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A Room Where The Star-Spangled Banner Cannot Be Heard

A Novel in Three Parts

by Hideo Levy ...

Translated by Christopher Scott ...

Set against the political and social upheavals of the 1960s, A Room Where the Star-Spangled Banner Cannot Be Heard tells the story of Ben Isaac, a blond-haired, blue-eyed American youth living with his father at the American consulate in Yokohama. Chafing against his father's strict authority and the trappings of an America culture that has grown increasingly remote, Ben flees home to live with ... Read more

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Set against the political and social upheavals of the 1960s, A Room Where the Star-Spangled Banner Cannot Be Heard tells the story of Ben Isaac, a blond-haired, blue-eyed American youth living with his father at the American consulate in Yokohama. Chafing against his father's strict authority and the trappings of an America culture that has grown increasingly remote, Ben flees home to live with
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Novelist as a Vocation

An exploration of a writer’s life from the Sunday Times bestselling author of Norwegian Wood

by Haruki Murakami ...

Translated by Philip Gabriel, Ted Goossen ...

Words have power. Yet that power must be rooted in truth and justice. Words must never stand apart from those principles.'You end this **collection…vowing to never let life, or writing, get so complicated again'**GuardianReaders who have long wondered where the mysterious novelist gets his ideas and what inspires his beautifully surreal worlds will be fascinated by this highly personal look at the ... Read more

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Words have power. Yet that power must be rooted in truth and justice. Words must never stand apart from those principles.'You end this **collection…vowing to never let life, or writing, get so complicated again'**GuardianReaders who have long wondered where the mysterious novelist gets his ideas and what inspires his beautifully surreal worlds will be fascinated by this highly personal look at the
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The Complete Works of Rudyard Kipling (Illustrated)

From colonial India to the Grand Banks—illustrated novels, stories, poems, children's classics, and travel

by Rudyard Kipling ...

This carefully crafted ebook: "The Complete Works of Rudyard Kipling (Illustrated)" is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents. Table of Contents: Novels: The Light That Failed Captain Courageous: A Story of the Grand Banks Kim The Naulahka: A Story of West and East Stalky and Co. Short Story Collections: The City of Dreadful Night Plain Tales from the Hills ... Read more

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This carefully crafted ebook: "The Complete Works of Rudyard Kipling (Illustrated)" is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents. Table of Contents: Novels: The Light That Failed Captain Courageous: A Story of the Grand Banks Kim The Naulahka: A Story of West and East Stalky and Co. Short Story Collections: The City of Dreadful Night Plain Tales from the Hills
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The Real Story of Ah-Q and Other Tales of China

The Complete Fiction of Lu Xun

by Lu Xun ...

Translated by Julia Lovell ...

Lu Xun (Lu Hsun) is arguably the greatest writer of modern China, and is considered by many to be the founder of modern Chinese literature. Lu Xun's stories both indict outdated Chinese traditions and embrace China's cultural richness and individuality. This volume presents brand-new translations by Julia Lovell of all of Lu Xun's stories, including 'The Real Story of Ah-Q', 'Diary of a Madman', ... Read more

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Lu Xun (Lu Hsun) is arguably the greatest writer of modern China, and is considered by many to be the founder of modern Chinese literature. Lu Xun's stories both indict outdated Chinese traditions and embrace China's cultural richness and individuality. This volume presents brand-new translations by Julia Lovell of all of Lu Xun's stories, including 'The Real Story of Ah-Q', 'Diary of a Madman',
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The Tale of Genji

by Murasaki Shikibu ...

The Tale of Genji (源氏物語 Genji monogatari) is a classic work of Japanese literature written by the noblewoman and lady-in-waiting Murasaki Shikibu in the early years of the 11th century. The original manuscript no longer exists. It was made in "concertina" or "orihon" style: several sheets of paper pasted together and folded alternately in one direction then the other, around the peak of the Heian ... Read more

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The Tale of Genji (源氏物語 Genji monogatari) is a classic work of Japanese literature written by the noblewoman and lady-in-waiting Murasaki Shikibu in the early years of the 11th century. The original manuscript no longer exists. It was made in "concertina" or "orihon" style: several sheets of paper pasted together and folded alternately in one direction then the other, around the peak of the Heian
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Wailing Ghosts

by Pu Songling ...

