Author: Joseph Roe Allen
Publisher: Grove Press
ISBN: 9780802134776
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 420
Book Description
Joseph R. Allen's new edition of The Book of Songs restores Arthur Waley's definitive English translations to the original order and structure of the two-thousand-year-old Chinese text. One of the five Confucian classics, The Book of Songs is the oldest collection of poetry in world literature and the finest treasure of traditional songs that antiquity has left us. Arthur Waley's translations, now supplemented by fifteen new translations by Allen, are superb; the songs speak to us across millennia with remarkable directness and power. Where the other Confucian classics treat "outward things, deeds, moral precepts, the way the world works", Stephen Owen tells us in his foreword, The Book of Songs is "the Classic of the human heart and the human mind".
The Book of Songs
Author: Joseph Roe Allen
Publisher: Grove Press
ISBN: 9780802134776
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 420
Book Description
Joseph R. Allen's new edition of The Book of Songs restores Arthur Waley's definitive English translations to the original order and structure of the two-thousand-year-old Chinese text. One of the five Confucian classics, The Book of Songs is the oldest collection of poetry in world literature and the finest treasure of traditional songs that antiquity has left us. Arthur Waley's translations, now supplemented by fifteen new translations by Allen, are superb; the songs speak to us across millennia with remarkable directness and power. Where the other Confucian classics treat "outward things, deeds, moral precepts, the way the world works", Stephen Owen tells us in his foreword, The Book of Songs is "the Classic of the human heart and the human mind".
Publisher: Grove Press
ISBN: 9780802134776
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 420
Book Description
Joseph R. Allen's new edition of The Book of Songs restores Arthur Waley's definitive English translations to the original order and structure of the two-thousand-year-old Chinese text. One of the five Confucian classics, The Book of Songs is the oldest collection of poetry in world literature and the finest treasure of traditional songs that antiquity has left us. Arthur Waley's translations, now supplemented by fifteen new translations by Allen, are superb; the songs speak to us across millennia with remarkable directness and power. Where the other Confucian classics treat "outward things, deeds, moral precepts, the way the world works", Stephen Owen tells us in his foreword, The Book of Songs is "the Classic of the human heart and the human mind".
Orienting Arthur Waley
Author: John Walter De Gruchy
Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
ISBN: 9780824825676
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 234
Book Description
Hailed recently as the greatest translator of Asian Literature ever to have lived, Arthur Waley (1889-1966) had an immeasurable influence on Western perceptions of Asia and on the development of Asian studies in the West. Waley was the single most important force in creating what the English-speaking public understood to be Japanese literature with his popular and critically acclaimed translations of Japanese poetry, no plays and the celebrated 11th-century court romance The Tale of Genji. This study of Waley and his Japanese translations provides a provocative examination of Waley's contribution to 20th-century English literature and culture. top graduate of Rugby and Cambridge and a younger member of the Bloomsbury Group. He examines how the social contexts influenced Waley's work and he further locates Waley's Japanese translations within the political contexts of the Japonism movement, British socialism and imperialism and the development of Japanese studies in England. How a cult of things Japanese in the early modern period in Britain led to the emergence of one of the 20th century's most important translators is an interesting story in itself.
Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
ISBN: 9780824825676
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 234
Book Description
Hailed recently as the greatest translator of Asian Literature ever to have lived, Arthur Waley (1889-1966) had an immeasurable influence on Western perceptions of Asia and on the development of Asian studies in the West. Waley was the single most important force in creating what the English-speaking public understood to be Japanese literature with his popular and critically acclaimed translations of Japanese poetry, no plays and the celebrated 11th-century court romance The Tale of Genji. This study of Waley and his Japanese translations provides a provocative examination of Waley's contribution to 20th-century English literature and culture. top graduate of Rugby and Cambridge and a younger member of the Bloomsbury Group. He examines how the social contexts influenced Waley's work and he further locates Waley's Japanese translations within the political contexts of the Japonism movement, British socialism and imperialism and the development of Japanese studies in England. How a cult of things Japanese in the early modern period in Britain led to the emergence of one of the 20th century's most important translators is an interesting story in itself.
Three Ways of Thought in Ancient China
Author: Arthur Waley
Publisher: Stanford University Press
ISBN: 9780804711692
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 236
Book Description
In the fourth century BC three conflicting points of view in Chinese philosophy received classic expression: the Taoist, the Confucianist, and the "Realist." This book underscores the interplay between these three philosophies, drawing on extracts from Chuang Tzu, Mencius, and Han Fei Tzu.
Publisher: Stanford University Press
ISBN: 9780804711692
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 236
Book Description
In the fourth century BC three conflicting points of view in Chinese philosophy received classic expression: the Taoist, the Confucianist, and the "Realist." This book underscores the interplay between these three philosophies, drawing on extracts from Chuang Tzu, Mencius, and Han Fei Tzu.
An Introduction to the Study of Chinese Painting
Author: Arthur Waley
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Art, Chinese
Languages : en
Pages : 490
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Art, Chinese
Languages : en
Pages : 490
Book Description
The Opium War Through Chinese Eyes
Author: The Arthur Waley Estate
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1136576657
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 258
Book Description
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.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1136576657
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 258
Book Description
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.
The Way and Its Power
Author: The Arthur Waley Estate
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1136577289
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 286
Book Description
First published in 1934. Unlike previous translations, this translation of Lao Tzu's Tao TĂȘ Ching is based not on the medieval commentaries but on a close study of the whole of early Chinese literature.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1136577289
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 286
Book Description
First published in 1934. Unlike previous translations, this translation of Lao Tzu's Tao TĂȘ Ching is based not on the medieval commentaries but on a close study of the whole of early Chinese literature.
The Real Tripitaka
Author: The Arthur Waley Estate
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1136576932
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 297
Book Description
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 the great persecution of Buddhism in 842-845 A.D.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1136576932
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 297
Book Description
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 the great persecution of Buddhism in 842-845 A.D.
A hundred and seventy Chinese poems ...
Author: Arthur Waley
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Chinese poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Chinese poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
More Translations from the Chinese
Author: Arthur Waley
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Chinese poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 156
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Chinese poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 156
Book Description
The Secret History of the Mongols and Other Works
Author: Arthur Waley
Publisher: House of Stratus
ISBN: 0755116046
Category : China
Languages : en
Pages : 366
Book Description
In this unforgettable book, Waley brings together a number of articles, poems and translations. Included are pieces on the poet Ts'en Shen and the great Chinese prose writer, Han Yu, but the most compelling is 'The Secret History of the Mongols', with fantastic tales of epic battles; betrayal and love; tyrants and prisoners.
Publisher: House of Stratus
ISBN: 0755116046
Category : China
Languages : en
Pages : 366
Book Description
In this unforgettable book, Waley brings together a number of articles, poems and translations. Included are pieces on the poet Ts'en Shen and the great Chinese prose writer, Han Yu, but the most compelling is 'The Secret History of the Mongols', with fantastic tales of epic battles; betrayal and love; tyrants and prisoners.