Das Genji-Monogatari ist das älteste und bedeutendste Werk der japanischen Frauenromane. Zugleich...

First published in 1949. This book gives the biographical background to the many poems of Po Chü-...

First published in 1952. The Real Tripitaka gives an account of the seventh century pilgrim's adv...

Dating from around 300BC, Tao Te Ching is the first great classic of the Chinese school of philos...

Probably the most popular book in the history of the Far East, this classic combination of picare...

'The Analects of Confucius' is one of the central books of Chinese literature and Chinese thought...

First published in 1921, 'The Noh Plays of Japan' has been justly famous for more than three-quar...

A Hundred and Seventy Chinese Poems

'The beauty of his (Waley's) prose captures the artistic spirit of a brilliant and fascinating wo...

Originally completed in the year 1002 and not meant for the public eye, this engrossing collectio...

One of the five Confucian classics, The Book of Songs (Shijing) is the oldest collection of poetr...

Lao Tzu's Tao Te Ching is one of the most important and profound texts of world literature. A gui...

Centuries before Shakespeare, Murasaki Shikibu's 'The Tale of Genji' was already acknowledged as ...

Also known as Journey to the West, Wu Ch'êng-ên's Monkey is one of the Four Great Classical Novel...

This unique anthology of Buddhist scripture traces the development of Buddhism through the ages, ...

One of the world's oldest novels and the greatest single work of Japanese literature, this 11th-c...

'Whether he is 'journeying with Chuang Tzu in the realm of Nothing Whatever, ' analyzing the Conf...

The Tang Dynasty was the golden age of Chinese poetry, and Bo Juyi is generally acclaimed as one ...

Originally published in 1958 by Allen & Unwin.

Confucius is one of the most humane, rational, and lucid of moral teachers, concerned not with ar...

Chinese Poems

Confucius is one of the most humane, rational, and lucid of moral teachers, concerned not with ar...

Take a firsthand journey into a time, society and world full of intrigue. In the tenth century, J...