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Selections From Record of the Listener

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Selections from Record of the Listener -Library of Chinese Classics Chinese-English Author: (Song) Hong Mai; Translator: Alister D. Inglis Publisher: Foreign Languages Press, 1st Edition, 3/2009 Language: Text, Chinese and English Library binding: Hardcover, 547 pages; 9.8 x 7.2 x 1.3 ISBN: 9787119055794 Record of the Listener (Yijian zhi) is a renowned zhiguai collection from the Song Dynasty written by Hong Mai during his later years. Recording stories of the strange circulated by word of mouth, it is the largest zhiguai compilation of the Song period-originally comprising 420 chapters. Its rich content includes topics such as gods and ghosts, injustice and retribution fantasy and the uncanny, as well as regional customs. The Record of the Listener has enjoyed a privileged place in ... more info

Library of Chinese Classics: The Book of Lord Shang

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Library of Chinese Classics: The Book of Lord Shang Author: Shang Yang Translated into modern Chinese by Gao Heng Translated into English by J. J. L. Duyvendak Library binding book, dimensions 960 x 640, 1/16 Publisher: The Commercial Press, 2006 ISBN: 7100048796 9787100048798 The Book of Lord Shang is a collection of works written by Shang Yang (390-338 BC), and his disciples. At present, only 24 of his essays are well kept. This book records not only Shang Yang's ideas, his reform theories and measures, but also the political and military system in Qin and other states in the same period. As one of the representative works of Legalist School, the book has high historical and ideological value. Along with the Han Fei-Tzu, it is one of the two principal sources of Legalism, a school of ... more info

Library of Chinese Classics: Selected Tang Dynasty Stories

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Selected Tang Dynasty Stories -Library of Chinese Classics Chinese-English Compiled by Shen Jiji and others (Tang Dynasty), collated and punctuated by Zhang Youhe and others, translated into English by Yang Xiangyi and Gladys Yang, translated into modern Chinese by Wang Zhongli Published by Foreign Languages Press, Beijing, 2008 Library binding book, dimensions 960 x 640, 1/16, 1 volume, 289 pages ISBN: 9787119044217

Library of Chinese Classics: Selected Plays of Guan Hanqing

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Selected Plays of Guan Hanqing Publisher: Foreign Languages Press Author: Guan Hanqing Publication Date: 2004 Language: Chinese-English Size: 16mo Edition: Hardcover ISBN: 7119033956 Guan Hanqing was the leading playwright of the Yuan Dynasty (1206-1368), and one of China's greatest dramatists. His works are marked by realism, reflecting the social realities of his time and giving special insight into the problems women faced in feudal society. There are 18 of his plays extant. The eight chosen for this volume are considered the most representative of Guan's art. "Snow in Midsummer" is his most famous play. It depicts the injustice done to Dou E, the heroine, and her resistance to her unjust fate, using an exaggerative artistic technique incisively. "Rescued by A Coquette" has a novel ... more info

Library of Chinese Classics: Stories to Caution the World

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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: The Seven Heroes and Five Gallants

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Hardcover: 3269 pages Publisher: Foreign Languages Press (January 12, 2010) ISBN-10: 7119067443 ISBN-13: 978-7119067445 Product Dimensions: 9.4 x 6.3 x 3.5 inches The Seven Heros and Five Gallants is representative of chivalry-and-court-case ficition, a genre of Chinese popular literature.

Library of Chinese Classics: A Dream Under the Southern Bough

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Library of Chinese Classics: A Dream Under the Southern Bough (Chinese-English) Author: Tang Xianzu Translated into English by Zhang Guangqian Library binding book, dimensions 960 x 640, 1/16 Publisher: Foreign Languages Press, 2006 ISBN: 7119041657 9787119041650 A Dream Under the Southern Bough, written in 1600, is a representative work of Tang Xianzu (September 24, 1550 - July 29, 1616), a distinguished playwright of the Ming Dynasty (1368-1644). The play is about a dream, in which the hero, a discharged army officer named Chunyu Fen, dreams that he enters an ant hole, and ends up marrying the daughter of the king of the ants. The king appoints Chunyu Fen to a high position in his administration. For some 20 years, he pursues an illustrious career, until, following the death of his ... more info

Selected Tales of the Han Wei and Six Dynasties Periods

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Series: Library of Chinese Classics Paperback: 299 pages Publisher: foreign language press (November 24, 2006) Language: English ISBN-10: 7119040308 ISBN-13: 978-7119040301 ASIN: B0011CLQ40 Product Dimensions: 9.4 x 6.3 x 1.1 inches This book selects 90 stories from among the fictions, such as Tales of Marvels, Records of Spirits, Records of Light and Dark, and New Anecdotes of Social Talk, of the Han, Wei and Six Dynasties (), revealing a rough picture of the dawn of classical Chinese fiction. Such works fall mainly into three categories. The first is supernatural stories, or stories about deities, immortals, ghosts and monsters, such as Tales of Marvels and Records of Spirits. The second category covers unofficial historical records, which are accounts of historical events and figures ... more info

Library of Chinese Classics: The Poems of Ruan Ji

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Library of Chinese Classics: The Poems of Ruan Ji (Chinese-English) Translated into English by Wu Fusheng and Graham Hartill Translated into Modern Chinese by Wu Fusheng Published by Zhonghua Book Company, 2006 Library binding book, dimensions 960 x 640, 1/16, hardcover, 175 pages ISBN: 7101042965 ISBN: 9787101049268 Ruan Ji (210-263), courtesy name Sizong, was a major poet of the Wei-Jin era. He was one of the renowned "Seven Sages of the Bamboo Grove". Runa Ji's time was one of the most chaotic and dangerous periods in Chinese history. Although he once "had the desire to serve the world," in order to protect himself he feigned an escapist attitude and sought comfort in philosophy, poetry, music, and drinking. His eighty-two Songs of My Heart selected in this book are crucial to the ... more info

Anecdotes about Spirits and Immortals

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Anecdotes about Spirits and Immortals Publisher: Foreign Languages Press Author: Gan Bao Publication Date: 2004 Language: Chinese-English Size: 16mo Edition: Hardcover, 2 volumes ISBN: 7119033298 Anecdotes about Spirits and Immortals, written by Gan Bao; translated By Ding Wangdao; edited and translated into modern Chinese by Huang Diming Anecdotes about Spirits and Immortals is a collection of myths, legends and stories of monsters and incredible and uncanny happenings. It is a treasure house of Chinese folklore prior to the third century A.D. The compiler, Gan Bao, was a historian of the Eastern Jin Dynasty (317-420). He was a firm believer in fate and the occult, including astrology and fortune telling, and applied the historian's method of recording to the fantastic stories which were ... more info