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...

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

Dichter En Hof

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 Jiangnü Brings Down the Great Wall brings together ten versions of a popular Chinese legend ...

In literatures worldwide, animal fables have been analyzed for their revealingly anthropomorphic ...

This anthology presents substantial selections from the work of twenty Manchu women poets of the ...

This anthology presents substantial selections from the work of twenty Manchu women poets of the ...

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

Personal Salvation and Filial Piety

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

Playwriting in many forms flourished during the late Ming and early Qing dynasties. Shorter theat...

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...

Love affairs of the young men from eminent families and the courtesans who were trained to entert...