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Chuang Tzu: Basic Writings

Product Description: Professor Fung Yu-lan is a distinguished contemporary Chinese philosopher. Chuang-tzu is the textbook he used to teach a course on Chuang Tzu in the Beijing Chinese Language School during the 1920s. The book originally contained the translation of the first seven chapters of the Chuang-tzu and an article entitled "Some Characteristics of the Philosophy of Kuo Hsiang "appeared as an appendix...read more

By Burton Watson

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9789990801941 | Reprint edition (Columbia Univ Pr, April 1, 1996), cover price $0.02 | also contains Chuang Tzu: Basic Writings | About this edition: Professor Fung Yu-lan is a distinguished contemporary Chinese philosopher.

9780231086066 | Columbia Univ Pr, December 1, 1974, cover price $26.00

Records of the Grand Historian: Qin Dynasty

By Sima Qian, Qian Sima and Burton Watson (trans)

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9780231081696 | Reissue edition (Columbia Univ Pr, January 1, 1996), cover price $36.00

Records of the Grand Historian: Han Dynasty I

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By Sima Qian and Burton Watson (trans)

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9780231081658 | Revised edition (Columbia Univ Pr, December 1, 1995), cover price $42.00

The Wild Goose

Book by Ogai Mori

By Ogai Mori and Burton Watson

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9780939512706 | Univ of Michigan Center for, November 1, 1995, cover price $28.95

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9780939512713 | Univ of Michigan Center for, August 1, 1995, cover price $14.95 | About this edition: Book by Ogai Mori

The Old Man Who Does As He Pleases: Selections from the Poetry and Pros of Lu Yu

Product Description: Lu Yu (1125-1210), whose pen name was "The Old Man Who Does as He Pleases, " was among the most prolific of Chinese poets, having left behind a collection of close to ten thousand poems as well as miscellaneous prose writings. His poetry, often characterized by an intense patriotism, is also notable for its recurrent expression of a carefree enjoyment of life...read more

By Burton Watson (trans) and Yu-Lu

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9780231101554 | Columbia Univ Pr, November 1, 1994, cover price $22.00 | About this edition: Lu Yu (1125-1210), whose pen name was "The Old Man Who Does as He Pleases, " was among the most prolific of Chinese poets, having left behind a collection of close to ten thousand poems as well as miscellaneous prose writings.

Four Huts: Asian Writings on the Simple Life

Product Description: These four short works give voice to one of the most treasured aesthetic and spiritual ideals of Asia--that of a simple life lived in a simple dwelling. These beautiful texts were written by four renowned Chinese and Japanese poets, and the qualities that emerge include an awareness of impermanence and a love of nature...read more

By Stephen Addiss (editor) and Burton Watson (trans)

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9781570620010 | Shambhala Pubns, June 1, 1994, cover price $16.95 | About this edition: These four short works give voice to one of the most treasured aesthetic and spiritual ideals of Asia--that of a simple life lived in a simple dwelling.

Selected Poems of Su Tung-P'O

Gathers poems about travel, nature, daily life, friendship, and exile by the eleventh-century Chinese poet, who wrote under the name Su Tung-p'o

By Shi Su, Su Tung-P'O and Burton Watson

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9781556590641 | Copper Canyon Pr, May 1, 1994, cover price $14.00 | About this edition: Gathers poems about travel, nature, daily life, friendship, and exile by the eleventh-century Chinese poet, who wrote under the name Su Tung-p'o

Stories of Osaka Life

Product Description: Book by Sakunosuke, Oda

By Oda Sakunosuke and Burton Watson (trans)

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9780231071864 | Columbia Univ Pr, May 1, 1990, cover price $84.00

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9780834803084 | Weatherhill, March 1, 1994, cover price $12.95 | About this edition: Book by Sakunosuke, Oda

The Lotus Sutra

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By Burton Watson (trans)

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9780231081603 | Columbia Univ Pr, June 1, 1993, cover price $80.00

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9780231081610 | Reissue edition (Columbia Univ Pr, March 1, 1994), cover price $26.95

Records of the Grand Historian

Product Description: Liu Yichang has devoted the best part of his long career to serving the cause of literature of Hong Kong. A journalist who arrived in Hong Kong from the wartime capital of Chungking, he founded the influential Hong Kong Literature Monthly...read more

By Sima Qian and Burton Watson (trans)

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9780231082402 | Columbia Univ Pr, February 1, 1993, cover price $331.50 | About this edition: Liu Yichang has devoted the best part of his long career to serving the cause of literature of Hong Kong.

Records of the Grand Historian: Han Dynasty II

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By Sima Qian and Burton Watson (trans)

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9780231081665 | Rev sub edition (Columbia Univ Pr, February 1, 1993), cover price $165.00

Records of the Grand Historian: Qin Dynasty

By Sima Qian, Ch'Ien Ssu-Ma and Burton Watson (trans)

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9780231081689 | Revised edition (Columbia Univ Pr, February 1, 1993), cover price $115.00

Records of the Grand Historian: Han Dynasty I

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By Sima Quian, Ch'Ien Ssu-Ma and Burton Watson (trans)

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9780231081641 | Rev sub edition (Columbia Univ Pr, December 1, 1992), cover price $165.00

Cold Mountain: 101 Chinese Poems

Product Description: One of the most popular classics of Zen-Taoist literature--now in a fine-quality miniature edition. The legendary Han-shan (of the 7th-century), whose name means "Cold Mountain," has been revered for centuries as one of the great poet-recluses of Asian literature...read more

By Han-Shan and Burton Watson (trans)

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9780877736684 | 2 revised edition (Shambhala Pubns, September 1, 1992), cover price $6.00 | About this edition: One of the most popular classics of Zen-Taoist literature--now in a fine-quality miniature edition.

