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Library of Chinese Classics: The Peony Pavilion

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Date Added: Saturday 24 June, 2017
Tang Xianzu Series: Library of Chinese Classics Library Binding: 985 pages Publisher: Foreign Languages Pr; 1 edition (December 1, 2000) Language: English ISBN-10: 7543825341 ISBN-13: 978-7543825345 Package Dimensions: 9.5 x 6.3 x 2.4 inches The Peony Pavilion is a representative work by the outstanding Chinese dramatist Tang Xianzu of the 16th century. The work, through the romantic love story between Du Liniang and Liu Mengmei, reflects the persistent aspiration for ftee love and exposes the evil of the feudal ethics. With its complicated plot and magnificent structure, The Peony Pavilion in 55 scenes is particularly known for its excellent character portrayals. Its 160 odd characters provide a panoramic picture of social life in the Ming Dynasty. The work is renowned for its beautiful ... more info

Library of Chinese Classics: The Golden Lotus

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The Golden Lotus (5 Volumes) -Library of Chinese Classics Chinese-English Author: Lanling Xiaoxiao Sheng; English translator: Clement Egerton Publisher: Foreign Languages Press, Beijing, China; 1st edition, 2008 Language: Chinese and English Library binding: Hardcover, 5 volumes, 2587 pages; 9.8 x 7.2 x 6.5 inches ISBN: 9787020058877 The Golden Lotus was written by Hou Hui in Ming Dynasty, the first river novel describing the domestic affairs in China. The Golden Lotus describes the history of an upstart's getting rich and his family life in the 16th century of China. Its protagonist Hsi-men Ching is originally an owner of a Chinese medicine shop, who colludes with the government by bribe, then engages in pettifoggery and secures others' property with the support of the government, gains ... more info

Library of Chinese Classics: Three Kingdoms

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Date Added: Saturday 24 June, 2017
Three Kingdoms By Luo Guanzhong. Translated from the Chinese with notes and an afterword by Moss Roberts. Foreword by John S. Service. Published by Foreign Language Press, Beijing, 2000. Library of Chinese Classics, Chinese-English, hardcover, 5 volumes, 960 x 640, 1/16, 3,115 pages ISBN: 7119024086 First of the five great works of traditional prose fiction, this master narrative transforms history into epic and has thereby educated and entertained readers of five centuries with unforgettable exemplars of martial and civic virtue, of personal fidelity and political treachery. "The empire, long divided, must unite; long united, must divide. Thus it has ever been." Echoing the rhythms of Chinese history itself, the monumental tale Three Kingdoms begins. As important for Chinese culture as ... more info

Library of Chinese Classics: Outlaws of the Marsh

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Date Added: Saturday 24 June, 2017
Outlaws of the Marsh By Shi Nai'an and Luo Guanzhong English translation by Sidney Shapiro Published by Foreign Language Press Beijing, China, 1999 Hardcover, 5 volumes, 960 x 640, 1/16, 3,080 pages ISBN: 7119024094 One of the best known and best loved of the ancient Chinese novels which have come down through the ages. Outlaws of the Marsh is set mainly in the final years of Hui Zong, a Song Dynasty emperor who reigned from 1101 to 1125. It tells why and how one hundred some-old men and women banded together on a marsh-girt mountain in what today is Shandong Province, became leaders of an outlaw army of thousands and fought brave and resourceful battles against pompous, heartless tyrants. Historians confirm that the story is derived from fact. Some of the events actually happened, some ... more info

Library of Chinese Classics: Journey to the West

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Date Added: Saturday 24 June, 2017
Xi You Ji, Journey to the West Written by Wu Cheng'en of the Ming Dynasty Translated by W. J. F. Jenner Published by Foreign Languages Press, Beijing, 2000 Hardcover, 6 volumes, 960 x 640, 1/16, 3,375 pages ISBN: 7119024108 Journey to the West is a mythological novel based on many centuries of popular tradition. It was probably put into its present form in the 1570s by Wu Cheng'en (1500-82). This lively fantasy relates the amazing adventures of the priest Xuanzang as he travels west in search of Buddhist sutras with his three disciples, the irreverent and capable Monkey, greedy Pig, and Friar Sand. The opening chapters recount the earlier exploits of Monkey, culminating in his rebellion against Heaven. We then learn how Xuanzang became a monk and was sent on his pilgrimage by the Tang ... more info

