Established in 1980, Woongjin Thinkbig is a multi-award winning top publishing and education company in South Korea. We provide tutoring at home sevices, various children's books and a digital library service with a variety of digital contents.
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Atrium Verlag was founded 1935 in Switzerland in order to be able to continue publishing Erich Kästner's work, who was by then a forbidden author in the so-called Third Reich. Since the beginning Kästner's children's books are a world-wide success story and continue to fascinate readers in more than 25 countries all over the world. Moreover, he has written famous poem collections and adult novels reaching a broad audience. Atrium has started to publish more children's books that share Kästner's spirit and instantly connect with our young readers. Furthermore, Atrium publishes important contemporary fiction, mystery and non-fiction. WooW Books is focussed on children's books for readers aged 6-11, ranging from timeless classics to modern adventures and unconventional stories. As the name suggests, the program stands for special and surprising children´s literature that conjures a »wow-feeling« while reading. Arche Literatur Verlag is a traditional literary publisher that started in the 1940s with authors such as Friedrich Dürrenmatt, Max Frisch and Gottfried Benn. Today Arche publishes novels by outstanding international and German writers, telling stories about the rich variety of human relationships. Arche aims to reach women readers of all ages, both through content and through clear cover designs. The core of the brand is the “rich variety of human relationships” – deliberately targeting a female readership that feels addressed and entertained in a unique way by Arche.
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Woodblock new year painting is an old handicraft of China, going back thousands of years. People celebrate the Spring Festival by posting up woodblock new year paintings, praying for their good wishes. Chief edited by the contemporary Chinese author, artist, and cultural scholar Feng Jicai, the Representative Works of Chinese Woodblock New Year Paintings is a collection of the masterpieces selected out of over ten thousand woodblock new year paintings. It has two volumes, the Northern and the Southern, from which one can see the differences in the custom of the two regions. The book has received support from scholars and institutions worldwide, among which the Japanese museums' collections of Gusu woodblock new year paintings in the early Qing Dynasty and the Russian museums' collections of late Qing and early Republic China are disclosed to the world for the first time. So the book is not only a historical art collection, but also of high cultural heritage significance.
The Archive of Thangka Culture in China: Chamdo Volume is the full records of the history and current situation of Thangka culture in the Chamdo region. It systematically introduces the origin and characteristics of Chamdo Thangka and gives a comprehensive and authoritative interpretation on its iconographical symbolic significance and cultural function. With detailed records of distinctive characteristics of Chamdo Tangka, including its materials, tools, painting technologies, multiple contemporary forms, schools of inheritance, painters' profile, exchange and circulation, as well as relevant theories of painting, the book is considered of great significance for recording and inheriting profound traditional Chinese cultures.
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The Archive of Thangka Culture in China: Gannan Volume is the full records of the history and current situation of Thangka culture in the Lapaleng Temple-centered Gannan region. It systematically introduces the origin and characteristics of Gannan Thangka and gives a comprehensive and authoritative interpretation on its iconographical symbolic significance and cultural function. With detailed records of distinctive characteristics of Gannan Tangka, including its materials, tools, painting technologies, multiple contemporary forms, schools of inheritance, painters' profile, exchange and circulation, as well as relevant theories of painting, the book is considered of great significance for recording and inheriting profound traditional Chinese cultures.
Chinese letter paper is a type of patterned paper used by ancient Chinese scholars to write letters and poems, commonly imprinted with simple and elegant pattern of landscapes, figures or flowers and birds. It is regarded as an representative work of traditional woodblock printing. This book introduces five famous letter paper collections since the Ming dynasty. To make itself more easily to be understood, it also contains explanatory texts and pictures.
This book contains authentic Mountain Dragon formulas predominantly used in yin feng shui practice. The text shows a separate formula for each of the 24 Mountains. It is translated from the Ch'ing Dynasty Chinese with illustrations and facing the original woodblock Chinese text.
This book contains the authentic San He five Element formulas, including San He water formulas, 12 Life Stages, Yao Sha, Robbery Sha, and Kitchen stove positioning, laid out very clearly. It was compiled in the early Ch'ing Dynasty, but the formulas date back to the T'ang. It is translated from the Chinese with illustrations and facing the original woodblock Chinese text.
