The Hsu-Tang Library of Classical Chinese Literature – serie
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The Chronicles of Japan
Volume I: Age of the Gods and Legendary Sovereigns
Inbunden, 2026
372 kr
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The Chronicles of Japan--or The Nihon Shoki--compiled in 720 CE, is the oldest official history of the Japanese state. Following a 672 coup, the state of Wa renamed itself Japan and produced this dynastic historical text, legitimizing its hegemony of the archipelago. The first volume begins with …
The Emperor of China in a House of Ill Repute
Songs of the Imperial Visit to Datong
Av Pu Songling
Inbunden, 2023
372 kr
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The Hsu-Tang Library presents authoritative and eminently readable translations of classical Chinese literature, in bilingual editions, ranging across three millennia and the entire Sinitic world.The Emperor of China in a House of Ill Repute by one of China's most famous authors builds on earlier …
Early Daoist Hagiographies
The Revelations of Yang Xi and the Inner Tradition of Han Emperor Wu
Av J. E. E. Pettit, Matthew V. Wells
Inbunden, 2026
372 kr
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Early Daoist Hagiographies offers an engaging new translation of six key Daoist texts that illuminate the interplay between religion and literature in medieval China. Five of the texts are hagiographies from the fourth-century Supreme Purity (Shangqing) tradition, attributed to Yang Xi, who claimed …
Laureate Dong's Story of the Western Wing
Passion and Desire in a Buddhist Temple
Inbunden, 2029
372 kr
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The Story of the Western Wing, one of China's most famous love operas, tells the story of Student Zhang and a teenage girl named Oriole who begin a passionate relationship in a Chinese monastery. The couple are promised to each other but only if Student Zhang passes the highest level of civil …
Bella and Scarlett
A Novella from Early Modern China
Inbunden, 2027
372 kr
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Composed in the early fourteenth century, Bella and Scarlett stands at the beginning of a long and influential tradition of Chinese erotic and romantic fiction. At its center is the ill-fated love between Sterling Shen and his cousin Bella, whose maid, Scarlett, shifts from rival to confidante as …
The Misadventures of Master Mugwort
A Joke Book Trilogy from Imperial China
Inbunden, 2023
372 kr
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The Hsu-Tang Library presents authoritative and eminently readable translations of classical Chinese literature, in bilingual editions, ranging across three millennia and the entire Sinitic world.The Misadventures of Master Mugwort: A Joke Book Trilogy from Imperial China is a translation of three …
An Anthology of Poetry by Buddhist Nuns of Late Imperial China
Av Beata Grant
Inbunden, 2023
421 kr
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The Hsu-Tang Library presents authoritative and eminently readable translations of classical Chinese literature, in bilingual editions, ranging across three millennia and the entire Sinitic world.This anthology opens up new religious and poetic worlds for readers. It consists of translations of …
Master Incapable
A Medieval Daoist on the Liberation of the Mind
Av Jan de Meyer
Inbunden, 2023
372 kr
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The Hsu-Tang Library presents authoritative and eminently readable translations of classical Chinese literature, in bilingual editions, ranging across three millennia and the entire Sinitic world.Master Incapable (Wunengzi) is an important but relatively little-known Daoist work written in 887, as …
Daoist Master Changchun's Journey to the West
To the Court of Chinggis Qan and Back
Av Li Zhichang, Ruth W. Dunnell
Inbunden, 2023
372 kr
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The Hsu-Tang Library presents authoritative and eminently readable translations of classical Chinese literature, in bilingual editions, ranging across three millennia and the entire Sinitic world.In the early years of the Mongol empire, the Quanzhen Daoist master Qiu Chuji (1148-1227, religious …
The Peach Blossom Fan
Inbunden, 2025
372 kr
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Interweaving a star-crossed romance with the decline and fall of the Ming dynasty in mid seventeenth-century China, The Peach Blossom Fan by Kong Shangren (1648-1718) is a masterpiece of world literature. This sweeping historical drama encompasses the pleasures and passions of courtesan culture, …
New Stories Told while Trimming the Wick
Av Qu You
Inbunden, 2025
372 kr
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The Hsu-Tang Library presents authoritative and eminently readable translations of classical Chinese literature, in bilingual editions, ranging across three millennia and the entire Sinitic world.New Tales Told While Trimming the Wick by the talented scholar and poet of the Ming dynasty, Qu You …
Hiding in Caverns Formed from Old Roots
The Collected Poems of Yu Xuanji
Av Yu Xuanji
Inbunden, 2025
372 kr
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Yu Xuanji (c. 843-868) is one of the most interesting poets in premodern Chinese literature, and her approximately fifty extant poems include some of the most arresting writing from the Tang dynasty--a period known as the golden age of Chinese poetry. Born a commoner, by fifteen Yu had become the …
The Collection of Supreme Marvels
A Tang Poetry Anthology
Inbunden, 2027
372 kr
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The Tang dynasty (618-907) was a golden age for Chinese literature. Hundreds of poets from this period left us with enduring verses on topics ranging from historical reminiscences and scenic landscapes to religious speculations and introspective musing. The Collection of Supreme Marvels is the …
Ideal Matches
A Romantic Comedy from Early Modern China
Av Wai-yee Li
Inbunden, 2027
372 kr
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What is authenticity? What is true love? How do we recognize a real work of art? Ideal Matches, Li Yu's comic masterpiece from the 1650's--here translated for the first time into English--explores these perennial questions. The play follows two luminaries who, weary of constant requests for their …
