Wen Xuan or Selections of Refined Literature, Volume I

David R Knechtges, Tong Xiao

• Hardcover | Engels | Princeton Library of Asian Translations
• A text of central importance to the Chinese literary tradition, the Wen xuan was compiled by Xiao Tong (501-531) and is the oldest surviving anthology... Lees meer

Noh Drama and the Tale of the Genji

Janet Goff

• Hardcover | Engels | Princeton Library of Asian Translations
• The Japanese noh theater has enjoyed a rich, continuous history dating back to the Muromachi period (1336-1573), when virtually the entire repertoire ... Lees meer

The Legend of King Asoka

John S Strong

• Hardcover | Engels | Princeton Library of Asian Translations
• An English translation of the Asokavadana text, the Sanskrit version of the legend of King Asoka, first written in the second century A.D. Emperor of ... Lees meer

A Record of Buddhist Monasteries in Lo-Yang

Hsüan-Chih Yang

• Hardcover | Engels | Princeton Library of Asian Translations
• A Record of Buddhist Monasteries in Lo-yang (the Lo-Yang ch'ieh-lan chi) is a major document of Chinese history and literature. This translation of th... Lees meer

The Plum in the Golden Vase Or, Chin P'Ing Mei, Volume Three

• Hardcover | Engels | Princeton Library of Asian Translations | nr. 163
• The third volume of a celebrated translation of the classic Chinese novel This is the third volume in David Roy's celebrated translation of one of the... Lees meer

The Rāmāyaṇa of Vālmīki

• Paperback | Engels | Princeton Library of Asian Translations | nr. 157
• The definitive English translation of the classic Sanskrit epic poem --now available in a one-volume paperback The Rāmāyaṇa of Vālmīki , the monumenta... Lees meer

The Culture of the Meiji Period

Daikichi Irokawa

• Hardcover | Engels | Princeton Library of Asian Translations
• The description for this book, The Culture of the Meiji Period, will be forthcoming. Lees meer

Hsun Yueh and the Mind of Late Han China

Chi-Yun Ch'en

• Hardcover | Engels | Princeton Library of Asian Translations
• Hsiin Yiieh's Shen-chien (Extended Reflections) is one of the four major philosophical works that have survived from the later Han dynasty (A.D. 25- 2... Lees meer

The Rāmāyaṇa of Vālmīki: An Epic of Ancient India, Volume III

• Paperback | Engels | Princeton Library of Asian Translations | nr. 144
• This is the third volume of a planned seven-volume translation of India's most beloved and influential epic tale--the Ramayana of Valmiki. This third ... Lees meer

Wen Xuan or Selections of Refined Literature, Volume I

David R Knechtges, Tong Xiao

• Paperback | Engels | Princeton Library of Asian Translations
• A text of central importance to the Chinese literary tradition, the Wen xuan was compiled by Xiao Tong (501-531) and is the oldest surviving anthology... Lees meer

The Rāmāyaṇa of Vālmīki: An Epic of Ancient India, Volume IV

• Paperback | Engels | Princeton Library of Asian Translations | nr. 142
• This is the fourth volume of a translation of India's most beloved and influential epic tale--the Ramayana of Valmiki . As befits its position at the ... Lees meer

History of Chinese Philosophy, Volume 2

Feng Youlan

• Paperback | Engels | Princeton Library of Asian Translations
• Since its original publication in Chinese in the 1930s, this work has been accepted by Chinese scholars as the most important contribution to the stud... Lees meer

On the Art of the No Drama

• Paperback | Engels | Princeton Library of Asian Translations | nr. 21
• This annotated translation is the first systematic rendering into any Western language of the nine major treatises on the art of the Japanese No theat... Lees meer

Guanzi

• Hardcover | Engels | Princeton Library of Asian Translations | nr. 161
• Named for the famous Chinese minister of state, Guan Zhong (d. 645 B.C.), the Guanzi is one of the largest collections of ancient Chinese writings sti... Lees meer

The t'Ang Code, Volume II

• Paperback | Engels | Princeton Library of Asian Translations
• This is the second and final volume of the annotated translation of a seminal Chinese legal text. The T'ang Code, written in 653 A.D., is the most imp... Lees meer

Told Round a Brushwood Fire

Joyce Ackroyd

• Paperback | Engels | Princeton Library of Asian Translations
• The Oritaku Shiha no Ki of Arai Hakuscki (1657-1725) was the first Japanese autobiography and is often singled out as the most outstanding. As primary... Lees meer

The Rāmāyaṇa of Vālmīki: An Epic of Ancient India, Volume V

• Paperback | Engels | Princeton Library of Asian Translations | nr. 145
• The fifth and most popular book of the Ramayana of Valmiki, the Sundarakanda , recounts the adventures of the monkey hero Hanuman in leaping across th... Lees meer

Family and Property in Sung China

• Hardcover | Engels | Princeton Library of Asian Translations
• Providing the best surviving evidence of the everyday thinking of the Sung upper class, Yuan Ts'ai's twelfth-century manual is the advice of a typical... Lees meer

Wen Xuan or Selections of Refined Literature, Volume III

Xiao Tong

• Hardcover | Engels | Princeton Library of Asian Translations
• The Wen xuan , compiled by Xiao Tong (501-531) is the oldest surviving anthology of Chinese literature arranged by genre. It contains a total of 761 p... Lees meer

The Zen Poems of Ryokan

Nobuyuki Yuasa

• Paperback | Engels | Princeton Library of Asian Translations
• A poet-priest of the late Edo period, Ryokan (1758-1831) was the most important Japanese poet of his age. This volume contains not only the largest En... Lees meer

My Thirty-Three Year's Dream

Miyazaki Toten

• Hardcover | Engels | Princeton Library of Asian Translations
• Annotated by Professors Jansen and Eto, the book illuminates the experiences of Miyazaki's generation with Western culture and the development of an A... Lees meer

The Rāmāyaṇa of Vālmīki: An Epic of Ancient India, Volume I

• Paperback | Engels | Princeton Library of Asian Translations | nr. 45
• This is the first of seven volumes of a translation of the Valmiki Ramayana, the great Sanskrit epic of the life of Rama, ideal man and incarnation of... Lees meer

Philosophy and Argumentation in Third-Century China

His K'Ang, Robert G Henricks

• Hardcover | Engels | Princeton Library of Asian Translations
• A valuable source of information on third-century Chinese argumentation and thought, the essays are eloquent, clear, and to the point; humorous at tim... Lees meer

K'Ung-Ts'ung-Tzu

Yoav Ariel

• Hardcover | Engels | Princeton Library of Asian Translations
• In analyzing evidence indicating that K'ung-ts'ung-tzu was a forgery, Yoav Ariel questions current views of the Confucian school in the time between t... Lees meer