The discipline of Sinology, as it has been developed in the West, is rooted in philology. Despite the variety of new scholarly fashions and approaches to the study of premodern China that have arisen during the past half-century, the careful examination of texts remains fundamental for all serious Sinological work. In this we are beholden to those European, and latterly, Americ...(展开全部)

This is the first book in English on the seventeenth-century Chinese masterpiece Liaozhai's Records of the Strange (Liaozhai zhiyi) by Pu Songling, a collection of nearly five hundred fantastic tales and anecdotes written in Classical Chinese.

【作者简介】 蔡九迪（Judith T. Zeitlin），1988年获得哈佛大学博士学位，现任芝加哥大学东亚语言文明系讲座教授，主要研究方向为明清文学、戏剧和视觉文化。著有《异史氏：蒲松龄与中国文言小说》《芳魂：明末清初中国文学中的女鬼与性别》《蔡九迪自选集》等。目前，正与中国作曲家合作创作《聊斋》题材歌剧，并计划开展《聊斋志异》全书的英译工作。 【译者简介】 任增强，文学博士，山东大学儒学高等研究院副教授，国家重点文化工程“全球汉籍合璧工程”研究编编辑室主任，兼任文化与旅游部–北京语言大学共建“中国文化对外翻译与传播研究中心”研究员，全国高校海外汉学研究学会理事，主要研究方向为海外汉学与汉籍。出版著作有《英美聊斋学研究》和《中国文化概要》（英文版）。围绕汉学与汉籍发表论文多篇，部分文章被《新华文摘》《中国社会科学文摘》以及人大复印资料等摘编转载。...(展开全部)

This is the first book in English on the seventeenth-century Chinese masterpiece Liaozhai's Records of the Strange (Liaozhai zhiyi) by Pu Songling, a collection of nearly five hundred fantastic tales and anecdotes written in Classical Chinese.

Book Description Over the centuries, early Chinese classical poetry became embedded in a chronological account with great cultural resonance and came to be transmitted in versions accepted as authoritative. But modern scholarship has questioned components of the account and cast doubt on the accuracy of received texts. The result has destabilized the study of early Chinese poet...(展开全部)

Book Description Over the centuries, early Chinese classical poetry became embedded in a chronological account with great cultural resonance and came to be transmitted in versions accepted as authoritative. But modern scholarship has questioned components of the account and cast doubt on the accuracy of received texts. The result has destabilized the study of early Chinese poet...(展开全部)

This volume introduces readers to classical Chinese literature from its beginnings (ca. 10th century BCE) to the tenth century CE. It asks basic questions such as: How did reading and writing practices change over these two millennia? How did concepts of literature evolve? What were the factors that shaped literary production and textual transmission? How do traditional bibliog...(展开全部)

This book considers the ways in which religious beliefs and practices have contributed to the formation of Chinese legal culture. It does so by describing two forms of overlap between religion and the law: the ideology of justice and the performance of judicial rituals. One of the most important conceptual underpinnings of the Chinese ideology of justice is the belief in the in...(展开全部)

Modern American poets translate classical Chinese poetry. The New Directions Anthology of Classical Chinese Poetry is a rich compendium of translations like no other. It is the first to look at Chinese poetry through its enormous influence on American poetry, starting with Ezra Pound's Cathay (1915), and including translations by three other major US poets (William Carlos Willi...(展开全部)