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“xiaofei tian”

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  • Writing Empire and Self

    Poetic and Cultural Transformation in Early Medieval China

    by Xiaofei Tian ...
    China’s early medieval period, from the fifth through the early seventh century, from the Northern and Southern Dynasties through the unified Sui, was a time of political fragmentation, military strife, and ethnic conflict. It also witnessed brilliant artistic creations as well as a full flowering of court culture, with poetry at its heart. How did poetry come to be regarded as the most potent ... Read more

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  • The World of a Tiny Insect

    A Memoir of the Taiping Rebellion and Its Aftermath

    by Zhang Daye ...
    Translated by Xiaofei Tian ...
    "From the cry of a tiny insect, one can hear the sound of a vast world. . . ."So begins Zhang Daye’s preface to The World of a Tiny Insect, his haunting memoir of war and its aftermath. In 1861, when China’s devastating Taiping rebellion began, Zhang was seven years old. The Taiping rebel army occupied Shaoxing, his hometown, and for the next two years, he hid from Taiping soldiers, local bandits, ... Read more

    $26.99 USD

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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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  • How to Read Chinese Poetry

    A Guided Anthology

    Edited by Zong-qi Cai ...
    Series series How to Read Chinese Literature
    In this "guided" anthology, experts lead students through the major genres and eras of Chinese poetry from antiquity to the modern time. The volume is divided into 6 chronological sections and features more than 140 examples of the best shi, sao, fu, ci, and qu poems. A comprehensive introduction and extensive thematic table of contents highlight the thematic, formal, and prosodic features of ... Read more

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  • Return to Dragon Mountain

    Memories of a Late Ming Man

    by Jonathan D. Spence ...
    “Splendid . . . One could not imagine a better subject than Zhan Dai for Spence.” (The New Republic)Celebrated China scholar Jonathan Spence vividly brings to life seventeenth-century China through this biography of Zhang Dai, recognized as one of the finest historians and essayists of the Ming dynasty. Born in 1597, Zhang Dai was forty-seven when the Ming dynasty, after more than two hundred ... Read more

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  • The Songs of the South

    An Ancient Chinese Anthology of Poems By Qu Yuan And Other Poets

    by Qu Yuan ...
    The Songs of the South is an anthology first compiled in the second century A.D. Its poems, originating from the state of Chu and rooted in Shamanism, are grouped under seventeen titles and contain all that we know of Chinese poetry's ancient beginnings. The earliest poems were composed in the fourth century B.C. and almost half of them are traditionally ascribed to Qu Yuan. ... Read more

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  • Exemplary Women of Early China

    The Lienü zhuan of Liu Xiang

    Series series Translations from the Asian Classics
    In early China, was it correct for a woman to disobey her father, contradict her husband, or shape the public policy of a son who ruled over a dynasty or state? According to the Lienü zhuan, or Categorized Biographies of Women, it was not only appropriate but necessary for women to step in with wise counsel when fathers, husbands, or rulers strayed from the path of virtue.Compiled toward the end ... Read more

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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 Songs of Chu

    An Anthology of Ancient Chinese Poetry by Qu Yuan and Others

    by Yuan Qu ...
    Translated by Gopal Sukhu ...
    Series series Translations from the Asian Classics
    Sources show Qu Yuan (?340–278 BCE) was the first person in China to become famous for his poetry, so famous in fact that the Chinese celebrate his life with a national holiday called Poet's Day, or the Dragon Boat Festival. His work, which forms the core of the The Songs of Chu, the second oldest anthology of Chinese poetry, derives its imagery from shamanistic ritual. Its shaman hymns are among ... Read more

    $33.29 USD

  • Chinese History and Culture

    Sixth Century B.C.E. to Seventeenth Century

    by Ying-shih Yü ...
    Series series Masters of Chinese Studies
    The recipient of the Kluge Prize for lifetime achievement in the humanities and the Tang Prize for "revolutionary research" in Sinology, Ying-shih Yü is a premier scholar of Chinese studies. Chinese History and Culture volumes 1 and 2 bring his extraordinary oeuvre to English-speaking readers. Spanning two thousand years of social, intellectual, and political change, the essays in these volumes ... Read more

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  • Emperor Huizong

    by Patricia Buckley Ebrey ...
    China was the most advanced country in the world when Huizong ascended the throne in 1100 CE. In his eventful twenty-six year reign, the artistically-gifted emperor guided the Song Dynasty toward cultural greatness. Yet Huizong would be known to posterity as a political failure who lost the throne to Jurchen invaders and died their prisoner. The first comprehensive English-language biography of ... 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

    $37.79 USD