Translated by John Minford ...

Series series Penguin Little Black Classics
'...revealing great shining fangs more than three inches long.'Some of the most macabre and wonderful of all Chinese stories, including 'The Golden Goblet', 'Scorched Moth the Daoist' and 'The Black Beast'Introducing Little Black Classics: 80 books for Penguin's 80th birthday. Little Black Classics celebrate the huge range and diversity of Penguin Classics, with books from around the world and ... Read more

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'...revealing great shining fangs more than three inches long.'Some of the most macabre and wonderful of all Chinese stories, including 'The Golden Goblet', 'Scorched Moth the Daoist' and 'The Black Beast'Introducing Little Black Classics: 80 books for Penguin's 80th birthday. Little Black Classics celebrate the huge range and diversity of Penguin Classics, with books from around the world and
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The Monkey and the Monk: An Abridgment of The Journey to the West

An Abridgment of The Journey to the West

by ...

Anthony C. Yu’s celebrated translation of The Journey to the West reinvigorated one of Chinese literature’s most beloved classics for English-speaking audiences when it first appeared thirty years ago. Yu’s abridgment of his four-volume translation, The Monkey and the Monk, finally distills the epic novel’s most exciting and meaningful episodes without taking anything away from their true spirit. ... Read more

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Anthony C. Yu’s celebrated translation of The Journey to the West reinvigorated one of Chinese literature’s most beloved classics for English-speaking audiences when it first appeared thirty years ago. Yu’s abridgment of his four-volume translation, The Monkey and the Monk, finally distills the epic novel’s most exciting and meaningful episodes without taking anything away from their true spirit.
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Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress by Dai Sijie (Book Analysis)

Detailed Summary, Analysis and Reading Guide

by Bright Summaries ...

Series series BrightSummaries.com
Unlock the more straightforward side of Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress with this concise and insightful summary and analysis!This engaging summary presents an analysis of Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress by Dai Sijie, a moving account of how two young Chinese men discover love and Western literature after the Communist regime sends them to a remote mountain village to be ... Read more

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Unlock the more straightforward side of Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress with this concise and insightful summary and analysis!This engaging summary presents an analysis of Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress by Dai Sijie, a moving account of how two young Chinese men discover love and Western literature after the Communist regime sends them to a remote mountain village to be
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The Subplot

What China Is Reading and Why It Matters

by Megan Walsh ...

What does contemporary China's diverse and exciting fiction tell us about its culture, and the relationship between art and politics?The Subplot takes us on a lively journey through a literary landscape like you’ve never seen before: a vast migrant-worker poetry movement, homoerotic romances by “rotten girls,” swaggering literary popstars, millionaire e-writers churning out the longest-ever novels ... Read more

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What does contemporary China's diverse and exciting fiction tell us about its culture, and the relationship between art and politics?The Subplot takes us on a lively journey through a literary landscape like you’ve never seen before: a vast migrant-worker poetry movement, homoerotic romances by “rotten girls,” swaggering literary popstars, millionaire e-writers churning out the longest-ever novels
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走路──獨處的實踐

by 龍應台 ...

