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 The Good Earth (Enriched Classics)Best Price: $3.40 This book touches profoundly on the human capacity to withstand pain and suffering and endure. ... |  The Art of War (Shambhala Classics)Best Price: $2.04 I read this amazing book, here in Brazil.This book is full of eternal advices for military and... |  The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying: The Spiritual Classic & International Bestseller; Revised and Updated EditionBest Price: $5.74 When I first read this book I found it "very" hard going. As I recognised fairly early... |  The Art of War by Sun Tzu - Special EditionBest Price: $12.28 I expected the classic book, "The Art of War" to be written similar in the way that... |  Three Kingdoms: Chinese Classics (Classic Novel in 4-Volumes)Best Price: $22.47 I'll be perfectly honest: I've never been one to actually sit down and read a book unless it's... |
 Monkey: Folk Novel of ChinaBest Price: $4.90 The copy that Amazon sent was misbound at the printer: pages 119 through 150 appear twice in... |  A House Divided (Good Earth Trilogy, Vol 3)Best Price: $8.50 The final book in the House of Earth trilogy was my least favorite and most disconnected of the... |  The Great Wall: From Beginning to EndBest Price: $14.80 This book is in fact a logical and photographical study of the Great Chinese Wall (restored... |  Love in a Fallen City (New York Review Books Classics)Best Price: $7.49 Often brandished as a feminist writer for her conscious choice to put female leads in her short... |  Riding the Iron Rooster: By Train Through ChinaBest Price: $7.33 The book, like a long train trip, gets tiring after a while, but Theroux loves traveling this... |
 Imperial Woman (Buck, Pearl S. Oriental Novels of Pearl S. Buck, 3rd,)Best Price: $7.99 Although the language at times was dry, and failed to fully engage me, I really enjoyed Imperial... |  Peony (Oriental Novels of Pearl S. Buck Series) (Oriental Novels of Peal S. Buck Series)Best Price: $7.15 This is a wonderful story with well-drawn characters the reader can empathize with. When... |  The Vietnam Reader: The Definitive Collection of Fiction and Nonfiction on the WarBest Price: $6.98 I read this when it came out, and it pointed me toward buying and reading several works I... |  The Opposite of FateBest Price: $7.07 I didn't read The Joy Luck Club; I wasn't interested, it sounded like a chick book, and I don't... |  The Book of Songs: The Ancient Chinese Classic of PoetryBest Price: $7.28 The Book of Songs (Shi Jing) is one of the seminal works of Chinese Civilization, along with the... |
 Six Records of a Floating Life (Penguin Classics)Best Price: $7.17 I decided to read "Six Records of a Floating Life" after spending a summer in Suzhou,... |  Poems of the Masters: China's Classic Anthology of T'ang and Sung Dynasty VerseBest Price: $13.12 I found the notes to the poems particularly valuable - thanks to them, the collection becomes a... |  The Monkey and the Monk: An Abridgment of The Journey to the WestBest Price: $12.46 1) The translation is poor. For example, when Sun Wukong ("Monkey") calls himself... |  The Dreamer Wakes (The Story of the Stone, or The Dream of the Red Chamber, Volume 5)Best Price: $8.56 I really enjoyed this book, a part of my self-directed curriculum to understand China (all of... | The Dreamer Wakes (The Story of the Stone, or The Dream of the Red Chamber, Volume 5) Best Price: $8.56 I really enjoyed this book, a part of my self-directed curriculum to understand China (all of... |
 Anthology of Chinese Literature: Volume I: From Early Times to the Fourteenth Century (Anthology of Chinese Literature)Best Price: $7.63 ANTHOLOGY OF CHINESE LITERATURE : From early times to the fourteenth century. Compiled and... |  Romance of the Three Kingdoms, Vol. 1Best Price: $15.90 Romance of the Three Kingdoms is one of my favorite novels. Unfortunately for this version,... |  Three Daughters of Madame Liang (Buck, Pearl S. Oriental Novels of Pearl S. Buck, 4th,)Best Price: $7.77 Since I read the Good Earth, I fell in love with the authors' style and the wonderful way of... |  Selected StoriesBest Price: $6.95 After studying to become a doctor in a Western-style medical school in Nanjing in the 1910s, Lu... |  FamilyBest Price: $4.79 Family has an undying, infinite longevity. First published in 1931, its message still has vital... |
