THE WAY AND ITS POWER (ebook)

Otros libros del autor

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  THE LIFE AND TIMES OF PO CHÜ-I

  THE ARTHUR WALEY ESTATE / ARTHUR WALEY

  First published in 1949.This book gives the biographical background to the many poems of Po Chü-I (A.D 772-846) and traces the connection between his literary career and the disturbed political life of the time. The volume also provides new translations in whole or in part of about a hundred poems by Po Chü-i. ...

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  THE REAL TRIPITAKA

  THE ARTHUR WALEY ESTATE / ARTHUR WALEY

  First published in 1952. The Real Tripitaka gives an account of the seventh century pilgrim's adventures, spiritual and material, both in India and after his return to China. In addition the book contains an account of a Japanese pilgrim's visit to China in the ninth century, which describes the Wu-t'ai Shan, China's great place of Pilgrimage, and an eye-witness's account of th...

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  THE OPIUM WAR THROUGH CHINESE EYES

  THE ARTHUR WALEY ESTATE / ARTHUR WALEY

  First published in 1958.This volume translates and places in the appropriate historical context a number of private documents, such as diaries, autobiographies and confessions, which explain what the Opium War felt like on the Chinese side. ...

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  YUAN MEI

  THE ARTHUR WALEY ESTATE / ARTHUR WALEY

  First published in 1956.Arthur Waley here presents an engrossing account of the works and life of Yuan Mei (1716-1797), the best-known poet of his time. Gaiety is the keynote of his works and the poet was a friend of the Manchu official with whom Commodore Anson had dramatic dealings at Canton in 1743. Yuan Mei gives an account (not previously translated) of Anson's interview w...

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  THREE WAYS OF THOUGHT IN ANCIENT CHINA

  THE ARTHUR WALEY ESTATE / ARTHUR WALEY

  First published in 1939. This book consists chiefly of extracts from Chuang Tzu, Mencius and Han Fei Tzu. Chuang Tzu's appeal is to the imagination; the appeal of mencius is to the moral feelings; realism, as expounded by Han Fei Tzu, finds a close parallel in modern Totalitarianism and as a result these extracts from a book of the third century B.C. nonetheless have a very con...

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  BALLADS AND STORIES FROM TUN-HUANG

  THE ARTHUR WALEY ESTATE / ARTHUR WALEY

  First published in 1960.Over a century ago the Chinese discovered in a sealed-up cave in the west of China a collection of manuscripts dating from the fifth century to the end of the tenth. These included many specimens of popular literature of a kind that was not previously known to exist. Although the find was made long ago, only two or three of these pieces had been translat...

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