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Christine Heimannsberg
Gelobtes Land, die dystopische Climate Fiction Trilogie: Mit CO2 verbindet man den Klimawandel, schmelzende Gletscher und Überflutungen. Mittlerweile ist der Klimawandel auch in der Literatur angekommen. „Climate Fiction“ oder „Cli-fi“ lautet das Stichwort, das zuletzt verstärkt in den Feuilletons auftauchte. Die deutsche Autorin Christine Heimannsberg präsentiert mit ihrer Debüt-Trilogie „Gelobtes Land“ eine ungewöhnliche, spannende Dystopie, die ökologische wie humanistische Themen geschickt im neuen Genre zusammenführt.
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June 2021Twelve Lectures on Modernist Literature
by Liu Qinghua
"Twelve Lectures on Modernist Literature" is a review and appreciation of the main modernist literary schools in the 20th century made by the literary critic Liu Qinghua. This book outlines the formation, development, ideological origins, theoretical foundations, and ideological and artistic characteristics of modernist literature. It is divided into eleven topics, respectively, on symbolism, stream of consciousness novels, futurism, expressionism, and surrealism. , Existentialism, Beat Generation and other genres have done systematic research and exposition, and at the same time analyzed and commented on representative writers and works of each genre. For literature lovers and researchers at home and abroad, this book is a rare desk book.
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October 2014An Anthology of the Twentieth Century Chinese Literature
by Wang Ning
Co-published with Springer, An Anthology of the Twentieth Century Chinese Literature is a major Chinese Literature Going-Out Project. It is funded by the State General administration of Press,Publication, Radio, Film and Television(SGAPPRFT) in China. The anthology contains six volumes: Novels, Novelettes and Short Stories, Poetry, Drama, Prose and Literary Theory Criticism. In this anthology, there are well-chosen representative works written by leading Chinese authors or literature theory critics in the 20th century, including dozens of Chinese literary masters such as Lu Xun, Mao Dun, Ba Jin, Lao She, Shen Congwen and Qian Zhongshu. This anthology is aimed at systematically introducing the overall perspective of Chinese literary creation and theoretical criticism in the 20th century, promoting the development of Chinese literature to the whole world. It is comparable to The Norton Anthology of World Literature and The Longman Anthology of World Literature.
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Biography & True StoriesJanuary 2021Artistic glory of Ukraine
Looking for yevshan-herb
by Roman Bereza
The book, in the form of essays-stories, depicts the life and work of individual personalities who played a significant role in the formation and development of Ukrainian thought, culture, and art. Using colorful means of the artistic word, the author depicts many little-known facts from the lives of outstanding Ukrainian artists, who made a bright contribution to the flourishing of Ukrainian and world culture. The book will be valuable for a narrow circle of specialists and a wide range of readers. It will also be of help to writers, cultural experts, and art critics, as well as to all those who are interested in studying the history of Ukraine based on the examples of the lives and creative achievements of its notable personalities.
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November 2017Literature or Music
by YU Hua
This book is a collection of 28 essays by one of the most internationally influential Chinese novelists,Yu Hua, who is the most prominent writer in contemporary China. His works have been translated into English, French, German, Italian, Dutch, Persian, Polish, Spanish, Swedish, Serbian, Hebrew,Japanese, Korean, etc. He is also a columnist for New York Times. It is a review of classic works in the history of literature and music, with in-depth personal interpretations and candid appreciations of masters such as Borges, Dostoevsky, Faulkner, Kafka,Shostakovich, and Tchaikovsky. As a reader and listener, the writer tries to analyze the mysteries of the narrative in literature and music, explain the techniques and mysteries of creation. As Yu Hua put it, “Music is created by the heart, and writing touches the depths of music. They are affected by each other and point to the broadness of life together.”
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FictionOctober 2018Sunset on the Leifeng Pagoda
by Wang Xufeng
“Ten Scenes in West Lake” is the work of Wang Xufeng, the famous writer and Mao Dun Literature Award winner, in the background of Hangzhou West Lake. It is a collection of novellas with the historical " Ten Scenes in West Lake " as the starting point. The ten novellas are independent stories and are also connected to each other, forming a series of books that are saturated with the charm of Jiangnan. The book Sunset on the Leifeng Pagoda is one of the novellas. It tells the whole life of Fan Yuanying, Liu Xuexun’s eighth wife. This story has two versions: historical legend and faith history. The text structure of Sunset on the Leifeng Pagoda is the most unique and exploratory. The novel shows the charm of narrative art in the rhythm of tension and relaxation.
