The Tapestry of Popular Songs in 16th- and 17th-Century China: Reading, Imitation, and Desire 9004145869, 9789004145863

Displacing Desire: Travel and Popular Culture in China 9780824862190

Why do millions of people from around the world flock to Dali, a small borderland town in the Himalayan foothills of sou

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The Book of Imitation and Desire: Reading Milan Kundera with René Girard 9781472543431, 9781441118653

Trevor Cribben Merrill offers a bold reassessment of Milan Kundera place in the contemporary canon. Harold Bloom and oth

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Festivals and Songs of Ancient China

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Dockers and Detectives: Popular Reading, Popular Writing

Discusses the pattern of working-class reading and writing in Britain.

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Desire and Fictional Narrative in Late Imperial China 0674005139, 9780674005136

In this study of desire in Late Imperial China, Martin W. Huang argues that the development of traditional Chinese ficti

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Festivals and Songs of Ancient China 0879682337, 9780879682330

Granet s original work delves deep into the religious and spiritual customs of ancient China by analysing their festival

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Reading the Song of Songs in a #MeToo Era: Women, Sex, and Public Discourse 9004543929, 9789004543928

The Song of Songs is the only book of the Bible to privilege the voice of a woman, and its poetry of love and eroticism

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Reader's digest festival of popular songs

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Emptiness and Fullness: Ethnographies of Lack and Desire in Contemporary China 9781785335815

As critical voices question the quality, authenticity, and value of people, goods, and words in post-Mao China, accusati

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Everyday Reading: Poetry and Popular Culture in Modern America 9780231530774

Exploring poetry scrapbooks, old-time radio show recordings, advertising verse, corporate archives, and Hallmark greetin

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