(Izdošanas datums: 03-Jun-2025, Hardback, Izdevniecība: Columbia University Press, ISBN-13: 9780231193603)
Assailing corruption, misrule, and neglect of the common people, Wang Fus Essays of a Recluse (Qianfulun) offers a rare outsider view of culture, society, and government during the Eastern Han dynasty (25220 CE)....Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 05-Nov-2024, Hardback, Izdevniecība: Columbia University Press, ISBN-13: 9780231212441)
The Book of Swindles, compiled by an obscure writer from southern China, presents a fascinating tableau of criminal ingenuity. The flourishing economy of the late Ming period created overnight fortunes for merchants-and gave rise to a host of smooth...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 10-Oct-2023, Hardback, Izdevniecība: Columbia University Press, ISBN-13: 9780231208963)
A Topsy-Turvy World presents English translations of shorter late Ming and early Qing plays. Satirical and often earthy, these mostly one-act plays provide a glimpse of Chinese daily life and mores even as they question or subvert the boundari...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 23-May-2023, Hardback, Izdevniecība: Columbia University Press, ISBN-13: 9780231207621)
Compiled in the early tenth century, the Kokinshu is an anthology of some eleven hundred poems that aimed to elevate the prestige of vernacular Japanese poetry at the imperial court. From shortly after its completion to the end of the nineteen...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 06-Sep-2022, Hardback, Izdevniecība: Columbia University Press, ISBN-13: 9780231123860)
The Zhuangzi (Sayings of Master Zhuang) is one of the foundational texts of the Chinese philosophical tradition and the cornerstone of Daoist thought. The earliest and most influential commentary on the Zhuangzi is that of Guo Xiang (26...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 12-Jul-2022, Hardback, Izdevniecība: Columbia University Press, ISBN-13: 9780231206280)
The Fragrant Companions is the most significant work of literature that portrays female same-sex love in the entire premodern Chinese tradition. It is at once an unconventional romantic comedy, a barbed satire, and a sympathetic portrayal of l...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 29-Jun-2021, Hardback, Izdevniecība: Columbia University Press, ISBN-13: 9780231199506)
In the early eighteenth century, the noblewoman Ogimachi Machiko composed a memoir of Yanagisawa Yoshiyasu, the powerful samurai she had served as a concubine for twenty years. Elegant, poetic, and revealing, In the Shelter of the Pine is the...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 01-Jun-2021, Hardback, Izdevniecība: Columbia University Press, ISBN-13: 9780231197922)
Top Graduate Zhang Xie is the first extant play in the Chinese southern dramatic tradition and a milestone in the history of Chinese literature. Dating from the early fifteenth century, but possibly composed earlier, it is the work of a writing club...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 05-Jan-2021, Hardback, Izdevniecība: Columbia University Press, ISBN-13: 9780231198189)
In the first half of the eighteenth century, rival dynasties of Naqshbandi Sufi shaykhs vied for influence in the Tarim Basin, part of present-day Xinjiang. In the 1750s, the collapse of the Junghar Mongol state gave one branch of this family an oppo...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 04-Aug-2020, Hardback, Izdevniecība: Columbia University Press, ISBN-13: 9780231197564)
After a Choson faction realigned Korea with the Ming dynasty, the Manchu attacked in 1627 and again a decade later, forcing Korea to support the newly founded Qing dynasty. The Korean scholar-official Na Mangap (15921642) recorded the second Manchu...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 21-Jan-2020, Hardback, Izdevniecība: Columbia University Press, ISBN-13: 9780231186841)
This volume presents two memoirs by famous men of letters, Reminiscences of the Plum Shadows Convent by Mao Xiang (161193) and Miscellaneous Records of Plank Bridge by Yu Huai (161696), that recall times spent with courtesans. They ev...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 03-Dec-2019, Hardback, Izdevniecība: Columbia University Press, ISBN-13: 9780231193542)
A Couple of Soles is a classic comedic romance by the seventeenth-century playwright Li Yu. Tan Chuyu, a poor young scholar, falls in love with the beautiful actress Liu Miaogu. He joins her familys acting troupe, and, in plays within the pla...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 05-Nov-2019, Hardback, Izdevniecība: Columbia University Press, ISBN-13: 9780231191241)
The Yijing (I Ching), or Scripture of Change, is traditionally considered the first and most profound of the Chinese classics. Originally a divination manual based on trigrams and hexagrams, by the beginning of the first millennium it h...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 13-Nov-2018, Hardback, Izdevniecība: Columbia University Press, ISBN-13: 9780231186100)
