After the arrival of Buddhism toward the end of the Eastern Han dynasty (25-220), Buddhism found itself in a fierce conflict with indigenous Chines...

The Essential Analects offers a representative selection from Edward Slingerland's acclaimed translation of the full work, including passages cover...

The Essential Analects offers a representative selection from Edward Slingerland's acclaimed translation of the full work, including passages cover...

The Essential Mengzi offers a representative selection from Bryan Van Norden's acclaimed translation of the full work, including the most frequentl...

The Essential Mengzi offers a representative selection from Bryan Van Norden's acclaimed translation of the full work, including the most frequentl...

In this engaging volume, Daniel Gardner explains the way in which the Four Books-- Great Learning , Analects , Mencius , and Maintaining Perfect Ba...

The Inner Chapters are the oldest pieces of the larger collection of writings by several fourth, third, and second century B.C. authors that consti...

The Inner Chapters are the oldest pieces of the larger collection of writings by several fourth, third, and second century B.C. authors that consti...

In this rare firsthand account of an individual's pursuit of sagehood, the early Ming dynasty scholar and teacher Wu Yubi chronicles his progress a...

In this rare firsthand account of an individual's pursuit of sagehood, the early Ming dynasty scholar and teacher Wu Yubi chronicles his progress a...

The fornaldarsögur Norðurlanda (literally ‘ancient sagas of the northern lands’, but often referred to in English as ‘mythical-heroic’ or ‘legendar...

The Wanderer's Hàvamàl features Jackson Crawford's complete, carefully revised English translation of the Old Norse poem Hàvamàl , newly annotated ...

It is unknown, of course, who wrote the Iliad and the Odyssey, since in general no reliable contemporary description of how the two epics came into...