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  • Quelling the Demons' Revolt

    A Novel from Ming China

    de Guanzhong Luo ...
    Traducido por Patrick Hanan ...
    Series series Translations from the Asian Classics
    In this Ming-era novel, historical narrative, raucous humor, and the supernatural are interwoven to tell the tale of an unsuccessful attempt to overthrow the Song dynasty. A poor young girl meets an old woman who gives her a magic book that allows her to create rice and money. Her father, terrified that his daughter's demonic nature might be discovered, marries her off. Forced to flee, she and ... Leer más

    $21.99 USD

  • Chinese Fiction of the Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries

    Essays by Patrick Hanan

    de Patrick Hanan ...
    Series series Masters of Chinese Studies
    It has often been said that the nineteenth century was a relatively stagnant period for Chinese fiction, but preeminent scholar Patrick Hanan shows that the opposite is true: the finest novels of the nineteenth century show a constant experimentation and evolution. In this collection of detailed and insightful essays, Hanan examines Chinese fiction before and during the period in which Chinese ... Leer más

    $67.99 USD

  • Courtesans and Opium

    Romantic Illusions of the Fool of Yangzhou

    de Anonymous ...
    Traducido por Patrick Hanan ...
    Series series Weatherhead Books on Asia
    In his preface, the anonymous author of Courtesans and Opium describes his book as an act of penance for thirty years spent patronizing the brothels of Yangzhou. Written in the 1840s, his story is filled with vice and dark consequence, portraying the hazards of the city's seedy underbelly and warning others against the example of the Fool.Chinese literature's first true "city novel," Courtesans ... Leer más

    $31.99 USD

  • Courtesans and Opium

    Romantic Illusions of the Fool of Yangzhou

    de Anonymous ...
    Traducido por Patrick Hanan ...
    Series series Weatherhead Books on Asia
    In his preface, the anonymous author of Courtesans and Opium describes his book as an act of penance for thirty years spent patronizing the brothels of Yangzhou. Written in the 1840s, his story is filled with vice and dark consequence, portraying the hazards of the city's seedy underbelly and warning others against the example of the Fool.Chinese literature's first true "city novel," Courtesans ... Leer más

    $25.99 USD

  • Mirage

    First published anonymously in 1804—its author remains unknown—Mirage is set in Guangzhou (Canton), some decades before the city was overwhelmed by the opium trade and the Opium War. Su Jishi, the adolescent son of the head of the Chinese traders’ association, the men licensed to deal with foreign merchants in the port, is suddenly burdened with responsibility for his powerful family after his ... Leer más

    $12.99 USD

  • Quelling the Demons' Revolt

    A Novel from Ming China

    de Guanzhong Luo ...
    Traducido por Patrick Hanan ...
    Series series Translations from the Asian Classics
    In this Ming-era novel, historical narrative, raucous humor, and the supernatural are interwoven to tell the tale of an unsuccessful attempt to overthrow the Song dynasty. A poor young girl meets an old woman who gives her a magic book that allows her to create rice and money. Her father, terrified that his daughter's demonic nature might be discovered, marries her off. Forced to flee, she and ... Leer más

    $28.99 USD

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  • Water Margin

    Outlaws of the Marsh

    de Shi Naian ...
    Traducido por J.H. Jackson ...
    Based upon the historical bandit Song Jiang and his companions, The Water Margin is an epic tale of rebellion against tyranny that will remind Western readers of the English classic Robin Hood and His Merry Men.This edition of the classic J. H. Jackson translation brings a story that has been inspiring readers for hundreds of years to life for modern audiences. It features a new preface and ... Leer más

    $21.99 USD

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  • A Dance with Danger

    de Jeannie Lin ...
    Series Libro 2 - Rebels and Lovers
    A promise sworn on the edge of a swordAfter a failed assassination attempt on a corrupt general, Bao Yang is a wanted man. Taking refuge with an ally, Yang accidentally compromises the man's daughter when they're discovered alone. To save her honor, he must marry the beautiful Jin-mei immediately!In Yang's arms, Jin-mei feels alive for the first time. She's determined not to lose him, even if it ... Leer más

    $2.99 USD

  • Empress Wu Zetian

    The Legendary Women of World History, #5

    de Laurel A. Rockefeller ...
    Series Libro 5 - The Legendary Women of World History
    The most hated woman in Chinese history!Travel back in time over one thousand years and meet the first and only female emperor of China. Born Wu Zhao and given the reign title "Zetian" just weeks before her death in 705 CE, Empress Wu was the unwanted daughter of Chancellor Wu Shihuo -- too bright, too educated, and too politically focused to make a good wife according to contemporary ... Leer más

    $2.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • Chinese Fairy Tales and Fantasies

    de Moss Roberts ...
    Series series The Pantheon Fairy Tale and Folklore Library
    This collection of tales opens up a magical world far from our customary haunts. Ghost stories, romances, fables, and heroic sagas: the forms are familiar, but the characters we meet surprise us at every turn. For those who know and love the tales of the Grimms and Andersen, the universal themes of fairy tale literature emerge in these classic stories, but with a sophistication that is uniquely ... Leer más

    $8.99 USD

  • Dream of the Walled City

    de Lisa Huang Fleischman ...
    Marking the debut of a stunning new literary talent, Lisa Huang Fleischman's extraordinary saga -- inspired by her grandmother's life as an early feminist, political activist, and friend of Mao Zedong -- is a masterpiece about one clever and resourceful woman, growing up amidst the turmoil of twentieth-century China.Born in 1890, the privileged and sheltered daughter of a high-ranking imperial ... Leer más

    $15.99 USD

  • The Scholars

    de Gladys Yang, Wu Ching-tzu ...
    The Unofficial History of the Forest of the Literati. A novel of the iconoclasts and intellectuals of the late Ming period. ... Leer más

    $7.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus