Tang dynasty tales: a guided reader
'Tang Dynasty Tales' offers the first annotated translations of six major tales which are interpreted specifically for students and scholars interested in medieval Chinese literature.
1. Weiguo Cao, "The Tale of Hongxian"--2. Rania Huntington, "Du Zichun"--3. Bruce J. Knickerbocker, "Record within a Pillow" -- 4. William H. Nienhauser, Jr. "An Account of the Governor of the Southern Branch" -- 5. Jing Wang, "The Tale of the Curly-Bearded Guest" -- 6. Zhenjun …
The book begins with a history of previous translations of Tang tales, surveying how Chinese scholarship has shaped the reception and rendition of these texts in the West. In that context, Tang Dynasty Tales offers the first annotated translations of six major tales (often calle…
Tang dynasty tales: a guided reader
The book begins with a history of previous translations of Tang tales, surveying how Chinese scholarship has shaped the reception and rendition of these texts in the West. In that context, Tang Dynasty Tales offers the first annotated translations of six major tales (often calle…
The book begins with a history of previous translations of Tang tales, surveying how Chinese scholarship has shaped the reception and rendition of these texts in the West. In that context, Tang Dynasty Tales offers the first annotated translations of six major tales (often calle…
Stripped of his possessions and executed as a result of Mao's Land Reform Movement in 1948, benevolent landowner Ximen Nao finds himself endlessly tortured in Hell before he is systematically reborn on Earth as each of the animals in the Chinese zodiac.
A five-volume translation of the classic sixteenth-century Chinese novel on the domestic life of a corrupt merchant. "David Roy's celebrated translation of one of the most famous and important novels in Chinese literature. The Plum in the Golden Vase or, Chin P'ing Mei is an an…
