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Collected Papers of Yoz“ Matsushima
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 788

Collected Papers of Yoz“ Matsushima

In the past thirty years, differential geometry has undergone an enormous change with infusion of topology, Lie theory, complex analysis, algebraic geometry and partial differential equations. Professor Matsushima played a leading role in this transformation by bringing new techniques of Lie groups and Lie algebras into the study of real and complex manifolds. This volume is a collection of all the 46 papers written by him.

Official road Taobao people
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 1630

Official road Taobao people

  • Categories: Art

Born again, Wang Haidong, who is known as the first businessman in the antique industry, mysteriously disappeared in an ancient tomb of Xixia King. Later, archaeologists found more than 100 pieces of gold, silver and jade articles in this stolen ancient tomb, all of which were fine works, providing detailed physical data for studying the history at that time.

Kabuki Plays on Stage. Volume 2
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 427

Kabuki Plays on Stage. Volume 2

Kabuki Plays On Stage represents a monumental achievement in Japanese theatre studies, being the first collection of kabuki play translations to be published in twenty-five years. Fifty-one plays, published in four volumes, vividly trace kabuki's changing relations to Japanese society during the premodern era. Volume 1 consists of thirteen plays that showcase early kabuki's scintillating and boisterous styles of performance and illustrates the contrasting dramatic techniques cultivated by actors in Edo (Tokyo) and Kamigata (Osaka and Kyoto). The twelve plays translated in Volume 2 cover a brief period, but one that saw important developments in kabuki architecture, acting, dance, and the man...

The Man Who Saved Kabuki
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 444

The Man Who Saved Kabuki

As part of its program to promote democracy in Japan after World War II, the American Occupation, headed by General Douglas MacArthur, undertook to enforce rigid censorship policies aimed at eliminating all traces of feudal thought in media and entertainment, including kabuki. Faubion Bowers (1917-1999), who served as personal aide and interpreter to MacArthur during the Occupation, was appalled by the censorship policies and anticipated the extinction of a great theatrical art. He used his position in the Occupation administration and his knowledge of Japanese theatre in his tireless campaign to save kabuki. Largely through Bowers's efforts, censorship of kabuki had for the most part been e...

Masterpieces of Kabuki
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 368

Masterpieces of Kabuki

Masterpieces of Kabuki contains eighteen outstanding dramas taken from the landmark four-volume series Kabuki Plays On Stage. Together they cover the entire spectrum of kabuki drama from 1697 to 1905, the period during which kabuki’s dramaturgy flourished prior to the onset of Western dramatic influence. Major playwrights, chronological periods of playwriting, and a variety of play types (history, domestic, and dance dramas) and performance styles are represented. All but one are in the current repertory and regularly staged. The volume includes introductions to each play and a new general introduction highlighting kabuki’s historical development and relating the plays to their performan...

Police in a Pod 12
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 161

Police in a Pod 12

“Will the perpetrator be caught at last?!” Members of the Machiyama Station continue to pursue the perpetrator of the hit-and-run against Fuji and Minamoto’s classmate, Sakura. They finally find an “overly suspicious man”! But, for some reason, Kawai is the one to question him… Will they be able to solve the case? And what will be the shocking conclusion…?! Even though this marks the end of the long series, their regular duties befall them every day… Be sure to check out Volume 12 for more police officers taking on the most trivial of cases with the utmost seriousness!!

The Pine Islands
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 125

The Pine Islands

SHORTLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER INTERNATIONAL PRIZE 2019 AN INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER "Readers who like quiet, meditative works will enjoy this strangely affecting buddy story." —Publishers Weekly "Rather than tying up the loose ends, she leaves them beautifully fluttering in the wind, and you do not feel lost in that experience. The writing is poetic and it’s worth savouring." —Angela Caravan, Shrapnel A bad dream leads to a strange poetic pilgrimage through Japan in this playful and profound Booker International-shortlisted novel. Gilbert Silvester, eminent scholar of beard fashions in film, wakes up one day from a dream that his wife has cheated on him. Certain the dream is a message,...

100 Things You Should Know about Communism Series
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 974
The Sea Dragon
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 3072

The Sea Dragon

  • Categories: Art

Along the river, hundreds of huge cargo ships are moored in the port, and they have been discharged for a long time. Every cargo ship has lights on. From a distance, the scenery is quite spectacular.