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The Classic of Mountains and Seas
This major source of Chinese mythology (third century BC to second century AD) contains a treasure trove of rare data and colorful fiction about the mythical figures, rituals, …
Popular Songs and Ballads of Han China
This book, first published in 1988, compiles 77 songs and ballads (yueh-fu) of early imperial China (200 BC - AD 300). Each song-text is newly translated and fully annotated and …
Popular Songs and Ballads of Han China
This book, first published in 1988, compiles 77 songs and ballads (yüeh-fu) of early imperial China (200 BC – AD 300). Each song-text is newly translated and fully annotated and …
Chinese Myths
Myths were regarded with great scepticism by classical Chinese scholars and remained primarily a diffuse and fragmentary oral tradition, eventually preserved in writing only in a …
New Songs from a Jade Terrace
This book, first published in 1982, was the first translation of the Chinese classic Yu-t-'ai hsin-yung - the unique anthology of love poems, compiled in AD 545. This traces the …
Women, the Book, and the Worldly
Studies of women's roles in the secular literary world, as patrons, authors, readers, and characters in secular literature. This second volume of proceedings from the `Women and …
Chinese Mythology
In Chinese Mythology, Anne Birrell provides English translations of some 300 representative myth narratives selected from over 100 classical texts, many of which have never before …
New Songs from a Jade Terrace
This book, first published in 1982, was the first translation of the Chinese classic Yü-t-‘ai hsin-yung – the unique anthology of love poems, compiled in AD 545. This traces the …