Written by the eminent sinologist Michael Loewe, and edited for publication by T. Corey Brennan and Michael Nylan, this book gives an overview of the considerations and practices of two major world empires that together ruled half of the earths popu...Loe edasi...
Written by the eminent sinologist Michael Loewe, and edited for publication by T. Corey Brennan and Michael Nylan, this book gives an overview of the considerations and practices of two major world empires that together ruled half of the earths popu...Loe edasi...
Fan Lin, Griet Vankeerberghen, Michael Nylan, Andrew Plaks
Sari: Classics of Chinese Thought
(Ilmumisaeg: 04-Feb-2025, PDF+DRM, Kirjastus: University of Washington Press, ISBN-13: 9780295753461)
An early commentary on one of the Chinese Five ClassicsThe Documents classic (Shangshu) was central to the political life of imperial China. This owed much to the lively commentarial activity surrounding the text in the first two centuries BCE. The G...Loe edasi...
Fan Lin, Griet Vankeerberghen, Michael Nylan, Andrew Plaks
Sari: Classics of Chinese Thought
(Ilmumisaeg: 04-Feb-2025, EPUB+DRM, Kirjastus: University of Washington Press, ISBN-13: 9780295753461)
An early commentary on one of the Chinese Five ClassicsThe Documents classic (Shangshu) was central to the political life of imperial China. This owed much to the lively commentarial activity surrounding the text in the first two centuries BCE. The G...Loe edasi...
Liu Zhiji, Victor Cunrui Xiong, Michael Nylan, Andrew Plaks
Sari: Classics of Chinese Thought
(Ilmumisaeg: 13-Jun-2023, EPUB+DRM, Kirjastus: University of Washington Press, ISBN-13: 9780295751078)
The definitive translation of a masterpiece in ancient Chinese historiographyIn the early eighth century, frustrated with the authorities but still hoping to gain immortality through his future oeuvre, the Tang court historian Liu Zhiji set out to wr...Loe edasi...
Liu Zhiji, Victor Cunrui Xiong, Michael Nylan, Andrew Plaks
Sari: Classics of Chinese Thought
(Ilmumisaeg: 13-Jun-2023, PDF+DRM, Kirjastus: University of Washington Press, ISBN-13: 9780295751078)
The definitive translation of a masterpiece in ancient Chinese historiographyIn the early eighth century, frustrated with the authorities but still hoping to gain immortality through his future oeuvre, the Tang court historian Liu Zhiji set out to wr...Loe edasi...
Liu Xiang, Eric Henry, Andrew Plaks, Michael Nylan
Sari: Garden of Eloquence / Shuoyuan
(Ilmumisaeg: 16-Jan-2022, PDF+DRM, Kirjastus: University of Washington Press, ISBN-13: 9780295806334)
Winner of the Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Prize for a Translation of a Literary Work, sponsored by the Modern Language AssociationAn anthology of literary gems compiled in early China, newly translated and annotatedIn 17 BCE the Han dynasty archivist L...Loe edasi...
Liu Xiang, Eric Henry, Andrew Plaks, Michael Nylan
Sari: Garden of Eloquence / Shuoyuan
(Ilmumisaeg: 16-Jan-2022, EPUB+DRM, Kirjastus: University of Washington Press, ISBN-13: 9780295806334)
Winner of the Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Prize for a Translation of a Literary Work, sponsored by the Modern Language AssociationAn anthology of literary gems compiled in early China, newly translated and annotatedIn 17 BCE the Han dynasty archivist L...Loe edasi...
Sari: SUNY series in Chinese Philosophy and Culture
(Ilmumisaeg: 01-Nov-2021, EPUB+DRM, Kirjastus: State University of New York Press, ISBN-13: 9781438485447)
The first concerted attempt to analyze how the histories Shiji and Hanshu described the technical arts as they were applied in vital areas of the administration of pre-Han and Han China.While cultural literacy in early China was grounded in learning...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 14-Sep-2021, PDF+DRM, Kirjastus: Zone Books, ISBN-13: 9781942130161)
This book takes up one of the most important themes in Chinese thought: the relation of pleasurable activities to bodily health and to the health of the body politic. Unlike Western theories of pleasure, early Chinese writings contrast pleasure not w...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 14-Sep-2021, EPUB+DRM, Kirjastus: Zone Books, ISBN-13: 9781942130161)
This book takes up one of the most important themes in Chinese thought: the relation of pleasurable activities to bodily health and to the health of the body politic. Unlike Western theories of pleasure, early Chinese writings contrast pleasure not w...Loe edasi...
For the first time in any modern language, a female scholar and translator reimagines The Art of War.Sun Tzus ancient book of strategy and psychology has as much to tell us today as when it was first written 2,500 years ago. In a world full of surpr...Loe edasi...
Sun Tzus book of strategy and psychology has as much to tell us today as when it was written 2,500 years ago. Michael Nylan, in her provocative introduction, sees new and unexpected lessons to be learned from The Art of War-in business, relationship...Loe edasi...
Stephen Durrant, Wai-yee Li, David Schaberg, Andrew Plaks, Michael Nylan
Sari: Zuo Tradition / Zuozhuan
(Ilmumisaeg: 01-Jul-2016, PDF+DRM, Kirjastus: University of Washington Press, ISBN-13: 9780295806730)
Winner of the Patrick D. Hanan Book Prize for Translation (China and Inner Asia), sponsored by the Association for Asian Studies Zuo Tradition (Zuozhuan; sometimes called The Zuo Commentary) is Chinas first great work of history. It consists of two i...Loe edasi...
Stephen Durrant, Wai-yee Li, Michael Nylan, Hans van Ess
Sari: The Letter to Ren An and Sima Qians Legacy
(Ilmumisaeg: 01-Apr-2016, PDF+DRM, Kirjastus: University of Washington Press, ISBN-13: 9780295806389)
Sima Qian (first century BCE), the author of Record of the Historian (Shiji), is Chinas earliest and best-known historian, and his Letter to Ren An is the most famous letter in Chinese history. In the letter, Sima Qian explains his decision to finish...Loe edasi...
Stephen Durrant, Wai-yee Li, Michael Nylan, Hans van Ess
Sari: The Letter to Ren An and Sima Qians Legacy
(Ilmumisaeg: 01-Apr-2016, EPUB+DRM, Kirjastus: University of Washington Press, ISBN-13: 9780295806389)
Sima Qian (first century BCE), the author of Record of the Historian (Shiji), is Chinas earliest and best-known historian, and his Letter to Ren An is the most famous letter in Chinese history. In the letter, Sima Qian explains his decision to finish...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 01-Dec-2014, PDF+DRM, Kirjastus: University of Washington Press, ISBN-13: 9780295806419)
During the last two centuries BCE, the Western Han capital of Changan, near todays Xian in northwest China, outshone Augustan Rome in several ways while administering comparable numbers of imperial subjects and equally vast territories. At its gra...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 30-Aug-2013, PDF+DRM, Kirjastus: University of Washington Press, ISBN-13: 9780295804682)
Winner of the Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Prize for a Translation of a Scholarly Study of Literature, sponsored by the Modern Language AssociationExemplary Figures (sometimes translated as Model Sayings) is an unabridged, annotated translation of Fayan...Loe edasi...