 Red Poppies: A Novel of TibetBest Price: $3.00 Subtle and engaging. This is one of those books that tells more in between the lines than in the... |  Art of the Bedchamber: The Chinese Sexual Yoga Classics Including Women's Solo Meditation TextsBest Price: $20.27 This is the best translation of Taoist sexual practices available. The translation formatting... |  The True Story of Ah Q (Bilingual Series on Modern Chinese Literature)Best Price: $6.60 A must-see work. The most well-known short works in China by the greatest writer Mr. Lu Xun in... |  Lao Tzu: Te-Tao Ching - A New Translation Based on the Recently Discovered Ma-wang-tui Texts (Classics of Ancient China)Best Price: $7.00 The Te Tao Ching, or The Book of the Way and its Power, written around 500 B.C., is... |  Five T'ang PoetsBest Price: $10.00 The Five Tang Poets covered in this book are wonderful. Wang Wei excellent landscape poems... |
 The Cambridge Companion to Modern Chinese Culture (Cambridge Companions to Culture)Best Price: $25.49 At the start of the twenty-first century, China is poised to become a major global power.... |  The Journey to the West, Volume 2Best Price: $16.00 This is part two of one of the four great written masterpieces of China, beautifully translated... |  Other Voices, Other Vistas:: China, India, Japan, and Latin AmericaBest Price: $3.64 The more you read about other cultures, the more you realize how similar we are beneath the... |  Chinese Mythology: An IntroductionBest Price: $14.18 I purchased this book on the strength of the reviews I saw here, and was seriously misled by the... |  East Wind: West Wind (Buck, Pearl S. Oriental Novels of Pearl S. Buck, 8th,)Best Price: $7.81 i loved this book as a teenager, seeking my own identity as an asian american woman in the... |
 The Classic of Mountains and Seas (Penguin Classics)Best Price: $11.12 The reviews I read here for this book bamboozled me into buying it. I can only assume they are... |  The Plum in the Golden Vase or, Chin P'ing Mei: Vol. 1, The GatheringBest Price: $30.20 This volume provided an excellent translation of a chinese text that was written many years ago.... |  The Journey to the West, Volume 3Best Price: $18.97 This is part three of one of the four great written masterpieces of China, beautifully... |  Kinfolk (Oriental Novels of Pearl S. Buck)Best Price: $6.50 This could well be my favorite of Pearl Buck's books...right up there with PEONY. One thing I... |  History: Fiction or Science? Chronology 2 (Chronology)Best Price: $18.44 Like Erich von D?niken, the Creationists, and the legion of sensational conspiracy theorists,... |
 Huang Di Nei Jing Su Wen: Nature, Knowledge, Imagery in an Ancient Chinese Medical TextBest Price: $59.75 While I love the fact that this is a book actually written for fully literate adults and is also... |  The Journey to the West, Volume 4Best Price: $17.97 This is the final volume of one of the four great written masterpieces of China, beautifully... |  Journey to the West, Volume 1 (Journey to the West)Best Price: $21.91 This is part one of four volumes in Professor Yu's excellent translation of all one hundred... |  The Columbia Book of Chinese PoetryBest Price: $22.25 THE COLUMBIA BOOK OF CHINESE POETRY : From Early Times to the Thirteenth Century. Translated... |  Mountain Home: The Wilderness Poetry of Ancient ChinaBest Price: $10.72 I have to agree with another reviewer that the translator, David Hinton, tends to make all his... |
 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... |  The Poems of Mao ZedongBest Price: $11.85 Mao Zedong, leader of the revolution and absolute chairman of the People's Republic of China,... |  A Guide to Proper Usage of Spoken Chinese (Simplified Chinese Edition)Best Price: $14.85 when i have read it, i think that it's quite good. it is easily to understand because of in this... |  Evening Chats in BeijingBest Price: $7.22 Having spent countless hours over the last six years reading on modern China's predicament as an... |  Stories from a Ming Collection: The Art of the Chinese StorytellerBest Price: $4.29 Compared to Dr. Birch's two main collections of Chinese literature, this work is smaller and... |
 Rickshaw: The Novel Lo-t'o Hsiang TzuBest Price: $8.99 (This book is also known as Camel Xiangzi and Rickshaw Boy, and has had different translators. I... |  Awakening to the Tao (Shambhala Classics)Best Price: $7.93 This is the only book of meditations I take off the shelf regularly. The book is divided into... |  The Plum in the Golden Vase or, Chin P'ing Mei, Volume Three: The Aphrodisiac (Princeton Library of Asian Translations)Best Price: $41.16 Received my copy of Volume 3 of the late David Roy's "The Plum in the Golden Vase"... |  An Anthology of Chinese Literature: Beginnings to 1911Best Price: $42.88 This book is REALLY big, so it has plenty of information. If you're into chinese literature or... | |
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