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Confucius and the Analects
Oxford University Press 2001; US$ 59.99The Analects', the sayings attributed to Confucius, is a classic of world literature. Nonetheless there is a great dispute about how to approach and understand both him and his work. This is an anthology of critical writings on this crucial and influential work. The contributors address a host of key topics. more...
Essential Analects
Hackett Publishing Company, Inc. 2009; US$ 8.95The Essential Analects offers a representative selection from Edward Slingerland's acclaimed translation of the full work, including passages covering all major themes. An appendix of selected traditional commentaries keyed to each passage provides access to the text and to its reception and interpretation. Also included are a glossary of terms... more...
The Anchor Book of Chinese Poetry
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group 2010; US$ 17.00Unmatched in scope and literary quality, The Anchor Book of Chinese Poetry spans three thousand years, bringing together more than six hundred poems by more than one hundred thirty poets, in translations?many new and exclusive to the book?by an array of distinguished translators. Here is the grand sweep of Chinese poetry, from the Book of Songs... more...
Statecraft and Classical Learning
BRILL 2009; US$ 99.00Devoted to the ancient Chinese Classic Rituals of Zhou, this book presents a multi-faceted picture of the life of the text from its inception some two millennia ago to its modern political and scholarly discourse across East Asia. more...
The Nightingale in the Garden of Love
Anqa Publishing 2005; US$ 17.99A detailed overview of the life and teachings of one of the great Ottoman Sufi masters, Mehmed Muhyiddin Üftade, is accompanied by an English translation of a collection of his religious poetry in this tribute to the Turkish and Persian spiritual traditions. Üftade's prominent role in the founding of the Jelvetiyye, one of the main dervish orders,... more...
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...
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...
Die Narratologie der Liebe
De Gruyter 2012; US$ 140.00This study contributes both to research on the literary presentation of love and to research on the writer Arnim. The study presents pioneering work by developing, on a systematic basis, a narratological and semiological concept of love and then successfully applies this concept to Achim von Arnim?s novel Gräfin Dolores. It profiles Gräfin Dolores... more...
Book of the Edge
BOA Editions Ltd. 2010; US$ 14.00The first US poetry translation of an award-winning younger Turkish poet and controversial investigative journalist. more...
Pocket I-Ching
Tuttle Publishing 2012; US$ 9.99In this easy-to-follow pocket edition, the ancient Chinese system of predicting the future has been made simple, opening the hidden world of the l-Ching to the nonspecialist. The method of divining the 64 prophetic hexagrams, and the way to interpret their meaning correctly, is clearly explained, and?to give extra assistance?each hexagram is divided... more...









