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Chinese Erotic Poems (Everyman's Library Pocket Poets) by Tony Barnstone Publisher Comments From the selected works of such celebrated and beloved poets as W. H. Auden, Robert and Elizabeth Browning, Emily Dickinson, Robert Frost, Langston Hughes, and William Shakespeare, to anthologies on Jazz and Blues and Beat Poets, to collections on the... (read more) Your price: $12.50 New - Hardcover 
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One Hundred Poems from the Chinese (New Directions Book) by Kenneth Rexroth Staff Pick In this groundbreaking work, Kenneth Rexroth gives us some of the most beautiful poems ever translated from the ancient Chinese. They read strikingly well, both as translations and as English-language poems.... (read more) List Price $12.95 Your price: $8.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Dream of the Red Chamber by Tsao Hsueh-Chin Publisher Comments For more than a century and a half, Dream of the Red Chamber has been recognized in China as the greatest of its novels, a Chinese Romeo-and-Juliet love story and a portrait of one of the world's great civilizations. Chi-chen Wang's translation is... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price: $4.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Selected Poems of LI Po (96 Edition) by Po Li Publisher Comments Li Po (A.D. 701-762) lived in T'ang Dynasty China, but his influence has spanned the centuries: the pure lyricism of his poems has awed readers in China and Japan for over a millennium, and through Ezra Pound's translations, Li Po became central to the... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $8.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Plum in the Golden Vase, Or, Chin P'Ing Mei #0001: The Plum in the Golden Vase Or, "Chin P'Ing Mei": Volume One: The Gathering by David Tod Roy Publisher Comments "This is the first complete English translation of world literature and will immediately supersede all existing partial and abridged translations in that language. Even aside from the stunning achievement of the translation itself, the book represents a... (read more) List Price $39.95 Your price: $25.00 Used - Trade Paper
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All Men Are Brothers by Shi Nai'an Publisher Comments A novel based on a cycle of stories about a certain band of beloved outlaws in the beginning of the twelfth century.... (read more) Your price: $29.95 New - Trade Paper
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Journey To the West Volume 3 Hsi Yu Chi by Chengen/yu Wu Publisher Comments The Journey to the West, volume 3, comprises the third twenty-five chapters of Anthony C. Yu's four-volume translation of Hsi-yu Chi, one of the most beloved classics of Chinese literature. The fantastic tale recounts the sixteen-year pilgrimage of the... (read more) List Price $35.50 Your price: $27.50 New - Trade Paper
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Monkey: A Journey to the West by David Kherdian Publisher Comments Part spiritual pilgrimage, part historical epic, the folk novel Journey to the West , which came to be known as Monkey, is the most popular classic of Asian literature. Originally written in the sixteenth century, it is the story of the adventures of the... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price: $8.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Li Po and Tu Fu: Poems by Li Po and Tu Fu Synopsis Li Po and Tu Fu are traditionally regarded by the Chinese as their two greatest poets. Together their poetry encompasses all of human nature. Escapist but earthy, spiritual but realistic, romantic but precise, these two are often appropriately referred... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price: $5.95 Used - Mass Market
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Strange Tales From a Chinese Studio (06 Edition) by Pu Songling Publisher Comments Act as miniatures that aim to be regarded as the pinnacle of classical Chinese fiction. These tales with their prose and wordplay, include 104 stories that reveal a world, in which nothing is as it seems. Here a Taoist monk conjures up a pear tree, a... (read more) List Price $17.00 Your price: $9.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Three Chinese Poets by Vikram Seth Synopsis The three Chinese poets translated in this text are amongst the great literary figures of China, or indeed the world. Wang Wei with his quiet love of nature and Buddhist philosophy; Li Bai, the Taoist spirit; and Du Fu, with his Confucian sense of... (read more) Your price: $4.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Collected Songs of Cold Mountain by Han Shan Publisher Comments Poetry. Asian Studies. Translated by Red Pine. These poems were written twelve-hundred years ago on the rocks, trees, and temple walls of China's Tientai Mountains. The poet Han Shan (Cold Mountain), a Taoist/Buddhist hermit who begged for food at... (read more) List Price $17.00 Your price: $11.95 Sale - Trade Paper
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The Scholars by Wu Ching-Tzu Publisher Comments One of the great classic Chinese novels, "The Scholars" departs from the impersonal tradition of Chinese fiction, as the author makes significant use of autobiographical experience and models many characters on friends and relatives.... (read more) List Price $52.50 Your price: $6.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Songs of Love, Moon, and Wind: Poems from the Chinese by Kenneth Rexroth Publisher Comments Kenneth Rexroth was one of the pioneer American translators from the Chinese into English. From his bestselling books, One Hundred Poems from the Chinese, One Hundred More Poems from the Chinese, and Woman Poets of China, Eliot Weinberger (essayist... (read more) List Price $12.95 Your price: $8.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Three Kingdoms a Historical Novel Volume 1 by Guanzhong Luo Publisher Comments The complete and unabridged edition available again in a two-part edition.... (read more) List Price $38.50 Your price: $32.00 New - Trade Paper
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Six Records of a Floating Life by Fu Shen Publisher Comments This autobiographical novel, published in 1809, contains lively depictions of the powerful role of the courtesan, the arrogance of untrained officials, and the formal and often strained arranged marriages in turn-of-the-century China.... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price: $5.95 Used - Mass Market
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New Directions Anthology of Classical Chinese Poetry (03 Edition) by Eliot (ed.) Weinberger Publisher Comments A rich compendium of translations, The New Directions Anthology of Classical Chinese Poetry is the first collection to look at Chinese poetry through its enormous influence on American poetry. Weinberger begins with Ezra Pound's Cathay (1915), and... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price: $9.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Breaking the Willow: Poems of Parting, Exile, Separation & Reunion (Companions for the Journey) by David Lunde Publisher Comments Breaking the Willow is a wonderful collection of classic Chinese poems on the themes of parting and exile. The poems capture brief meetings between poet friends over a jug of wine, the lament of lovers parting, and the seclusion of the hermit. One can... (read more) List Price $13.50 Your price: $6.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Du Fu: A Life in Poetry by Fu Du Publisher Comments Du Fu (712–770) is one of the undisputed geniuses of Chinese poetry—still universally admired and read thirteen centuries after his death. Now David Young, author of Black Lab, and well known as a translator of Chinese poets, gives us a... (read more) Your price: $17.95 New - Trade Paper
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Monkey: A Journey to the West by David Kherdian Publisher Comments Part historical epic, part social satire, and part spiritual allegory, the folk novel Journey to the West, which came to be known as Monkey, is probably the most popular book in all of East Asia. David Kherdian's retelling brings this classic of Chinese... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $8.00 Used - Trade Paper
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