This book provides a rich array of texts (songs, plays, an tales) from early Chinese vernacular l...

Translations from Chinese popular literature of the late-imperial and early republican periods ar...

Pure, orthodox and incorruptible, Judge Bao has been serving as the preeminent embodiment of just...

This book is in the Cambria Sinophone World Series, headed by Victor Mair (University of Pennsylv...

This book offers a complete translation of four early plays of the Yang Family Generals. The stor...

Following thirty years of suppression as feudal superstition, Chinese popular religion has made a...

Pure, orthodox and incorruptible, Judge Bao has been serving as the preeminent embodiment of just...

Translations from Chinese popular literature of the late-imperial and early republican periods ar...

This book is in the Cambria Sinophone World Series headed by Victor H. Mair (University of Pennsy...

Personal Salvation and Filial Piety

As Guanyin, the bodhisattva was venerated from the eleventh century onward in the shape of a beau...

Leyden Studies in Sinology

Beata Grant is professor of Chinese language and literature at Washington University, and author ...

Chinese Vernacular Fiction

Meng Jiangn Brings Down the Great Wall brings together ten versions of a popular Chinese legend t...

This volume brings together a number of important studies by leading scholars on ritual and law, ...

Wilt L. Idema is professor emeritus of Chinese literature at Harvard University. He is the author...

Wilt L. Idema is professor emeritus of Chinese literature at Harvard University. He is the transl...

Dichter En Hof

Wilt L. Idema is professor emeritus of Chinese literature at Harvard University. He is the transl...

Heroines of Jiangyong is the first English translation of a set of verse narratives recorded in t...

A novelistic version of a love affair between a notorious emperor and an innocent courtesan, The ...

A Topsy-Turvy World presents English translations of shorter late Ming and early Qing plays. Sati...

Parrots and mynahs have played a unique role in Chinese literature for two millennia. In this wid...

'The Kitchen God and his Wives is a translation of the orally transmitted folk epic 'Guo DIngxian...