The Tale of Cho Ung is one of the most widely read and beloved stories of Choson Korea. The anonymously written tale recounts the adventures of protagonist Cho Ung as he overcomes obstacles and grows into a heroic young man. This first...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 29-May-2018, Hardback, Izdevniecība: Columbia University Press, ISBN-13: 9780231187169)
The Hidden and Visible Realms (Youming lu) is one of the most significant collections of Chinese zhiguai Records of the Strange literature. It is distinguished by its varied contents, elegant style of writing, and fascinating stories. This is the...Lasīt vairāk
Sugawara no Takasue no Musume Sugawara no Takasue no Musume, Sonja Arntzen, Moriyuki It
Sērija : Translations from the Asian Classics
(Izdošanas datums: 20-Mar-2018, Hardback, Izdevniecība: Columbia University Press, ISBN-13: 9780231186766)
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 autobiogr...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 20-Feb-2018, Hardback, Izdevniecība: Columbia University Press, ISBN-13: 9780231184465)
Monsters, Animals, and Other Worlds is a collection of twenty-five medieval Japanese tales of border crossings and the fantastic, featuring demons, samurai, talking animals, amorous plants, and journeys to supernatural realms. The most compreh...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 20-Feb-2018, Hardback, Izdevniecība: Columbia University Press, ISBN-13: 9780231113847)
Hanan has translated six of the twelve stories in the Shier lou collection, which is the most famous individual collection of vernacular stories from pre-modern China. With Hanans introduction and notes, and containing with Li Yus emphasis marks,...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 07-Nov-2017, Hardback, Izdevniecība: Columbia University Press, ISBN-13: 9780231184380)
Classical Sanskrit literature boasts an exquisite canon of poetry devoted to erotic love. Noted translator and scholar R. Parthasarathy curates a selection in a new verse translation that introduces readers to Sanskrit poetry in a modern English vern...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 05-Sep-2017, Hardback, Izdevniecība: Columbia University Press, ISBN-13: 9780231178624)
This is an age of deception. Con men ply the roadways. Bogus alchemists pretend to turn one piece of silver into three. Devious nuns entice young women into adultery. Sorcerers use charmed talismans for mind control and murder. A pair of dubious monk...Lasīt vairāk
Guanzhong Luo, Patrick Hanan, Ellen B. Widmer, David Der-wei Wang
Sērija : Translations from the Asian Classics
(Izdošanas datums: 05-Sep-2017, Hardback, Izdevniecība: Columbia University Press, ISBN-13: 9780231183062)
In this Ming-era novel, historical narrative, raucous humor, and the supernatural are interwoven to tell the tale of an unsuccessful attempt to overthrow the Song dynasty. A poor young girl meets an old woman who gives her a magic book that allows he...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 18-Jul-2017, Hardback, Izdevniecība: Columbia University Press, ISBN-13: 9780231166065)
Sources show Qu Yuan (?340278 BCE) was the first person in China to become famous for his poetry, so famous in fact that the Chinese celebrate his life with a national holiday called Poets Day, or the Dragon Boat Festival. His work, which forms the...Lasīt vairāk
Mirza Asadullah Khan Ghalib, Frances Pritchett, Owen T. A. Cornwall
Sērija : Translations from the Asian Classics
(Izdošanas datums: 28-Mar-2017, Hardback, Izdevniecība: Columbia University Press, ISBN-13: 9780231182065)
This selection of poetry and prose by Mirza Asadullah Khan, known as Ghalib (1797-1869), provides an accessible and wide-ranging introduction to the preeminent Urdu poet of the nineteenth century. Ghalibs poems, especially his ghazals, remain bel...Lasīt vairāk
Mark Teeuwen, Kate Wildman Nakai, Fumiko Miyazaki, Anne Walthall
Sērija : Translations from the Asian Classics
(Izdošanas datums: 28-Mar-2017, Hardback, Izdevniecība: Columbia University Press, ISBN-13: 9780231182768)
By 1816, Japan had recovered from the famines of the 1780s and moved beyond the political reforms of the 1790s. Despite persistent economic and social stresses, the country seemed headed for a new period of growth. The idea that the shogunate woul...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 07-Mar-2017, Hardback, Izdevniecība: Columbia University Press, ISBN-13: 9780231179881)
Compiled in China in the fourththird centuries B.C.E., The Book of Lord Shang argues for a new powerful government to penetrate society and turn every man into a diligent tiller and valiant soldier. Creating a rich state and a strong army...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 08-Nov-2016, Hardback, Izdevniecība: Columbia University Press, ISBN-13: 9780231170482)
