Two Centuries of Manchu Women Poets

• Hardcover | Engels | Two Centuries of Manchu Women Poets
• This anthology presents substantial selections from the work of twenty Manchu women poets of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. The poems, inspi... Lees meer

Insects in Chinese Literature

Wilt L Idema

• Hardcover | Engels | Cambria Sinophone World
• This book is in the Cambria Sinophone World Series, headed by Victor Mair (University of Pennsylvania). Despite the "nonhuman" turn in the humanities,... Lees meer

The Immortal Maiden Equal to Heaven and Other Precious Scrolls from Western Gansu

Wilt L Idema

• Hardcover | Engels
• Following thirty years of suppression as feudal superstition, Chinese popular religion has made a spectacular comeback since the 1980s. One aspect of ... Lees meer

Escape from Blood Pond Hell

• Paperback | Engels | Escape from Blood Pond Hell
• These translations of The Precious Scroll of the Three Lives of Mulian and Woman Huang Recites the Diamond Sutra are late-nineteenth-century examples ... Lees meer

Meng Jiangnü Brings Down the Great Wall

• Paperback | Engels | Meng Jiangnu Brings Down the Great Wall
• Meng Jiangnü Brings Down the Great Wall brings together ten versions of a popular Chinese legend that has intrigued readers and listeners for hundreds... Lees meer

The Emperor of China in a House of Ill Repute

Pu Songling, Wilt L Idema

• Hardcover | Engels | The Hsu-Tang Library of Classical Chinese Literature
• The Hsu-Tang Library presents authoritative and eminently readable translations of classical Chinese literature, in bilingual editions, ranging across... Lees meer

The Pitfalls of Piety for Married Women

• Hardcover | Engels
• The Pitfalls of Piety for Married Women shows how problematic the practice of Buddhist piety could be in late imperial China. Two thematically related... Lees meer

Mouse vs. Cat in Chinese Literature

• Hardcover | Engels | Mouse vs. Cat in Chinese Literature
• In literatures worldwide, animal fables have been analyzed for their revealingly anthropomorphic views, but until now little attention has been given ... Lees meer

Heroines of Jiangyong

• Hardcover | Engels | Heroines of Jiangyong
• Heroines of Jiangyong is the first English translation of a set of verse narratives recorded in the unique women's script (nushu) of rural Jiangyong C... Lees meer

Personal Salvation and Filial Piety

• Hardcover | Engels | Kuroda Classics in East Asian Buddhism | nr. 14
• The Bodhisattva Avalokitesvara was a handsome prince when he entered China. As Guanyin, the bodhisattva was venerated from the eleventh century onward... Lees meer