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.

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.

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

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