The Tso Chuan: Selections from China's Oldest Narrative History

A vivid chronicle of events in the feudal states of China between 722 and 468 B.C., the Tso Chuan has long been considered both a major historical document and and an influential literary model. Covering over 250 years, these historical narratives focus not only on the political, diplomatic, and military affairs of ancient China, but also on its economic and cultural developments during the turbulent era when warring feudal states were gradually working towards unification. Ending shortly after Confucius' death in 479 B.C., the Tso Chuan provides a background to the life and thought of Confucius and his followers that is available in no other work. (view table of contents)

By Burton Watson (trans)

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9780231067140 | Columbia Univ Pr, March 1, 1989, cover price $65.00 | About this edition: A vivid chronicle of events in the feudal states of China between 722 and 468 B.

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9780231067157 | Reprint edition (Columbia Univ Pr, August 1, 1992), cover price $34.00

Poems of a Mountain Home

Gathers two hundred poems by the twelfth-century Japanese poet, and offers a brief introduction to his life and the traditions of Japanese court poetry

By Saigyo and Burton Watson (trans)

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9780231074926 | Columbia Univ Pr, May 1, 1992, cover price $75.00 | About this edition: Gathers two hundred poems by the twelfth-century Japanese poet, and offers a brief introduction to his life and the traditions of Japanese court poetry

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9780231074933 | Columbia Univ Pr, March 1, 1992, cover price $33.00 | About this edition: Gathers two hundred poems by the twelfth-century Japanese poet, and offers a brief introduction to his life and the traditions of Japanese court poetry

Ryokan: Zen Monk-Poet of Japan

Product Description: Ryokan (1758-1831), a Buddhist monk in the Zen sect, was a major figure in Tokugawa poetry. Though a Zen master, he never headed a temple but chose to live alone in simple huts and to support himself by begging. His poems are mainly a record of his daily activities--of chores, lonely snowbound winters, begging expeditions to town, meetings with friends, romps with the village children...read more

By Ryokan and Burton Watson (trans)

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9780231044158 | Columbia Univ Pr, February 1, 1992, cover price $28.00 | About this edition: Ryokan (1758-1831), a Buddhist monk in the Zen sect, was a major figure in Tokugawa poetry.

Selected Writings of Nichiren

By Nichiren, Burton Watson (trans) and Philip B. Yampolsky (editor)

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9780231072601 | Columbia Univ Pr, July 1, 1990, cover price $105.00

Kanshi: The Poetry of Ishikawa Jozan and Other Edo-Period Poets

By Burton Watson (trans)

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9780865474314 | North Point Pr, May 1, 1990, cover price $25.00

The Rainbow World: Japan in Essays and Translations

By Burton Watson

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9780913089064 | Broken Moon Pr, April 1, 1990, cover price $10.00

From the Country of Eight Islands: An Anthology of Japanese Poetry

A survey of Japanese poetry contains the works of over one hundred poets from the eighth century to the present

By Hiroaki Sato and Burton Watson

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9780231063951 | Reprint edition (Columbia Univ Pr, November 1, 1986), cover price $44.00 | About this edition: A survey of Japanese poetry contains the works of over one hundred poets from the eighth century to the present

The Columbia Book of Chinese Poetry: From Early Times to the Thirteenth Century

Chinese poems exploring themes such as nature, death, and politics are accompanied by essays tracing the development of poetry in China

By Burton Watson

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9780231056823 | Columbia Univ Pr, July 1, 1984, cover price $105.00 | About this edition: Chinese poems exploring themes such as nature, death, and politics are accompanied by essays tracing the development of poetry in China

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9780231056830 | Reprint edition (Columbia Univ Pr, November 1, 1986), cover price $37.00

Grass Hill: Poems and Prose by the Japanese Monk Gensei

Product Description: Gensei, a seventeenth century Nichiren sect monk, composed poetry in Chinese and was a leading figure among the literary elite of his era. "Grass Hill" offers translations of over sixty of these poems, as well as a dozen prose pieces and an extensive introduction to Gensei's work...read more

By Nichisei and Burton Watson

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9780231056069 | Columbia Univ Pr, April 1, 1983, cover price $75.00 | About this edition: Gensei, a seventeenth century Nichiren sect monk, composed poetry in Chinese and was a leading figure among the literary elite of his era.

Mo Tzu: Basic Writings

By Burton Watson (trans)

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9780231086080 | Columbia Univ Pr, June 1, 1979, cover price $26.00

Su Tung-P'O: Selections from a Sung Dynasty Poet

By Burton Watson (editor)

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9780231027991 | Columbia Univ Pr, June 1, 1977, cover price $23.50

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