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  • The True History of Tea

    by Erling Hoh, Victor H. Mair ...
    A lively and beautifully illustrated history of tea, one of the world’s favorite beverages, and its uses through the ages.World-renowned scholar of Chinese history Victor H. Mair teams up with journalist Erling Hoh to spill the tea on this remarkable beverage and its uses, from ancient times to the present and from East to West.This accessible and entertaining history of tea makes use of the ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • Routledge Handbook of Traditional Chinese Literature

    Edited by Victor Mair, Zhenjun Zhang ...
    This Handbook presents a comprehensive overview of 3,000 years of Chinese literature from its earliest beginnings to the end of the Qing (1644–1911), the last empire of China.With a focus on well-known authors and masterpieces in each important genre, this volume covers verses, prose, drama, and fiction arranged in the following thematic groupings:Pre-Qin and Han poetry, poetry of the Six ... Read more

    $72.99 USD

  • The True History of Tea

    by Erling Hoh, Victor H. Mair ...
    A lively and beautifully illustrated history of one of the world's favorite beverages and its uses through the ages.World-renowned sinologist Victor H. Mair teams up with journalist Erling Hoh to tell the story of this remarkable beverage and its uses, from ancient times to the present, from East to West.For the first time in a popular history of tea, the Chinese, Japanese, Tibetan, and Mongolian ... Read more

    $16.39 USD

  • Traditional China in Asian and World History

    by Tansen Sen, Tansen Sen and Victor H. Mair, Victor Mair ...
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    Victor Mair and Tansen Sen have provided an account of China’s engagement with the Eurasian world around it that is succinct, accessible, and masterful. They demonstrate how—from their Neolithic origins through Zheng He’s fifteenth century voyages across maritime Asia—the Chinese were constantly interacting with their neighbors, through warfare, diplomacy, religious pilgrimages, trade, the ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • Traditional China in Asian and World History

    by Tansen Sen, Tansen Sen and Victor H. Mair, Victor Mair ...
    Series series
    Victor Mair and Tansen Sen have provided an account of China’s engagement with the Eurasian world around it that is succinct, accessible, and masterful. They demonstrate how—from their Neolithic origins through Zheng He’s fifteenth century voyages across maritime Asia—the Chinese were constantly interacting with their neighbors, through warfare, diplomacy, religious pilgrimages, trade, the ... Read more

    $14.39 USD

  • Tao Te Ching

    The Classic Book of Integrity and The Way

    by Victor H. Mair, Lao Tzu ...
    A landmark translation of one of the most popular works of world literture, this edition of the Tao Te Ching is based on the Ma-wang-tui manuscripts. ... Read more

    Was $7.99 USD Now $6.99 USD

  • The Shorter Columbia Anthology of Traditional Chinese Literature

    Edited by Victor Mair ...
    Series series Translations from the Asian Classics
    With its fresh translations by newer voices in the field, its broad scope, and its flowing style, this anthology places the immense riches of Chinese literature within easy reach. Ranging from the beginnings to 1919, this abridged version of The Columbia Anthology of Traditional Chinese Literature retains all the characteristics of the original. In putting together these selections Victor H. Mair ... Read more

    $44.99 USD

  • The Columbia History of Chinese Literature

    Edited by Victor Mair ...
    The Columbia History of Chinese Literature is a comprehensive yet portable guide to China's vast literary traditions. Stretching from earliest times to the present, the text features original contributions by leading specialists working in all genres and periods. Chapters cover poetry, prose, fiction, and drama, and consider such contextual subjects as popular culture, the impact of religion, the ... Read more

    $53.99 USD

  • Ming Dynasty Tales

    A Guided Reader

    Edited by Victor H. Mair, Zhenjun Zhang ...
    With commentary and annotations throughout, Ming Dynasty Tales: A Guided Reader presents for the first time in English 10 key stories from China's Ming Dynasty era. Casting new light on this significant period in Chinese literary history, these tales bring Ming era China vividly to life, from its chaotic beginnings to its imperial heyday.As well as bearing witness to social change across the 100 ... Read more

    $28.19 USD

  • Classic Chinese Poems of Mourning and Texts of Lament

    An Anthology

    Edited by Victor H. Mair, Zhenjun Zhang ...
    Bathed with the blood and tears of countless poets and authors and naturally expressing the most heartfelt emotions of ancient peoples, poems of mourning and texts of lament stand out in classical Chinese literature as brilliant and unique. Composed and celebrated over 3000 years, they are central to the Chinese literary tradition but have been largely unknown to English readers.Including over 100 ... Read more

    $26.49 USD

  • Four Testaments

    Tao Te Ching, Analects, Dhammapada, Bhagavad Gita: Sacred Scriptures of Taoism, Confucianism, Buddhism, and Hinduism

    by Cyril Glassé, David Bruce, Jacqueline Mates-Muchin, K. E. Eduljee, Richard Freund, Victor H. Mair, Arvind Sharma ...
    Four Testaments brings together four foundational texts from world religions—the Tao Te Ching, Dhammapada, Analects of Confucius, and Bhagavad Gita—inviting readers to experience them in full, to explore possible points of connection and divergence, and to better understand people who practice these traditions. Following Brian Arthur Brown’s award-winning Three Testaments: Torah, Gospel, Quran, ... Read more

    $38.89 USD

  • The Columbia Anthology of Chinese Folk and Popular Literature

    Edited by Mark Bender, Victor Mair ...
    Series series Translations from the Asian Classics
    In The Columbia Anthology of Chinese Folk and Popular Literature, two of the world's leading sinologists, Victor H. Mair and Mark Bender, capture the breadth of China's oral-based literary heritage. This collection presents works drawn from the large body of oral literature of many of China's recognized ethnic groups-including the Han, Yi, Miao, Tu, Daur, Tibetan, Uyghur, and Kazak-and the ... Read more

    $44.99 USD