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Library of Chinese Classics: Shang Shu

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Date Added: Saturday 04 February, 2017
Li Yage (Translator) Published by Hunan People Publishing House, 2013 ISBN 10: 7543893207 / ISBN 13: 9787543893207 393 pages, 24 x 16.2 x 2.2 cm, 721g, Text in English and Chinese. The Book of Documents or Classic of History, also known as the Shangshu, is one of the Five Classics of ancient Chinese literature. It is a collection of rhetorical prose attributed to figures of ancient China, and served as the foundation of Chinese political philosophy for over 2,000 years. The chapters are grouped into four sections representing different eras: the semi-mythical reign of Yu the Great, and the Xia, Shang and Zhou dynasties. The Zhou section accounts for over half the text.

Library of Chinese Classics: Six Records of a Floating Life

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Date Added: Sunday 25 June, 2017
Hardcover Publisher: Yilin Press (February 2006) ISBN-10: 7806579400 ISBN-13: 978-7806579404 ASIN: B0011CK2SQ Product Dimensions: 9.5 x 6.3 x 0.8 inches Six Records of a Floating Life (1809) is an extraordinary blend of autobiography, love story and social document written by a man who was educated as a scholar but earned his living as a civil servant and art dealer. In this intimate memoir, Shen Fu recounts the domestic and romantic joys of his marriage to Yun, the beautiful and artistic girl he fell in love with as a child. He also describes other incidents of his life, including how his beloved wife obtained a courtesan for him and reflects on his travels through China. Shen Fu's exquisite memoir shows six parallel "layers" of one man's life, loves and career, with revealing glimpses ... more info

Library of Chinese Classics: Stories Old and New

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Date Added: Saturday 24 June, 2017
Stories Old and New -Library of Chinese Classics Chinese-English Compiled by Feng Menglong, translated into English by Shuhui Yang and Yunqin Yang Published by Yuelu Publishing House, Hunan, 2007 Library binding book, dimensions 960 x 640, 1/16, 4 Volumes, 1832 pages ISBN: 9787806658369 Stories Old and New, edited by Feng Menglong (1574-1646), the best-known compiler of anthologies of popular literature in the Ming dynasty, later known as Illustrious Words to Instruct the World, first published in 1620. Later Feng Menlong published Comprehensive Words to Warn the World and Constant Words to Awaken the World. These three collections of vernacular short stories (hua ben) are most referred to collectively as the San Yan (lit., Three Words) that represent the most important milestone in the ... more info

Library of Chinese Classics: Stories to Awaken the World

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Weight: 9.5lbs

Date Added: Sunday 25 June, 2017
Publisher: Yuelu Publishing House Publication Date: 2011 2589 pages, 24.2 x 16.4 x 15.6 cm Stories 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 (some dating back centuries before their compilation in the seventeenth century), were assembled and circulated by Feng, who not only saved them from oblivion but raised the status of vernacular literature and provided material for authors of the great Ming (1368-1644) and Qing (1644-1911) novels to draw upon. This trilogy has been compared to Boccaccio's Decameron and the stories of A Thousand and One Nights. Peopled with scholars, emperors, ... more info

Library of Chinese Classics: Stories to Caution the World

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Date Added: Saturday 24 June, 2017
Stories to Caution the World (4 vols.) -Library of Chinese Classics Chinese-English Author: (Ming)Feng Menglong; Translated into English by Shuhui Yang and Yunqin Yang Publisher: Yuelu Publishing House, 1st edition, 2009 Language: Text, Chinese and English Library binding: Hardcover, 4 volumes, 2057 pages; 9.8 x 7.2 x 5 inches ISBN: 9787807610458 Stories to Caution the World is the first complete translation of Jingshi tongyan, the second of Feng Menglong's three collections of stories which were pivotal in the development of Chinese vernacular fiction. These tales, whose importance in the Chinese literary canon and in world literature is without question, have been compared to Boccaccio's Decameron and the stories of A Thousand and One Nights. Peopled with scholars, emperors, ministers, ... more info

