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Tao Te Ching by Lao Tzu 9781529083477
RRP: £10.99£7.00Lao Tzu's Tao Te Ching is the source of Zen Buddhism, and is probably the most broadly influential spiritual text in human history.Complete & Unabridged. Part of the Macmillan Collector's Library; a series of stunning, cloth-bound, pocket-sized classics... -
I Ching or Book of Changes: Ancient Chinese wisdom to inspire and enlighten by Wilhelm Richard
RRP: £16.99£12.28Find inspiration from one of the most important books in the world's literature . . . __________ The I Ching is a book of oracles containing the whole of human experience. Used for divination, it is a method of exploring the unconscious; through the... -
The Way of Ch'an: Essential Texts of the Original Tradition by David Hinton
RRP: £26.00£16.98Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781611809237Author David HintonFormat PaperbackPage Count 384Imprint Shambhala Publications IncPublisher Shambhala Publications Inc -
Short Stories in Chinese: New Penguin Parallel Text by John Balcom
RRP: £9.99£7.11Here is the perfect introduction to contemporary fiction from the world's most spoken language. These eight short stories, with parallel translations, offer students at all levels the opportunity to enjoy a wide range of contemporary literature without... -
The Anchor Book of Chinese Poetry: From Ancient to Contemporary, The Full 3000-Year Tradition by Tony Barnstone 9780385721981
RRP: £15.99£10.93Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780385721981Author Tony BarnstoneFormat PaperbackPage Count 512Imprint Random House USA IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 414gDimensions(mm)... -
Poems Of The Late T'ang by A. C. Graham
RRP: £16.99£11.54Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781590172575Author A. C. GrahamFormat PaperbackPage Count 184Imprint NYRB ClassicsPublisher The New York Review of Books, IncWeight(grams)... -
The Art of War by Sun Tzu 9781577152453
RRP: £14.99£9.80Featuring the Chinese text on the left and the English translation on the right, this beautifully bound edition of Sun Tzu's classic text makes a unique gift or collector's item. Written in the sixth century BCE, Sun Tzu's The Art of War is still widely... -
Monkey King: Journey to the West (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition) by Wu Cheng'en
RRP: £18.00£12.16Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780143136309Author Wu Cheng'enFormat PaperbackPage Count 384Imprint Penguin ClassicsPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 425gDimensions(mm) 213mm *... -
Thoughts From the Ice-Drinker's Studio: Essays on China and the World by Liang Qichao 9780241568781
RRP: £12.99£9.09'China's first iconic modern intellectual. His lucid and prolific writings, touching on all major concerns in his own time and anticipating many in the future, inspired several generations of thinkers' Pankaj Mishra'A country does not become corrupt and... -
Sun Tzu's 'Art of War': Bilingual Chinese and English Text by Sun Tzu
RRP: £8.99£6.20Sun Tzu's The Art of War is still one of the world's most influential treatises on strategic thought. Applicable everywhere from the boardroom to the bedroom, from the playing field to the battlefield, its wisdom has never been more highly regarded. Now... -
The Analects by Confucius
RRP: £10.99£7.00Formed in a time of great unrest in ancient China, The Analects is vital to an understanding of Chinese history and thought, and, 2,500 years on, it remains startlingly relevant to contemporary life.Complete and unabridged. Part of the Macmillan... -
A Thousand Years of Good Prayers by Yiyun Li
RRP: £9.99£7.19Brilliant and original, 'A Thousand Years of Good Prayers' introduces a remarkable first collection of stories about China from an author set to become a major literary talent. In this extraordinary first collection, Yiyun Li brings us a... -
The Book of Swindles: Selections from a Late Ming Collection by Yingyu Zhang 9780231178631
RRP: £22.00£16.99This is an age of deception. Con men ply the roadways. Bogus alchemists pretend to turn one piece of silver into three. Devious nuns entice young women into adultery. Sorcerers use charmed talismans for mind control and murder. A pair of dubious monks... -
China Root: Taoism, Ch’an, and Original Zen by David Hinton
