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The New Directions Anthology of Classical Chinese Poetry by Eliot 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: $11.95 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: $6.97 Sale - 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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Li Ching Chao Complete Poems by Li Publisher Comments Written during the final years of the Sung Dynasty, with its political intrigues and collapse in the face of the Tatar invasions, her poems reveal an imaginative freshness, sensuous imagery, and satirical spirit often at odds with the decadent Confucian... (read more) List Price $10.95 Your price: $6.50 Used - Trade Paper
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The Plum in the Golden Vase Or, Chin P'Ing Mei, Volume Three: The Aphrodisiac by David Tod Roy Publisher Comments In this third volume of a planned five-volume series, David Roy provides a complete and annotated translation of the famous Chin P'ing Mei, an anonymous sixteenth-century Chinese novel that focuses on the domestic life of His-men Ch'ing, a corrupt... (read more) Your price: $39.95 New - Trade Paper
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In Love with the Way: Chinese Poems of the Tang Dynasty (Calligrapher's Notebooks) by Francois Cheng Publisher Comments The poetry selected for this volume comes from the Tang Dynasty (618—907), an era when the influence of Buddhism was at its strongest in China. The best loved and most influential of all Chinese poems come from this period. Like all books in the... (read more) List Price $12.95 Your price: $7.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Poems of the Masters: China's Classic Anthology of T'Ang and Sung Dynasty Verse by Red Pine Publisher Comments Poetry is China’s greatest art, and for the past eight centuries Poems of the Masters has been that country’s most studied and memorized collection of verse. For the first time ever in English, here is the complete text, with an introduction... (read more) Your price: $22.00 New - Trade Paper
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Three Kingdoms Abridged Edition by Luo Guanzhong Publisher Comments Three Kingdoms tells the story of the fateful last reign of the Han dynasty (206 B.C.-A.D. 220) when the Chinese empire was divided into three warring kingdoms. Writing some twelve hundred years later, the Ming author Luo Guanzhong drew on histories... (read more) List Price $28.95 Your price: $11.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Journey to the West: The Monkey King's Amazing Adventures by Chengen Wu Publisher Comments China's most popular traditional novel, Journey to the West is the thrilling story of the Monkey King and his epic quest, with his trusted companions, to redeem himself. They face fantastic foes, demons and monsters during their amazing adventures... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price: $8.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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The Warning Voice: The Story of the Stone, Chapters 54-80 by Xueqin Cao Synopsis Written towards the end of the 18th century, this Chinese novel of manners charts the glory and decline of the illustrious Jia family.... (read more) List Price $17.00 Your price: $6.50 Used - Mass Market
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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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Plum in Golden Vase, Or Chin P'ing Mei (01 Edition) by David Tod Roy Publisher Comments In this second of a planned five-volume series, David Roy provides a complete and annotated translation of the famous Chin P'ing Mei, an anonymous sixteenth-century Chinese novel that focuses on the domestic life of His-men Ch'ing, a corrupt, upwardly... (read more) List Price $39.95 Your price: $30.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Sunflower Splendor: Three Thousand Years of Chinese Poetry (Midland Book) by Wu Chi Liu Publisher Comments This volume, which involves the effort of many individuals, aims to present new translations of Chinese poetry written in classical meters from the earliest time down to the mid-twentieth century.... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $9.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Master Tung's Western Chamber Romance by Chieh-Yuan Tung Publisher Comments This twelfth century masterpiece suffered virtual oblivion from the late fourteenth century until 1912, when it was rediscovered by the great sinologist Wang Kuo-wei who helped restore it to its preeminent position in Chinese literature. Comprising 184... (read more) List Price $43.25 Your price: $3.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Plum in the Golden Vase or, Chin P'ing Mei by David Tod Roy Publisher Comments This is the fourth and penultimate volume in David Roy's celebrated translation of one of the most famous and important novels in Chinese literature. The Plum in the Golden Vase or, Chin P'ing Mei is an anonymous sixteenth-century work that focuses on... (read more) List Price $55.00 Your price: $48.81 Google eBooks - Electronic
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The Cloak of Dreams by Béla Balázs Publisher Comments A man is changed into a flea and must bring his future parents together in order to become human again. A woman convinces a river god to cure her sick son, but the remedy has mixed consequences. A young man must choose whether to be close to his wife's... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $22.14 Google eBooks - Electronic
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The Dream of the Red Chamber (Tuttle Classics) by Xueqin Cao Publisher Comments The Dream of the Red Chamber is one of the "Four Great Classical Novels of Chinese Literature." It is renowned for its huge scope, large cast of characters and telling observations on the life and social structures of 18th century China and is considered... (read more) List Price $29.95 Your price: $14.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Mountain Home : Wilderness Poetry of Ancient China (05 Edition) by David Hinton Publisher Comments China's tradition of "rivers-and-mountains" poetry stretches across millennia. This is a plain-spoken poetry of immediate day-to-day experience, and yet seems most akin to China's grand landscape paintings. Although its wisdom is ancient, rooted in... (read more) List Price $17.95 Your price: $10.00 Used - Trade Paper
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The Story of the Western Wing by Wang Shifu Publisher Comments China's most important love comedy, Wang Shifu's Xixiangji, or The Story of the Western Wing, is a rollicking play that chronicles the adventures of the star-crossed lovers Oriole and Student Zhang. Since its appearance in the thirteenth century, it has... (read more) List Price $29.95 Your price: $9.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Companions for the Journey #9: Pilgrim in the Clouds: Poems and Essays from Ming Dynasty China by Yuan Hung-tao Publisher Comments “With this volume, Chaves makes an outstanding contribution to the books that present classical Chinese poetry in both accurate and enjoyable English translation.”—Choice Yuan Hung-tao (1568–1610) was the greatest poet of Ming... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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