Library of Chinese Classics: Sun Zi: The Art of War

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Weight: 2.5lbs

Date Added: Saturday 04 February, 2017
Publisher : Foreign Languages Press Published Date : 1/1999 Language : English and Chinese bilingual ISBN/ISSN : 9787119024127 Pages : 304 "Art of War" is China's most valuable oldest military books, written in the late Spring and Autumn. The book summarizes the Spring and Autumn Period experience of war, stressing that "Shen war", "knows" and other military thinking, revealing the nature of war and some important rules, on the later of the political, military, philosophy had a tremendous impact, has always been known as "soldiers by" and its Author Sun Tzu is revered as "soldier saint." The book has been spread over two thousand years, from the 17th century began to have a variety of foreign language translations available, since it is still in the world produce extensive and profound ... more info

Library of Chinese Classics: Taibai Yinjing

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Date Added: Saturday 04 February, 2017
Publisher : Military Science Press Published Date : 10/2007 Language : English and Chinese bilingual ISBN/ISSN : 9787802371132 "Bai Yin" is a gain for the generals mind, inspiring art of war military strategy. A book in the social upheaval of the Tang period, with a summary of "Rebellion" combat experience in nature. Author borrow "interpreting the ancient" denounce ills, emphasizes the role of people in the war, and carried out a logical argument to explain about the army and the war guidance distinctive military insights.

Library of Chinese Classics: Tan Jing

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Date Added: Sunday 16 July, 2017
Hardcover: 265 pages Language: Simplified Chinese and English ISBN-10: 7543870916 ISBN-13: 978-7543870918 Published by Hunan People's Publishing, 2012 Tan Jing (the Sutra of Huineng) records and organizes the Sixth Ancestor Huinengs speech in Shaozhou Brahman Temple for more than one thousand monks at the invitation of the secretariat of Shaozhou when he worked as the abbot of Caoxi Baolin Temple after being enlightened in Huangmei. The book introduces the cause and experience of Huineng in studying Buddhism, summarizes the main ideas of the Huineng and records his summary of Zen Buddhism tenet before his death. Also, this book mainly describes how Huineng grew from an illiterate cutting-firewood boy into a Zen master. Through the clue, it illustrates the concrete inheritance of Zen ... more info

Library of Chinese Classics: Tending the Roots of Wisdom

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Weight: 1.55lbs

Date Added: Saturday 24 June, 2017
Hardcover: 200 pages Publisher: New World Press (December 31, 2003) Language: English, Chinese ISBN-10: 7801871545 ISBN-13: 978-7801871541 Package Dimensions: 9.3 x 6.6 x 1 inches Tending the Roots of Wisdom was written by Hong Yingming during the Wanli reign period (1573-1620) of the Ming Dynasty. In the 400 or so years following its first appearance, the book was not widely disseminated either at home or abroad, and was not well known. Throughout the 20th century, it failed to arouse much attention in philosophical, literary or artistic circles in China. But in Japan a different situation arose in the 1980s, when a "Tending the Roots of Wisdom craze" swept the business world. A number of Japanese corporations, impressed with the philosophical approach of the work, adopted it as a ... more info

Library of Chinese Classics: The Analects

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Weight: 1.6lbs

Date Added: Saturday 21 January, 2017
Lun Yu, the Analects of Confucians Translated into English by Arthur Waley Translated into Modern Chinese by Yang Bojun Book dimensions 960 x 640, 1/16, hardcover, 345 pages Hunan People's Publishing House and Foreign Languages Press, 1999 ISBN: 7543820889 The Analects is a Confucian classic which appeared in book form in the early Warring States Period. Comprising 20 "books" or chapters, it is recorded of dialogues, stories, and anecdotes of Confucius, the philosopher and educator of ancient China and his disciples and students. While Confucius failed in his lifetime to rescue a crumbling civilization of the Zhou Dynasty with his teachings, he was to become the most influential sage in human history. His thought, still remarkably current and even innovative after 2500 years, survives ... more info