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First published in 1937. The Book of Songs is a collection of ancient Chinese songs, dating from 800 to 600 B.C. Until this was published in 1937 it h...
"What Waley did create is literary art of extraordinary beauty that brings to life in English the world Murasaki Shikibu imagined. The beauty of his a...
This is a new release of the original 1928 edition....
First published in 1946. Here in one volume is a collection of Arthur Waley's translations of Chinese poetry. The book includes some poems from The Bo...
An Appreciation and Anthology of Arthur Waley
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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 gre...
A Saga of Epic Battles, Betrayal, Love, Tyrants and Prisoners in Ancient China
In this unforgettable book, Waley brings together a number of articles, poems and translations. Included are pieces on the poet Ts’ên Shên and the...
Eighteenth Century Chinese Poet
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 ti...
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; t...
The events of the war are recounted from the Chinese viewpoint by means of contemporary diaries and other documents...
Arthur Waley (1889-1966) was an influential English orientalist and sinologist who brought countless Eastern texts to English audiences. Associated wi...
First published in 1938. Previous translations of the Analects of Confucius are based upon a medieval interpretation which reflects the philosophy of ...
And Other Pieces
First published in 1963. The Secret History (so called merely because it was meant for the Mongols and not for the Chinese, ) has been chiefly studied...
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is i...
The Nō Plays of Japan is an anthology by Arthur Waley. It covers the traditional No plays of Japan where subjects such as insanity and obsession flou...
First published in 1952. The Real Tripitaka gives an account of the seventh century pilgrim's adventures, spiritual and material, both in India and af...
Translated from the Chinese by Arthur Waley
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was ...
This is a new release of the original 1949 edition....
A Study of the Tao Tê Ching and Its Place in Chinese Thought
First published in 1934. Unlike previous translations, this translation of Lao Tzu's Tao Tê Ching is based not on the medieval commentaries but on a ...
The Uta
The Noh Plays of Japan is the most respected collection of Noh plays in English. The classic Japanese plays can be read for their great literary merit...
701-762
When this was originally published in 1950 this was the fullest biography of one of China’s greatest poets that had ever appeared in any language. I...
The Uta - Scholar's Choice Edition
Selected from 170 Chinese Poems, More Translations from the Chinese, The Temple and The Book of Songs
The Uta (1919)
This Is A New Release Of The Original 1919 Edition....
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 hi...