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  • Chinese Literature and Culture Volume 13

    Chinese Literature and Culture, #13

    by Dongwei Chu ...
    Series Book 13 - Chinese Literature and Culture
    This volume includes three translated fiction stories. "In Company With a Depression Sufferer," by Chen Jiyi, is a story of two migrants trying to make it in the industrial metropolis of Beijing. As the hero, Chen Chao, cares for the younger Ma Qi, he slowly understands the reasons for Ma Qi's mental anguish in a way that, perhaps, goes far deeper than the problems of the moral decadence of the ... Read more

    $6.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Chinese Literature and Culture Volume 8: Lu Xun Prize Winner Zhang Yawen's Battle for Life

    Chinese Literature and Culture, #8

    by Dongwei Chu ...
    Series Book 8 - Chinese Literature and Culture
    Perhaps the best way to celebrate life is to fight for it. There is so much in life and there is so much to say, and here we are lucky to be involved with a writer who is filled with the zest for life and is never tired of telling its stories. A seventy-something? Yes, she is. Yet when it comes to telling life's stories, she tells them like a seven year old, with as much excitement, without guile, ... Read more

    $13.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Karma Calls: Lost in Lust— The Alerting Tale of a Marriage, Volume I, an Interactive Novel

    The Alerting Tale of a Marriage, #1

    by Dongwei Chu, Xi Zhou Sheng ...
    Series Book 1 - The Alerting Tale of a Marriage
    What if every cruel choice came back to haunt your next life?Karma Calls: Lost in Lust is an interactive novel adapted from the firstthirty-three chapters of Xingshi Yinyuan Zhuan (醒世姻缘传, "The AlertingTale of a Marriage"), the great Ming-dynasty karmic novel attributed toXi Zhou Sheng. This brand-new English translation by Chu Dongwei bringsthe satirical, funny, and unsettling world of Chao Yuan ... Read more

    $8.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Wisdom of Huineng, Chinese Buddhist Philosopher

    The Platform Sutra and Other Translations

    by Chu Dongwei ...
    For a non-Chinese and non-Buddhist like me, Chu Dongweis version of Huineng comes as a revelation. Chus lucid prose and verse translation of the great sage in my view opens us to what ultimately we cannot know but must always seek: the understanding of the nature of reality and of the ground of beingwhat in the West is called the perennial philosophy. Fraser Sutherland, Canadian poet and ... Read more

    $11.19 CAD

  • Chinese Literature and Culture Volume 1 Second Edition

    Chinese Literature and Culture, #1

    by Dongwei Chu ...
    Series Book 1 - Chinese Literature and Culture
    This is the second edition of Volume one of Chinese Literature and Culture, a peer-reviewed New Leaves book series and simutaneously a peer-reviewed journal published three times a year, devoted to translations of Chinese texts (works from the past or by contemporary authors), essays of cultural criticism, and original writings — fiction or non-fiction — dealing with the China experience or life ... Read more

    $7.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Chinese Literature and Culture Volume 19

    Chinese Literature and Culture, #19

    by Dongwei Chu ...
    Series Book 19 - Chinese Literature and Culture
    Editorial: New Talent by Chu DongweiLiterature has always been an outlet of talent and a way to escape from the mundane world for temporary respite. The creative energies released in literature serve as a bridge between our ordinary existence and the possible worlds and ourselves and other souls.Chinese Literature and Culture is not only interested in the creations of established authors and the ... Read more

    $6.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Chinese Literature and Culture Volume 2 Second Edition

    Chinese Literature and Culture, #2

    by Dongwei Chu ...
    Series Book 2 - Chinese Literature and Culture
    This collection of short stories from China featuresXiu Bai's "An Empty Home": A young man from the countryside, coming to the city with a stolen bride, struggles for a decent life in a dismal world where profit is the leading value.Ying Chuan's "Hunting Season" : A young woman striving for romance and social advancement discovers the dark side of business and and humanity while entertaining a ... Read more

    $7.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Chinese Literature and Culture Volume 3 Second Edition

    Chinese Literature and Culture, #3

    by Dongwei Chu ...
    Series Book 3 - Chinese Literature and Culture
    In this volume, Canadian author Patrick Kavanagh contributes an important piece: "Smutty Moll for a Mattress Jig: Cross-Cultural Collaboration in Beijing," a recollection of his encounter with the late Xiao Qian, who consulted him about the translation of the many colloquialisms while translating nearly-impossible Ulysses into Chinese. We also have Su Tong's masterpiece "West Window" translated by ... Read more

    $7.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Karma Calls, the Alerting Tale of a Marriage: Lost in Lust

    Karma Calls: The Alerting Tale of a Marriage, #1

    by Xi Zhou Sheng, UniVerse Robo, Dongwei Chu ...
    Series Book 1 - Karma Calls: The Alerting Tale of a Marriage
    Lost in Lust**, Part One of** Karma Calls: The Alerting Tale of a MarriageLost in Lust, Part One of Karma Calls: The Alerting Tale of a Marriage is a Chu Dongwei production. This volume presents the first thirty-three chapters of the grand, one-million-word classical Chinese novel, Xingshi Yinyuan Zhuan. Originally authored by Xi Zhou Sheng, this transla... ... Read more

    $6.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Chinese Literature and Culture Volume 14

    Chinese Literature and Culture, #14

    by Dongwei Chu ...
    Series Book 14 - Chinese Literature and Culture
    Zhang Wei's new novel A Physician with a Formula involves a young male physician's misguided, deviant life-nourishing practice of using women as a tool to achieve long life. Chapter One published in this volume gives the reader an early glimpse of the masterly work. "Poems from the Courtesan House and Their Stories (1)" shows the sexually enslaved women in ancient China as talented souls aspiring ... Read more

    $7.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Chinese Literature and Culture Volume 20

    Chinese Literature and Culture, #20

    by Dongwei Chu ...
    Series Book 20 - Chinese Literature and Culture
    Editorial: "Every Falling Leaf Carries a Soul" by Chu Dongwei"Dust thou art, and unto dust shalt thou return." (The Book of Genesis) Between dust and dust is life and between peace and peace is all the commotion. Is it the breath that is all that matters?It is such a coincidence that the three translations in the current issue are haply linked together with a central theme: love in the chaotic ... Read more

    $7.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Chinese Literature and Culture Volume 17

    Chinese Literature and Culture, #17

    by Dongwei Chu ...
    Series Book 17 - Chinese Literature and Culture
    Featuring "Remembering Blackfish in Black Pool," a short story by Zhang Wei, translated by Chu Dongwei:How much ink is needed to dye such a stretch of sand black! Decades have passed but its color is as before. People nowadays don't know why there is such a large stretch of black sand amid the dozens of square miles of brown soil and sand, but I clearly remember that here in this place there was ... Read more

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