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Qian Zhongshu shou gao ji: Wai wen bi ji

Qian Zhongshu shou gao ji: Wai wen bi ji

Zhongshu Qian

Ben ji shou lu Qian Zhongshu 1938-1949 nian suo zuo de bi ji, nei rong bi yi qian geng jia feng fu, chu ying yu wen xue wai, hai you yong fa wen he de wen zhai lu de wen xue yuan zhu.
Limited Views: Essays on Ideas and Letters

Limited Views: Essays on Ideas and Letters

Zhongshu Qian

Scholar, novelist, and essayist Qian Zhongshu (b. 1910) is arguably contemporary China's foremost man of letters, and Limited Views is recognized as the culmination of his study of literature in both the Chinese and the Western traditions.
Patchwork: Seven Essays on Art and Literature

Patchwork: Seven Essays on Art and Literature

Zhongshu QIAN

In Patchwork: Seven Essays on Art and Literature, translated by Duncan M. Campbell, the notable Chinese literary scholar Qian Zhongshu (1910-1998) discusses aspects of the artistic and literary traditions of China, and the usages and ...
Humans, Beasts, and Ghosts: Stories and Essays

Humans, Beasts, and Ghosts: Stories and Essays

Zhongshu Qian

Christopher Rea situates these works within China's wartime politics and Qian's literary vision, highlighting significant changes between different editions that provide unprecedented insight into the author's creative process.
Humans, Beasts, and Ghosts: Stories and Essays

Humans, Beasts, and Ghosts: Stories and Essays

Zhongshu Qian

This collection brings together Qian's best short works, combining his iconoclastic essays on the "book of life" from written in the Margins of Life (1941) with the four masterful short stories of Human, Beast, Ghost (1946).
Besieged City:

Besieged City:

Zhongshu Qian

This abridged version is intended for students of Chinese. The novel depicts the wretched and humdrum life of some intellectuals in a morbid society during the War of Resistance Against Japan.
Fortress Besieged

Fortress Besieged

Zhongshu Qian

Recalling Fielding's Tom Jones in its farcical litany of misadventures and Flaubert's "style indirect libre," Fortress Besieged is its own unique feast of delights.
Temple international and comparative law journal

Temple international and comparative law journal

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... in the Guangzi Zhuang Autonomous Region, and the illegal editing and printing of "The Besieged City," a popular novel by Qian Zhongshu.133 The final case, which attracted much attention across China, was brought by Shanghai Daweili ...
China’s Literary Cosmopolitans: Qian Zhongshu, Yang Jiang, ...

China’s Literary Cosmopolitans: Qian Zhongshu, Yang Jiang, ...

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Christopher Rea is associate professor of Asian Studies at the University of British Columbia. He is author of The Age of Irreverence: A New History of Laughter in China (California, 2015), co-editor of The Business of Culture: Cultural ...
The Encyclopedia of Confucianism: 2-volume set

The Encyclopedia of Confucianism: 2-volume set

Xinzhong Yao

2-volume set Xinzhong Yao. empire. References: Chow, 1984; Qian, 1937. TZE- KIHON. Gongsun. Hong. c. 200¥121 BCE Together with Dong Zhongshu, Gongsun Hong ranks as one of the earliest exponents of the ideas and practices  ...
Dong Zhongshu, a ‘Confucian’ Heritage and the Chunqiu Fanlu

Dong Zhongshu, a ‘Confucian’ Heritage and the Chunqiu Fanlu

Michael Loewe

The assumption that a system described as ‘Confucianism’ formulated by Dong Zhongshu became accepted as the norm during the Western Han dynasty (202 BCE – 9 CE) is challenged and his supposed authorship of the Chunqiu fanlu examined.
Historical Records

Historical Records

Qian Sima

The Historical Records or Shiji is a vast history of the Chinese world from its beginnings up to the late second century BC. Its author, the Grand Historiographer Sima Qian (c. 145-86 BC), is the most famous Chinese historian and a great ...
Les Mémoires Historiques de Se-ma Tsʼien

