The long-awaited, first Western-language reference guide, this work offers a wealth of information on writers, genres, literary schools and terms of the Chinese literary tradition from earliest times to the seventh century C.E.
This account of the phonology of Japanese and its major dialects presents original analyses of every aspect of the Japanese sound system, including its segment inventory, prosodic units, mora and syllable, prosody, and accent.
Diversity in Sinitic languages
This book presents new research into the great structural diversity found in Sinitic languages. While many studies focus principally on Standard Mandarin, this work draws on extensive empirical data from lesser-known languages, and seeks to dispel many recurrent linguistic myths…
Teaching the I Ching (Book of Changes) is intended as an authoritative source of information about the Book of Changes, arguably the most important of the Chinese ancient classics. The present work provides an in-depth background for teaching the Yijing, or for beginning serious…
The I Ching, or Book of Changes, has been one of the two or three most influential books in the Chinese canon. It has been used by people on all levels of society, both as a method of divination and as a source of essential ideas about the nature of heaven, earth, and humankind.…
Chikuma River sketches
by Naff, William E., Shimazaki, Tōson
fromSHAPS library of translations
The story of a head that fell off
by Rubin, Jay, Akutagawa, Ryūnosuke, Murakami, Haruki
fromPenguin classics
A Reflection of Reality is an anthology of modern Chinese short stories designed as an advanced-level textbook for students who have completed at least three years of college-level Chinese. While many advanced-level Chinese language textbooks stress only practical communication,…
Published within a few months of each other in 1906, Stones in the Sea by Fu Lin and The Sea of Regret by Wu Jianren take opposite sides in the heated turn-of-the-century debate over the place of romantic and sexual love and passion in Chinese life. The Sea of Regret, which came…
The utility of meaning: what words mean and why
This book argues that the complex, anthropocentric, and often culture-specific meanings of words have been shaped directly by their history of 'utility' for communication in social life, and explores relations between language, communication, culture, and mind. It contains exten…
Officialdom Unmasked was written by Li Boyuan in the early years of the twentieth century as the dynasty crumbled. Bizarre though they may seem, the stories told in the novel are based on true stories.
This original English translation from Chinese texts comprises 60 poems (85 verses) and three prose compositions by Chen Qing Shan, a pioneer writer of Malayan-Singapore Chinese literature. It opens a window to the heart and mind of a Chinese scholar who lived from the late Qing…
Lu Xun (1881-1936), arguably twentieth-century China's greatest writer, is commonly cast in the mold of a radical iconoclast who vehemently rejected traditional culture. The contradictions and ambivalence so central to his writings, however, are often overlooked. Challenging con…