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Business, Economics & LawFebruary 2009Christianity and democratisation
From pious subjects to critical participants
by John Anderson
This book examines the contribution of different Christian traditions to the waves of democratisation that have swept various parts of the world in recent decades. It offers a historical overview of Christianity's engagement with the development of democracy, before focusing in detail on the period since the 1970s. Successive chapters deal with: the Roman Catholic conversion to democracy and the contribution of that church to democratisation; the Eastern Orthodox 'hesitation' about democracy; the alleged threat to American democracy posed by the politicisation of conservative Protestantism; and the likely impact on democratic development of the global expansion of Pentecostalism. The author draws out several common themes from the analysis of these case studies, the most important of which is the 'liberal-democracy paradox'. This ensures that there will always be tensions between faiths that proclaim some notion of absolute truth and political orders that are rooted in the idea of compromise, negotiation and bargaining. Written in an accessible style, this book will appeal to students of politics, sociology and religion, and prove useful on a range of advanced undergraduate and postgraduate courses. ;
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Literature & Literary Studies2020The Apocrypha. Four Conversations About Lesya Ukrainka
by Oksana Zabuzhko, His Beatitude Sviatoslav Shevchuk
This book was published to commemorate 150 years from the birth of the classic Ukrainian author Lesya Ukrainka. It is based on transcripts of conversations between Oksana Zabuzhko and His Beatitude Svyatoslav Shevchuk, the head of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church. The works of Lesya Ukrainka, included in the second part of the book, are the main topic of their conversation, namely how the stories from evangelical and early Christian history formed the basis of her later work. Ukrainka's work was praised by the Soviet authorities for its socalled atheism but was censored from being staged in the theatres. Ukrainka's spiritual journey during the last twelve years of her life, her interpretation of the images of Judas and Christ, the cult of martyrdom, and the female role in the Christian context are thoroughly analysed in Zabuzhko and Shevchuk's conversations. Zabuzhko built a dialogue between Christianity, and what Soviet and post-Soviet critics called atheism that was in reality a conflict with synodal Orthodoxy.
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Literature & Literary StudiesMarch 2017Night Watchman: A Selection of Poems by Yu Kwang- chung
by Yu Kwang-chung
This collection of poems chosen and translated by Yu Kwang-chung, the poet himself, covers over eighty poems from 1958 to 2014. Unlike other poetry anthology, the poems in Night Watchman have been handpicked by the author personally. It includes classic works like Nostalgia, Jadeite Cabbage, Four Songs of Nostalgia, A Tug of War with Eternity, On the Rivers and Lakes, etc. and poems in different styles which have never beenpublished in the mainland before. These works, translated into English by the author，combine the charm of classic Chinese literature and the spirit of modern western literature, and embody the sound interaction between writing and translating.
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Literature & Literary StudiesMarch 2017Long Poems: Death in a Stone Cell and Floating Wood
by Lofu
Lofu is widely acknowledged as a great poet in contemporary Chinese poetic circles. He has made great contributions through his long poems, which have served to promote the development of contemporary Chinese poetry. His collection of long poems includes “Death in a Stone Cell” and“Floating Wood”. Lofu was a nominee for the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2001 for his long poem “Floating Wood”.
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For Love and Faith BringUs Together
Letters from Home in Hunan during the Fight against COVID-19
by Xiaoxiang Family Letter Activity Committee
This book contains 81 letters written by medical care staff, police officers, journalists, community workers, volunteers and others during their fight novel coronavirus time. Together with photos and letters, it records ordinary true stories one by one, showing people what love is and what national spirits is.
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December 2020Shangtang Book
by Sun Huifen
This is a classic novel constructed by literature on the mundane world of the countryside. In the eyes of the world, Shangtang is just a little-known and insignificant village on a vast map; in the author's writing, it is an existence worth treating as a life, and a microcosm of contemporary Chinese rural areas. From a bird’s-eye panoramic perspective, the work describes its geography, politics, transportation, communications, education, trade, culture, marriage, and history in turn. It is mixed with natural depictions of rural landscapes such as houses, streets, old wells, and roads. The vivid silhouettes of the characters, they live and die in love and hatred, and indifferent life and death, all their weaknesses and virtues are swayed freely on them, forming the spiritual territory of Shangtang.
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FictionJanuary 2014Snuggling
by Ding Jie
This novel tells a story of two young people’s spiritual love during a car accident in a Utopian-like northern country. It is an Oriental dream between a young man and a young woman. The novel won “Asian Youth Literature Prize” in 2014. Korean and English copyright has been sold.
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FictionOctober 2018
Viewing Fish at Flower Harbor
by Wang Xufeng
“Ten Scenes in West Lake” is the work of Wang Xufeng, the famous writer and Mao Dun Literature Award winner, in the background of Hangzhou West Lake. It is a collection of novellas with the historical " Ten Scenes in West Lake " as the starting point. The ten novellas are independent stories and are also connected to each other, forming a series of books that are saturated with the charm of Jiangnan. The book Viewing Fish at Flower Harbor is one of the novels. The author uses goldfish as a clue to tell the love between "I" and childhood playmates and the friendship with classmates Mao Feng etc. There is not only the youth smelling of the school age, but also the sentimental feeling of stepping into the changeable society. Once pure feeling became disfigured by money, drugs, hence pond water and that goldfish no longer exist.
