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Strange Tales from a Chinese Studio by Pu Songling 9780140447408
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $14.08The Strange Tales of Pu Songling (1640-1715) are exquisite and amusing miniatures that are regarded as the pinnacle of classical Chinese fiction. With their elegant prose, witty wordplay and subtle... -
The Analects by Confucius 9780199540617
RRP: $12.05Booksplease Price: $7.36Few individuals have shaped their country's civilization more profoundly than the Master Kong (Confucius, 551-479 BC). Compulsory reading in the late Imperial period for all who wished to enter the... -
Nineteen Ways of Looking at Wang Wei by Eliot Weinberger
RRP: $12.05Booksplease Price: $11.31The difficulty (and necessity) of translation is concisely described in Nineteen Ways of Looking at Wang Wei, a close reading of different translations of a single poem from the Tang Dynasty-from a... -
The Making of a Savior Bodhisattva: Dizang in Medieval China by Zhiru 9780824867584
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $17.92In modern Chinese Buddhism, Dizang is especially popular as the sovereign of the underworld. Often represented as a monk wearing a royal crown, Dizang helps the deceased faithful navigate the complex... -
The Oxford Handbook of Classical Chinese Literature: (1000bce-900ce) by Wiebke Denecke 9780190053185
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The Hall Of Uselessness by Simon Leys
RRP: $28.14Booksplease Price: $20.34Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781590176207Author Simon LeysFormat PaperbackPage Count 576Imprint -
Jottings Under Lamplight by Xun Lu
RRP: $48.17Booksplease Price: $40.95Lu Xun (1881-1936) is widely considered the greatest writer of twentieth-century China. Although primarily known for his two slim volumes of short fiction, he was a prolific and inventive essayist... -
Fictional Authors, Imaginary Audiences: Modern Chinese Literature in the Twentieth Century by Bonnie S. McDougall 9789629961053
RRP: $22.77Booksplease Price: $19.98The authors and audiences for twentieth century Chinese literature, especially fiction, are examined in a fresh light in this book. While modern Chinese fictions are imaginary in that they do not... -
Laozi's Dao De Jing: A New Interpretation for a Transformative Time Laozi 9781668019368
Booksplease Price: $20.66A fresh, graceful translation of one of the most important and timeless classics—the foundational work of Daoism—by award-winning novelist Ken Liu, who contextualizes and demystifies this famously... -
The Mountain Poems of Stonehouse by Red Pine 9781556594557
RRP: $18.75Booksplease Price: $17.41Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of Washington State Book Award (Poetry) 2015.Book InformationISBN 9781556594557Author Red PineFormat -
The Sing-song Girls of Shanghai by Han Bangqing 9780231122696
RRP: $46.90Booksplease Price: $39.29Desire, virtue, courtesans (also known as sing-song girls), and the denizens of Shanghai's pleasure quarters are just some of the elements that constitute Han Bangqing's extraordinary novel of late... -
Bright Moon, White Clouds by Li Po
RRP: $28.14Booksplease Price: $18.72Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781590307465Author J. P. SeatonFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint < -
A Cottager's Sketchbook v. 2 by Liang Shih Chiu 9789629962197
RRP: $22.77Booksplease Price: $19.98Liang Shih-chiu (1903-1987), a literary critic and theorist of many talents, was the first person to translate the complete works of Shakespeare into Chinese. Literary historians remember him chiefly... -
Selected Short Stories of Shen Congwen by Shen Congwen 9789629961107
RRP: $16.07Booksplease Price: $13.95Shen Congwen (1902?-1988) is one of modern China's great writers. He is also one of the finest Chinese prose stylists of all time. Literary critics and historians have offered several reasons for why... -
On Cold Mountain: A Buddhist Reading of the Hanshan Poems by Paul Rouzer
RRP: $46.83Booksplease Price: $40.99In this first serious study of Hanshan ("Cold Mountain"), Paul Rouzer discusses some seventy poems of the iconic Chinese poet who lived sometime during the Tang dynasty (618-907). Hanshan's poems... -
Alien Kind: Foxes and Late Imperial Chinese Narrative by Rania Huntington 9780674010949
RRP: $50.85Booksplease Price: $43.04To discuss the supernatural in China is "to talk of foxes and speak of ghosts." Ming and Qing China were well populated with foxes, shape-changing creatures who transgressed the boundaries of... -
![The Monkey and the Monk: An Abridgment of "The Journey to the West" by Anthony C. Yu 9780226971568](https://cdn11.bigcommerce.com/s-zkx5lhzlf8/images/stencil/444x444/products/10866865/11882406/9780226971568__81314.1793415213.jpg?c=1 "The Monkey and the Monk: An Abridgment of "The Journey to the West" by Anthony C. Yu 9780226971568")
The Monkey and the Monk: An Abridgment of "The Journey to the West" by Anthony C. Yu 9780226971568
RRP: $25.46Booksplease Price: $22.74Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Consuming Literature: Best Sellers and the Commercialization of Literary Production in Contemporary China by Shuyu Kong 9780804749398 [USED COPY]
RRP: $150.08Booksplease Price: $15.01This book examines the changes taking place in literary writing and publishing in contemporary China under the influence of the emerging market economy. It focuses on the revival of literary best... -
Corruption and Realism in Late Socialist China: The Return of the Political Novel by Jeffrey C. Kinkley 9780804754859 [USED COPY]
RRP: $85.76Booksplease Price: $8.58As China's centrally planned economy and welfare state have given way to a more loosely controlled version of "late socialism," public concern about economic reform's downside has found expression in... -
Postsocialist Modernity: Chinese Cinema, Literature, and Criticism in the Market Age by Jason McGrath 9780804758741 [USED COPY]
RRP: $139.36Booksplease Price: $13.94This book examines Chinese culture under the age of market reforms. Beginning in the early 1990s and on into the new century, fields such as literature and film have been fundamentally transformed by... -
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Personal Matters: Women's Autobiographical Practice in Twentieth-Century China by Lingzhen Wang 9780804750059 [USED COPY]
RRP: $91.12Booksplease Price: $9.11This book offers an interdisciplinary approach to women's autobiographical writing in twentieth-century China. The author applies feminist insights to works by such well-known authors as Qiu Jin,... -
Critical Theory and Pre-Modern Chinese Literature by Stephen J Roddy 9781478017363
RRP: $16.07Booksplease Price: $13.95Contributors to this special issue evaluate the influence of Western critical theory on the development of Chinese literary studies since the mid-twentieth century. By examining the development of... -
The Worlds of Southeast Asian Chinese Literature by Cheow Thia Chan
RRP: $16.07Booksplease Price: $13.95Contributors to this special issue examine a wide-ranging body of literature produced by ethnically Chinese populations of Southeast Asia. While much previous work on Chinese literature from that... -
Reading Tao Yuanming: Shifiting Paradigms of Historical Reception (427-1900) by Wendy Swartz
RRP: $56.21Booksplease Price: $47.19Tao Yuanming (365?-427), although dismissed as a poet following his death, is now considered one of China's greatest writers. Over the centuries, portrayals of his life-some focusing on his...