Yoshitsune and the Thousand Cherry Trees

• Paperback | Engels | Translations from the Asian Classics
• A masterpiece of eighteenth-century Japanese puppet theater, Yoshitsune and the Thousand Cherry Trees is an action-packed play set in the aftermath of... Lees meer

The Diary of 1636

Na Man'gap

• Hardcover | Engels | Translations from the Asian Classics
• Early in the seventeenth century, Northeast Asian politics hung in a delicate balance among the Chosŏn dynasty in Korea, the Ming in China, and the Ma... Lees meer

Zongmi on Chan

Jeffrey Broughton

• Hardcover | Engels | Translations from the Asian Classics
• Japanese Zen often implies that textual learning ( gakumon ) in Buddhism and personal experience ( taiken ) in Zen are separate, but the career and wr... Lees meer

Kukai

Kūkai

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• Kukai, more commonly known by the honorific Kobo Daishi, was one of the great characters in the development of Janpanese culture. He was active in lit... Lees meer

Mo Tzu

• Paperback | Engels | Translations from the Asian Classics
• The thoughts and writings of this important fifth century B.C. political and social thinker -- and formidable rival of the Confucianists -- are presen... Lees meer

Lust, Commerce, and Corruption

• Hardcover | Engels | Translations from the Asian Classics
• By 1816, Japan had recovered from the famines of the 1780s and moved beyond the political reforms of the 1790s. Despite persistent economic and social... Lees meer

The Columbia Book of Later Chinese Poetry

• Paperback | Engels | Translations from the Asian Classics
• Jonathan Chaves makes available a vast store of rich and significant poems by both major and minor poets from China's last three dynasties. Featured a... Lees meer

Far Beyond the Field

• Paperback | Engels | Translations from the Asian Classics
• Far Beyond the Field is a first-of-its-kind anthology of haiku by Japanese women, collecting translations of four hundred haiku written by twenty poet... Lees meer

The Original Analects

E Brooks, A Brooks

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• This new translation presents the Analects in a revolutionary new format that, for the first time in any language, distinguishes the original words of... Lees meer

Yoshitsune and the Thousand Cherry Trees

• Hardcover | Engels | Translations from the Asian Classics
• A masterpiece of eighteenth-century Japanese puppet theater, Yoshitsune and the Thousand Cherry Trees is an action-packed play set in the aftermath of... Lees meer

The Cilappatikaram of Ilanko Atikal

• Paperback | Engels | Translations from the Asian Classics
• Literary studies of India's epic traditions have long focused on the Sanskrit classics, the Mahabharata and the Ramayana, thereby excluding works in T... Lees meer

Top Graduate Zhang XIE

• Paperback | Engels | Translations from the Asian Classics
• Top Graduate Zhang Xie is the first extant play in the Chinese southern dramatic tradition and a milestone in the history of Chinese literature. Datin... Lees meer

The Tale of Cho Ung

• Paperback | Engels | Translations from the Asian Classics
• The Tale of Cho Ung is one of the most widely read and beloved stories of Chosŏn Korea. The anonymously written tale recounts the adventures of protag... Lees meer

Early Modern Japanese Literature

• Paperback | Engels | Translations from the Asian Classics
• This is the first anthology ever devoted to early modern Japanese literature, spanning the period from 1600 to 1900, known variously as the Edo or the... Lees meer

Tamil Love Poetry

• Paperback | Engels | Translations from the Asian Classics
• Dating from the early decades of the third century C.E., the Ainkurunuru is believed to be the world's earliest anthology of classical Tamil love poet... Lees meer

Original Tao

Harold Roth

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• Revolutionizing received opinion of Taoism's origins in light of historic new discoveries, Harold D. Roth has uncovered China's oldest mystical text--... Lees meer

Mistress and Maid (Jiohong Ji) by Meng Chengshun

• Paperback | Engels | Translations from the Asian Classics
• Mistress & Maid, one of the greatest tragedies of Chinese drama, is here available for the first time in English. Acclaimed translator Cyril Birch pre... Lees meer

Traditional Japanese Theater

• Hardcover | Engels | Translations from the Asian Classics
• This is a collection of the most important genres of Japanese performance--noh, kyogen, kabuki, and bamrili puppet theater--in one comprehensive, auth... Lees meer

Scenes for Mandarins

Cyril Birch

• Paperback | Engels | Translations from the Asian Classics
• The first introduction to the classical Chinese theater of Ming drama contains highlights from six of the best plays of the period and lively commenta... Lees meer

The Kokinshū

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• Compiled in the early tenth century, the Kokinshū is an anthology of some eleven hundred poems that aimed to elevate the prestige of vernacular Japane... Lees meer

The Classic of the Way and Virtue

• Hardcover | Engels | Translations from the Asian Classics
• The essential Taoist book and one of a triad that make up the most influential religious and philosophical writings of Chinese tradition, the Tao-te C... Lees meer

In the Shelter of the Pine

Ōgimachi Machiko

• Paperback | Engels | Translations from the Asian Classics
• In the early eighteenth century, the noblewoman Ōgimachi Machiko composed a memoir of Yanagisawa Yoshiyasu, the powerful samurai for whom she had serv... Lees meer

Han Feizi

• Paperback | Engels | Translations from the Asian Classics
• Trenchant, sophisticated, and cynical, Han Feizi has been read in every age and is still of interest today when people are more than ever concerned wi... Lees meer

Mencius

Mencius

• Hardcover | Engels | Translations from the Asian Classics
• Known throughout East Asia as Mengzi, or "Master Meng," Mencius (391-308 B.C.E.) was a Chinese philosopher of the late Zhou dynasty, an instrumental f... Lees meer