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The White Snake and Her Son
Hackett Publishing Company, Inc. 2009; US$ 13.50A cornerstone of Chinese popular culture, the legend of the White Snakethe admirable demon who loves her victimhas been continually rewritten, reinterpreted, and readapted for over five hundred years. The Precious Scroll of Thunder Peak was one of the most popular nineteenth-century versions of the legend. more...
Filial Piety and Its Divine Rewards
Hackett Publishing Company, Inc. 2009; US$ 13.50Of the many ballads, tales, and plays extolling filial piety ( xiao )the foundational virtue of imperial Chinanone was more popular in that era than the legend of Dong Yong and his heavenly helpmate, Weaving Maiden. Continually revised and embellished over a millennium, the tale's popularity remains, finding new expression in Chinese... more...
The Butterfly Lovers
Hackett Publishing Company, Inc. 2010; US$ 13.50The late-imperial legend of Liang Shanbo and Zhu Yingtai, the "Butterfly Lovers"a story as central to Chinese culture as Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet is to Western culturealso relates a tale of two lovers held apart by social strictures. To audiences of the many Chinese ballads, plays, and films based on the story, the tragic... more...
Mulan
Hackett Publishing Company, Inc. 2010; US$ 13.50The legend of Mulan?the daughter who disguises herself as a man, dons her father's armor, and heads off to war in his place?remains one of the most popular Chinese folktales despite (or because of) its lack of supernatural demonstrations or interventions. This volume offers lively translations of the earliest recorded version of the legend and... more...
Monks, Bandits, Lovers, and Immortals
Hackett Publishing Company, Inc. 2010; US$ 15.95"This magnificent collection of eleven early [12501450] Chinese plays will give readers a vivid sense of life and a clear understanding of dramatic literature during an extraordinarily eventful period in Chinese history. Not only are the eleven plays in this volume expertly translated into lively, idiomatic English; they are each provided... more...
Battles, Betrayals, and Brotherhood
Hackett Publishing Company, Inc. 2012; US$ 23.95No cycle of historical legends has enjoyed greater or more enduring popularity in China than that of the Three Kingdoms, which recounts the dramatic story of the civil wars (c. AD 180220) that divided the old Han empire into the Shu-Han, Wei, and Wu states, and the eventual reunification of the realm under the Western Jin in AD 280. more...
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