Library of Chinese Humanities – serie
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12 produkter
Poetry of Hanshan (Cold Mountain), Shide, and Fenggan
Av Paul Rouzer, Christopher Nugent
Inbunden, 2016
550 kr
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Due to their popularity with the American counterculture, the poems attributed to Hanshan, Shide and Fenggan have been translated several times in recent decades. However, previous translations have either been broadly popular in nature or have failed to understand fully the colloquial qualities of …
Family Instructions for the Yan Clan and Other Works by Yan Zhitui (531–590s)
Av Xiaofei Tian, Paul W. Kroll
Inbunden, 2021
598 kr
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Yan Zhitui (531–590s) was a courtier and cultural luminary who lived a colourful life during one of the most chaotic periods, known as the Northern and Southern Dynasties, in Chinese history. Beginning his career in the southern Liang court, he was taken captive to the north after the Liang capital …
The Poetry of Ruan Ji and Xi Kang
Av Stephen Owen, Wendy Swartz m. fl.
Inbunden, 2017
626 kr
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Works of Li Qingzhao
Inbunden, 2019
928 kr
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Previous translations and descriptions of Li Qingzhao are molded by an image of her as lonely wife and bereft widow formed by centuries of manipulation of her work and legacy by scholars and critics (all of them male) to fit their idea of a what a talented woman writer would sound like. The true …
Poetry of Cao Zhi
Av Robert Joe Cutter, Paul W. Kroll
Inbunden, 2021
598 kr
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This book provides a translation of the complete poems and fu of Cao Zhi (192–232), one of China’s most famous poets. Cao Zhi lived during a tumultuous age, a time of intrepid figures and of bold and violent acts that have captured the Chinese imagination across the centuries. His father Cao Cao …
Poetry and Prose of Wang Wei
Volume I
Av Paul Rouzer, Christopher Nugent
Inbunden, 2020
704 kr
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Wang Wei has traditionally been considered one of the greatest of Tang dynasty poets, together with Li Bo and Du Fu. This is the first complete translation into English of all of his poems, and also the first substantial translation of a selection of his prose writings. For the first time, readers …
Poetry and Prose of Wang Wei
Volume II
Av Paul Rouzer, Christopher Nugent
Inbunden, 2020
930 kr
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Wang Wei has traditionally been considered one of the greatest of Tang dynasty poets, together with Li Bo and Du Fu. This is the first complete translation into English of all of his poems, and also the first substantial translation of a selection of his prose writings. For the first time, readers …
Poetry of Meng Haoran
Av Paul W. Kroll, Stephen Owen
Inbunden, 2021
570 kr
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Meng Haoran (689-740) was one of the most important poets of the "High Tang" period, the greatest age of Chinese poetry. In his own time he was famous for his poetry as well as for his distinctive personality. This is the first complete translation into any language of all his extant poetry. …
Su Shi, Selected Writings
Volume I
Inbunden, 2026
510 kr
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This selected translation of the writings of Su Shi (Su Dongpo, 1037–1101) includes all the genres of prose and poetry that he worked in. A special feature of this book is the arrangement of writings based strictly on the chronology of Su’s life, and consequently the mixing of different writing …
Traditions of Exemplary Transcendents by Liu Xiang (79–8 BCE)
Av Robert Ford Campany, Sarah M. Allen m. fl.
Inbunden, 2026
573 kr
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By the middle of the third century BCE, some people in China had begun to imagine it possible to employ esoteric methods to refashion themselves into posthuman beings with spirit-like capabilities, enhanced bodies, and greatly extended lifespans. Such beings were termed transcendents (xian 仙). …
Poetry of Du Fu
Av Stephen Owen, Ding Xiang Warner m. fl.
Inbunden, 2015
3543 kr
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The Complete Poetry of Du Fu presents a complete scholarly translation of Chinese literature alongside the original text in a critical edition. The English translation is more scholarly than vernacular Chinese translations, and it is compelled to address problems that even the best traditional …
Finest Souls of Our Rivers and Alps
A High Tang Poetry Anthology
Inbunden, 2025
422 kr
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The “High Tang” is the period long renowned as the golden age of Chinese poetry. This book is the first translation into any language of the only extant anthology compiled contemporaneously that was solely devoted to poetry composed during that period. It contains 230 poems by 24 different poets …