The intimate relationship of Japanese tattooing with the dark world of the yakuza has helped cover this form of artistic expression with an aura of mystery. But the culture of irezumi is deep and rich in meanings, shapes and motifs that have gone from color woodblock prints to being applied to the skin to beautify and protect their bearers. This book reveals the meaning and the secrets behind the most significant motifs from traditional Japanese tattooing—such as mythological and supernatural creatures, animals, Buddhist deities, flowers and historical characters—and turns this art form into a path toward personal knowledge and individual expression. Readers will discover the origin and meaning of each visual representation of the most frequent themes in this art form. Japanese Tattoos begins with a brief review of the history of Japanese tattoo art and then examines each subject (water, mythological animals, real animals, mythological characters, historical characters, flowers, shunga and yokai) through images and descriptive texts; it also includes a gallery of original designs by the author and a glossary.
Prepare to be spooked by these chilling Japanese short stories!Strange Tales from Japan presents 99 spine-tingling tales of ghosts, yokai, demons, shapeshifters and trickster animals who inhabit remote reaches of the Japanese countryside. 33 color woodblock prints and over 55 b&w illustrations of these creatures, who have inhabited the Japanese imagination for centuries, bring the stories to life.The captivating tales in this volume include: The Vengeance of Oiwa—The terrifying spirit of a woman murdered by her husband who seeks retribution from beyond the grave The Curse of Okiku—A servant girl is murdered by her master and curses his family, with gruesome results The Snow Woman—A man is saved by a mysterious woman who swears him to secrecy Tales of the Kappa—Strange human-like sprites with green, scaly skin who live in water and are known to pull children and animals to their deaths And many, many more! In his introduction, renowned translator William Scott Wilson explains the role these stories play in local Japanese culture and folklore, and their importance to understanding the Japanese psyche. Readers will learn which particular region, city, mountain or temple the stories originate from—in case you're brave enough to visit these haunts yourself!
"Even as she screamed, her voice became thin, like a crying of wind; then she melted into a bright white mist that spired to the roof beams. Never again was she seen."Lafcadio Hearn's Kwaidan (which means "ghost story" in Japanese) is the first and most famous collection of Japanese yokai stories ever published. This unforgettable collection of 17 eerie tales and 3 original cultural studies by Hearn are based on traditional oral tales passed down for generations. They are fresh reminders of the dark and mysterious corners of the Japanese psyche, from popular representations in anime, manga and video games to Masaki Kobayashi's Oscar-nominated horror film Kwaidan.This new edition includes over 20 full-color woodblock prints that showcase the rich visual tradition of Japanese Yokai. A new foreword by Michael Dylan Foster, the leading Western expert on Yokai literature, places the stories in context and explains the lasting importance of Hearn's pioneering look at Japan's bewitching spirit world.The stories in this volume include: "Yuki-onna" — A ghostly woman saves a man during a fierce snowstorm then gives him a deadly warning… "The Story of Mimi-Nashi-Hoichi" — A musician is unwittingly called upon by a Samurai to perform for the dead, with bloody consequences. "Diplomacy" — A Samurai warrior avoids the ghostly revenge of a man he intends to kill by outsmarting him before striking he strikes the death blow. Hearn is the best-known early Western interpreter of Japanese culture and was particularly interested in tales of the supernatural. He eagerly gathered "delicate, transparent, ghostly sketches" in his adopted land and translated them with gusto. His English versions were translated back into Japanese and are considered classics of Japanese literature to this day—eagerly devoured by Japanese school children.
The book follows the search for perspective among artists through an exploration of geometry, which began in Florence during the renaissance. Influencing the work of artists such as Paulo Uccello, Piero della Francesco and Leonardo Da Vinci, it spread to Germany through the work of Dϋrer and others. It was there, in Germany, for a brief period in the mid-16th century, the fashion for polyhedral-based geometrical designs flourished as a distinct art form.
The Many Faces of Ruan Dacheng: Poet, Playwright, Politician in Seventeenth-Century China is the first monograph in English on a controversial Ming dynasty literary figure. It examines and re-assesses the life and work of Ruan Dacheng (1587–1646), a poet, dramatist, and politician in the late Ming period. Ruan Dacheng was in his own time a highly regarded poet, but is best known as a dramatist, and his poetry is now largely unknown. He is most notorious as a ‘treacherous official’ of the Ming–Qing transition, and as a result his literary work—his plays as well as his poetry—has been neglected and undervalued. Hardie argues that Ruan’s literary work is of much greater significance in the history of Chinese literature than has generally been recognised since his own time. Ruan, rather than being a transgressive figure, is actually a very typical late Ming literatus, and as such his attitudes towards identity and authenticity can add to our understanding of these issues in late Ming intellectual history. These insights will impact on the cultural and intellectual history of late imperial China.