Series series 龍應台作品集
龍應台首部圖文創作18****幅親手電腦繪圖 40****則自然思索▎走一條沒走過的路****做一件沒做過的事▕走路，就不會是觥籌交錯的時候。走路，就不會是把心分給他人的時候。走路，就不會是掛在網上、陷入其中的時候。即便是熙攘擁擠的市集，只要是走路，也是我帶著「自己」在熱的喧鬧中以冷靜聽、靜觀、靜思，更何況是行走山中野路，明月照亮青苔，溪水攪動碎星。只要走路，就一定是我的身體和我的「自己」單獨有約。新的一年，無論如何忙碌，每天走路，而且走路時，全神貫注，心無罣礙：1.走一條沒走過的路2.去菜市場，跟十個人說話3.去墳場走走4.在路邊一棵樹下，坐著5.找到沒有光的地方6.了解一種作物7.走進一方田... ... Read more

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龍應台首部圖文創作18****幅親手電腦繪圖 40****則自然思索▎走一條沒走過的路****做一件沒做過的事▕走路，就不會是觥籌交錯的時候。走路，就不會是把心分給他人的時候。走路，就不會是掛在網上、陷入其中的時候。即便是熙攘擁擠的市集，只要是走路，也是我帶著「自己」在熱的喧鬧中以冷靜聽、靜觀、靜思，更何況是行走山中野路，明月照亮青苔，溪水攪動碎星。只要走路，就一定是我的身體和我的「自己」單獨有約。新的一年，無論如何忙碌，每天走路，而且走路時，全神貫注，心無罣礙：1.走一條沒走過的路2.去菜市場，跟十個人說話3.去墳場走走4.在路邊一棵樹下，坐著5.找到沒有光的地方6.了解一種作物7.走進一方田...
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Genuine Pretending

On the Philosophy of the Zhuangzi

by Hans-Georg Moeller, Paul J. D'Ambrosio ...

Genuine Pretending is an innovative and comprehensive new reading of the Zhuangzi that highlights the critical and therapeutic functions of satire and humor. Hans-Georg Moeller and Paul J. D’Ambrosio show how this Daoist classic, contrary to contemporary philosophical readings, distances itself from the pursuit of authenticity and subverts the dominant Confucianism of its time through satirical ... Read more

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Genuine Pretending is an innovative and comprehensive new reading of the Zhuangzi that highlights the critical and therapeutic functions of satire and humor. Hans-Georg Moeller and Paul J. D’Ambrosio show how this Daoist classic, contrary to contemporary philosophical readings, distances itself from the pursuit of authenticity and subverts the dominant Confucianism of its time through satirical
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Dictator Literature

A History of Bad Books by Terrible People

by Daniel Kalder ...

A Book of the Year for The Times and the Sunday Times‘The writer is the engineer of the human soul,’ claimed Stalin. Although one wonders how many found nourishment in Turkmenbashi’s Book of the Soul (once required reading for driving tests in Turkmenistan), not to mention Stalin’s own poetry. Certainly, to be considered great, a dictator must write, and write a lot. Mao had his Littl... ... Read more

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A Book of the Year for The Times and the Sunday Times‘The writer is the engineer of the human soul,’ claimed Stalin. Although one wonders how many found nourishment in Turkmenbashi’s Book of the Soul (once required reading for driving tests in Turkmenistan), not to mention Stalin’s own poetry. Certainly, to be considered great, a dictator must write, and write a lot. Mao had his Littl...
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The History of Hentai Manga

by Kimi Rito ...

While manga is now a well known entity in the global publishing scene, the medium's international success has its roots in the realm of eros. Japanese media critic Kimi Rito dives into the history of manga's erotic world a genre known internationally simply as - hentai. What are the origins of hentai? How has it evolved from the days of ukiyo-e to today's modern comics and animation. Who are the ... Read more

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While manga is now a well known entity in the global publishing scene, the medium's international success has its roots in the realm of eros. Japanese media critic Kimi Rito dives into the history of manga's erotic world a genre known internationally simply as - hentai. What are the origins of hentai? How has it evolved from the days of ukiyo-e to today's modern comics and animation. Who are the
... Read more
The Scholar and the State

Fiction as Political Discourse in Late Imperial China

by Liangyan Ge ...

