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The True History of Tea
This is the remarkable story of tea and its uses from ancient times to the present. The narrative takes the reader from the jungles of Southeast Asia to the splendour of the Tang …
Ming Dynasty Tales
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 …
China and Beyond by Victor H. Mair
Anthology Of Tang And Song Tales: The Tang Song Chuanqi Ji Of Lu Xun
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 …
Hawai'i Reader in Traditional Chinese Culture
The Hawai'i Reader in Traditional Chinese Culture is a collection of more than ninety primary sources - all but a few of which were translated specifically for this volume - of …
China and the Roman Orient
Similar in size and in duration, the Chinese and the Roman empires ruled half the world’s population at the time of their co-existence. But what did they know about each other? In …
ABC Dictionary of Sino-Japanese Readings
The significance of Japanese-language scholarship on China cannot be overstated. Yet much of it is largely untapped by China scholars in both the West and China, in part because …
Four Testaments
Four Testaments brings together four foundational texts from world religions—the Tao Te Ching, Dhammapada, Analects of Confucius, and Bhagavad Gita—inviting readers to experience …
Buddhist Transformations and Interactions
The Prehistory of the Silk Road
In ancient and medieval times, the Silk Road was of great importance to the transport of peoples, goods, and ideas between the East and the West. A vast network of trade routes, it …
Chinese Lives
China is the most populous country on earth, with the longest history of any modern nation. In the 21st century, it is clear that China’s future, as a political and economic world …
Columbia Anthology of Chinese Folk and Popular Literature
In The Columbia Anthology of Chinese Folk and Popular Literature, two of the world's leading sinologists, Victor H. Mair and Mark Bender, capture the breadth of China's oral-based …