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  • This City Is a Minefield

    by Aaron Chan ...
    This City is a Minefield is a collection of reflective memoir and personal essays told from a genuine and unique voice about growing up and coming of age as a young gay Chinese man in Vancouver. Thoughtful and honest, the stories and essays recounted are unafraid of analyzing and criticizing the status quo, whether it be Chinese culture’s unfavourable view of homosexuality, or the gay community’s ... Read more

    $12.99 CAD

  • The Broken Heart

    by Aaron Chan ...
    Illustrated by Josiane Vlitos ...
    A younger sister tries to put her brother’s heart back together after his boyfriend breaks up with him—a touching story of how to support a loved one who’s grieving.Stephanie loves to fix broken things, but when her older brother Cody walks in and says his heart is broken, she’s not sure how to fix it. All the pieces of his heart are spread out, Cody tells her. So Stephanie sets off to track them ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

  • Theorizing Colonial Cinema

    Reframing Production, Circulation, and Consumption of Film in Asia

    by Nadine Chan, Aaron Gerow, Jane Marie Gaines, Zhen Zhang, Thomas A. C. Barker, Nikki J. Y. Lee, José B. Capino, Yiman Wang ...
    Series series New Directions in National Cinemas
    Theorizing Colonial Cinema is a millennial retrospective on the entangled intimacy between film and colonialism from film's global inception to contemporary legacies in and of Asia.The volume engages new perspectives by asking how prior discussions on film form, theory, history, and ideology may be challenged by centering the colonial question rather than relegating it to the periphery. To that ... Read more

    $26.99 CAD

  • Jumbled Part 2

    Collection of Poems

    by Julie Nyhus, Duane Herrmann, Jeffrey Privette, Sophia Hartwick, JANIS THOMPSON, Lee Broda, Thomas Walrod, Anna Johnson, Alex Dako, Peter Prizel, Edwin Anderson, Katya Nyangi, Dawne Leiker, Nico Crabtree, Diana Raab, Mark Dixon, Charnjit Gill, Michael Riordan, Elizabeth Iannaci, Lawrence Bridges, Brent Cassan, Kimberly Malinowski, Duncan Wu, Stephen Ground, Leah Milenkova, Aaron Chan, Ranjith Sivaraman, Ralf Schrader, Rick Hilles, Elizabeth Griffin, Sharona Kenwrick, Esme DeVault, Elizabeth Buttimer, Nadine Dunseith, Lucy Heuschen, Mukund Gnanadesikan, Monica Viera, Elisha Aaron, Alyssa Morales, Josh Hagy, yasin ertas, Lindsay Clayton Day, Jerome Berglund, Glenna Cook, Robert Eugene Rubino, Paul Rousseau, Amelia Mwale Eilertsen, KARTIKEY GROVER ...
    Poets Choice is a poetry book publishing brand registered and having its head office in Mumbai, India. We are on the verge of setting up our offices in USA as well.We have been around since 2010.Our writers hail from over 48 countries across the world. To view the complete list visit our website.We welcome book reviews on our website – www.poetschoice.in . Books can also be ordered directly from ... Read more

    $13.73 CAD

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  • The Subplot

    What China Is Reading and Why It Matters

    by Megan Walsh ...
    What does contemporary China's diverse and exciting fiction tell us about its culture, and the relationship between art and politics?The Subplot takes us on a lively journey through a literary landscape like you’ve never seen before: a vast migrant-worker poetry movement, homoerotic romances by “rotten girls,” swaggering literary popstars, millionaire e-writers churning out the longest-ever novels ... Read more

    $13.99 CAD

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  • The Columbia Companion to Modern Chinese Literature

    Edited by Kirk Denton ...
    The Columbia Companion to Modern Chinese Literature features more than fifty short essays on specific writers and literary trends from the Qing period (1895–1911) to the present. The volume opens with thematic essays on the politics and ethics of writing literary history, the formation of the canon, the relationship between language and form, the role of literary institutions and communities, the ... Read more

    $51.99 CAD

  • Postmodernism and China

    by Wang Ning, Anthony D. King, Abidin Kusno, Ping-Hui Liao ...
    Few countries have been so transformed in recent decades as China. With a dynamically growing economy and a rapidly changing social structure, China challenges the West to understand the nature of its modernization. Using postmodernism as both a global frame of periodization and a way to break free from the rigid ideology of westernization as modernity, this volume’s diverse group of contributors ... Read more

    $43.99 CAD

  • Envisioning Taiwan

    Fiction, Cinema, and the Nation in the Cultural Imaginary

    by June Yip, Rey Chow, Harry Harootunian, Masao Miyoshi ...
    Series series Asia-Pacific: Culture, Politics, and Society
    In discussions of postcolonial nationhood and cultural identity, Taiwan is often overlooked. Yet the island—with its complex history of colonization—presents a particularly fascinating case of the struggle to define a “nation.” While the mainland Chinese government has been unequivocal in its resistance to Taiwanese independence, in Taiwan, government control has gradually passed from mainland ... Read more

    $43.99 CAD

  • China and Orientalism

    Western Knowledge Production and the PRC

    by Daniel Vukovich ...
    Series series Postcolonial Politics
    This book argues that there is a new, Sinological form of orientalism at work in the world. It has shifted from a logic of ‘essential difference’ to one of ‘sameness’ or general equivalence. "China" is now in a halting but inevitable process of becoming-the-same as the USA and the West. Orientalism is now closer to the cultural logic of capitalism, even as it shows the afterlives of colonial ... Read more

    $114.99 CAD

  • Cold War Reckonings

    Authoritarianism and the Genres of Decolonization

    by Jini Kim Watson ...
    Honorable Mention, James Russell Lowell Prize, Modern Language AssociationHonorable Mention, René Wellek Prize, American Comparative Literature AssociationHow did the Cold War shape culture and political power in decolonizing countries and give rise to authoritarian regimes in the so-called free world? Cold War Reckonings tells a new story about the Cold War and the global shift from colonialism ... Read more

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  • Global/Local

    Cultural Production and the Transnational Imaginary

    by Rey Chow, Harry Harootunian, Masao Miyoshi ...
    Series series Asia-Pacific: Culture, Politics, and Society
    This groundbreaking collection focuses on what may be, for cultural studies, the most intriguing aspect of contemporary globalization—the ways in which the postnational restructuring of the world in an era of transnational capitalism has altered how we must think about cultural production. Mapping a "new world space" that is simultaneously more globalized and localized than before, these essays ... Read more

    $43.99 CAD

  • The Urban Generation

    Chinese Cinema and Society at the Turn of the Twenty-First Century

    by Jason McGrath, Chris Berry, Sheldon H. Lu ...
    Since the early 1990s, while mainland China’s state-owned movie studios have struggled with financial and ideological constraints, an exciting alternative cinema has developed. Dubbed the “Urban Generation,” this new cinema is driven by young filmmakers who emerged in the shadow of the events at Tiananmen Square in 1989. What unites diverse directors under the “Urban Generation” rubric is their ... Read more

    $43.99 CAD