A selection of Qing Dynasty scholar Gu Yanwus general writings from his Rizhi lu (Record of Daily Knowledge) and his Tinglin Shiwenji (Collected Poems and Essays). Gu Yanwu is regarded as the progenitor of the dominant scholarly trend of late Ming...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 20-Sep-2016, Hardback, Izdevniecība: Columbia University Press, ISBN-13: 9780231177665)
These fragments outline a rudimentary theory of political order modeled on the natural world that recognizes the role of human self-interest in maintaining stable rule. Casting the natural world as an independent, amoral system, Shen Dao situates the...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 07-Jun-2016, Hardback, Izdevniecība: Columbia University Press, ISBN-13: 9780231166126)
Li Zhis heretical writings caught fire among his contemporaries, despite an imperial ban on their publication. Translated for the first time into English,A Book to Burn and a Book to Keep (Hidden) confronts accepted ideas about gender, que...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 15-Dec-2015, Hardback, Izdevniecība: Columbia University Press, ISBN-13: 9780231169325)
A major resource expanding the study of early Chinese philosophy, religion, literature, and politics, this book features the first complete English-language translation of the Luxuriant Gems of the "Spring and Autumn" (Chunqiu...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 09-Dec-2014, Hardback, Izdevniecība: Columbia University Press, ISBN-13: 9780231168540)
This is the first anthology of Yuan-dynasty zaju (miscellaneous comedies) to introduce the genre to English-speaking readers exclusively through translations of the plays fourteenth-century editions. Almost all previous translations of Yu...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 09-Sep-2014, Hardback, Izdevniecība: Columbia University Press, ISBN-13: 9780231163880)
Written in the early eighth century, the Kojiki is considered Japans first literary and historical work. A compilation of myths, legends, songs, and genealogies, it recounts the birth of Japans islands, reflecting the origins of Japanese...Lasīt vairāk
Sugawara no Takasue no Musume Sugawara no Takasue no Musume, Sonja Arntzen, Moriyuki It
Sērija : Translations from the Asian Classics
(Izdošanas datums: 22-Jul-2014, Hardback, Izdevniecība: Columbia University Press, ISBN-13: 9780231167185)
A thousand years ago, a young Japanese girl embarked on a journey from the wild East Country to the capital. She began a diary that she would continue to write for the next forty years and compile later in life, bringing lasting prestige to her fa...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 08-Jul-2014, Hardback, Izdevniecība: Columbia University Press, ISBN-13: 9780231165044)
The early Chinese text Master Zhuang ( Zhuangzi) is well known for its relativistic philosophy and colorful anecdotes. In the work, Zhuang Zhou ca. 300 B.C.E.) dreams that he is a butterfly and wonders, upon awaking, if he in fact dr...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 15-Apr-2014, Hardback, Izdevniecība: Columbia University Press, ISBN-13: 9780231122665)
This anthology features translations of ten seminal plays written during the Yuan dynasty (1279-1368), a period considered the golden age of Chinese theater. By turns lyrical and earthy, sentimental and ironic, Yuan drama spans a broad emotional,...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 15-Apr-2014, Hardback, Izdevniecība: Columbia University Press, ISBN-13: 9780231161848)
In recent years, three ancient manuscripts relating to the Yi jing ( I Ching), or Classic of Changes, have been discovered. The earliest -- the Shanghai Museum Zhou Yi -- dates to about 300 B.C.E. and shows evidence of the t...Lasīt vairāk
Mark Teeuwen, Kate Wildman Nakai, Fumiko Miyazaki, Anne Walthall
Sērija : Translations from the Asian Classics
(Izdošanas datums: 04-Feb-2014, Hardback, Izdevniecība: Columbia University Press, ISBN-13: 9780231166447)
By 1816, Japan had recovered from the famines of the 1780s and moved beyond the political reforms of the 1790s. Despite persistent economic and social stresses, the country seemed to be approaching a new period of growth. The idea that the shoguna...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 28-Jan-2014, Hardback, Izdevniecība: Columbia University Press, ISBN-13: 9780231163088)
In early China, was it correct for a woman to disobey her father, contradict her husband, or shape the public policy of a son who ruled over a dynasty or state? According to the Lienu zhuan, or Categorized Biographies of Women, it was not only appro...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 03-Dec-2013, Hardback, Izdevniecība: Columbia University Press, ISBN-13: 9780231164740)
