(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: 03-Jun-2025, Paperback / softback, Izdevniecība: Columbia University Press, ISBN-13: 9780231220323)
Under the Eastern Han dynasty (25220 CE), a self-described recluse wrote a series of essays denouncing the evils of his time. Assailing corruption, misrule, and neglect of the common people, Wang Fus Essays of a Recluse (Qianfulun) of...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 05-Nov-2024, Paperback / softback, Izdevniecība: Columbia University Press, ISBN-13: 9780231212458)
A woman seduces her landlord to extort the family farm. Gamblers recruit a wily prostitute to get a rich young man back in the game. Silver counterfeiters wreak havoc for traveling merchants. A wealthy widow is drugged and robbed by a lodger posing a...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: 09-Apr-2024, Paperback / softback, Izdevniecība: Columbia University Press, ISBN-13: 9780231216609)
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: 10-Oct-2023, Paperback / softback, Izdevniecība: Columbia University Press, ISBN-13: 9780231208970)
The high literary Yuan zaju plays and Ming chuanqi plays are well-represented in English translation, but the slightly later short plays (sometimes also called zaju) of the late Ming and early Qing have been long looked down upon and ignored as peda...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: 23-May-2023, Paperback / softback, Izdevniecība: Columbia University Press, ISBN-13: 9780231207638)
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: 06-Sep-2022, Paperback / softback, Izdevniecība: Columbia University Press, ISBN-13: 9780231123877)
The Zhuangzi is one of the central texts of the Daoist tradition. Several translations exist, but this is the first of the oldest, most complete, and most influential commentary on the text, written by Guo Xiang (d. 312). The volume will consist of...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 12-Jul-2022, Paperback / softback, Izdevniecība: Columbia University Press, ISBN-13: 9780231206297)
Written in 1651, The Fragrant Companions is the first of ten extant chuanqi plays by Li Yu. The play, told in 36 acts, is one of the only literary works of pre-modern China that focuses on the theme of lesbian love. The play tells the story of two y...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, Paperback / softback, Izdevniecība: Columbia University Press, ISBN-13: 9780231199513)
In the early eighteenth century, the noblewoman Ogimachi Machiko composed a memoir of Yanagisawa Yoshiyasu, the powerful samurai for whom she had served as a concubine for twenty years. Machiko assisted Yoshiyasu in his ascent to the rank of chief ad...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, Paperback / softback, Izdevniecība: Columbia University Press, ISBN-13: 9780231197939)
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 writin...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, Paperback / softback, Izdevniecība: Columbia University Press, ISBN-13: 9780231198196)
In the late eighteenth century, Mu ammad ?adiq Kashghari wrote an account of religious and political conflicts in the Tarim Basin, part of present-day Xinjiang, on the eve of the Qing conquest. This volume presents the complete, long recension of ...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
