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1	Judge Dee at work: eight Chinese detective stories more books like this by Robert Hans van Gulik add to wishlist Judge Dee presided over his Imperial Chinese court with a unique brand of Confucian justice. A near-mythic figure in China, he distinguished himself as a tribunal magistrate, inquisitor, and public avenger. Long after his death, accounts of his exploits were celebrated in Chinese folklore and later immortalized by Robert van Gulik in his ... see all copies from $2.95! new only from $8.47! \| first editions \| SVS
2	The Red Pavilion: A Judge Dee Mystery more books like this by Robert Hans Van Gulik, Robert Van Gulik add to wishlist A chance encounter with Autumn Moon, the most powerful courtesan on Paradise Island, leads Judge Dee to investigate three deaths. Although he finally teases the true story from a tangled history of passion and betrayal, Dee is saddened by the perversion, corruption, and waste of the world "of flowers and willows" that thrives on prostitution. see all copies from $3.95! new only from $8.17! \| first editions \| SVS
3	The Monkey and the Tiger: Judge Dee Mysteries more books like this by Robert Hans Van Gulik, Robert Van Gulik add to wishlist "If you have not yet discovered Judge Dee and his faithful Sgt. Hoong, I envy you that initial pleasure which comes from the discovery of a great detective story. For the magistrate of Poo-yang belongs in that select group of fictional detectives headed by the renowned Sherlock Holmes" -- Robert Kirsch, Los Angeles Times see all copies from $2.28! new only from $2.98! \| first editions \| SVS
4	Poets & Murder more books like this by Robert Hans Van Gulik add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99! new only from $6.45! \| first editions
5	A Floating Life: The Adventures of Li Po, an Historical Novel more books like this by Simon Elegant add to wishlist A novel about the romantic 7th-century Chinese poet Li Po, whose life has become a legend. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $9.95! \| first editions
6	Daughter of Heaven: The True Story of the Only Woman to Become Emperor of China more books like this by Nigel Cawthorne add to wishlist She was taken to the palace as a concubine for the Emperor. Using her beauty, wit, and powers of manipulation, she seduced her way to the throne of the most powerful empire in the world. She executed her enemies without mercy, and even murdered her own children for political gain. She set up her own imperial harem made up of young men. She elected ... see all copies from $5.00! new only from $5.00! \| first editions \| SVS
7	Three Chinese poets. more books like this by Vikram Seth add to wishlist The three Chinese poets translated here are among the greatest literary figures of China, or indeed the world. Wang Wei with his quiet love of nature and Buddhist philosophy; Li Bai, the Taoist spirit, with his wild, flamboyant paeans to wine and the moon; and Du Fu, with his Confucian sense of sympathy with the suffering of others in a time of ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $2.00! \| first editions
8	The Lacquer Screen more books like this by Robert Hans Van Gulik add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99! new only from $11.25! \| first editions
9	The Haunted Monastery: A Judge Dee Mystery more books like this by Robert Hans Van Gulik add to wishlist The Abbot of a Taoist Monastery is dead after delivering an ecstatic sermon. The monks call it a supernatural experience, but the judge calls it murder. Recalling the allegedly accidental deaths of three young women in the same monastery, Judge Dee seeks clues in the eyes of a cat to solve cases of impersonation and murder. A painting by one of ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $8.17! \| first editions \| SVS
10	Perspectives on the Tang. more books like this by Arthur F. Wright, Denis Crispin Twitchett add to wishlist see all copies from $28.00! first editions
11	Silk Road: A Novel of Eighth-Century China more books like this by Jeanne Larsen add to wishlist "SILK ROAD" takes you into the golden age of China's multi-cultural Tang dynasty. Aided by ghosts, goddesses, dragons, and her own determination, the heroine becomes a courtesan, a musician, a runaway, a wandering swordswoman, a poet, and more. "Larsen has used a dazzling diversity of prose styles to adroitly demonstrate how history is transmuted ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $9.95! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
12	The Walking Boy more books like this by Lydia Kwa add to wishlist Set in 8th century China during the Tang Dynasty, "The Walking Boy" is a vivid and compelling novel inspired by true historical events during the final years of the reign of the country's only female emperor. Abandoned as a young child to the care of an aging hermit monk, Baoshi lives a simple and pious life in an isolated mountain shack. ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $8.36! \| signed copies \| first editions
13 view cover	The End of the Chinese ?Middle Ages: Essays in Mid-Tang Literary Culture more books like this by Stephen Owen add to wishlist This book explores, through a series of essays, a set of interrelated elements that define the literary culture of China in the late eighth and early ninth centuries. This period, known as the Mid-Tang, broke with many of the intellectual habits of the middle period of Chinese culture and adumbrated many of the characteristics of China in the Song ... see all copies from $14.95! new only from $18.40! \| first editions \| SVS
14 view cover	Historical Dictionary of Medieval China more books like this by Victor Cunrui Xiong add to wishlist see all copies from $164.28! new only from $164.28!
