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Showing 1 - 12 of 12 results for “nicholas morrow williams”
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  • Elegies of Chu

    by Nicholas Morrow Williams ...
    Series series Oxford World's Classics
    Elegies of Chu (in Chinese, Chuci), one of the two surviving collections of ancient Chinese poetry, is a key source for the whole tradition of Chinese poetry. Because the elegies contain passionate expressions of political protest as well as shamanistic themes of magic spells and wandering spirits, they present an alternative face of early Chinese culture; one that does not align with orthodox ... Read more

    $9.89 CAD

  • Dialogues in the Dark

    Interpreting “Heavenly Questions” across Two Millennia

    by Nicholas Morrow Williams ...
    Series Book 146 - Harvard-Yenching Institute Monograph Series
    Dialogues in the Dark traces how Chinese readers and scholars since the Han dynasty have variously interpreted the ancient poem “Heavenly Questions” (Tianwen), an enigmatic work attributed to Qu Yuan (fl. ca. 300 BCE). The poem, composed entirely in the form of questions, is an extended inquiry into early Chinese cosmology and history. Over centuries, readers of the poem came to radically ... Read more

    $71.49 CAD

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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

    Was $14.99 CAD Now $8.99 CAD

  • 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

    $47.19 CAD

  • The Huainanzi

    Edited by John Major, Sarah Queen, Andrew Seth Meyer, Harold Roth ...
    Series series Translations from the Asian Classics
    Compiled by scholars at the court of Liu An, king of Huainan, in the second century B.C.E, The Huainanzi is a tightly organized, sophisticated articulation of Western Han philosophy and statecraft. Outlining "all that a modern monarch needs to know," the text emphasizes rigorous self-cultivation and mental discipline, brilliantly synthesizing for readers past and present the full spectrum of early ... Read more

    $109.59 CAD

  • 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

    $39.19 CAD

  • 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

    $43.99 CAD

  • Scribes of Gastronomy

    by Hong Kong University Press ...
    The culture of food and drink occupies a central role in the development of Chinese civilization, and the language of gastronomy has been a vital theme in a range of literary productions. From stanzas on food and wine in the Classics of Poetry to the articulation of refined dining in The Dream of the Red Chamber and Su Shi’s literary recipe for attaining culinary perfection, lavish textual ... Read more

    $27.49 CAD

  • 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

    $51.99 CAD

  • Wild Geese Returning

    Chinese Reversible Poems

    by Michele Metail ...
    A breathtaking introduction to Chinese multidirectional poems, told through the story of Su Hui, the greatest writer of these poems who embroidered a silk with 840 characters--equaling as many as 12,000 multidirectional poems--for her distant husband.For nearly two thousand years, the condensed language of classical Chinese has offered the possibility of writing poems that may be read both forward ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD

  • Hidden and Visible Realms

    Early Medieval Chinese Tales of the Supernatural and the Fantastic

    Series series Translations from the Asian Classics
    Chinese culture of the Six Dynasties period (220–589) saw a blossoming of stories of the fantastic. Zhiguai, “records of the strange” or “accounts of anomalies,” tell of encounters with otherness, in which inexplicable and uncanny phenomena interrupt mundane human affairs. They depict deities, ghosts, and monsters; heaven, the underworld, and the immortal lands; omens, metamorphoses, and ... Read more

    $71.49 CAD

  • Tang Dynasty Tales: A Guided Reader - Volume 2

    by William H Nienhauser, Jr ...
    This volume supplements Tang Tales, A Guided Reader (Volume 1; 2010) and presents twelve more Tang tales, going beyond the standard corpus of these narratives to include six stories translated into English for the first time. The rich annotation and translator's notes for these twelve tales provide insights into many aspects of Tang material culture and medieval thought, including Buddhism and ... Read more

    $28.59 CAD