Tang Dynasty Tales: A Guided Reader - Volume 2

Tang Dynasty Tales: A Guided Reader - Volume 2

Author: William H Nienhauser, Jr

Publisher: World Scientific

Published: 2016-01-11

Total Pages: 475

ISBN-13: 9814719544

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This volume supplements Tang Tales, A Guided Reader (Volume 1; 2010) and presents twelve more Tang tales, going beyond the standard corpus of these narratives to include six stories translated into English for the first time. The rich annotation and translator's notes for these twelve tales provide insights into many aspects of Tang material culture and medieval thought, including Buddhism and Daoism.In addition to meticulously annotated translations, the book offers original texts (with some textual notes), and commentaries in the form of translator's notes, thereby joining the first volume of Tang tales as the only collections that introduce students to Tang tales while also challenging specialists interested in the field.


Tang Dynasty Tales

Tang Dynasty Tales

Author: William H. Nienhauser

Publisher: World Scientific

Published: 2010

Total Pages: 342

ISBN-13: 9814287288

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The book provides the most up-to-date and comprehensive survey of the genre of Tang tales in English, including discussions of the numerous Chinese studies from the last decade. Tang Tales itself contains the first annotated translations of these famous stories, which are deciphered and interpreted specifically for students and scholars interested in the medieval Chinese literature. Following the model of intertextual readings employed by Glen Dudbridge in The Tale of Li Wa (Oxford, 1983), the annotation points to the resonances to the classical texts; the translator's notes following each translation then explain how these references expand the meaning of the text. In addition to six translations of the major tales (chuanqi, "transmitting the strange"), there is also a rendition of a fantastic tale by Liu Zongyuan, suggesting close ties with popular and oral literature. The appended glossary of terms marks the first attempt to create such a reference for readers and scholars of Tang tales that will be of use in reading other tales as well. The meticulous scholarship of this book elevates it above all existing collections of these stories, and the inclusion of the standard introduction to the Tang tales for graduate students and researchers engenders a deeper appreciation.


Tang Dynasty Tales

Tang Dynasty Tales

Author: William H. Nienhauser

Publisher: World Scientific

Published: 2016

Total Pages: 475

ISBN-13: 9814719536

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"This volume supplements Tang Tales, A Guided Reader (Volume 1; 2010) and presents twelve more Tang tales, going beyond the standard corpus of these narratives to include six stories translated into English for the first time. The rich annotation and translator's notes for these twelve tales provide insights into many aspects of Tang material culture and medieval thought, including Buddhism and Daoism. In addition to meticulously annotated translations, the book offers original texts (with some textual notes), and commentaries in the form of translator's notes, thereby joining the first volume of Tang tales as the only collections that introduce students to Tang tales while also challenging specialists interested in the field."--


Tang Dynasty Tales

Tang Dynasty Tales

Author: William H. Nienhauser

Publisher: World Scientific Publishing Company

Published: 2015-11-25

Total Pages: 476

ISBN-13: 9789814719520

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This volume supplements Tang Tales, A Guided Reader (Volume 1; 2010) and presents twelve more Tang tales, going beyond the standard corpus of these narratives to include six stories translated into English for the first time. The rich annotation and translator's notes for these twelve tales provide insights into many aspects of Tang material culture and medieval thought, including Buddhism and Daoism. In addition to meticulously annotated translations, the book offers original texts (with some textual notes), and commentaries in the form of translator's notes, thereby joining the first volume of Tang tales as the only collections that introduce students to Tang tales while also challenging specialists interested in the field.


Ming Dynasty Tales

Ming Dynasty Tales

Author: Victor H. Mair

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing

Published: 2022-05-05

Total Pages: 201

ISBN-13: 135026329X

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With commentary and annotations throughout, Ming Dynasty Tales: A Guided Reader presents for the first time in English 10 key stories from China's Ming Dynasty era. Casting new light on this significant period in Chinese literary history, these tales bring Ming era China vividly to life, from its chaotic beginnings to its imperial heyday. As well as bearing witness to social change across the 100-year life of the Yuan Dynasty from 1260 to 1368, these tales tackle key themes of war and peace and Confucian values of loyalty, filiality, chastity, and righteousness.


Anthology Of Tang And Song Tales: The Tang Song Chuanqi Ji Of Lu Xun

Anthology Of Tang And Song Tales: The Tang Song Chuanqi Ji Of Lu Xun

Author: Victor H Mair

Publisher: World Scientific

Published: 2020-03-17

Total Pages: 863

ISBN-13: 9811216525

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This volume is the first complete English rendition of the 45 famous tales in the monumental anthology masterfully selected and edited by Lu Xun (1881-1936). It is the most distinctive, authoritative, and influential chuanqi collection thus far, and many of the pieces are rendered for the first time. This is an important contribution to the field of Chinese studies in the English-speaking world.


Journey to the West (2018 Edition - PDF)

Journey to the West (2018 Edition - PDF)

Author: Wu Cheng'en

Publisher: Asiapac Books Pte Ltd

Published: 2018-08-14

Total Pages: 177

ISBN-13: 9812298894

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The bestselling Journey to the West comic book by artist Chang Boon Kiat is now back in a brand new fully coloured edition. Journey to the West is one of the greatest classics in Chinese literature. It tells the epic tale of the monk Xuanzang who journeys to the West in search of the Buddhist sutras with his disciples, Sun Wukong, Sandy and Pigsy. Along the way, Xuanzang's life was threatened by the diabolical White Bone Spirit, the menacing Red Child and his fearsome parents and, a host of evil spirits who sought to devour Xuanzang's flesh to attain immortality. Bear witness to the formidable Sun Wukong's (Monkey God) prowess as he takes them on, using his Fiery Eyes, Golden Cudgel, Somersault Cloud, and quick wits! Be prepared for a galloping read that will leave you breathless!


Selvakumar Knew Better

Selvakumar Knew Better

Author: Virginia L. Kroll

Publisher:

Published: 2009-02

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781885008367

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When a giant tsunami approaches his village, seven-year-old Dinakaran is saved by the family dog. Based on a true story; includes facts about the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami.


On Cold Mountain

On Cold Mountain

Author: Paul Rouzer

Publisher: University of Washington Press

Published: 2015-10-01

Total Pages: 279

ISBN-13: 0295806133

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In this first serious study of Hanshan (“Cold Mountain”), Paul Rouzer discusses some seventy poems of the iconic Chinese poet who lived sometime during the Tang dynasty (618–907). Hanshan’s poems gained a large readership in English-speaking countries following the publication of Jack Kerouac’s novel The Dharma Bums (1958) and Gary Snyder’s translations (which began to appear that same year), and they have been translated into English more than any other body of Chinese verse. Rouzer investigates how Buddhism defined the way that believers may have read Hanshan in premodern times. He proposes a Buddhist poetics as a counter-model to the Confucian assumptions of Chinese literary thought and examines how texts by Kerouac, Snyder, and Jane Hirshfield respond to the East Asian Buddhist tradition.


The Turtle Ship

The Turtle Ship

Author: Helena Ku Rhee

Publisher: Shen's Books

Published: 2018

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781885008909

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An adaptation of the legend of Sunsin Yi, a young boy in sixteenth-century Korea, who, inspired by his pet turtle, designs one of the greatest battleships in history and fulfills his dream of sailing the world.