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  • Stories Old and New

    A Ming Dynasty Collection

    by Feng Menglong ...
    Translated by Shuhui Yang, Yunqin Yang ...
    Stories Old and New is the first complete translation of Feng Menglong’s Gujin xiaoshuo (also known as Yushi mingyan, Illustrious Words to Instruct the World), a collection of 40 short stories first published in 1620 in China. This is considered the best of Feng’s three such collections and was a pivotal work in the development of vernacular fiction. The stories are valuable as examples of early ... Read more

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  • Sanyan Stories

    Favorites from a Ming Dynasty Collection

    by Feng Menglong ...
    Translated by Shuhui Yang, Yunqin Yang ...
    Presented here are nine tales from thecelebrated Ming dynasty Sanyan collection of vernacular stories compiled and edited by Feng Menglong (1574–1646), the most knowledgeable connoisseur of popular literature of his time in China. The stories he collected were pivotal to the development of Chinese vernacular fiction, and their importance in the Chinese literary canon and world literature has been ... Read more

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  • Edge Computing – EDGE 2020

    4th International Conference, Held as Part of the Services Conference Federation, SCF 2020, Honolulu, HI, USA, September 18-20, 2020, Proceedings

    Edited by Ajay Katangur, Shih-Chun Lin, Jinpeng Wei, Shuhui Yang, Liang-Jie Zhang ...
    Series series Springer Nature Proceedings Computer Science
    This book constitutes the proceedings of the International Conference on Edge Computing, EDGE 2020, held virtually as part of SCF 2020, in Honolulu, HI, USA, in September 2020.The 7 full and 2 short papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 13 submissions.The conference proceeding EDGE 2020 presents the latest fundamental advances in the state of the art and ... Read more

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  • Slapping the Table in Amazement

    A Ming Dynasty Story Collection

    by Mengchu Ling ...
    Translated by Shuhui Yang, Yunqin Yang ...
    Slapping the Table in Amazement is the unabridged English translation of the famous story collection Pai’an jingqi by Ling Mengchu (1580–1644), originally published in 1628. The forty lively stories gathered here present a broad picture of traditional Chinese society and include characters from all social levels. We learn of their joys and sorrows, their views about life and death, and their ... Read more

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  • No-No Boy

    by John Okada, Frank Chin ...
    Series series Classics of Asian American Literature
    "No-No Boy has the honor of being among the first of what has become an entire literary canon of Asian American literature,” writes novelist Ruth Ozeki in her new foreword. First published in 1957, No-No Boy was virtually ignored by a public eager to put World War II and the Japanese internment behind them. It was not until the mid-1970s that a new generation of Japanese American writers and ... Read more

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    by Jinghong Zhang, K. Sivaramakrishnan ...
    Series series Culture, Place, and Nature
    Puer tea has been grown for centuries in the “Six Great Tea Mountains” of Yunnan Province, and in imperial China it was a prized commodity, traded to Tibet by horse or mule caravan via the so-called Tea Horse Road and presented as tribute to the emperor in Beijing. In the 1990s, as the tea’s noble lineage and unique process of aging and fermentation were rediscovered, it achieved cult status both ... Read more

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  • Peking Story

    The Last Days of Old China

    by John Lanchester, David Kidd ...
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    Recently Discovered Manuscripts of the Yi Jing (I Ching) and Related Texts

    by Edward Shaughnessy ...
    Series series Translations from the Asian Classics
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  • The Art of War by Sun Tzu

    New Modern Edition

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    The Art of War is a classic of military strategy. It is ascribed to Sun Tzu, also called Sunzi or Sun Wu, a quasi-legendary figure. The work has been dated from between the 6th to the 3rd century BCE. It is known worldwide and is considered required reading for students of political and military science.As with other classics, many of its themes are timeless. Quotations from the work can be ... Read more

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    The Definitive Interpretation of Sun Tzu's Classic Book of Strategy

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