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  • The Great Commentary on the Documents Classic / Shangshu dazhuan尚書大傳

    Translated by Fan Lin, Griet Vankeerberghen ...
    by Michael Nylan, Andrew Plaks ...
    Series series Classics of Chinese Thought
    An early commentary on one of the Chinese Five ClassicsThe Documents classic (Shangshu) was central to the political life of imperial China. This owed much to the lively commentarial activity surrounding the text in the first two centuries BCE. The Great Commentary serves as a lens on this commentarial work and reveals how the Documents classic was used to provide answers to pressing societal ... Read more

    $112.49 USD

  • The Chinese Jews of Kaifeng

    A Millennium of Adaptation and Endurance

    by Anson H. Laytner, Jordan Paper, Alex Bender, Moshe Yehuda Bernstein, Irene Eber, Mathew A. Eckstein, Xianyi Kong, Donald Daniel Leslie, Andrew H. Plaks0, Mohammed Turki al-Sudairi1, Nigel Thomas2, Erik Zürcher3 ...
    This scholarly collection examines the origins, history, and contemporary nature of Chinese Judaism in the community of Kaifeng. These essays, written by a diverse, international team of contributors, explore the culture and history of this thousand-year-old Jewish community, whose synthesis of Chinese and Jewish cultures helped guarantee its survival. Part I of this study analyzes the origin and ... Read more

    $44.59 USD

  • The Four Masterworks of the Ming Novel

    Ssu ta ch'i-shu

    by Andrew H. Plaks ...
    Series series
    A reinterpretation of some of the great works of Chinese fiction of the late Ming dynastyIn this book, Andrew Plaks reinterprets the great texts of Chinese fiction known as the “Four Masterworks of the Ming Novel” (ssu ta ch'i-shu). Arguing that these are far more than collections of popular narratives, Plaks shows that their fullest critical revisions represent a sophisticated new genre of ... Read more

    $32.39 USD

  • A Thorough Exploration in Historiography / Shitong

    by Liu Zhiji, Michael Nylan, Andrew Plaks ...
    Translated by Victor Cunrui Xiong ...
    Series series Classics of Chinese Thought
    The definitive translation of a masterpiece in ancient Chinese historiographyIn the early eighth century, frustrated with the authorities but still hoping to gain immortality through his future oeuvre, the Tang court historian Liu Zhiji set out to write Shitong, in which he would rigorously explore the tradition of historical writing in China. Liu scrutinized hundreds of texts from antiquity to ... Read more

    $134.99 USD

  • Ta Hsüeh and Chung Yung

    The Highest Order of Cultivation and On the Practice of the Mean

    Edited by Andrew Plaks ...
    Set alongside The Analects and Mencius, these two texts make up the 'Four Books' of Chinese Confucian tradition. Their depiction of the 'Way of Great Learning' focuses on the moral tenets of Confucian thinking, establishing a universal framework that links individuals with the cosmos. By drawing together key ethical and philophical, and metaphysical issues, the essays deal with the individual's ... Read more

    $9.89 USD

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  • The Grand Scribe's Records, Volume XI

    by Ssu-ma Ch'ien ...
    Series Book 11 - The Memoirs of Han China
    Part of the extraordinary multi-volume portrait of ancient China written by a court official of the Han Dynasty.The Grand Scribe's Records, Volume XI presents the final nine memoirs of Ssu-ma Ch'ien's history, continuing the series of collective biographies with seven more prosopographies on the ruthless officials, the wandering gallants, the artful favorites, those who discern auspicious days, ... Read more

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  • The Grand Scribe's Records, Volume IX

    by Ssu-ma Ch'ien ...
    Series Book 9 - The Memoirs of Han China
    A remarkable document of ancient Chinese history: "[An] indispensable addition to modern sinology." — China Review InternationalThis volume of The Grand Scribe's Records includes the second segment of Han-dynasty memoirs and deals primarily with men who lived and served under Emperor Wu (r. 141–87 B.C.). The lead chapter presents a parallel biography of two ancient physicians, Pien Ch'üeh and Ts ... Read more

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  • How to Read Chinese Poetry in Context

    Poetic Culture from Antiquity Through the Tang

    Edited by Zong-qi Cai ...
    Series series How to Read Chinese Literature
    How to Read Chinese Poetry in Context is an introduction to the golden age of Chinese poetry, spanning the earliest times through the Tang dynasty (618–907). It aims to break down barriers—between language and culture, poetry and history—that have stood in the way of teaching and learning Chinese poetry. Not only a primer in early Chinese poetry, the volume demonstrates the unique and central role ... Read more

    $30.29 USD

  • A Dictionary of Chinese Literature

    by Taiping Chang Knechtges ...
    Series series Oxford Quick Reference Online
    A Dictionary of Chinese Literature provides more than 250 entries on the lengthy and remarkable literary tradition of China, from its earliest literary genres such as the 6th century gongti wenxue (palace-style literature), to contemporary forms, such as wanglu wenxue (internet literature). Covering notable writers, works, terms, trends, schools, movements, styles, and literary collections, as ... Read more

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  • Early Medieval China

    A Sourcebook

    Edited by Wendy Swartz, Robert Ford Campany, Yang Lu, Jessey Choo ...
    This innovative sourcebook builds a dynamic understanding of China's early medieval period (220–589) through an original selection and arrangement of literary, historical, religious, and critical texts. A tumultuous and formative era, these centuries saw the longest stretch of political fragmentation in China's imperial history, resulting in new ethnic configurations, the rise of powerful clans, ... Read more

    $44.99 USD

  • The Scholar and the State

    Fiction as Political Discourse in Late Imperial China

    by Liangyan Ge ...
    In imperial China, intellectuals devoted years of their lives to passing rigorous examinations in order to obtain a civil service position in the state bureaucracy. This traditional employment of the literati class conferred social power and moral legitimacy, but changing social and political circumstances in the Ming (1368–1644) and Qing (1644–1911) periods forced many to seek alternative careers ... Read more

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  • Bandits in Print

    "The Water Margin" and the Transformations of the Chinese Novel

    by Scott W. Gregory ...
    Bandits in Print examines the world of print in early modern China, focusing on the classic novel The Water Margin (Shuihu zhuan). Depending on which edition a reader happened upon, The Water Margin could offer vastly different experiences, a characteristic of the early modern Chinese novel genre and the shifting print culture of the era.Scott W. Gregory argues that the traditional novel is best u ... Read more

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