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The Story of the Stone, Volume 4: The Debt of Tears (Penguin Classics)
by Cao Xuequin  Synopsis Written towards the end of the 18th century, this is one of the great novel of manners of Chinese literature. The book charts the glory and decline of the illustrious Jia family....
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Story of the Stone Volume 3 Warning Voice
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....
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Three Chinese Poets: Translations of Poems by Wang Wei, Li Bai, and Du Fu
by Vikram Seth Publisher Comments The three T'ang dynasty poets translated here are among the greatest literary figures of China, or indeed the world. Responding differently to their common times, Wang Wei, Li Bai, and Du Fu crystallize the immense variety of China and the Chinese poetic...
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Monkey: Folk Novel of China by Wu Ch'eng En
by Wu Ch'Eng-En Publisher Comments Probably the most popular book in the history of the Far east, this classic combination of picaresque novel and folk epic mixes satire, allegory, and history into a rollicking tale. It is the story of the roguish monkey and his encounters with major and...
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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....
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The Story of the Stone, Volume 5: The Dreamer Wakes (Penguin Classics)
by Xueqin Cao Publisher Comments Divided into five volumes, of which The Dreamer Wakes is the fifth, it charts the glory and decline of the illustrious Jia family (a story which closely accords with the fortunes of Cao Xuequin's own family)....
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All Men Are Brothers
by Shi Naian Publisher Comments A novel based on a cycle of stories about a certain band of beloved outlaws in the beginning of the twelfth century....
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Story of the Stone Volume 1 Golden Days
by Xueqin Cao Publisher Comments One of the greatest novels of Chinese literature....
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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...
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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...
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Poems of the Late T'Ang
by A. C. (trn) Graham Publisher Comments Classical Chinese poetry reached its pinnacle during the T'ang Dynasty (618-907 A.D.), and the poets of the late T'ang-a period of growing political turmoil and violence-are especially notable for combining strking formal inovation with raw emotional...
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Dream of the Red Chamber
by Hsueh Chin Tsao 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...
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Journey To the West Volume 1 Hsi Yu Chi
by Chengen Wu Publisher Comments First published in 1952, The Journey to the West, volume I, comprises the first 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-...
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Strange Tales from a Chinese Studio
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...
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Journey To the West Volume 4 Hsi Yu Chi
by Chengen/yu Wu Publisher Comments The Journey to the West, volume 4, comprises the last 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...
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Chinese Erotic Poems (Everyman's Library Pocket Poets)
by Tony Barnstone Publisher Comments The ancient Chinese tradition of erotic poetry has been largely ignored in the west. Now, a vast continent of sensual verse is opened to us with this glorious collection spanning nearly three thousand years and including many poems never before...
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Anthology of Chinese Literature Fro Volume 1
by Cyril Birch Publisher Comments Internationally renowned Chinese literature scholar Cyril Birch was the first to assemble the finest translations of these seminal pieces in his now classic and still definitive introductory anthologies. The selections in this first volume span a two...
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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...
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One Hundred Poems from the Chinese (New Directions Book)
by Kenneth Rexroth 
Publisher Comments The lyric poetry of Tu Fu ranks with the greatest in all world literature. Across the centuries--Tu Fu lived in the T'ang Dynasty his poems come through to us with an immediacy that is breathtaking in Kenneth Rexroth's English versions....
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Plum in the Golden Vase Volume 2 Rival
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...
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