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Product Description: Mo Tzu, Hsün Tzu, and Han Fei Tzu were three of the most important philosophers in ancient China. This collection of their basic writings points to three very different positions within in the spectrum of Chinese thought and reveals the diversity of of the Chinese intellectual tradition...read more
By Burton Watson (editor)
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9780231025157 | Columbia Univ Pr, November 1, 1967, cover price $45.00 | About this edition: Mo Tzu, Hsün Tzu, and Han Fei Tzu were three of the most important philosophers in ancient China.

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9780231033213 | Columbia Univ Pr, June 1, 1970, cover price $47.50

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Product Description: This collection is one of the earliest and most important works of Chinese Buddhist poetry and is especially influential in the later literature of the Zen Sect of Buddhism, which looked back to these poems as a classic of Zen literature...read more
By Han-Shan and Burton Watson (trans)
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9780231034500 | Columbia Univ Pr, June 1, 1970, cover price $26.00 | About this edition: This collection is one of the earliest and most important works of Chinese Buddhist poetry and is especially influential in the later literature of the Zen Sect of Buddhism, which looked back to these poems as a classic of Zen literature.

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9780231034654 | Columbia Univ Pr, April 1, 1971, cover price $34.00

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Product Description: Watson's account of Chinese writing from the time of the Chou dynasty (1100--249 B.C.) to the Latter Han (25-220) is accompanied by a chronology, biographical information, and a selected list of translations.
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9780231086714 | Columbia Univ Pr, June 1, 1971, cover price $32.00 | About this edition: Watson's account of Chinese writing from the time of the Chou dynasty (1100--249 B.

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Product Description: A selection of the poetry of Lu Yu (1125-1210), one of the most prolific of the Chinese poets, who was renowned for his advocation of a carefree enjoyment of life. 63 poems in English translation comprise this anthology, providing evocative glimpses of the poet's everyday life.
By Burton Watson (trans)
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9780231037662 | Columbia Univ Pr, June 1, 1973, cover price $62.50 | About this edition: A selection of the poetry of Lu Yu (1125-1210), one of the most prolific of the Chinese poets, who was renowned for his advocation of a carefree enjoyment of life.

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By Burton Watson (editor)
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9780231039864 | Columbia Univ Pr, June 1, 1975, cover price $41.00

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9780231041461 | Columbia Univ Pr, June 1, 1976, cover price $62.50

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Product Description: Pan Ku's celebrated and influential History of the Former Han has been a model for dynastic history since its appearance in the first century A.D. The narrative is rich in detail and characterized by purity and economy of style. Covering the period from 206 B...read more
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9780231083546 | Columbia Univ Pr, June 1, 1977, cover price $32.50 | About this edition: Pan Ku's celebrated and influential History of the Former Han has been a model for dynastic history since its appearance in the first century A.

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By Burton Watson (editor)
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9780231027991 | Columbia Univ Pr, June 1, 1977, cover price $23.50

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Product Description: The thoughts and writings of this important fifth century B.C. political and social thinker -and formidable rival of the Confucianists -are presented here in English translation.
By Burton Watson (trans)
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9780231086080 | Columbia Univ Pr, June 1, 1979, cover price $24.00 | About this edition: The thoughts and writings of this important fifth century B.

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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.
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9780231056069 | Columbia Univ Pr, April 1, 1983, cover price $55.00 | 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.

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Product Description: The Columbia Book of Chinese Poetry presents translations of more than 420 poems by 96 poets drawn from the great ages of Chinese poetry. It begins with selections from the Book of Odes, the oldest anthology of Chinese poetry compiled around the seventh century B...read more
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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 $35.00 | About this edition: The Columbia Book of Chinese Poetry presents translations of more than 420 poems by 96 poets drawn from the great ages of Chinese poetry.

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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 (editor)
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9780231063951 | Reprint edition (Columbia Univ Pr, November 1, 1986), cover price $40.00 | About this edition: A survey of Japanese poetry contains the works of over one hundred poets from the eighth century to the present

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Product Description: A vivid chronicle of events in the feudal states of China between 722 and 468 B.C. the Tso Chuan has longbeen consideredboth 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...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)
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 $32.00 | About this edition: A vivid chronicle of events in the feudal states of China between 722 and 468 B.

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Product Description: essays by well-known scholar/translator
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9780913089064 | Broken Moon Pr, April 1, 1990, cover price $10.00 | About this edition: essays by well-known scholar/translator

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By Burton Watson (trans)
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9780865474314 | North Point Pr, May 1, 1990, cover price $25.00

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Oda Sakunosuke is described in Japan as one of the burai ha, or "hooligan school" of writers. Working before and during World War II, these writers sought to create an underground literature in opposition to the traditional flavour favoured by the militaristic government. Depicting unflattering realities rather than the exemplary ideals, the author focused on Japan's hustlers, bunglers and misfits. Yet underlying the tales, his sympathy for the characters he portrays is sensed. These short stories capture the essence of the Osaka temperament, its hedonism, wry humour and lust for life.
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9780231071864 | Columbia Univ Pr, May 1, 1990, cover price $84.00 | About this edition: Oda Sakunosuke is described in Japan as one of the burai ha, or "hooligan school" of writers.

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9780834803084 | Weatherhill, March 1, 1994, cover price $12.95

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Product Description: -- Robert E. Morrell, Washington University
By Nichiren, Burton Watson (trans) and Philip B. Yampolsky (editor)
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9780231072601 | Columbia Univ Pr, July 1, 1990, cover price $87.00 | About this edition: -- Robert E.

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Product Description: Ryokan (1758-1831), a Buddhist monk in the Zen sect, was a major figure in Tokugawa poetry. Although 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 and outings to gather firewood and edible plants, lonely snow-bound 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 $26.00 | About this edition: Ryokan (1758-1831), a Buddhist monk in the Zen sect, was a major figure in Tokugawa poetry.

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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 $43.50 | 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 $30.00 | 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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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.

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Product Description: Sima Qian (145?-90? BCE) was the first major Chinese historian. His "Shiji," or "Records of the Grand Historian," documents the history of China and its neighboring countries from the ancient past to his own time. These three volumes cover the Qin and Han dynasties. (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)
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9780231081641 | Rev sub edition (Columbia Univ Pr, December 1, 1992), cover price $165.00 | About this edition: Sima Qian (145?

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Product Description: Sima Qian (145?-90? BCE) was the first major Chinese historian. His "Shiji," or "Records of the Grand Historian," documents the history of China and its neighboring countries from the ancient past to his own time. These three volumes cover the Qin and Han dynasties.
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9780231081689 | Revised edition (Columbia Univ Pr, February 1, 1993), cover price $114.00 | About this edition: Sima Qian (145?

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Product Description: This second volume of the history of the Han dynasty consists of chapters dealing principally with the reign of Emperor Wu, one of the most energetic and strong-willed of China's Rulers. Here the historian is chronicling events he has witnessed and writing of the men he personally knows or has known...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)
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 | About this edition: This second volume of the history of the Han dynasty consists of chapters dealing principally with the reign of Emperor Wu, one of the most energetic and strong-willed of China's Rulers.

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