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A Book of Chinese Verse
Hong Kong University Press 1990; US$ 34.00This slim volume is a memorial to a long friendship between two men, brought together in Hong Kong by their common work and by their common love of Chinese petry, just 50 years ago.Norman Lockhart Smith was then the Colonial Secretary in Hong Kong and my late father, Sir Robert Kotewall, the only member of the Executive Council representing the Chinese... more...
Beyond Brushtalk
Hong Kong University Press 2009; US$ 40.00This book explores interactions between Japanese and Chinese writers during the golden age of such exchange, 1919 to 1937. more...
Ts'ao Yu, The Reluctant Disciple of Chekhov and O'Neil
Hong Kong University Press 1970; US$ 11.00Ts'ao Yu is one of the most important modern Chinese playwrights.This book is not only an introduction to the work of a contemporary literary figure who helped establish Western-style drama on the Chinese stage, it is also the first critical study with a comparative approach. It will be welcome to the Asian specialist and to the general reader... more...
Cantonese Love Songs
Hong Kong University Press 1992; US$ 40.00This collection of 97 Cantonese love songs aims to give a wider audience the opportunity of reading these songs in English. The author investigates the language and social background of the songs and provides cross-references to Chinese and Western literature. more...
Wang Kuo-wei's Jen-chien Tz'u-hua
Hong Kong University Press 1977; US$ 17.00In the first decade of the twentieth century while other intellectuals were concerned with translating works of political and scientific import into Chinese, Wang Kuo-wei (1877-1927) looked to Western philosophy to find answers to the fundamental questions of human life. more...
Friendship in Art
Hong Kong University Press 2010; US$ 38.00This book charts a special friendship between two creative individuals who helped shape Chinese culture in the twentieth century -- the revered traditional painter Huang Binhong and the young, cosmopolitan critic Fou Lei. more...
Madmen and Other Survivors
Hong Kong University Press 2007; US$ 40.00Madmen and Other Survivors: Reading Lu Xun's Fiction attempts to put the short stories of this outstanding Chinese writer -- whose work is central to understanding the May Fourth movement in China -- into a broad context of Modernism. more...
Global Chinese Literature
BRILL 2010; US$ 137.00Presenting an array of cutting edge perspectives on modern Chinese literature in different Sinophone contexts, this volume of essays offers a wide range of critical approaches to the study of an emerging interdisciplinary field. more...
Six Records of a Life Adrift
Hackett Publishing Company, Inc. 2011; US$ 12.50"Shen Fu's Six Records of a Life Adrift is the most intimate document at our disposal of private life in late imperial China. Graham Sanders now provides us with a new translation for the 21st century, which is not only well researched but also highly readable.". Wilt Idema, Harvard University. "This delightful nineteenth-century... more...
Yijing, Shamanic Oracle of China
Jessica Kingsley Publishers 2011; US$ 39.95This new translation of the Yijing offers a traditional reading that refreshes and expands on the original text making it relevant for the modern world. It provides a detailed commentary explaining the underlying structure, philosophy and history of the book, and gives practical instructions for consulting the oracle using yarrow sticks or coins. more...









