Library of Chinese Classics (Chinese-English)

Paperback: 424 pages Publisher: zhong hua shu ju chu ban she (December 1, 2007) Language: English, Chinese ISBN-10: 7101055222 ISBN-13: 978-7101055221 Product Dimensions: 9.4 x 6.4 x 1 inches Along with Commentary on the Waterways by Li Daoyuan, A Record of Buddhist Monasteries in Luo-yang by Yang Xuanzhi has been acclaimed as a prose classic of the Northern Wei Dynasty. Adopting the attitude of a historian, Yang provided complete, detailed and accurate records of Buddhist temples' distribution in Luo-yang, as well as major monasteries' history, architecture and relevant Buddhist activities. Owing to its description of the popularity of Buddhism in Luo-yang, the book, as well became an important Buddhist classic. In addition, from palace coups to the life of ordinary people, it presents a...

Anthology Of Tales From Records Of The Taiping Era -Library of Chinese Classics Chinese-English Compiled by Li Fang (Song Dynasty), translated into English by Zhang Guangqian Published by Foreign Languages Press, Beijing, 2007 Library binding book, dimensions 960 x 640, 1/16, 2 Volumes, 1019 pages ISBN: 9787119050881 Records of the Taiping Era, compiled during the Taiping Xingguo reign period (976-984) of Emperor Taizong of the Northern Song Dynasty (960-1127), is a collection of about 7,000 stories, dating from the pre-Qin period (770-221 BC) to the early Northern Song Dynasty. The stories, mainly myths and legends, record or recount a variety of strange happenings in a succinct style. The subjects and contents as well as the literary genre thus formed exerted a tremendous influence on...

Library of Chinese Classics: Dragon-Carving and the Literary Mind Written by Liu Xie (the Southern Dynasties) Translated into English by Yang Guobin Translated into modern Chinese by Zhou Zhenfu Publisher: Foreign Language Teaching and Research Press Publication Date: 2003-12 Language: Chinese and English ISBN: 7560029965 Library Binding: hardcover, 2 volumes, 799 pages Dragon-Carving and the Literary Mind written by Liu Xie (c. 465-521) marks the culmination of early Chinese literary criticism and literary theory. It represents a systematic explication on a host of important issues ranging from the origins of literature to literary genres, imagination, style, rhetoric, literary appreciation, writers' moral integrity, and the relationship between literature and social change. It is the...

Library of Chinese Classics: 300 Early Chinese Poems (206 BC-618 AD) Translated into modern Chinese by Hong Zheng and Xiong Zhiqi Translated into English by Wang Rongpei Library binding book, vol. I, II, dimensions 960 x 640, 1/16 Publisher: Hunan People's Publishing House, 2006 ISBN: 7543844699 9787543844698 This anthology contains 300-old poems from the Han Dynasty to the Sui Dynasty (206 BC-618 AD), providing a glimpse of the Early Chinese poetry during this period. As an important page in the growth of Chinese poetry, the poems in these 800 years carry on and bring into fully play the fine tradition of The Book of Poetry and The Verse of Chu, and give a vivid panorama of the social reality at that time. Attempts are made in these poems to explore new genres and ways of versification...

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