Library of Chinese Classics: A Dream of Red Mansions

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Date Added: Friday 23 June, 2017
A Dream of Red Mansions By Tsao Hsueh-chin and Kao Hgo Translated by Yang Hsien-Yi and Gladys Yang Illustrated by Tai Tun-Pang Foreign Language Press, Beijing, 1999 Hardcover, 6 volumes, 960 x 640, 1/16, 3571 pages ISBN: 7119024116 Hong Lou Meng, sometimes translated as The Dream of the Red Chamber, the great classical Chinese novel written in the mid-eighteenth century during the reign of Emperor Chien-lung of the Ching Dynasty, has been widely popular throughout the last two hundred years and more. The four great houses of Chia, Shih, Wang and Hsueh described in this novel were typical basic political units of feudal society. Such families were linked with the court above and the local officials below to form a network of control with the feudal autocratic state power as its centre. The ... more info

Synopsis of Prescriptions of the Golden Chamber

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Synopsis of Prescriptions of the Golden Chamber (Jingui Yaolue) -Library of Chinese Classics Chinese-English Compiled by Zhang Zhongjing, Eastern Han Dynasty, translated into English by Luo Xiwen Published by New World Press, 2008 Library binding book, dimensions 960 x 640, 1/16, 1 Volume, 311 pages ISBN: 9787801878267 Jinkui Yaolue, Synopsis of Golden Chamber in medical book or Essential Medical Treasures of the Golden Chamber in prescription book is a classic clinical book of traditional Chinese medicine written by Zhang Zhongjing (150-219) at the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty and first published in the Northern Song Dynasty. The oldest known extant copy, believed to be bibliographically closest to the original, dates to 1340 and was printed with woodcuts in the early Ming dynasty. ... more info

Library of Chinese Classics: Jade Mirror of the Four Unknowns

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Date Added: Saturday 04 February, 2017
Library of Chinese Classics: Jade Mirror of the Four Unknowns (Chinese-English) Author: Zhu Shijie (Yuan Dynasty) Translated by Chen Zaixin Published by Liaoning Education Press, 2006 Library binding book, dimensions 960 x 640, 1/16, 2 Volumes, 695 pages ISBN: 7538269231 ISBN: 9787538269239 Jade Mirror of the Four Unknowns was written by Zhu Shijie, the greatest Chinese mathematicians lived during the Yuan Dynasty, in 1303. With this book, Zhu brought Chinese algebra to its highest level. It contains 288 problems for solution, of which four illustrate his method of the four unknowns. He shows how to convert a problem stated verbally into a system of polynomial equations, and then how to reduce the system to a single polynomial equation in one unknown, which he solves by English ... more info

Library of Chinese Classics: Tian Gong Kai Wu

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Date Added: Saturday 04 February, 2017
Hardcover: 199 pages Publisher: Guangdong Education Press (January 6, 2011) Language: Chinese ISBN-10: 7540682027 ISBN-13: 978-7540682026 Product Dimensions: 9.4 x 6.3 x 1.3 inches This book is an encyclopedical science & technology work in ancient China, recording and summarizing the production technology and scientific & technological achievements of thirty departments in three areas such as agriculture, industry and handicraft in ancient China.

Nine Chapters on the Art of Mathematics

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Date Added: Saturday 04 February, 2017
Language in English and Chinese, 1107 pages, Title: Nine Chapters on the Art of Mathematics : ... Publisher: Liaoning Education Press Publication Date: 2013 Binding: Hardcover Edition: 1st Edition