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Han Feizi: Basic Writings by Han Fei Tzu
Category: Philosophy and Religion | Series: Translations from the Asian Classics
Trenchant, sophisticated, and cynical, Han Feizi has been read in every age and is still of interest today when people are more than ever concerned with the nature and use of power. Han Feizi (280?-233 B.C.), a prince of Han, was a representative of the Fa-chia, or Legalist, school of philosophy and pro ...Show more
Monsters, Animals, and Other Worlds["A Collection of Short Medieval Japanese Tales"] by Keller Kimbrough (Editor); Haruo Shirane (Editor)
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Translations from the Asian Classics Ser.
Monsters, Animals, and Other Worlds is a collection of twenty-five medieval Japanese tales of border crossings and the fantastic, featuring demons, samurai, talking animals, amorous plants, and journeys to supernatural realms. With images from the original scroll paintings, it illuminates a rich world o ...Show more
Quelling the Demons' Revolt - A Novel from Ming China by Guanzhong Luo; Patrick Hanan (Translator); Ellen B. Widmer (Introduction by); David Der-wei Wang (Introduction by)
Category: History | Series: Translations from the Asian Classics Ser.
In this Ming-era novel, historical narrative, raucous humor, and the supernatural are interwoven to tell the tale of an unsuccessful attempt to overthrow the Song dynasty. A poor young girl meets an old woman who gives her a magic book that allows her to create rice and money. Her father, terrified that ...Show more
Tamil Love Poetry - The Five Hundred Short Poems of the Ainkurunuru by Martha Selby (Editor)
Category: Poetry | Series: Translations from the Asian Classics Ser.
Dating from the early decades of the third century C.E., the Ainkurunuru is believed to be the world's earliest anthology of classical Tamil love poetry. Commissioned by a Cera-dynasty king and composed by five masterful poets, the anthology illustrates the five landscapes of reciprocal love: jealous qu ...Show more
The Tales of the Heike by Burton Watson
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Translations from the Asian Classics
The Tales of the Heike is one of the most influential works in Japanese literature and culture, remaining even today a crucial source for fiction, drama, and popular media. Originally written in the mid-thirteenth century, it features a cast of vivid characters and chronicles the epic Genpei war, a civi ...Show more
Traditional Japanese Literature - An Anthology, Beginnings to 1600, Abridged Edition by Haruo Shirane
Category: Biography | Series: Translations from the Asian Classics Ser.
Haruo Shirane's critically acclaimed Traditional Japanese Literature: An Anthology, Beginnings to 1600, contains key examples of both high and low styles of poetry, drama, prose fiction, and essays. For this abridged edition, Shirane retains substantial excerpts from such masterworks as The Tale of Genj ...Show more
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