Product Description: Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.

Product Description: In this classic book Yutang Ling does a fantastic job of describing Chinese people, customs and culture in an understandable way for the Western reader. this book was the first of it's kind, Ling being a rarity as he was fluent in both English and Chinese, having been born in China but growing up in America...read more

Product Description: Su Tungpo was a great Chinese judge living in the 11th century. He was a compassionate judge, a great poet, artist and architect. Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive...read more

Product Description: The texts chosen by Lin Yutang trace the development of Chinese art from the earliest literary reference in Confucius to the vital essays of Shih-t'ao and Shen Tsung-chi'en more than 20 centuries later. The selections cover every aspect of technique and subject matter, including the Six Canons of Chinese painting, while the scope of the book is widened further by the inclusion of important essays on collecting and connoisseurship, on the pricing and appraisal of paintings, and on calligraphy...read more

Product Description: T JOHN DAY book REYNAL HITCHCOCK NEW YORK is not truth that makes man great, but man that makes truth great. CONFUCIUS Only those who take leisurely what the people of the world are busy about can be busy about what the people of the world take leisurely...read more

Product Description: LIN YUTANG On THE WISDOM OF AMERICA. Originally published in 1907. CONTENTS include: Preface on a Sunday Morning xi I. THE WISDOM OF LIVING 1. The Scope of Wisdom i 2. The Philosophers Blindman s Buff 7 3. The American Sense o Fact 14 4...read more

A band of men become robbers when they are forced to flee the decadent Sung Dynasty.

Product Description: Chinese tradition says that the Daodejing (or Tao teh Ching), was written by Laozi (Lao-Tzu in the older renderings), a renowned philosopher who lived in the Hunan province of China between 570 and 490 BC. The title Daodejing might be usefully rendered "The way the universe works," for Laozi taught that people should ignore the pressures of society and, in the modern expression, "go with the flow" by aligning themselves to the underlying pattern of the universe...read more

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A treatise on living a rich life from a Chinese point of view advocates a pursuit of self enjoyment through humor, joy, creativity, conversation, reading, nature appreciation, balanced inaction, and other non-material activities

Looks at the architecture, sculpture, drawings, calligraphy, carvings, and porcelain of Peking, traces the history of the Chinese capital, and describes the various periods of Chinese art