Jonathan Chaves makes available a vast store of rich and significant poems by both major and minor poets from China'
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Presents work of Chinese poetry during three different dynasties: The Ming, from 1279-1368; The Ming, from 1368-1644; an
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Five Hundred Years of Chinese Poetry offers the only historical survey, in any language, of this important span of Chine
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The Mongol takeover in the 1270s changed the course of Chinese history. The Confucian empire a millennium and a half in
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The Columbia Book of Chinese Poetry presents translations of more than 420 poems by 96 poets drawn from the great ages o
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The I Ching , or Book of Changes, is one of the 1st efforts of the human mind to place itself within the universe. It ha
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Sources show Qu Yuan (?340-278 BCE) was the first person in China to become famous for his poetry, so famous in fact tha
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Chinese Narrative Poetry brings a new perspective to some of China's best-loved and most influential poems, includi
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A Topsy-Turvy World presents English translations of shorter late Ming and early Qing plays. Satirical and often earthy,
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