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  • The Book of Swindles

    Selections from a Late Ming Collection

    by Yingyu Zhang ...
    Translated by Christopher G. Rea, Bruce Rusk ...
    Series series Translations from the Asian Classics
    This is an age of deception. Con men ply the roadways. Bogus alchemists pretend to turn one piece of silver into three. Devious nuns entice young women into adultery. Sorcerers use charmed talismans for mind control and murder. A pair of dubious monks extorts money from a powerful official and then spends it on whoring. A rich student tries to bribe the chief examiner, only to hand his money to an ... Read more

    $27.99 CAD

  • More Swindles from the Late Ming

    Sex, Scams, and Sorcery

    by Yingyu Zhang ...
    Translated by Bruce Rusk, Christopher G. Rea ...
    Series series Translations from the Asian Classics
    A woman seduces her landlord to extort the family farm. Gamblers recruit a wily prostitute to get a rich young man back in the game. Silver counterfeiters wreak havoc for traveling merchants. A wealthy widow is drugged and robbed by a lodger posing as a well-to-do student. Vengeful judges and corrupt clerks pervert the course of justice. Cunning soothsayers spur on a plot to overthrow the emperor. ... Read more

    $27.99 CAD

  • The Book of Swindles

    Selections from a Late Ming Collection

    by Yingyu Zhang ...
    Translated by Christopher G. Rea, Bruce Rusk ...
    Series series Translations from the Asian Classics
    This is an age of deception. Con men ply the roadways. Bogus alchemists pretend to turn one piece of silver into three. Devious nuns entice young women into adultery. Sorcerers use charmed talismans for mind control and murder. A pair of dubious monks extorts money from a powerful official and then spends it on whoring. A rich student tries to bribe the chief examiner, only to hand his money to an ... Read more

    $27.99 CAD

  • Literary Information in China

    A History

    Edited by Bruce Rusk, Anatoly Detwyler, Christopher Nugent, Xiao Liu, Jack W. Chen ...
    “Information” has become a core concept across the disciplines, yet it is still often seen as a unique feature of the Western world that became central only in the digital age. In this book, leading experts turn to China’s textual tradition to show the significance of information for reconceptualizing the work of literary history, from its beginnings to the present moment.Contributors trace the ... Read more

    $102.39 CAD

  • Literary Information in China

    A History

    Edited by Bruce Rusk, Anatoly Detwyler, Christopher Nugent, Xiao Liu, Jack W. Chen ...
    “Information” has become a core concept across the disciplines, yet it is still often seen as a unique feature of the Western world that became central only in the digital age. In this book, leading experts turn to China’s textual tradition to show the significance of information for reconceptualizing the work of literary history, from its beginnings to the present moment.Contributors trace the ... Read more

    $102.39 CAD

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  • Chinese Civilization

    A Sourcebook, 2nd Ed

    by Patricia Buckley Ebrey ...
    Chinese Civilization sets the standard for supplementary texts in Chinese history courses. With newly expanded material, personal documents, social records, laws, and documents that historians mistakenly ignore, the sixth edition is even more useful than its classic predecessor. A complete and thorough introduction to Chinese history and culture. ... Read more

    $21.99 CAD

  • Zhuangzi: Basic Writings

    by Zhuangzi ...
    Translated by Burton Watson ...
    Series series Translations from the Asian Classics
    Only by inhabiting Dao (the Way of Nature) and dwelling in its unity can humankind achieve true happiness and freedom, in both life and death. This is Daoist philosophy's central tenet, espoused by the person—or group of people—known as Zhuangzi (369?–286? BCE) in a text by the same name. To be free, individuals must discard rigid distinctions between right and wrong, and follow a course of action ... Read more

    $29.99 CAD

  • 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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  • The Complete Works of Zhuangzi

    Series series Translations from the Asian Classics
    Only by inhabiting Dao (the Way of Nature) and dwelling in its unity can humankind achieve true happiness and freedom, in both life and death. This is Daoist philosophy's central tenet, espoused by the person—or group of people—known as Zhuangzi (369?-286? B.C.E.) in a text by the same name. To be free, individuals must discard rigid distinctions between good and bad, right and wrong, and follow a ... Read more

    $78.99 CAD

  • Adventures of the Mad Monk Ji Gong

    The Drunken Wisdom of China's Most Famous Chan Buddhist Monk

    by Guo Xiaoting ...
    Translated by John Robert Shaw ...
    Follow the brilliant and hilarious adventures of the Zen Buddhist monk who became one of China's greatest folk heroes!During the Song Dynasty (960-1279), Ji Gong studied at the renowned Ling Yin monastery, nestled in the steep hills above Hangzhou. The Chan (Zen) Buddhist masters of the temple tried to instruct Ji Gong in the spartan practices of their sect, but the young monk, following in the ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD

  • Treasury of Chinese Folk Tales

    Beloved Myths and Legends from the Middle Kingdom

    by Shelley Fu ...
    Illustrated by Patrick Yee ...
    This colorfully illustrated multicultural children's book presents Chinese fairy tales and other folk stories—providing insight into a rich literary culture.Treasury of Chinese Folk Tales is a wonderful collection of seven classic Chinese stories that make for great reading adventures. From the stories of Pan Gu and Nu Wo, creators of the world, to Bai Su-Tzin, a snake who took on human form and ... Read more

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  • Selected Poems of Du Fu

    Series series Translations from the Asian Classics
    Du Fu (712–777) has been called China's greatest poet, and some call him the greatest nonepic, nondramatic poet whose writings survive in any language. Du Fu excelled in a great variety of poetic forms, showing a richness of language ranging from elegant to colloquial, from allusive to direct. His impressive breadth of subject matter includes intimate personal detail as well as a great deal of ... Read more

    $28.99 CAD