Only by inhabiting Dao (the Way of Nature) and dwelling in its unity can humankind achieve true happiness and freedom, in both life and death. This is Daoist philosophys central tenet, espoused by the person--or group of people--known as Zhuangzi...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 23-Jul-2013, Hardback, Izdevniecība: Columbia University Press, ISBN-13: 9780231164207)
The Nihon ryoiki, a collection of setsuwa, or anecdotal tales, compiled by a monk in late-eighth- or early-ninth-century Japan, records the spread of Buddhist ideas in Japan and the ways in which Buddhisms principles were adapte...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 25-Sep-2012, Hardback, Izdevniecība: Columbia University Press, ISBN-13: 9780231157308)
Haruo Shiranes critically acclaimed Traditional Japanese Literature: An Anthology, Beginnings to 1600, contains key examples of both high and low styles of poetry, drama, prose fiction, and essays. For this abridged edition, Shirane retai...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 03-Jul-2012, Hardback, Izdevniecība: Columbia University Press, ISBN-13: 9780231153324)
Master Suns The Art of War is by no means the only ancient Chinese treatise on military affairs. One chapter in the Huainanzi, an important compendium of philosophy and political theory written in the second century B.C.E., synthe...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 03-Apr-2012, Hardback, Izdevniecība: Columbia University Press, ISBN-13: 9780231159562)
Dating back to the eighth century C.E., the Platform Sutra of the Sixth Patriarch is a foundational text of Chan/Zen Buddhism that reveals much about the early evolution of Chinese Chan and the ideological origins of Japanese Zen and Korean Son. Pur...Lasīt vairāk
An Li, King of Huainan, John Major, Sarah Queen, Andrew Seth Meyer, Harold Roth
Sērija : Translations from the Asian Classics
(Izdošanas datums: 20-Mar-2012, Hardback, Izdevniecība: Columbia University Press, ISBN-13: 9780231159807)
Compiled in the second century B.C.E, the Huainanzi clarifies a crucial period in the development of Chinese conceptions of the cosmos, human nature, and the social order. Outlining all that a modern monarch needs to know, the text empha...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 20-Sep-2011, Hardback, Izdevniecība: Columbia University Press, ISBN-13: 9780231150224)
The Record of the Dharma-Jewel Through the Generations (Lidai fabao ji) is a little-known Chan/Zen Buddhist text of the eighth century, rediscovered in 1900 at the Silk Road oasis of Dunhuang. The only remaining artifact of the Bao Tang Chan s...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 07-Jun-2011, Hardback, Izdevniecība: Columbia University Press, ISBN-13: 9780231150644)
Dating from the early decades of the third century C.E., the Ainkurunuru is believed to be the worlds earliest anthology of classical Tamil love poetry. Commissioned by a Cera-dynasty king and composed by five masterful poets, the anthology illus...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 03-May-2011, Hardback, Izdevniecība: Columbia University Press, ISBN-13: 9780231153126)
In The Columbia Anthology of Chinese Folk and Popular Literature, two of the worlds leading sinologists, Victor H. Mair and Mark Bender, capture the breadth of Chinas oral-based literary heritage. This collection presents works drawn fro...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 16-Feb-2011, Hardback, Izdevniecība: Columbia University Press, ISBN-13: 9780231156486)
While the rise of the charmingly simple, brilliantly evocative haiku is often associated with the seventeenth-century Japanese poet Matsuo Basho, the form had already flourished for more than four hundred years before Basho even began to w...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 10-Dec-2010, Hardback, Izdevniecība: Columbia University Press, ISBN-13: 9780231152440)
Burton Watson and Haruo Shirane, renowned translators and scholars, introduce English-speaking readers to the vivid tradition of early and medieval Japanese anecdotal ( setsuwa) literature. These orally narrated and written tales drew on bo...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 19-May-2010, Hardback, Izdevniecība: Columbia University Press, ISBN-13: 9780231150385)
Compiled by a leading scholar of Chinese poetry, Clouds Thick, Whereabouts Unknown is the first collection of Chan (Zen) poems to be situated within Chan thought and practice. Combined with exquisite paintings by Charles Chu, the anthology...Lasīt vairāk
John Major, Sarah Queen, Andrew Seth Meyer, Harold Roth, Michael Puett, Judson Murray
Sērija : Translations from the Asian Classics
(Izdošanas datums: 14-Apr-2010, Hardback, Izdevniecība: Columbia University Press, ISBN-13: 9780231142045)
Compiled by scholars at the court of Liu An, king of Huainan, in the second century B.C.E, The Huainanzi is a tightly organized, sophisticated articulation of Western Han philosophy and statecraft. Outlining all that a modern monarch need...Lasīt vairāk