In imperial China, intellectuals devoted years of their lives to passing rigorous examinations in order to obtain a civil service position in the state bureaucracy. This traditional employment of the literati class conferred social power and moral legitimacy, but changing social and political circumstances in the Ming (1368–1644) and Qing (1644–1911) periods forced many to seek alternative careers ... Read more

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In imperial China, intellectuals devoted years of their lives to passing rigorous examinations in order to obtain a civil service position in the state bureaucracy. This traditional employment of the literati class conferred social power and moral legitimacy, but changing social and political circumstances in the Ming (1368–1644) and Qing (1644–1911) periods forced many to seek alternative careers
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解愛：重返莊子與詩歌經典，在愛裏獲得重生

by 蔡璧名 ...

Series series 美好生活
後來，我們都忘記：一路追求的，應該是幸福熱銷超過三十萬冊《正是時候讀莊子》、《穴道導引》作者蔡璧名最新作品偕同莊子與詩歌一起前行，在濃如酒的愛裏，保有淡如水的心陳文茜（《文茜的世界周報》主持人）／唐綺陽（占星專家）／鄧惠文（榮格分析師、精神科醫師）／洪仲清（臨床心理師）／盧廣仲（音樂鬼才）／陳綺貞（創作天后）／邢本寧（編劇、本事劇團團長）／簡光明（屏東大學人文社會學院院長）／許悔之（詩人、藝術家、有鹿文化社長）／肆一（作家）／宋怡慧（作家、丹鳳高中圖書館主任）／蔡淇華（作家）————真愛推薦在情愛的路上，任憑自己跟著感覺走。感覺對了，就愛上了，就朝思暮想、無法自拔了。但，愛是什麼？如何追求、如何面對、如何放下？從小到大沒人教懂我們，卻牽引整整一生。作者蔡璧名開設的《莊子》系列課程，在臺大校園裡，總是座無虛席。其實... ... Read more

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後來，我們都忘記：一路追求的，應該是幸福熱銷超過三十萬冊《正是時候讀莊子》、《穴道導引》作者蔡璧名最新作品偕同莊子與詩歌一起前行，在濃如酒的愛裏，保有淡如水的心陳文茜（《文茜的世界周報》主持人）／唐綺陽（占星專家）／鄧惠文（榮格分析師、精神科醫師）／洪仲清（臨床心理師）／盧廣仲（音樂鬼才）／陳綺貞（創作天后）／邢本寧（編劇、本事劇團團長）／簡光明（屏東大學人文社會學院院長）／許悔之（詩人、藝術家、有鹿文化社長）／肆一（作家）／宋怡慧（作家、丹鳳高中圖書館主任）／蔡淇華（作家）————真愛推薦在情愛的路上，任憑自己跟著感覺走。感覺對了，就愛上了，就朝思暮想、無法自拔了。但，愛是什麼？如何追求、如何面對、如何放下？從小到大沒人教懂我們，卻牽引整整一生。作者蔡璧名開設的《莊子》系列課程，在臺大校園裡，總是座無虛席。其實...
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Cold Mountain Poems

Zen Poems of Han Shan, Shih Te, and Wang Fan-chih

by Han Shan ...

Translated by J. P. Seaton ...

Series series Shambhala Library
The incomparable poetry of Han Shan (Cold Mountain) and his sidekick Shih Te, the rebel poets who became icons of Chinese poetry and Zen, has long captured the imagination of poetry lovers and Zen aficionados. Popularized in the West by Beat Generation writers Gary Snyder and Jack Kerouac, these legendary T’ang era (618–907) figures are portrayed as the laughing, ragged pair who left their poetry ... Read more

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The incomparable poetry of Han Shan (Cold Mountain) and his sidekick Shih Te, the rebel poets who became icons of Chinese poetry and Zen, has long captured the imagination of poetry lovers and Zen aficionados. Popularized in the West by Beat Generation writers Gary Snyder and Jack Kerouac, these legendary T’ang era (618–907) figures are portrayed as the laughing, ragged pair who left their poetry
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The Gate

Translated by William F. Sibley ...

by Natsume Soseki ...

