the great bulk of Western-language fiction about Asian cultures turns on stereotypes. This book, a collection of essays, explores the problem of entering Asian societies through Western fiction, since this is the major port of entry for most school children, university students and most adults. In the thirteenth century, serious attempts were made to understand Asian literature for its own sake. Hau Kioou Choaan, a typical Chinese novel, was quite different from the wild and magical pseudo-Oriental tales. European perceptions of the Muslim world are centuries old, originating in medieval Christendom's encounter with Islam in the age of the Crusades. There is explicit and sustained criticism of medieval mores and values in Scott's novels set in the Middle Ages, and this is to be true of much English-language historical fiction of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Even mediocre novels take on momentary importance because of the pervasive power of India. The awesome, remote and inaccessible Himalayas inevitably became for Western writers an idealised setting for novels of magic, romance and high adventure, and for travellers' tales that read like fiction. Chinese fictions flourish in many guises. Most contemporary Hong Kong fiction reinforced corrupt mandarins, barbaric punishments and heathens. Of the novels about Japan published after 1945, two may serve to frame a discussion of Japanese behaviour as it could be observed (or imagined) by prisoners of war: Black Fountains and Three Bamboos.

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        The Arts
        March 2001

        Contemporary Korean cinema

        Culture, identity and politics

        by Hyangjin Lee, Mary Norris

        The first in-depth, comprehensive study of Korean cinema offering original insight into the relationships between ideology and the art of cinema from East Asian perspectives. Combines issues of contemporary Korean culture and cinematic representation of the society and people in both North and South Korea. Covers the introduction of motion pictures in 1903, Korean cinema during the Japanese colonial period (1910-45) and the development of North and South Korean cinema up to the 1990s. Introduces the works of Korea's major directors, and analyses the Korean film industry in terms of film production, distribution and reception. Based on this historical analysis, the study investigates ideological constructs in seventeen films, eight from North Korea and nine from South Korea. ;

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        Literature & Literary Studies
        October 2023

        The penny politics of Victorian popular fiction

        by Rob Breton

        Penny politics offers a new way to read early Victorian popular fiction such as Jack Sheppard, Sweeney Todd, and The Mysteries of London. It locates forms of radical discourse in the popular literature that emerged simultaneously with Brittan's longest and most significant people's movement. It listens for echoes of Chartist fiction in popular fiction. The book rethinks the relationship between the popular and political, understanding that radical politics had popular appeal and that the lines separating a genuine radicalism from commercial success are complicated and never absolute. With archival work into Newgate calendars and Chartist periodicals, as well as media history and culture, it brings together histories of the popular and political so as to rewrite the radical canon.

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        Humanities & Social Sciences
        November 2013

        Britain’s Korean War

        Cold War diplomacy, strategy and security 1950–53

        by Thomas Hennessey

        The book assesses the strains within the 'Special Relationship' between London and Washington and offers a new perspective on the limits and successes of British influence. The interaction between the main personalities on the British side - Attlee, Bevan, Morrison, Churchill and Eden - and their American counterparts - Truman, Acheson, Eisenhower and Dulles - are chronicled. By the end of the war the British were concerned that it was the Americans, rather than the Soviets, who were the greater threat to world peace. British fears concerning the Korean War were not limited to the diplomatic and military fronts - these extended to the 'Manchurian Candidate' threat posed by returning prisoners of war who had been exposed to communist indoctrination. The book is essential reading for those interested in British and US foreign policy and military strategy during the Cold War. ;

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        Fiction
        August 2014

        Let Me Always be with You

        by Zhang Jiajia

        Acclaimed writer Zhang Jiajia’s latest novel. The heroine in the story is a golden retriever named Mercy, who lives in a friendly neighborhood and has many friends. She is kind and courageous, except for the fear of leaving her owner, a man she called Old Daddy and loves so much. Copyright in Korean, Thai language and traditional Chinese has been sold.

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        Teaching, Language & Reference
        October 2023

        Crafting crime fiction

        by Henry Sutton

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        Literature & Literary Studies
        October 2012

        Narration in nineteenth-century French short fiction

        Prosper Mérimée to Marcel Schwob

        by Peter Cogman

        The short fiction that flourished in nineteenth-century France has attracted relatively little critical attention compared with the novel. This study focuses on some key stories by major authors of contes and nouvelles from the late 1820s to the 1890s, taking as a starting-point, aspects of narrative technique as a way of exploring not just characteristic strategies of short fiction, but also the ends to which they were put: recurrent themes, and the vision of mankind. Each chapter looks in some detail at three or four stories, referring briefly to other tales for illustration. The underlying point that emerges from this study is that the interest of a tale lies in the telling, not the events. ;

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        July 1995

        Der Glasmensch und andere Science-fiction-Geschichten

        by Marcus Hammerschmitt, Franz Rottensteiner, Marcus Hammerschmitt

        Marcus Hammerschmitt schreibt Science-fiction-Erzählungen, die technologische Phantasie, psychologische Einsicht, Lust am gedanklichen Experiment und poetische Erfindungskraft vereinen. Wie Herbert W. Franke oder Peter Schattschneider basiert er seine Geschichten auf einer soliden Grundlage, entwickelt seine Szenarios und Fabeln spielerisch, verknüpft sie aber dramatisch mit den größeren Problemen von Ökologie einerseits und den Zweifeln und inneren Konflikten des einzelnen andererseits.

