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  • Bouncing Pearls: Ancient Chinese Poetry

    by Kwan-Hung Chan ...
    Bouncing Pearls: Ancient Chinese Poetry is a new English translation of classical Chinese poems, dating from 600 BCE to the Eighteenth Century. It presents the writings of about 110 poets. Over 250 poems were selected from different sources, especially Poems of a Thousand Masters and Three Hundred Tang Poems. The former, aimed less at moralizing, may do more in revealing the intrinsic values of ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

  • Claw Prints: Ancient Chinese Poetry

    by Kwan-Hung Chan ...
    Claw prints: Ancient Chinese Poetry is a new English translation of classical Chinese poems, dating from 600 BCE to the Nineteenth Century. It presents the writings of about 146 poets. 295 poems were selected from different sources, especially A Compilation of Ancient Poetry Within Sight, besides Poems of a Thousand Masters and Three Hundred Tang Poems, giving equal emphasis to the poets from the ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

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  • Dragon Seed: The Story of China at War

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  • The Anchor Book of Chinese Poetry

    From Ancient to Contemporary, The Full 3000-Year Tradition

    Edited by Tony Barnstone, Chou Ping ...
    Unmatched in scope and literary quality, this landmark anthology spans three thousand years, bringing together more than six hundred poems by more than one hundred thirty poets, in translations–many new and exclusive to the book–by an array of distinguished translators.Here is the grand sweep of Chinese poetry, from the Book of Songs–ancient folk songs said to have been collected by Confucius ... Read more

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  • Frog

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    by Mo Yan ...
    Translated by Howard Goldblatt ...
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  • Golden Lilies

    by Eileen Goudge, Kwei Li ...
    Century-old letters tell a story of timeless love in a vanished countryFirst translated by American scholar Elizabeth Cooper in 1914 and published as My Lady of the Chinese Courtyard, this haunting collection of letters was out of print until discovered by bestselling author Eileen Goudge. In its pages she found the story of Kwei-li, a noblewoman of nineteenth-century China.In rich, elegant detail ... Read more

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  • Tales of a Korean Grandmother

    32 Traditional Tales from Korea

    by Frances Carpenter ...
    This multicultural children's book presents classic Korean fairy tales and other folk stories—providing a delightful look into a rich literary culture.The Korean people possess a folklore tradition as colorful and captivating as any in the world, but the stories themselves still are not as well-known to Western readers as those from The Brothers Grimm, Mother Goose, or Hans Christian Andersen.In ... Read more

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  • Chinese Fairy Tales and Fantasies

    by Moss Roberts ...
    Series series The Pantheon Fairy Tale and Folklore Library
    This collection of tales opens up a magical world far from our customary haunts. Ghost stories, romances, fables, and heroic sagas: the forms are familiar, but the characters we meet surprise us at every turn. For those who know and love the tales of the Grimms and Andersen, the universal themes of fairy tale literature emerge in these classic stories, but with a sophistication that is uniquely ... Read more

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  • Du Fu

    A Life in Poetry

    Translated by David Young ...
    by Du Fu ...
    Du Fu (712–770) is one of the undisputed geniuses of Chinese poetry—still universally admired and read thirteen centuries after his death. Now David Young, author of Black Lab, and well known as a translator of Chinese poets, gives us a sparkling new translation of Du Fu’s verse, arranged to give us a tour of the life, each “chapter” of poems preceded by an introductory paragraph that situates us ... Read more

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  • Tales of a Chinese Grandmother

    30 Traditional Tales from China

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    Illustrated by Malthe Hasselriis ...
    This illustrated multicultural children's book presents classic Chinese fairy tales and other folk stories—providing a delightful look into a rich literary culture.Chinese folklore tradition is as colorful and captivating as any in the world, but the stories themselves still are not as well-known to Western readers as those from The Brothers Grimm, Mother Goose, or Hans Christian Andersen.Tales of ... Read more

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  • The Poem Selection of the Tang Dynasty Volume 1 (唐詩選集1)

    by You-Sheng Chen ...
    This is a book with the best poems selected from the Tang Dynasty in Chinese. As we know well, the Tang Dynasty used to be a splendidly leading country at its time no matter in culture, economic and political power. The poems of the Tang Dynasty, beyond doubt, are exactly the most precious textual property in Chinese history. Also, the poems of the Tang Dynasty is the best part in mankind culture. ... Read more

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