The studies brought together here focus upon the literary and cultural activity of the Chinese court during the Han and
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Explores the new literary and interpretive milieu that emerged in the years following the decline of China's Han dy
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Honorable Mention for the 2016 Kayden Book Award This first book-length study in Chinese or any Western language of pe
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This book is a path-breaking study of print culture in early modern China. It argues that printing with both woodblocks
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Deploying literary analysis, theories of emotion from the sciences and humanities, and an archival account of Tudor hist
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In this work R. Malcolm Smuts examines the fundamental cultural changes that occurred within the English royal court bet
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What is revenge, and what purpose does it serve? On the early modern English stage, depictions of violence and carnage―t
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Shifting attention from episodic revenge to quotidian forms, Civil Vengeance provides new insights into the manner by wh
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Many of the finest objects of the Western Han dynasty have been excavated from the tombs of kings, who administered loca
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Wai-yee Li traces notions of the pleasures and dangers of things in the literature and thought of late imperial China. S
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