RRP: £17.99£12.14Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781611807134Author David HintonFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint Shambhala Publications IncPublisher Shambhala Publications Inc -
Essence Of T'ai Chi Ch'uan by Benjamin Pang Jeng Lo
RRP: £13.99£9.20Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780913028636Author Benjamin Pang Jeng LoFormat PaperbackPage Count 104Imprint North Atlantic Books,U.S.Publisher North Atlantic Books,U.S.Weight(grams)... -
The Backstreets: A Novel from Xinjiang by Perhat Tursun 9780231202916
RRP: £16.99£13.34The Backstreets is an astonishing novel by a preeminent contemporary Uyghur author who was disappeared by the Chinese state. It follows an unnamed Uyghur man who comes to the impenetrable Chinese capital of Xinjiang after finding a temporary job in a... -
Hawk of the Mind: Collected Poems by Yang Mu
RRP: £22.00£16.99Yang Mu is a towering figure in modern Chinese poetry. His poetic voice is subtle and lyrical, and his work is rich with precise images and crystalline thoughts invoking temporality and remembrance. A bold innovator and superb craftsman, he elegantly... -
The Monkey King's Amazing Adventures: A Journey to the West in Search of Enlightenment. China's Most Famous Traditional Novel by Cheng'en Wu
RRP: £12.99£9.00Discover the thrilling exploits of this unlikely hero in China's most famous traditional novel.This classic Chinese epic tells the story of the Monkey King, his incredible origin and downfall, and his epic quest to redeem himself with his trusted... -
The Dumbarton Oaks Anthology of Chinese Garden Literature by Alison Hardie
RRP: £58.95£47.51Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780884024651Author Alison HardieFormat HardbackPage Count 792Imprint Dumbarton Oaks Research Library & CollectionPublisher Dumbarton Oaks Research Library &... -
The Three Kingdoms Vol. 1: The Sacred Oath by Luo Guanzhung
RRP: £14.99£9.80This exciting new translation of the Chinese classic is designed to delight modern readers.The Three Kingdoms is an epic Chinese novel written over six centuries ago. It recounts in vivid historical detail the turbulent years at the close of the Han... -
The Old Capital: A Novel of Taipei by Chu T'ien-Hsin 9780231141123
£32.61Chu T'ien-hsin's The Old Capital is a brilliant evocation of Taiwan's literature of nostalgia and remembrance. The novel is centered on the question, "Is it possible that none of your memories count?" and explores the reliability of remembrances and the... -
The Water Margin: Outlaws of the Marsh: The Classic Chinese Novel by Shih Naian
RRP: £24.99£22.18**Named by Men's Health: "50 Books Every Man Should Read Before Turning 50"**Based upon the historical bandit Song Jiang and his companions, The Water Margin is an epic tale of rebellion against tyranny that will remind Western readers of the English... -
The Misadventures of Master Mugwort: A Joke Book Trilogy from Imperial China by Su Shi 9780197585603
RRP: £22.99£19.56The Hsu-Tang Library presents authoritative and eminently readable translations of classical Chinese literature, in bilingual editions, ranging across three millennia and the entire Sinitic world. The Misadventures of Master Mugwort: A Joke Book... -
The Art of War by Sun Tzu 9781441339850
RRP: £7.99£5.18Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781441339850Author Sun TzuFormat HardbackPage Count 112Imprint Peter Pauper PressPublisher Peter Pauper PressWeight(grams) 522gDimensions(mm) 198mm * 119mm... -
The Three Kingdoms Vol. 3: Welcome The Tiger by Luo Guanzhung
RRP: £19.99£13.35This exciting new translation of the Chinese classic is designed to delight modern readers.The Three Kingdoms is an epic Chinese novel written over six centuries ago. It recounts in vivid historical detail the turbulent years at the close of the Han... -
The Three Kingdoms Vol. 2: The Sleeping Dragon by Luo Guanzhung
RRP: £16.99£11.54This exciting new translation of the Chinese classic is designed to delight modern readers.The Three Kingdoms is an epic Chinese novel written over six centuries ago. It recounts in vivid historical detail the turbulent years at the close of the Han... -
Wild Grass and Morning Blossoms Gathered at Dusk by Xun Lu
RRP: £29.95£23.19A brilliant new translation of the short improvisational fiction and memoirs of Lu Xun, the father of modern Chinese literature.This captivating translation assembles two volumes by Lu Xun, the founder of modern Chinese literature and one of East Asia's... -