An NYRB Calssics OriginalA humble clerk and his loving wife scrape out a quiet existence on the margins of Tokyo. Resigned, following years of exile and misfortune, to the bitter consequences of having married without their families’ consent, and unable to have children of their own, Sōsuke and Oyone find the delicate equilibrium of their household upset by a new obligation to meet the educational ... Read more

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An NYRB Calssics OriginalA humble clerk and his loving wife scrape out a quiet existence on the margins of Tokyo. Resigned, following years of exile and misfortune, to the bitter consequences of having married without their families’ consent, and unable to have children of their own, Sōsuke and Oyone find the delicate equilibrium of their household upset by a new obligation to meet the educational
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紅樓夢公開課（三）：賈府四春卷

by 歐麗娟 ...

★本書已更新為增訂新版，內文依最新修訂內容調整，請安心選讀。★ 臺大網站總點閱數超過410萬，華人世界最受歡迎的《紅樓夢》線上課程★ 臺大中文系教授歐麗娟權威導讀，推出至今最完整、最翔實、最精彩的公開課文字紀錄！《紅樓夢》是中國文學史上的偉大經典之一，它講述貴族世家中的婚戀糾葛、族眾紛爭和命運起伏。曹雪芹以精湛靈動的筆法、充滿詩意的場面描寫和細膩入微的人物刻畫，呈現豐富的情感世界和貴族風貌，深刻探討命運和現實的交織，啟發後代無數的文學創作及研究。所謂「一切經典皆是通向自我的敲門磚」，研究紅學超過二十年的歐麗娟教授將帶領讀者藉由這部經典敲開大門，不只看到《紅樓夢》裡各式各樣、多采多姿的寶藏，更要召喚出其中的人，也就是讀者各種可能的自我。《紅樓夢公開課》完整收錄歐麗娟於臺大線上課程的教授內容，第三冊「賈府四春」繼續探索《紅樓夢》的人物風采，以賈府本身的自家女兒：元春、迎春、探春及惜春為核心 ... Read more

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★本書已更新為增訂新版，內文依最新修訂內容調整，請安心選讀。★ 臺大網站總點閱數超過410萬，華人世界最受歡迎的《紅樓夢》線上課程★ 臺大中文系教授歐麗娟權威導讀，推出至今最完整、最翔實、最精彩的公開課文字紀錄！《紅樓夢》是中國文學史上的偉大經典之一，它講述貴族世家中的婚戀糾葛、族眾紛爭和命運起伏。曹雪芹以精湛靈動的筆法、充滿詩意的場面描寫和細膩入微的人物刻畫，呈現豐富的情感世界和貴族風貌，深刻探討命運和現實的交織，啟發後代無數的文學創作及研究。所謂「一切經典皆是通向自我的敲門磚」，研究紅學超過二十年的歐麗娟教授將帶領讀者藉由這部經典敲開大門，不只看到《紅樓夢》裡各式各樣、多采多姿的寶藏，更要召喚出其中的人，也就是讀者各種可能的自我。《紅樓夢公開課》完整收錄歐麗娟於臺大線上課程的教授內容，第三冊「賈府四春」繼續探索《紅樓夢》的人物風采，以賈府本身的自家女兒：元春、迎春、探春及惜春為核心
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Selected Poems of Du Fu

Series series Translations from the Asian Classics
Du Fu (712–777) has been called China's greatest poet, and some call him the greatest nonepic, nondramatic poet whose writings survive in any language. Du Fu excelled in a great variety of poetic forms, showing a richness of language ranging from elegant to colloquial, from allusive to direct. His impressive breadth of subject matter includes intimate personal detail as well as a great deal of ... Read more

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Du Fu (712–777) has been called China's greatest poet, and some call him the greatest nonepic, nondramatic poet whose writings survive in any language. Du Fu excelled in a great variety of poetic forms, showing a richness of language ranging from elegant to colloquial, from allusive to direct. His impressive breadth of subject matter includes intimate personal detail as well as a great deal of
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Great Books of China

by Frances Wood ...

