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9780231109840 | Columbia Univ Pr, March 1, 2002, cover price $95.00 | About this edition: The Columbia History of Chinese Literature is a comprehensive yet portable guide to China's vast literary traditions.
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9780231109857 | Columbia Univ Pr, February 1, 2010, cover price $40.00 | About this edition: The Columbia History of Chinese Literature is a comprehensive yet portable guide to China's vast literary traditions.
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9780500251461 | Thames & Hudson, March 13, 2009, cover price $26.95 | About this edition: A lively and beautifully illustrated history of one of the world's favorite beverages and its uses through the ages.
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9781891640551 | Floating World Edithions, February 15, 2009, cover price $50.00 | About this edition: In this extraordinary work of scholarship, Victor Mair traces the global development over a thousand years of a genre of popular Buddhist folk literature from China
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9780521247610 | Cambridge Univ Pr, January 1, 1984, cover price $144.00 | About this edition: Tun-huang Popular Narratives presents authoritative translations of four vernacular Chinese stories, taken from fragmentary texts usually referred to as pien-wen or 'transformation texts'.
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9780521039833 | 1 edition (Cambridge Univ Pr, July 23, 2007), cover price $63.00 | About this edition: Tun-huang Popular Narratives presents authoritative translations of four vernacular Chinese stories, taken from fragmentary texts usually referred to as pien-wen or 'transformation texts'.
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9780500051016 | Thames & Hudson, June 1, 2000, cover price $50.00 | About this edition: The best-preserved mummies are in the museums of Xinjiang, China.
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9780500283721, titled "Tarim Mummies: Ancient China and the Mystery of the Earliest Peoples from the West" | Thames & Hudson, September 14, 2008, cover price $29.95 | About this edition: "A fascinating and readable account.
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9780812240412 | Univ of Pennsylvania Pr, November 30, 2007, cover price $65.00 | About this edition: In ancient and medieval times, the Silk Road was of great importance to the transport of peoples, goods, and ideas between the East and the West.
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9780824823313 | Univ of Hawaii Pr, August 30, 2012, cover price $28.00
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9780824828844 | Univ of Hawaii Pr, June 1, 2006, cover price $59.00 | About this edition: Do civilizations independently invent themselves or are they the result of cultural diffusion?
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9780824827854 | Univ Hawaii Pr School of Social, March 28, 2004, cover price $35.00 | About this edition: The Hawai'i Reader in Traditional Chinese Culture is a collection of more than ninety primary sources of cultural significance from the Bronze Age to the turn of the twentieth century.
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Product Description: Traditionally, China had character dictionaries, but no word dictionaries. Later, small-scale word dictionaries began to appear. Then large-scale word dictionaries began to appear but those only dealt with modern Chinese language...read more
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9780824828165 | Univ of Hawaii Pr, February 1, 2004, cover price $47.00 | About this edition: Traditionally, China had character dictionaries, but no word dictionaries.
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Product Description: Admirers of the monumental original edition of Victor H. Mair´s Columbia Anthology of Traditional Chinese Literature have long clamored for a shorter, more affordable version. In response, Columbia University Press now offers an abridged volume, which, like the original, includes selections of Chinese literature from the beginnings to 1919...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)
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9780231119986 | Columbia Univ Pr, December 1, 2000, cover price $99.00 | About this edition: Admirers of the monumental original edition of Victor H.
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9780231119993 | Columbia Univ Pr, December 1, 2000, cover price $35.00 | About this edition: 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.
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9780941694667 | Inst for the Study of Man, August 1, 1998, cover price $98.00
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9780941694636 | Inst for the Study of Man, May 1, 1998, cover price $165.00
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9780824820381 | Univ of Hawaii Pr, January 1, 1998, cover price $20.00 | About this edition: The author and translator of the Tao Te Ching uses his acclaimed skills and insight to provide the first complete, popular translation of the strangely beautiful stories and writings of ancient Chinese philosopher Chuang Tzu.
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9780824811006 | Univ of Hawaii Pr, April 1, 1989, cover price $30.00
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9780824819156 | Univ of Hawaii Pr, March 1, 1997, cover price $19.00
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9780231074285 | Columbia Univ Pr, November 1, 1994, cover price $110.50 | About this edition: Including works of varied genres from fiction and poetry to folk stories and elegies, travelogues and jokes to criticism and theory, this wide-ranging collection brings together more than two thousand years of great works in one portable volume.
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9780231074292 | Columbia Univ Pr, March 1, 1996, cover price $44.00 | About this edition: Including works of varied genres from fiction and poetry to folk stories and elegies, travelogues and jokes to criticism and theory, this wide-ranging collection brings together more than two thousand years of great works in one portable volume.
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Gathers ancient Chinese tales, poems, and parables which offer a Taoist perspective on the issues of ambition, grief, politics, love, evil, and death
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9780553374063 | Bantam Dell Pub Group, September 1, 1994, cover price $11.95 | About this edition: Gathers ancient Chinese tales, poems, and parables which offer a Taoist perspective on the issues of ambition, grief, politics, love, evil, and death
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Product Description: Chinese (Mandarin), Japanese, and Korean are the three major languages used in East Asia. The speakers of these languages constitute one quarter of the world's population. These three languages, especially their written forms, are quite different from all others...read more
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9789051990614 | Ios Pr Inc, June 1, 1991, cover price $65.00 | About this edition: Chinese (Mandarin), Japanese, and Korean are the three major languages used in East Asia.
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A new translation of the ancient Chinese classic based on the recently discovered Ma-wang-tui manuscripts
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9780553070057 | Bantam Dell Pub Group, September 1, 1990, cover price $19.95 | About this edition: A new translation of the ancient Chinese classic based on the recently discovered Ma-wang-tui manuscripts
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9780553349351 | Reissue edition (Bantam Dell Pub Group, September 1, 1990), cover price $15.00 | About this edition: A new translation of the ancient Chinese classic based on the recently discovered Ma-wang-tui manuscripts
9789990095760 | Bantam Dell Pub Group, September 1, 1990, cover price $0.02 | also contains Tao Te Ching: The Classic Book of Integrity and the Way, Tao Te Ching: The Classic Book of Integrity and the Way
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9780674868151 | Harvard Univ Council on East Asian, June 12, 1989, cover price $45.00 | About this edition: This is the most comprehensive study of pien-wen ("transformation texts," i.
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9780889460201 | Edwin Mellen Pr, June 1, 1988, cover price $109.95
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9780939252176 | Arizona State Univ Center for asian, May 1, 1987, cover price $10.00
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9780824808365 | Reprint edition (Univ of Hawaii Pr, November 1, 1983), cover price $12.00
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