A Single Swallow by Zhang Ling
RRP: £8.99£6.13The eagerly awaited English translation of award-winning author Zhang Ling's epic and intimate novel about the devastation of war, forgiveness, redemption, and the enduring power of love. On the day of the historic 1945 Jewel Voice Broadcast-in which... -
Bird Talk and Other Stories by Xu Xu: Modern Tales of a Chinese Romantic by Xu Xu 9781611720556
RRP: £14.99£9.88Xu Xu (1908-1980) was one of the most widely read Chinese authors of the 1930s to 1960s. His popular urban gothic tales, his exotic spy fiction, and his quasi-existentialist love stories full of nostalgia and melancholy offer today's readers an... -
The Wedding Party by Liu Xinwu
RRP: £8.99£6.13In this sprawling, award-winning novel, celebrated Chinese writer Liu Xinwu cordially invites you to an epic, riotous, and moving neighborhood feast. On a December morning in 1982, the courtyard of a Beijing siheyuan-a lively quadrangle of... -
How to Read Chinese Prose in Chinese: A Course in Classical Chinese by Zong-qi Cai
RRP: £35.00£27.61This book is at once a guided introduction to Chinese nonfictional prose and an innovative textbook for the study of classical Chinese. It is a companion volume to How to Read Chinese Prose: A Guided Anthology, designed for Chinese-language learners.How... -
Daodejing by Laozi 9781324092476
RRP: £21.99£17.54Grounded in a lifetime of research and interpretive work and informed by careful study of recent archaeological discoveries of alternate versions of the text, Brook Ziporyn, one of the preeminent explicators of Eastern religions in English, brings us a... -
Romance of the Three Kingdoms Volume 2: Volume 2 by Lo Kuan-Chung
RRP: £24.99£18.97This epic saga of brotherhood and rivalry, of loyalty and treachery, of victory and death, forms part of the indelible core of classical Chinese culture and continues to fascinate modern-day readers.In 220 EC, the 400-year-old rule of the mighty Han... -
An Anthology of Poetry by Buddhist Nuns of Late Imperial China by Beata Grant 9780197586310
RRP: £22.99£19.96The Hsu-Tang Library presents authoritative and eminently readable translations of classical Chinese literature, in bilingual editions, ranging across three millennia and the entire Sinitic world. This anthology opens up new religious and poetic... -
Chuang Tzu: Basic Writings by Zi Zhuang
RRP: £22.00£16.99The basic writings of Chuang Tzu have been savored by Chinese readers for over two thousand years. And Burton Watson's lucid and beautiful translation has been loved by generations of readers. Chuang Tzu (369?-286? B.C.) was a leading philosopher... -
The Water Margin: Outlaws of the Marsh: The Epic Tale of Brotherhood, Bravery and Rebellion in Imperial China by Shi Naian 9784805317877
RRP: £24.99£18.01"[The Water Margin] is a great pageant of China. I think it is one of the most magnificent pageants ever made of any people." -Pearl S. BuckThe Water Margin is an epic tale set in 12th century Imperial China, and is one of the earliest and greatest... -
Strange Tales from a Chinese Studio: Eerie and Fantastic Chinese Stories of the Supernatural by Pu Songling
RRP: £13.99£9.61Long considered a masterpiece of the eerie and fantastic, Strange Tales from a Chinese Studio is a collection of supernatural-themed tales compiled from ancient Chinese folk stories by Songling Pu in the eighteenth century.These tales of ghosts, magic,... -
Romance of the Three Kingdoms Volume 1: Volume 1 by Lo Kuan-Chung
RRP: £24.99£18.79This epic saga of brotherhood and rivalry, of loyalty and treachery, of victory and death forms part of the indelible core of classical Chinese culture and continues to fascinate modern-day readers.In 220 EC, the 400-year-old rule of the mighty Han... -
Golden Lotus by Lanling Xiaoxiao Sheng 9780804856720
RRP: £24.99£18.61"The greatest novel of physical love which China has produced." -Pearl S. BuckA saga of ruthless ambition, murder, and lust, The Golden Lotus (Jin Ping Mei) has been called the fifth Great Classical Novel in Chinese literature, joining the Four Great... -
Stories to Awaken the World: A Ming Dynasty Collection, Volume 3 by Feng Menglong
£107.65Stories to Awaken the World, the first complete translation of Xingshi hengyan, completes the publication in English of the famous three-volume set of Feng Menglong's popular Chinese-vernacular stories. These tales, which come from a variety of sources...