Supplemented with detailed notes, glossaries, character lists, and chronologies to help the reader navigate the multigenerational narrative, this comprehensive edition presents this ancient tale in the grand style that it deserves.
An anthology of Chinese fiction, poetry, and essays written during the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.
Written in the early eighth century, the Kojiki is considered JapanŐs first literary and historical work.
Sun Tzu. The art of war. Study of planning and conduct of military operations.
Genji Monogatari (The Tale of Genji) is the Japan's earliest novel and the most famous work in Japan's literary history.
Kagero Nikki, translated here as The Gossamer Years, belongs to the same period as the celebrated Tale of Genji by Murasaki Shikuibu.
This new edition includes an all-new introduction by the scholar of ancient Chinese literature, John Minford.
Relatively unknown in the West, Tian Wen: A Chinese Book of Origins is a fascinating, though often baffling, archaic collection of 186 "questions" about the origins of life and the meanings of a wide variety of happenings startling and ...
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