Discover – or rediscover – the major achievements of Chinese culture and civilization.Great Books of China offers concise introductions – each of them accompanied by generous quotation (in English) from the book in question – to sixty-six works in the canon of Chinese literature.The books chosen reflect the chronological and thematic breadth of Chinese literary tradition, ranging from such ... Read more

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Discover – or rediscover – the major achievements of Chinese culture and civilization.Great Books of China offers concise introductions – each of them accompanied by generous quotation (in English) from the book in question – to sixty-six works in the canon of Chinese literature.The books chosen reflect the chronological and thematic breadth of Chinese literary tradition, ranging from such
... Read more
The Pillow Book of Sei Shōnagon

Series series Translations from the Asian Classics
The Pillow Book of Sei Shonagon is a fascinating, detailed account of Japanese court life in the eleventh century. Written by a lady of the court at the height of Heian culture, this book enthralls with its lively gossip, witty observations, and subtle impressions. Lady Shonagon was an erstwhile rival of Lady Murasaki, whose novel, The Tale of Genji, fictionalized the elite world Lady Shonagon so ... Read more

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The Pillow Book of Sei Shonagon is a fascinating, detailed account of Japanese court life in the eleventh century. Written by a lady of the court at the height of Heian culture, this book enthralls with its lively gossip, witty observations, and subtle impressions. Lady Shonagon was an erstwhile rival of Lady Murasaki, whose novel, The Tale of Genji, fictionalized the elite world Lady Shonagon so
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The Sarashina Diary

A Woman's Life in Eleventh-Century Japan (Reader's Edition)

by Sugawara no Takasue no Musume Sugawara no Takasue no Musume ...

Translated by Sonja Arntzen, Moriyuki Itō ...

Series series Translations from the Asian Classics
A thousand years ago, a young Japanese girl embarked on a journey from deep in the countryside of eastern Japan to the capital. Forty years later, with the long account of that journey as a foundation, the mature woman skillfully created an autobiography that incorporates many moments of heightened awareness from her long life. Married at age thirty-three, she identified herself as a reader and ... Read more

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A thousand years ago, a young Japanese girl embarked on a journey from deep in the countryside of eastern Japan to the capital. Forty years later, with the long account of that journey as a foundation, the mature woman skillfully created an autobiography that incorporates many moments of heightened awareness from her long life. Married at age thirty-three, she identified herself as a reader and
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The Complete Confucius: The Analects, The Doctrine Of The Mean, and The Great Learning

by Confucius ...

Confucius (/kənˈfjuːʃəs/ kən-FEW-shəs; 551–479 BC) was a Chinese philosopher and politician of the Spring and Autumn period.The philosophy of Confucius, also known as Confucianism, emphasized personal and governmental morality, correctness of social relationships, justice and sincerity. His followers competed successfully with many other schools during the Hundred Schools of Thought era only to be ... Read more

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Confucius (/kənˈfjuːʃəs/ kən-FEW-shəs; 551–479 BC) was a Chinese philosopher and politician of the Spring and Autumn period.The philosophy of Confucius, also known as Confucianism, emphasized personal and governmental morality, correctness of social relationships, justice and sincerity. His followers competed successfully with many other schools during the Hundred Schools of Thought era only to be
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Poet-Monks

The Invention of Buddhist Poetry in Late Medieval China

by Thomas J. Mazanec ...

Poet-Monks focuses on the literary and religious practices of Buddhist poet-monks in Tang-dynasty China to propose an alternative historical arc of medieval Chinese poetry. Combining large-scale quantitative analysis with close readings of important literary texts, Thomas J. Mazanec describes how Buddhist poet-monks, who first appeared in the latter half of Tang-dynasty China, asserted a bold new ... Read more

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Poet-Monks focuses on the literary and religious practices of Buddhist poet-monks in Tang-dynasty China to propose an alternative historical arc of medieval Chinese poetry. Combining large-scale quantitative analysis with close readings of important literary texts, Thomas J. Mazanec describes how Buddhist poet-monks, who first appeared in the latter half of Tang-dynasty China, asserted a bold new
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