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 Three Kingdoms: Chinese Classics (Classic Novel in 4-Volumes)Best Price: $21.97 I'll be perfectly honest: I've never been one to actually sit down and read a book unless it's... |  Beijing Coma: A NovelBest Price: $15.81 Ma Jian's Beijing Coma is very well written, albeit with a bit of the stilted sound you get when... |  Journey to the West (4-Volume Boxed Set)Best Price: $21.97 This translation is not as flowery as the Anthony Yu translation and does not have the extensive... |  Anthology of Chinese Literature: Volume I: From Early Times to the Fourteenth Century (Anthology of Chinese Literature)Best Price: $8.98 ANTHOLOGY OF CHINESE LITERATURE : From early times to the fourteenth century. Compiled and... |  Strange Tales from a Chinese Studio (Penguin Classics)Best Price: $8.99 As a Chinese, I find these supernatural tales penned by one of ancient China's finest and most... |
 An Anthology of Chinese Literature: Beginnings to 1911Best Price: $52.31 This book is REALLY big, so it has plenty of information. If you're into chinese literature or... |  Love in a Fallen City (New York Review Books Classics)Best Price: $7.70 Often brandished as a feminist writer for her conscious choice to put female leads in her short... |  Chinese Link: Zhongwen Tiandi, Intermediate Chinese, Level 2 Part 1Best Price: $41.05 Chinese Link: Zhongwen Tiandi Intermediate Chinese is the second component of the Chinese... |  The Art of WarBest Price: $6.00 This is a book of strategy for psychological warfare--it helps you tackle the battles you face... |  Chinese Fairy Tales and Fantasies (Pantheon Fairy Tale and Folklore Library)Best Price: $6.00 As a devotee of Chinese folkore and literature I was disappointed by this collection. The... |
 Mountain Home: The Wilderness Poetry of Ancient ChinaBest Price: $10.68 I have to agree with another reviewer that the translator, David Hinton, tends to make all his... |  The Columbia Anthology of Modern Chinese Literature (Modern Asian Literature)Best Price: $28.00 I read an earlier edition of this book and was very impressed. Part of my MA thesis is on Lao... |  The New Directions Anthology of Classical Chinese PoetryBest Price: $10.00 This is a superb anthology several times over. First and foremost, it brings together in one... |  How to Read Chinese Poetry: A Guided AnthologyBest Price: $29.25 I recommend this book to anyone who is interested in classical Chinese poetry and language. It... |  The Book of Songs: The Ancient Chinese Classic of PoetryBest Price: $7.91 The Book of Songs (Shi Jing) is one of the seminal works of Chinese Civilization, along with the... |
 The Columbia Anthology of Traditional Chinese LiteratureBest Price: $35.52 'The Columbia Anthology of Traditional Chinese Literature,' Edited by Victor Mair, is a very... |  The Plum in the Golden Vase or, Chin P'ing Mei: Vol. 1, The GatheringBest Price: $33.00 This volume provided an excellent translation of a chinese text that was written many years ago.... |  The Talented Women of the Zhang Family (Philip E. Lilienthal Books in Asian Studies)Best Price: $16.39 If you enjoy Chinese history, this is a book you are sure to treasure. The writer takes a... |  The Tso ChuanBest Price: $27.00 I'd like to start by saying that this is a review by a general-interest reader. A serious... |  Modern Chinese Stories and Novellas, 1919-1949Best Price: $22.00 Modern Chinese Stories and Novellas, 1919-1949 brings together some of the best and most... |
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 The Shambhala Anthology of Chinese Poetry (Shambhala Pocket Classics)Best Price: $8.48 My copy of A Drifting Boat has travelled with me and grown battered and dog-eared and well-worn.... |  Fortress BesiegedBest Price: $10.00 One of the hardest 'types' of literature to write is satire. Not only does it take deft skill... | ![A Dream of Red Mansions (4-Volume Set) [BOX SET]](/images/A-Dream-of-Red-Mansions-4-Volume-Set-BOX-SET-7119006436-X.jpg){kind=small} A Dream of Red Mansions (4-Volume Set) [BOX SET]Best Price: $24.90 First thought: THE POETRY RHYMES, OMG!!!!! Second thought: Not the best story line so far, but... |  The Selected Poems of Li PoBest Price: $10.36 There is spontaneous energy in the world, and in nature specifically. Li Po, who lived in... |  Daughters of Emptiness: Poems of Chinese Buddhist NunsBest Price: $10.10 Unfortunately, Buddhism throughout the ages has been mostly a Patriarchy. Where there were... |
 The Literature of China in the Twentieth CenturyBest Price: $22.97 The first historical survey of twentieth century Chinese literature, this book focuses on the... |  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... |  Banquet Bug, TheBest Price: $0.44 I stumbled on The Banquet Bug by Geling Yan in my "local independent book store." I... |  Selected Poems of Su Tung-P'oBest Price: $8.18 Burton Watson, recognised as one of the finest translators of our time, gives us a selection of... |  The Journey to the West, Volume 3Best Price: $18.90 This is part three of one of the four great written masterpieces of China, beautifully... |
 The Journey to the West, Volume 2Best Price: $19.70 This is part two of one of the four great written masterpieces of China, beautifully translated... |  The Indiana Companion to Traditional Chinese Literature, Vol. 2Best Price: $30.00 |  Writing and Authority in Early China (Suny Series in Chinese Philosophy and Culture)Best Price: $37.70 This is a very well-researched, scholarly work. It is also incredibly dense to the point of... |  The Wisdom of Confucius (Modern Library)Best Price: $12.24 I bought this book thinking I'd get a huge list of all of the wisdom of Confucius. But that was... |  All Men Are Brothers / Shui Hu ChuanBest Price: $11.49 Originally published as two 700-page volumes, Pearl S. Buck's translation of Shi Napan... |
 Orphan of Asia (Modern Chinese Literature from Taiwan)Best Price: $12.13 Born in Japanese-occupied Taiwan, raised in the scholarly traditions of ancient China by his... |  The Complete Idiot's Guide to I ChingBest Price: $64.40 I think this is surprisingly good, one of the top five for sure. I would recommend it. ... |  Modern Chinese Literary Thought: Writings on Literature, 1893-1945Best Price: $37.92 This volume presents a broad range of writings on literature from the period of the inception of... |  Songs of Gold Mountain: Cantonese Rhymes from San Francisco ChinatownBest Price: $24.94 Hom, a scholar of Asian-American studies and an amazing linguist, collected these... |  A Social History of the Chinese Book: Books And Literati Culture in Late Imperial China (Understanding China: New Viewpoints on History and Culture)Best Price: $23.21 If you love books and enjoy reading about their history, manufacture and circulation, this... |
 Love, Hatred, and Other Passions: Questions and Themes on Emotions in Chinese CivilizationBest Price: $141.45 This volume aims at starting a debate on functions, role and relevance of states of mind in... |  The Mountain Poems of Hsieh Ling-YunBest Price: $8.60 In our own time the "wilderness" has emerged as a source of spiritual renewal, both as... |  The Red Brush: Writing Women of Imperial China (Harvard East Asian Monographs)Best Price: $29.57 Still have much to read of this book, but shipping was great. |  The Concubine of ShanghaiBest Price: $8.68 After reading this author's K The Art of Love, I bought this book expecting another fascinating... |  China: A Traveler's Literary Companion (Traveler's Literary Companions)Best Price: $5.70 This is a wonderful collection of stories. The wise selections cover a lot of ground, both... |
 Woman and Chinese Modernity: The Politics of Reading Between West and East (Theory and History of Literature)Best Price: $19.69 | ||||
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