15	Jade Stalk more books like this by Jonathan Fast add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| first editions \| SVS
16 view cover	T'Ang China: The Rise of the East in World History more books like this by Samuel Adrian M Adshead add to wishlist China's role in world history has been controversial, especially as seen through an economic lens. This book presents an alternative interpretation of that role, less exclusively economic, more broadly based, and focused on the T'ang period, one of China's acknowledged golden ages. It shows how a different China, Buddhist or Taoist rather than ... see all copies from $19.95! new only from $34.79! \| SVS
17 view cover	In Love with the Way: Chinese Poems of the Tang Dynasty more books like this by Francois Cheng (Editor), Fabienne Verdier add to wishlist "In Love with the Way" is one of a series of books devoted to the work of contemporary calligraphers who have chosen classics of spiritual literature as their subjects. The book contains verses from Chinese poetry's acclaimed golden age. see all copies from $4.09! new only from $49.44! \| first editions
18	Green Dragon, White Tiger more books like this by Annette Motley add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99! first editions \| SVS
19 view cover	A Floating Life: The Adventures of Li Po more books like this by Simon Elegant add to wishlist A novel about the romantic 7th-century Chinese poet Li Po, whose life has become a legend. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $4.95! \| first editions
20 view cover	Pacing the Void: T'Ang Approaches to the Stars more books like this by Edward H Schafer add to wishlist In the author's own words, this work attempts to recreate, for the 20th-century reader, the sky and the apparitions that ornament it as they were conceived, imagined, and reacted to by the men of T'ang-dynasty China-that is, to suggest what the medieval Chinese . . . thought they saw in the night sky, and how they treated those magic lights in ... see all copies from $40.00! new only from $40.90! \| first editions \| SVS
21 view cover	The Late Tang: Chinese Poetry of the Mid-Ninth Century (827-860) more books like this by Stephen Owen add to wishlist The poetry of the Late Tang often looked backward, and many poets of the period distinguished themselves through the intensity of their retrospective gaze. Chinese poets had always looked backward to some degree, but for many Late Tang poets the echoes and the traces of the past had a singular aura. In this work, Stephen Owen resumes telling the ... see all copies from $12.48! new only from $19.43! \| SVS
22 view cover	Poems of the Masters: China's Classic Anthology of T'Ang and Sung Dynasty Verse more books like this by Red Pine (Translator) add to wishlist Poetry is China's greatest art, and for the past eight centuries "Poems of the Masters" has been that country's most studied and memorized collection of verse. For the first time ever in English, here is the complete text, with an introduction and extensive notes by renowned translator, Red Pine. Over one hundred poets are represented in this ... see all copies from $11.00! new only from $13.15! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
23	The Lotus Boat more books like this by Professor Marsha L Wagner add to wishlist see all copies from $11.88! new only from $12.58! \| first editions
24 view cover	Reform in the Balance: The Defense of Literary Culture in Mid-Tang China more books like this by Anthony Deblasi add to wishlist Anthony DeBlasi offers a remapping of China's intellectual landscape during the late-eighth and early-ninth centuries. Recreating a world of intense philosophical debate, influenced by political uncertainty and social disorder, he reveals the logic behind the period's most popular philosophical positions. Reform in the Balance casts aside ... see all copies from $18.80! new only from $18.95!
25 view cover	Liu Tsung-Yuan and Intellectual Change in T'Ang China, 773-819 more books like this by Ruoshui Chen, Jo-Shui Ch'en, Patrick Hannan (Editor) add to wishlist This book is a comprehensive study of Liu Tsang-yuan (773-819), a major literary and intellectual figure in Chinese history. The major aspects of Liu's life and work are explored: the social and cultural background of his family, his relationship with the ku-wen prose reforms and new canonical scholarship in the mid-T'ang, his social and political ... see all copies from $89.49! new only from $89.49! \| SVS

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