The Legend of King Asoka

John S Strong

• Hardcover | Engels | Princeton Library of Asian Translations
• An English translation of the Asokavadana text, the Sanskrit version of the legend of King Asoka, first written in the second century A.D. Emperor of ... Lees meer

Noh Drama and the Tale of the Genji

Janet Goff

• Hardcover | Engels | Princeton Library of Asian Translations
• The Japanese noh theater has enjoyed a rich, continuous history dating back to the Muromachi period (1336-1573), when virtually the entire repertoire ... Lees meer

Wen Xuan or Selections of Refined Literature, Volume I

David R Knechtges, Tong Xiao

• Hardcover | Engels | Princeton Library of Asian Translations
• A text of central importance to the Chinese literary tradition, the Wen xuan was compiled by Xiao Tong (501-531) and is the oldest surviving anthology... Lees meer

Poets of the Tamil Anthologies

George L Hart

• Hardcover | Engels | Princeton Library of Asian Translations
• The poems of ancient Tamil are one of India's most important contributions to world literature. Presented here in English translation is a selection o... Lees meer

The Culture of the Meiji Period

Daikichi Irokawa

• Hardcover | Engels | Princeton Library of Asian Translations
• The description for this book, The Culture of the Meiji Period, will be forthcoming. Lees meer

The Rāmāyaṇa of Vālmīki: An Epic of Ancient India, Volume III

• Paperback | Engels | Princeton Library of Asian Translations | nr. 144
• This is the third volume of a planned seven-volume translation of India's most beloved and influential epic tale--the Ramayana of Valmiki. This third ... Lees meer

The Plum in the Golden Vase Or, Chin P'Ing Mei, Volume Three

• Hardcover | Engels | Princeton Library of Asian Translations | nr. 163
• The third volume of a celebrated translation of the classic Chinese novel This is the third volume in David Roy's celebrated translation of one of the... Lees meer

The Rāmāyaṇa of Vālmīki

• Paperback | Engels | Princeton Library of Asian Translations | nr. 157
• The definitive English translation of the classic Sanskrit epic poem --now available in a one-volume paperback The Rāmāyaṇa of Vālmīki , the monumenta... Lees meer

Hsun Yueh and the Mind of Late Han China

Chi-Yun Ch'en

• Hardcover | Engels | Princeton Library of Asian Translations
• Hsiin Yiieh's Shen-chien (Extended Reflections) is one of the four major philosophical works that have survived from the later Han dynasty (A.D. 25- 2... Lees meer

The Rāmāyaṇa of Vālmīki: An Epic of Ancient India, Volume IV

• Paperback | Engels | Princeton Library of Asian Translations | nr. 142
• This is the fourth volume of a translation of India's most beloved and influential epic tale--the Ramayana of Valmiki . As befits its position at the ... Lees meer

Told Round a Brushwood Fire

Joyce Ackroyd

• Hardcover | Engels | Princeton Library of Asian Translations
• The Oritaku Shiha no Ki of Arai Hakuscki (1657-1725) was the first Japanese autobiography and is often singled out as the most outstanding. As primary... Lees meer

Wen Xuan or Selections of Refined Literature, Volume I

David R Knechtges, Tong Xiao

• Paperback | Engels | Princeton Library of Asian Translations
• A text of central importance to the Chinese literary tradition, the Wen xuan was compiled by Xiao Tong (501-531) and is the oldest surviving anthology... Lees meer

Siva's Warriors

• Paperback | Engels | Princeton Library of Asian Translations
• Here is the first translation into English of the Basava Purana, a fascinating collection of tales that sums up and characterizes one of the most impo... Lees meer

History of Chinese Philosophy, Volume 2

Feng Youlan

• Paperback | Engels | Princeton Library of Asian Translations
• Since its original publication in Chinese in the 1930s, this work has been accepted by Chinese scholars as the most important contribution to the stud... Lees meer

On the Art of the No Drama

• Paperback | Engels | Princeton Library of Asian Translations | nr. 21
• This annotated translation is the first systematic rendering into any Western language of the nine major treatises on the art of the Japanese No theat... Lees meer

A Tale of Eleventh-Century Japan

• Paperback | Engels | Princeton Library of Asian Translations
• This book is a complete translation of Hamamatsu Chunagon Monogatari, one of the few extant works of monogatari literature of the Heian period. Origin... Lees meer

The Formation of Ch'an Ideology in China and Korea

Robert E Buswell

• Paperback | Engels | Princeton Library of Asian Translations
• This book is a translation and study of the Vajrasamadhi-Sutra and an examination of its broad implications for the development of East Asian Buddhism... Lees meer

Five Hundred Years of Chinese Poetry, 1150-1650

Kojiro Yoshikawa, John Timothy Wixted

• Hardcover | Engels | Princeton Library of Asian Translations
• Five Hundred Years of Chinese Poetry offers the only historical survey, in any language, of this important span of Chinese poetry. Written by the fore... Lees meer

Isfahan Is Half the World

Sayyed Mohammed Ali Jamalzadeh, W Heston

• Hardcover | Engels | Princeton Library of Asian Translations
• Mohammad Ali Jamalzadeh, acclaimed as the father of modern Persian short story, wrote this work. Sar o Tah-e Yak Karbas. to provide his fellow Iranian... Lees meer

Guanzi

• Hardcover | Engels | Princeton Library of Asian Translations | nr. 161
• Named for the famous Chinese minister of state, Guan Zhong (d. 645 B.C.), the Guanzi is one of the largest collections of ancient Chinese writings sti... Lees meer

My Thirty-Three Year's Dream

Miyazaki Toten

• Paperback | Engels | Princeton Library of Asian Translations
• Annotated by Professors Jansen and Eto, the book illuminates the experiences of Miyazaki's generation with Western culture and the development of an A... Lees meer

Chu Hsi's Family Rituals

Chu Hsi

• Hardcover | Engels | Princeton Library of Asian Translations
• Compiled by the great Neo-Confucian philosopher Chu Hsi (1130-1200), the Family Rituals is a manual for the private performance of the standard Chines... Lees meer

The Rāmāyaṇa of Vālmīki: An Epic of Ancient India, Volume V

• Paperback | Engels | Princeton Library of Asian Translations | nr. 145
• The fifth and most popular book of the Ramayana of Valmiki, the Sundarakanda , recounts the adventures of the monkey hero Hanuman in leaping across th... Lees meer

Wen Xuan or Selections of Refined Literature, Volume III

Xiao Tong

• Hardcover | Engels | Princeton Library of Asian Translations
• The Wen xuan , compiled by Xiao Tong (501-531) is the oldest surviving anthology of Chinese literature arranged by genre. It contains a total of 761 p... Lees meer