Chinese Books


Poems of the Masters: China's Classic Anthology of T'ang and Sung Dynasty Verse Best Price: $13.00 I found the notes to the poems particularly valuable - thanks to them, the collection becomes a...	The Book of Songs: The Ancient Chinese Classic of Poetry Best Price: $7.91 The Book of Songs (Shi Jing) is one of the seminal works of Chinese Civilization, along with the...	Five T'ang Poets Best Price: $10.00 The Five Tang Poets covered in this book are wonderful. Wang Wei excellent landscape poems...	The New Directions Anthology of Classical Chinese Poetry Best Price: $10.10 This is a superb anthology several times over. First and foremost, it brings together in one...	Mountain Home: The Wilderness Poetry of Ancient China Best Price: $8.90 I have to agree with another reviewer that the translator, David Hinton, tends to make all his...



The Poetry of Zen Best Price: $7.37 A wonderful book containing succinct translations of Japanese and Chinese poems relating to zen....	The Shambhala Anthology of Chinese Poetry (Shambhala Pocket Classics) Best Price: $8.52 My copy of A Drifting Boat has travelled with me and grown battered and dog-eared and well-worn....	The Selected Poems of T'ao Ch'ien Best Price: $5.72 The translations of T'ao Ch'ien's poetry by David Hinton represents a level of excellence not...	One Hundred Poems from the Chinese (New Directions Book) Best Price: $7.38 Since I returned from my first trip to China, I have become fascinated with Chinese culture and...	Island: Poetry and History of Chinese Immigrants on Angel Island, 1910-1940 Best Price: $13.99 No immigrant population has ever been treated as shabbily and violently as the Chinese, who...



The Heart of Chinese Poetry Best Price: $8.89 THE HEART OF CHINESE POETRY. By Greg Whincup. 178 pp. (Anchor Books). New York : Doubleday,...	Songs of Gold Mountain: Cantonese Rhymes from San Francisco Chinatown Best Price: $24.94 Hom, a scholar of Asian-American studies and an amazing linguist, collected these...	Chinese Erotic Poems (Everyman's Library Pocket Poets) Best Price: $5.94 This is a collection of poetry that relates how the Chinese have viewed relationships over the...	Unlock Best Price: $1.08 the book, also, never mentions barbed wire but makes barbed wire come to mind. Bei Dao's...	Daughters of Emptiness: Poems of Chinese Buddhist Nuns Best Price: $4.46 Unfortunately, Buddhism throughout the ages has been mostly a Patriarchy. Where there were...

The Mountain Poems of Hsieh Ling-Yun Best Price: $8.69 In our own time the "wilderness" has emerged as a source of spiritual renewal, both as...	The Selected Poems of Li Po Best Price: $11.00 A good book that could have been better. It does not provide a Chinese text. Besides this, more...	The Art of Writing: Teachings of the Chinese Masters Best Price: $8.70 Would I use this book in a poetry workshop to guide people on how to learn to write a list poem,...	Songs of the South: An Anthology of Ancient Chinese Poems by Qu Yuan and Other Poets (Penguin Classics) This edition of "Songs of the South" is a revised form (1985) -- rather more...	The Making of Early Chinese Classical Poetry (Harvard East Asian Monographs) Best Price: $40.29 Over the centuries, early Chinese classical poetry became embedded in a chronological account...

Women Writers of Traditional China: An Anthology of Poetry and Criticism Best Price: $13.20 This anthology has been long in coming and long needed. An impressive accomplishment from a...	The Peony Pavilion: Mudan Ting Best Price: $49.95 One of the world's greatest love stories in its first complete English translation, brought...	Maples in the Mist: Children's Poems from the Tang Dynasty Best Price: $26.95 This collection of Tang Dynasty poems richly illustrated will amuse children and educate adults....	Sunflower Splendor: Three Thousand Years of Chinese Poetry (Midland Book) Best Price: $23.31 The translations in this book range from superb to awful. Most, by the editors, are simply...	The Poetry of Enlightenment: Poems by Ancient Chan Masters Best Price: $8.29 it was a great pleasure to read some of the classic ch'an/zen poetry on the matter of...

The End of the Chinese `Middle Ages: Essays in Mid-Tang Literary Culture Best Price: $18.85 This book explores, through a series of essays, a set of interrelated elements that define the...	In Love with the Way: Chinese Poems of the Tang Dynasty (The Calligrapher's Notebooks) Best Price: $5.98 The poetry selected for this volume comes from the Tang Dynasty (618-907), an era when the...	New Songs from a Jade Terrace: An Anthology of Early Chinese Love Poetry (Penguin Classics)	Anthology of Modern Chinese Poetry Best Price: $17.99 This book is the first comprehensive anthology in English of modern Chinese poetry. More than...	Poems of the Late T'ang (Unesco Collection of Representative Works :, Chinese Series) Reading poetry in translation is always a dubious activity, but what recourse do we have since...

Chinese Poems Best Price: $5.63 The thing that impressed me most about these poems (that range in time from before the Han...	Verses on Bird Best Price: $7.74 " a highly developed range that's very beautiful."-Leslie Scalapino Zhang Er grasps...	The Late Tang: Chinese Poetry of the Mid-Ninth Century (827-860) (Harvard East Asian Monographs) Best Price: $46.99 The poetry of the Late Tang often looked backward, and many poets of the period distinguished...	The Columbia Book of Later Chinese Poetry Best Price: $35.00 This, one of two related anthologies of Chinese poetry, is an excellent overview of some of the...	August Sleepwalker Best Price: $16.95 "The August Sleepwalker," by Bei Dao, has been translated into English by Bonnie S....

The Evolution of Chinese Tz'U Poetry: From Late Tang to Northern Sung	Zen Poetry: Let the Spring Breeze Enter Best Price: $6.98 If you loved Lucien Stryk's 'Penguin Book of Zen Poetry' then you'll definately love this book,...	A Drifting Boat: Chinese Zen Poetry Best Price: $25.32 This is a great read. The spare images have such power and rightness. A kind of serenity too....	The Red Azalea: Chinese Poetry Since the Cultural Revolution Best Price: $2.99	Love and Time Best Price: $45.76 Professor Seaton is a remarkable translator. The essence and simplicity of Chinese poetry are...

The Jade Mountain: A Chinese Anthology (Being 300 Poems of the T'ang Dynasty, 618-906) The book starts with an excellent forward by Kiang Kang-Hu on the form and evolution of Chinese...	Interventions into Modernist Cultures: Poetry from Beyond the Empty Screen (Perverse Modernities) Best Price: $20.72 Interventions into Modernist Cultures is a comparative analysis of the cultural politics of...	Silk Dragon Best Price: $8.96 Arthur Sze has rare qualifications when it comes to translating Chinese: he is an award-winning...	A Thousand Peaks : Poems from China Best Price: $13.80 This is a picture book with a small collection of poems from throughout Chinese history. A...	The Poetics of Decadence: Chinese Poetry of the Southern Dynasties and Late Tang Periods (Suny Series in Chinese Philosophy and Culture) Best Price: $24.95 This intertextual study of decadent (tuifei) poetry demystifies it by using tuifei as a critical...

Where the World Does Not Follow: Buddhist China in Picture and Poem Best Price: $14.88 Where the World Does Not Follow combines spectacular photography of China's most remote...	The Chinese Painter as Poet Best Price: $14.00	Five Hundred Years of Chinese Poetry, 1150-1650: The Chin, Yuan, and Ming Dynasties (Princeton Library of Asian Translations) Best Price: $14.94	Mao Zedong Poems Best Price: $4.99 In 1958 the Foreign Languages Press translated, edited and published an English version of Mao...	Maples in the Mist: Poems for Children from the Tang Dynasty Best Price: $29.00 Let's say you're a parent that wants to introduce some multi-ethnic picture books to your kids....

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