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Tales from China by Cyril Birch
RRP: £7.99Booksplease Price: £6.37This collection of Chinese stories begins with the great legends of how Earth and Heaven came into being, and of how the archer Yi rid the Emperor Yao of the menace of the ten suns. There are... -
Scenes for Mandarins: The Elite Theater of the Ming by Cyril Birch
RRP: £35.00Booksplease Price: £28.90-- Asian Thought and SocietyThe first introduction to the classical Chinese theater of Ming drama contains highlights from six of the best plays of the period and lively commentary on each,... -
Studies in Chinese Literary Genres by Cyril Birch 9780520359895
RRP: £80.00Booksplease Price: £72.96Edited by Cyril Birch, Studies in Chinese Literary Genres is a landmark collection that foregrounds genre as the key to understanding the evolution of China's literary tradition. Eleven leading... -
The Anthology of Chinese Literature: 1 by Cyril Birch 9780802150387
Booksplease Price: £12.74Presents classic Chinese tales of love and morality, marriage and justice, and the strange and supernatural.Book InformationISBN 9780802150387Author Cyril BirchFormat PaperbackPage Count 528Imprint... -
Studies in Chinese Literary Genres by Cyril Birch 9780520308855
RRP: £42.00Booksplease Price: £38.17Edited by Cyril Birch, Studies in Chinese Literary Genres is a landmark collection that foregrounds genre as the key to understanding the evolution of China's literary tradition. Eleven leading... -
Stories from a Ming Collection: The Art of the Chinese Storyteller by Cyril Birch 9780802150318
RRP: £11.99Booksplease Price: £10.55The popularity of the Chinese storyteller goes back to the marketplace of the T'ang dynasty, but the familiar figure came into its own in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries. This selection of... -
Anthology of Chinese Literature: Volume II: From the Fourteenth Century to the Present Day by Cyril Birch 9780802150905
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £12.52Represented here are examples of various categories of Chinese literary composition-verses, songs, stories, essays, drama, and excerpts from novels from the Y'an and Ching Dynasties, as well as the... -
The Peony Pavilion, Second Edition: Mudan Ting by Xianzu Tang
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £17.76The celebrated English translation of this classic work of Chinese literature is now available in an updated paperback edition. Written in 1598 by Tang Xianzu, The Peony Pavilion is one of... -
South of the Clouds: Tales from Yunnan by Lucien Miller 9780295973487
RRP: £34.95Booksplease Price: £33.23The tales included here represent all of Yunnan Province's officially designated ethnic minorities, and include creation myths, romances, historical legends, tales explaining natural phenomena, ghost... -
Classical Chinese Literature: An Anthology of Translations: From Antiquity to the Tang Dynasty by John Minford 9780231096775
RRP: £50.00Booksplease Price: £41.17The summation of more than two thousand years of one of the world's most august literary traditions, this volume also represents the achievements of four hundred years of Western scholarship on China... -
Translating Chinese Literature by Eugene Chen Eoyang
RRP: £27.99Booksplease Price: £24.56There is no greater challenge to a translator than the rendering of Chinese, ancient or modern, into English. In this fascinating volume, world-famous scholar-translators talk about their craft from...