Winner of the MLA's Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Prize for an Outstanding Translation of a Literary Work (2008) Victor Segalen has come to be widely recognized in recent years as one of the luminaries of French modernism. Trained as a surgeon and Chinese interpreter, he wrote prolifically in a variety of genres. With this highly original collection of prose poems in French and Chinese, Segalen invented a new genre--the "stele-poem"--in imitation of the tall stone tablets with formal inscriptions that he saw in China. His wry persona declaims these inscriptions like an emperor...
Winner of the MLA's Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Prize for an Outstanding Translation of a Literary Work (2008) Victor Segalen has come to be ...
"On Friendship, with its total of one hundred sayings, is the perfect gift for friends."--Feng Yingjing, renowned scholar and civic official, 1601 Matteo Ricci (1552-1610) is best known as the Italian Jesuit missionary who brought Christianity to China. He also published a landmark text on friendship--the first book to be written in Chinese by a European--that instantly became a late Ming best seller. On Friendship distilled the best ideas on friendship from Renaissance Latin texts into one hundred pure and provocative Chinese maxims. Written in a masterful classical...
"On Friendship, with its total of one hundred sayings, is the perfect gift for friends."--Feng Yingjing, renowned scholar and civic official, 1...
An extensively annotated edition of Ezra Pound's Chinese translations in Cathay (1915) and Lustra (1916) along with unabridged transcriptions of his sources from Ernest Fenollosa's notebooks, along with original texts in Chinese. Includes Pound's article on "Chinese Poetry," and essays by Haun Saussy, Christopher Bush, and Timothy Billings.
An extensively annotated edition of Ezra Pound's Chinese translations in Cathay (1915) and Lustra (1916) along with unabridged transcriptions of his s...