Les Mémoires Historiques de Se-ma Tsʼien

Qian Sima

Qian Sima Edouard Chavannes, Max Kaltenmark. Nous avons multiplié à dessein ces textes afin de bien établir que le titre de t'ai che signifie grand astrologue et non pas grand annaliste, comme on l'a cru jusqu'ici. Cependant il est certain ...
少年心理师: 催眠之巅

少年心理师: 催眠之巅

风念南

Ben shu jiang shu le:qian lai zi xun de huan zhe bu shi sha ren jiu shi zi sha,Zhi liao ji lu jing ran bian cheng si wang ji lu,Bei guan shang sha xing zhi cheng de shao nian xin li shi dao di ying gai he qu he cong,Qian tu wei bu,Pian you ...
Shi ji hui zhu kao zheng

Shi ji hui zhu kao zheng

Qian Sima

反聽之謂聰。內親之謂明。自勝之謂彊。 0 , 1 , 5 纖 1 ^ ^、聞命。^ 5 |、 5 ^本、商君曰 。子不說吾治秦與。趙良名而有之曰貪名。僕聽君之義、則恐僕貪位貪名也。故不敢僕 不肯。故不敢受命。僕聞之。曰。非其位而居之曰貪位。非其不義而富且食、於我如浮|  ...
Playing with the Past: Digital Games and the Simulation of ...

Playing with the Past: Digital Games and the Simulation of ...

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13 NathanNunnandNancy Qian, “TheColumbian Exchange: A History of Disease, Food, and Ideas,” JournalofEconomic Perspectives, 24, no. 2 (Spring 2010): 163 –188: 2. 14 AnnM. Little,“'Shoot ThatRogue,forHeHath anEnglishman's Coat ...
Journal of Chinese Religions

Journal of Chinese Religions

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It was by a translation of this latter name, shenjing shuairuo ####, that the Buddhist layman Jiang Qian Iñá (1876-1942) and the monk Hongyi is, - (1880- 1942) understood their illnesses. See Beverley Foulks McGuire's article in this issue, ...
Imperial Secrets of Health and Longevity

Imperial Secrets of Health and Longevity

Bob Flaws

This book offers Qian Long's sage advice on the role of diet, exercise, relaxation, emotions, sex, and environment in achieving long life and good health.
Companion to Historiography

Companion to Historiography

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Considerable parts ofhis workhave beentranslated into English,notably by Watson; butfora flavour ofit see theWorld's Classics selection, Sima Qian [ SsumaCh'ien in Pinyin romanization], Historical Records, tr.R.Dawson (Oxford, 1994).For an ...
Varia

Varia

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Papers by Christie Block, Mike Calcagno, Chan Chung, Qian Gao, Andreas Kathol, Ki-Suk Lee, Eun-Jung Yoo, and ... Kim Darnell, Stefanie Jannedy, Sun-Ah Jun, Kikuo Maekawa, Mineharu Nakayama, Shu-hui Peng, and Jennifer J. Venditti.
Reading Medieval Chinese Poetry: Text, Context, and Culture

Reading Medieval Chinese Poetry: Text, Context, and Culture

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See Yuan Zhen's “Yuefugutixu”樂府古題序, in Zhou Xianglu 周相錄, ed. and comm., Yuan Zhenjijiaozhu 元稹集校注(Shanghai: Shanghaiguji, 2011), 23.674. Qian Zhixi 錢志熙 discusses this convention of “falling back on” and refers to one such ...
The Grand Scribe's Records: The memoirs of pre-Han China

The Grand Scribe's Records: The memoirs of pre-Han China

Qian Sima

This volume is part of the first complete translation (in nine volumes) of the Shih chi (The Grand Scribe’s Records), one of the most important narratives in traditional China.

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