Fiction - Asian Reads
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Finding Them Gone: Visiting China's Poets of the Past
PaperbackOriginal price $24.00Original price $24.00 - Original price $24.00Original price $24.00Current price $21.99$21.99 - $21.99Current price $21.99| /"A travel writer with a cult following."—The New York Times "There are very few westerners who could successfully cover so much territory in Chin...
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Classical Chinese Poetry: An Anthology
PaperbackOriginal price $26.00Original price $26.00 - Original price $26.00Original price $26.00Current price $23.99$23.99 - $23.99Current price $23.99| /With this groundbreaking collection Classical Chinese Poetry, translated and edited by the renowned poet and translator David Hinton, a new gener...
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Burying the Mountain
PaperbackOriginal price $16.00 - Original price $16.00Original price $16.00$16.99$16.99 - $16.99Current price $16.99| /In Shangyang Fang’s debut Burying the Mountain, longing and loss rush through a portal of difficult beauty. Absence is translated into fire ants ...
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The Chinese Written Character as a Medium for Poetry: A Critical Edition
PaperbackOriginal price $30.00 - Original price $30.00Original price $30.00$41.99$41.99 - $41.99Current price $41.99| /First published in 1919 by Ezra Pound, Ernest Fenollosa's essay on the Chinese written language has become one of the most often quoted statement...
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The Poetry of Hanshan (Cold Mountain), Shide, and Fenggan
HardcoverOriginal price $42.99 - Original price $42.99Original price $42.99$46.99$46.99 - $46.99Current price $46.99| /Due to their popularity with the American counterculture, the poems attributed to Hanshan, Shide and Fenggan have been translated several times i...
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How to Read Chinese Poetry Workbook
PaperbackOriginal price $34.00 - Original price $34.00Original price $34.00$48.99$48.99 - $48.99Current price $48.99| /Designed to work with the acclaimed course text How to Read Chinese Poetry: A Guided Anthology, the How to Read Chinese Poetry Workbook introduce...
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A Chinese Bestiary: Strange Creatures from the Guideways through Mountains and Seas
PaperbackOriginal price $34.95 - Original price $34.95Original price $34.95$49.99$49.99 - $49.99Current price $49.99| /A Chinese Bestiary presents a fascinating pageant of mythical creatures from a unique and enduring cosmography written in ancient China. The Guid...
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The Songs of Chu: An Anthology of Ancient Chinese Poetry by Qu Yuan and Others
PaperbackOriginal price $37.00 - Original price $37.00Original price $37.00$51.99$51.99 - $51.99Current price $51.99| /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...
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How to Read Chinese Poetry: A Guided Anthology / Edition 1
PaperbackOriginal price $45.00 - Original price $45.00Original price $45.00$60.99$60.99 - $60.99Current price $60.99| /In this "guided" anthology, experts lead students through the major genres and eras of Chinese poetry from antiquity to the modern time. The volu...
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The Original Meaning of the Yijing: Commentary on the Scripture of Change
HardcoverOriginal price $65.00 - Original price $65.00Original price $65.00$83.99$83.99 - $83.99Current price $83.99| /The Yijing (I Ching), or Scripture of Change, is traditionally considered the first and most profound of the Chinese classics. Originally a divin...
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The Great Age of Chinese Poetry: The High Tang
PaperbackOriginal price $116.65 - Original price $116.65Original price $116.65$116.99$116.99 - $116.99Current price $116.99| /Hailed as the most important and most comprehensive single study of Tang poetry to have appeared in English when originally published by Yale Uni...
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Jottings Under Lamplight
HardcoverOriginal price $42.00 - Original price $42.00Original price $42.00$42.99$42.99 - $42.99Current price $42.99| /Lu Xun (1881-1936) is widely considered the greatest writer of twentieth-century China. Although primarily known for his two slim volumes of short ...
