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Library of Chinese Classics: Stories to Awaken the World

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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
The Short Essays of Ming and Qing Dynasties

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Date Added: Sunday 25 June, 2017
ISBN: 9787220083785 Binding: Hardcover Pages: 433 Sizes: 239x160mm Publication: 1/2011 Languages:English by Sichuan People's Publishing House, 2011 Late Ming and early Qing dynasty was the brilliant period for essays. It can be considered unprecedented for the large amount of the works, the large numbers of the schools and the variety of the styles in the history of Chinese ancient prose. Compared with the previous dynasties, the subjects of the Ming and Qing essays are richer with more free forms, concerned about both the social reality and the attitude and delight of life. This book selected 127 classical essays with various subjects written by hundreds of writers in Ming and Qing dynasties, in which there are 82 essays in Ming Dynasty and 45 essays in Qing Dynasty. This book is trying ... more info
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
Dragon-Carving and the Literary Mind

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Date Added: Sunday 25 June, 2017
Library of Chinese Classics: Dragon-Carving and the Literary Mind Written by Liu Xie (the Southern Dynasties) Translated into English by Yang Guobin Translated into modern Chinese by Zhou Zhenfu Publisher: Foreign Language Teaching and Research Press Publication Date: 2003-12 Language: Chinese and English ISBN: 7560029965 Library Binding: hardcover, 2 volumes, 799 pages Dragon-Carving and the Literary Mind written by Liu Xie (c. 465-521) marks the culmination of early Chinese literary criticism and literary theory. It represents a systematic explication on a host of important issues ranging from the origins of literature to literary genres, imagination, style, rhetoric, literary appreciation, writers' moral integrity, and the relationship between literature and social change. It is the ... more info
Selections of the Tang and Song Dynasties

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Date Added: Saturday 24 June, 2017
ISBN/ISSN : 9787513524155 Published Date : 10/2012 Language : English and Chinese bilingual Publisher : Foreign Languages Press A collection of famous Tang and Song Dynasties prose more than 90 articles in English were presented in a way, including the classical original, modern translation and English translation, with a high value of reading.
Library of Chinese Classics: Flowers in The Mirror

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Library of Chinese Classics: Flowers in The Mirror
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Date Added: Saturday 24 June, 2017
Library of Chinese Classics: Flowers in the Mirror Author: Li Ruzhen (ca. 1763-ca. 1830) Translated into English by Lin Taiyi Library binding book, vol. I, II, dimensions 960 x 640, 1/16 Publisher: Yi Lin Chu Ban She, 2005 ISBN: 7806577955 978806577950 Li Ruzhen (1763-1830) was born in Hebei province. He declined to conform to the bagu essay form and never went beyond the county examinations. He worked on his novel Flowers in the Mirror for fifteen years, completing it in 1827. This novel tells the story of a Daoist fairy named Fairy of the Hundred Flowers that has fallen from grace and tries to gain back her immortality. Li Ruzhen, himself failing to attain a higher examination degree, uses allegories to describe the caption of a human being between appearance and reality, the temporal ... more info
Library of Chinese Classics: The Scholars

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Date Added: Saturday 24 June, 2017
The Scholars I II III Written by Wu Jingzi (Wu Ching-Tzu, 1751? -) Translated by Yang Xiany and Gladys Yang Library of Chinese Classics Chinese-English edition, hardcover, library binding, 1308 pages. An eighteenth-century satire, the Scholars is outstanding among Chinese classic novels. The author mercilessly exposes the decadence of the literati produced by the feudal examination system, the disastrous effects of that institution, the corruption of the feudal regime, and the darkness of the feudal society. The Scholars described the life and spirit of literati and officialdom in the late period of feudal China. They receive the poison of the civil service examination system, being puzzled by officialdom, wealth and fame. The author took the analysis of the enslaved scholar's ugly soul ... more info
Library of Chinese Classics: Gems of Classical Chinese Poetry

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Date Added: Saturday 24 June, 2017
Library of Chinese Classics: Gems of Classical Chinese Poetry (Chinese-English) Compiled by Yuan Xingpei Translated into English by Xu Yuanchong Translated into modern Chinese by Xu Fang, Han Shan Published by Zhonghua Book Company, 2006 Library binding book, dimensions 960 x 640, 1/16, hardcover, 321 pages ISBN: 7101049400 ISBN: 9787101049404 This is a new Chinese-English edition of Gems of Classical Chinese Poetry. Xu Yuan Zhong, the English translator of the poetry, presents again in this book accurate and elegant translation of classic Chinese poetry. Gems of Classical Chinese Poetry contains 152 poems. To make it easy to read and memorize, the scholars arranged the poems in the order of pentasyllabic quatrains, hepasyllabic regulated verses, pentasyllabic ancient-style poems, and ... more info
Library of Chinese Classics: The Travel of Lao Ts'an

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Date Added: Saturday 24 June, 2017
Library of Chinese Classics: The Travels of Lao Ts'an Author: Liu E (1857-1909) Translated into English by Harold Shadick Library binding book, vol. I, II, dimensions 960 x 640, 1/16 Publisher: Yi Lin Chu Ban She, 2005 ISBN: 7806577947 9787806577943 Written by Liu E, an intellectual born at the end of the Qing Dynasty. By describing what Lao Can sees and hears in his travels, the author fiercely attacks the injustices he witnessed and exposed the hypocrisy of so-called "honest and upright officials." Intriguing novel, and one of the last books to be written in the "old style" of Chinese narrative. The novel reveals the disastrous and demoralized state of China at the beginning of twentieth century and his terrible governmental corruption, deplorable state of the roads, river floods, ... more info
Library of Chinese Classics: The Peach Blossom Fan

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Weight: 5.3lbs

Date Added: Saturday 24 June, 2017
Publisher : New World Press Published Date : 1/2009 Language : English and Chinese bilingual ISBN/ISSN : 9787510405006 Pages : 948 "Peach Blossom Fan (Chinese-English) (Full Set Volume 2)" is the finale of the Ming and Qing drama. A "one off situation over peach fan, two Yan points to fly home country perish", v. to make the Qinhuai Geisha Li Xiangjun and wit Hou Ming alternately troubled times in the ups and downs. "Peach Blossom Fan" written in 1699, which lasted more than ten years of the draft, but the book into three easy to draft. The play forty-four, by the literati Hou Fu She Qinhuai courtesan Li Xiangjun joys and sorrows with the love story, reflecting the Ming dynasty, the Ming dynasty in particular the destruction process. Chinese drama in the history of Kong is an outstanding ... more info