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March 21, 2020

#AAS2020 Happy Hour Reads: Asian Fiction in Translation

Well, it’s 4:00 PM EDT on day three of #AAS2020, and we bet you’re itching for some down time. Or, maybe you’ve just finished reading Christine’s post and you’re aching to escape into another time and place. We’ve got you...

March 10, 2020

Announcing our 2020 Asian Studies Catalog

Letter from the editors: Columbia University Press has a long history of bringing the Asian classics to an Anglophone audience. The books we present to you in this 2020 catalog continue that tradition, while also paying close attention to the...

February 13, 2020

Book Excerpt! Plum Shadows and Plank Bridge, By Mao Xiang and Yu Huai, translated and edited by Wai-yee Li

“Wai-yee Li’s translations of these famous Chinese memoirs of romantic brio and pathos from the seventeenth century are a marvel of precision, elegance, and wit—a perfect match for the book’s sensual, tragic contents. Her brilliant annotations and supplemental translations help...

December 27, 2019

Take a Literary Vacation

It’s the middle of winter break, and as the temperature drops, snuggling up next to a cozy fire with a good book is the perfect way to relax. So today, we invite you to take a vacation through place and...

December 17, 2019

New Book Tuesday! In China’s Wake, The Self-Help Compulsion and Plum Shadows and Plank Bridge

Our weekly list of new books is now available! The Self-Help Compulsion Searching for Advice in Modern Literature Beth Blum The Self-Help Compulsion reveals the profound entanglement of modern literature and commercial advice from the late nineteenth century to the present...

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Tag: Mao Xiang

#AAS2020 Happy Hour Reads: Asian Fiction in Translation

Announcing our 2020 Asian Studies Catalog

Book Excerpt! Plum Shadows and Plank Bridge, By Mao Xiang and Yu Huai, translated and edited by Wai-yee Li

Take a Literary Vacation

New Book Tuesday! In China’s Wake, The Self-Help Compulsion and Plum Shadows and Plank Bridge