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Literature & Literary Studies1997Toward a History of Ukrainian literature
by George G. Grabowicz
The work of the famous American-Ukrainian Slavologist and Ukrainian scholar Hryhoriy Hrabovych interprets the history of Ukrainian literature in several main ways: theoretical, comparative, immanent and historiographical. The book includes his studies, essays, and polemics written over the years. They were mainly produced in times of a sharp confrontation between official Soviet and Western approaches to literary studies. Today, after Ukraine gained its independence, there is an urgent need for a thorough reassessment of various scientific traditions and paradigms as well as a review of the canon of Ukrainian literature, its histography and methodology. The vast majority of these works were published in English or in sources unavailable for the Ukrainian reader, including specialist researchers. This edition can significantly reorient our understanding of the history of Ukrainian literature and enable a rethinking of Ukrainian cultural and intellectual processes.
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February 2023The Journey of Changsha Colorful Ceramics
by Ji Hongjian is a native of Wangcheng, Hunan Province. He is the author of National Affairsin the Countryside, The Great War against the Epidemic, The Mute Soldier in the Red Army, Living in Wulingyuan, and other works. He has won the Lu Xun Literature Prize, the Five-One Project Award, and so forth.
Poetic,colorful ceramicsare the great invention and wisdom crystallization of the Chinese nation. Changsha colorful ceramics belong to both China and the world, and it is the way leading to the world.
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Fengming Qishan
by Feng Jiqi
Dedicated to Qishan soldiers and civilians who died during the Revolution of 1911, a themed publication on the 110th anniversary of the Revolution of 1911. The works refer to historical books such as "The Chronicles of the Revolution of 1911", "The Annals of Qishan County", and "Data of Qishan Literature and History". The most tragic and tragic scene occurred in Qishan County. The Qing troops counterattacked the massacre and the resistance of the soldiers and civilians in the city added a bloody, tragic, and heroic page to the historical narrative.
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December 2014Yangko
by Chi Zijian
As one in the “Chinese Writers Going Global” series published by Hunan Literature and Art Publishing House, this collection features six novelettes and short stories by writer Chi Zijian, including Yangko, Traveling towards White Night, My Beloved Potato, The Silver Plate, Washing away Dust with Clean Water, Dusk with a Drizzle on the Grieg Sea, and Night of Laba at the Small Station of Bujilan. These are all outstanding literary works, some of which are winners of the Luxun Literature Award or have been published abroad.
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Literature & Literary StudiesNovember 2018My Four Seasons
by Zhang Jie
“My Four Seasons” is the latest collection of essays by writer Zhang Jie. It is divided into three series. The first series is “digging wild vegetables”, including the author's memories and insights into the past life, full of childlike innocence and fun. In the second episode “my graceful night”, the author describes the joys, sorrows of everyday life in a unique language, and shows the wisdom of life. The third series is “flying by the wind”. The author describes some of the people and things that have a special fate in life. The fourth series is the author's experience in painting and other artistic creations.“My Four Seasons” reflects the delicate spiritual world of Zhang Jie, and her prose is full of love and beauty. Her works explore the world of the human heart with strong emotional touch, delicate and profound, elegant and mellow. Zhuang Ruojiang, a professor at the School of Literature, Jiangnan University, commented: "My Four Seasons is a serious, determined and enterprising declaration of life."
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Xiangsi Mountain
by Wang Tianming
Acacia is a kind of modality. When it derives into a mountain, it becomes a belief or a responsibility. The material Xiangsi Mountain is impoverished because of various inconveniences; the spiritual Xiangsi Mountain arises because of the original intention and responsibility of the Communist Party. What Chunxi, Li Yong, Wu Juan, and Xiaozhen saw was a big mountain in spring. Although this mountain was poor and remote, it was full of vitality. Their lovesickness had the love of their homeland and the hope of a mountain in autumn. There is also a universal feeling of "no one can fall." The novel tells the story of the hardships, hardships and emotions experienced by a group of cadres from the state and provincial agencies to help the poor in the villages under Xiangsi Mountain. Li is keeping true faith. Through the description of the natural scenery, legendary stories and Miao village customs of Xiangsi Mountain, the main leaders face the contradictions directly, solve problems in the front line of poverty alleviation, and set examples. The cadres and the group work hard to successfully develop the story of Xiangsi Mountain tourist attractions. The image of a group of cadres who dare to think and do, be diligent and honest for the people, touching tears. At the same time, it also promoted the Xiangsi Mountain Scenic Area, and used the form of literature to help the poor, showing the author's responsibility and the forward-looking rational discussion of the rural areas after poverty. It is a good work with strong artistic appeal and practicality.
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MedicineSeptember 2023Situating religion and medicine in Asia
Methodological insights and innovations
by Michael Stanley-Baker
This edited volume presents the latest research on the intersection of religion and medicine in Asia. It features chapters by internationally known scholars, who bring to bear a range of methodological and geographic expertise on this topic. The book's central question is to what extent 'religion' and 'medicine' have overlapped or interrelated in various Asian societies. Collectively, the contributions explore a number of related issues, such as: which societies separated out religious from medical concerns, at which times and in what ways? Where have medicine and religion converged, and how has such knowledge been defined by scholars and cultural actors? Are 'religion' and 'medicine' the best terms by which scholars can grapple with knowledge about the sacred and the self, destiny and disease?
