Fiction - Asian Reads

This collection is one of the earliest and most important works of Chinese Buddhist poetry and is especially influential in the later literature ...

Sources show Qu Yuan (?340–278 BCE) was the first person in China to become famous for his poetry, so famous in fact that the Chinese celebrate h...

This is a Chinese translation of Vergil's classic Latin poem the Georgics.描绘天地之变，穿越生死之间；向着女神，述说着无尽的爱恋。古罗马诗人维吉尔的不朽诗篇，《农事诗》历经两千年的积淀，终于来到了Seres丝国人的嘴边。...

The poet Kabir, a selection from whose songs is here for the first time offered to English readers, is one of the most interesting personalities in...

"Only when a man becomes all naked do you know the shades of his life as an existential being," writes Tatsuhiko Ishii in his sensuous, exhilaratin...

First published in 1915, Cathay, Ezra Pound's early monumental work, originally contained fourteen translations from the Chinese and a translation ...

The quintessential Chinese poet, translated by David Hinton, recipient of the Harold Morton Landon Translation Award. Generally acclaimed as one ...

A new and substantially expanded version of Hinton’s landmark translation of Tu Fu, published on the thirtieth anniversary of that original editi...

Saigyo (1118-1190) is one of the most well-known and influential of the traditional Japanese poets. He not only helped give new vitality and direct...