Library of Chinese Classics (Chinese-English)

A Dream of Red Mansions By Tsao Hsueh-chin and Kao Hgo Translated by Yang Hsien-Yi and Gladys Yang Illustrated by Tai Tun-Pang Foreign Language Press, Beijing, 1999 Hardcover, 6 volumes, 960 x 640, 1/16, 3571 pages ISBN: 7119024116 Hong Lou Meng, sometimes translated as The Dream of the Red Chamber, the great classical Chinese novel written in the mid-eighteenth century during the reign of Emperor Chien-lung of the Ching Dynasty, has been widely popular throughout the last two hundred years and more. The four great houses of Chia, Shih, Wang and Hsueh described in this novel were typical basic political units of feudal society. Such families were linked with the court above and the local officials below to form a network of control with the feudal autocratic state power as its centre. The...

A New Account of Tales of the World -Library of Chinese Classics Chinese-English Compiled by Liu Yiqing (the Southern and Northern Dynasties), translated into English by Richard B Mather, translated into Modern Chinese by Zhang Wanqi, Liu Shangci Published by Zhonghua Book Company, Beijing, 2007 Library binding book, dimensions 960 x 640, 1/16, 2 Volumes, 794 pages ISBN: 9787101057133 A New Account of the Tales of the World, originally entitled An Account of the World, is a masterpiece of the biographical stories popular during the Wei, Jin and the Southern and Northern dynasties. Liu Yiqing, its writer (403 - 444) and a native of Pangcheng (now Xuzhou City of Jiangsu Province), was the nephew of Liu Yu, Emperor Songwu of the Southern Dynasty and was later invested with his hereditary...

Series: Library of Chinese Classics Hardcover: 1704 pages Publisher: Higher Education Press; 1st edition (2006) Language: English ASIN: B0147NEBMI

Publisher : Phoenix Press Published Date : 12/2012 Language : English and Chinese bilingual ISBN/ISSN : 9787544725088 Pages : 716 "Greater China Library: Flowers Set (Set of 2)" is China's first anthology of the word, on the order of poetry, under Kai Song. The book received the word 500, sub 10 volumes. Multi-word book is a celebration of various stages of love, presented in a world full of contradictions, in that turbulent era supreme pleasure to build up a world of luxury.

Brush Talks From Dream Brook (2 Vol.s) -Library of Chinese Classics Chinese-English Author: (Song)Shen Kuo; Translators: Hu Daojing, etc. Publisher: Sichuan People's Publishing House, 1/2008 Language: Text, Chinese and English Library binding: Hardcover, 2 volumes, 1065 pages; 9.8 x 7.2 x 2 inches ISBN: 9787220077418 Brush Talks From Dream Brook was an extensive book written by the polymath Chinese scientist and statesman Shen Kuo (1031-1095) by 1088 AD, during the Song Dynasty (960-1279) of China. Although Shen was previously a highly renowned government official and military general, he compiled this enormous written work while virtually isolated on his lavish garden estate near modern-day Zhenjiang, Jiangsu province. He named the book after the name he gave to his estate, the "Dream...