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The Craft of Oblivion: Forgetting and Memory in Ancient China
PaperbackOriginal price $36.95 - Original price $36.95Original price $36.95$49.99$49.99 - $49.99Current price $49.99| /The Craft of Oblivion is an innovative and groundbreaking volume that aims to study, for the first time, the intersections between forgetting and...
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Daoism in Modern China: Clerics and Temples in Urban Transformations,1860-Present
PaperbackOriginal price $48.95 - Original price $48.95Original price $48.95$65.99$65.99 - $65.99Current price $65.99| /This book questions whether temples and Daoism are two independent aspects of modern Chinese religion or if they are indissolubly linked. It presen...
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Collection of Folk Songs from Southwest China
PaperbackOriginal price $28.95Original price $28.95 - Original price $28.95Original price $28.95Current price $25.99$25.99 - $25.99Current price $25.99| /A collection of 700+ folk songs from southwest China compiled by a National Southwest Associated University student as a member of the Hunan-Guizho...
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Bodies of Separation
PaperbackOriginal price $15.00 - Original price $15.00Original price $15.00$15.99$15.99 - $15.99Current price $15.99| /Poetry by Chim Sher Ting.Originally from a sunny tropical island in Southeast Asia, Sher Ting is a Singaporean-Chinese currently residing in Austra...
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Crossing Boundaries and Confounding Identity: Chinese Women in Literature, Art, and Film
HardcoverOriginal price $99.00 - Original price $99.00Original price $99.00$117.99$117.99 - $117.99Current price $117.99| /Examines literary, historical, and cultural portrayals of Chinese women, across centuries and continents.Product DetailsISBN-13: 9781438492155 Medi...
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Time Peels All to Original White: Xueyan Poems
PaperbackOriginal price $18.00Original price $18.00 - Original price $18.00Original price $18.00Current price $17.99$17.99 - $17.99Current price $17.99| /Time Peels All to Original White is the debut poetry collection of a new lightning voice that shows the epiphanic power of simplicity, reinventing ...
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Carnival of Animals: XI XI's Animal Poems
HardcoverOriginal price $25.00 - Original price $25.00Original price $25.00$37.99$37.99 - $37.99Current price $37.99| /Most of Xi Xi's animal poems featured here are new works written during the past few years. Full of whimsical ideas, they embody the notion of "all...
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Jin Yong's Martial Arts Fiction and the Kungfu Industrial Complex
HardcoverOriginal price $105.00 - Original price $105.00Original price $105.00$129.99$129.99 - $129.99Current price $129.99| /Jin Yong's Martial Arts Fiction and the Kungfu Industrial Complex is an analysis of the role of Jin Yong's stories and characters in the constructi...
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Must-know Chinese Poems (Part 3): A Beginner's Guide To Self-Learn Mandarin Chinese Poetry, All HSK Levels, Chinese, Pinyin, English Translation Essay
PaperbackOriginal price $29.99 - Original price $29.99Original price $29.99$36.99$36.99 - $36.99Current price $36.99| /The books in Chinese Poems series introduces you to numerous MUST-KNOW Chinese poems. Each book includes about 10 poems, and their in-depth analysi...
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The Dog Years of Reeducation: Poems
PaperbackOriginal price $19.95 - Original price $19.95Original price $19.95$19.99$19.99 - $19.99Current price $19.99| /In the Chinese Cultural Revolution, millions of middle school and high school graduates, called the zhiqing or Educated Youth, were sent up to the ...
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A Walk in the Night with Zhuangzi: Musings on an Ancient Chinese Manuscript
HardcoverOriginal price $99.00 - Original price $99.00Original price $99.00$117.99$117.99 - $117.99Current price $117.99| /A complete translation and analysis of "All Things Flow into Form" (Fan wu liu xing), a recently discovered manuscript from the Warring States peri...
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The Georgics: a Chinese translation
PaperbackOriginal price $22.00 - Original price $22.00Original price $22.00$25.99$25.99 - $25.99Current price $25.99| /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。...
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