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        August 2021

        Children who will organize will learn

        by YIN Shanxuan (Korean)

        This book is another work of the author's "15 minutes of super finishing" to change life. It starts from the basic theories and concepts of the finishing. It uses the actual case as the guidance to tell the parents how to help the child to build. The habit and fully demonstrate the changes in children in their studies after their habits. Through this book, parents can learn the systematic finishing method, and let the sort of the child's habits, and then improve the child's learning ability and life competitiveness; those parents who have worried about children have been worried, they don't have to live again. It's gratifying, you can feel the mother's own willingness to learn.

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        Literature & Literary Studies
        June 2023

        The politics of male friendship in contemporary American fiction

        by Michael Kalisch

        How might our friendships shape our politics? This book examines how contemporary American fiction has rediscovered the concept of civic friendship and revived a long tradition of imagining male friendship as interlinked with the promises and paradoxes of democracy in the United States. Bringing into dialogue the work of a wide range of authors - including Philip Roth, Paul Auster, Michael Chabon, Jonathan Lethem, Dinaw Mengestu, and Teju Cole - this innovative study advances a compelling new account of the political and intellectual fabric of the American novel today.

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        July 2017

        Hei Wa

        by Mu Ling

        A fine collection of science fiction by children’s literature writer Mu Ling. Mu Ling’s science fictions pursue a scientific basis of “organic imagination”, has a positive outlook and good spirit of seeking truth. This series collects Mu Ling’s three masterpieces full of fantasy and humanistic concern: Dream Machine, Hei Wa, Yu Wang Bei Mi, which are rare sci-fi theme in children’s literature works of China. This series will lead children step by step to “hard science fiction” which is full of intellectual challenges through “light science fiction” and “soft science fiction”.

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        July 2017

        Dream Machine

        by Mu Ling

        A fine collection of science fiction by children’s literature writer Mu Ling. Mu Ling’s science fictions pursue a scientific basis of “organic imagination”, has a positive outlook and good spirit of seeking truth. This series collects Mu Ling’s three masterpieces full of fantasy and humanistic concern: Dream Machine, Hei Wa, Yu Wang Bei Mi, which are rare sci-fi theme in children’s literature works of China. This series will lead children step by step to “hard science fiction” which is full of intellectual challenges through “light science fiction” and “soft science fiction”.

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        July 2017

        Yu Wang Bei Mi

        by Mu Ling

        A fine collection of science fiction by children’s literature writer Mu Ling. Mu Ling’s science fictions pursue a scientific basis of “organic imagination”, has a positive outlook and good spirit of seeking truth. This series collects Mu Ling’s three masterpieces full of fantasy and humanistic concern: Dream Machine, Hei Wa, Yu Wang Bei Mi, which are rare sci-fi theme in children’s literature works of China. This series will lead children step by step to “hard science fiction” which is full of intellectual challenges through “light science fiction” and “soft science fiction”.

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        Movable Type·Destruction of Character - Character Destructed

        by Cao Fang

        This series is a collection of art works about character designing of The Global Exhibition of Characters held by Nanjing University of the Arts and student works. These three books are in different size and color, very well classified and designed. It contains art works about character design of diverse languages by several designers, such as Reza Abedini(Iran), Michael Bierut(USA),Robert Appleton(USA),Stephan Bundi(Swiss), Kit Hinrichs(USA), Lech Majewski(Poland)Leonardo Sonnoli(Italy), Clotilde Olyff(Belgium), Paula Scher(USA), Philippe Apeloig(France), Ahn Sang—soo(Korea), Shiraki Akira(Japan), Bi Xuefeng(China), Kan Tai—keung(Hongkong), Cao Fang(China), etc.. Also it collects high quality assigned project student works of font designing course. The world of typeface will totally amaze you. Won "The Beauty of Books in China " Prize in 2013.

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        Movable Type·Collage of Character - Character Collaged

        by Cao Fang

        This series is a collection of art works about character designing of The Global Exhibition of Characters held by Nanjing University of the Arts and student works. These three books are in different size and color, very well classified and designed. It contains art works about character design of diverse languages by several designers, such as Reza Abedini(Iran), Michael Bierut(USA),Robert Appleton(USA),Stephan Bundi(Swiss), Kit Hinrichs(USA), Lech Majewski(Poland)Leonardo Sonnoli(Italy), Clotilde Olyff(Belgium), Paula Scher(USA), Philippe Apeloig(France), Ahn Sang—soo(Korea), Shiraki Akira(Japan), Bi Xuefeng(China), Kan Tai—keung(Hongkong), Cao Fang(China), etc.. Also it collects high quality assigned project student works of font designing course. The world of typeface will totally amaze you. Won "The Beauty of Books in China " Prize in 2013.

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        August 2016

        The Romance of the Three Kingdoms

        by Luo Guan Zhong

        First of the five great works of traditional prose fiction, this master narrative transforms history into epic and has thereby educated and entertained readers of five centuries with unforgettable exemplars of martial and civic virtue, of personal fidelity and political treachery. "The empire, long divided, must unite; long united, must divide. Thus it has ever been." Echoing the rhythms of Chinese history itself, the monumental tale Three Kingdoms begins. As important for Chinese culture as the Homeric epics have been for the West, this fourteenth-century masterpiece continues to be loved and read throughout China today. Three Kingdoms portrays a fateful moment at the end of the Han Dynasty (206 B.C.-A.D. 220) when the future of the Chinese empire lay in the balance.

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