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The Fragrant Companions
Two young gentry women meet by chance at a nunnery in Yangzhou, where they fall in love at first sight. After they exchange poetry and recognize each other’s literary talents, their emotional bond deepens. They conduct a mock wedding ceremony at the nunnery and hatch a plan to spend the rest of their lives together. Their schemes are stymied by a series of obstacles, but in the end the two women find an unlikely resolution—a ménage-à-trois marriage. The Fragrant Companions is the most significant work of literature that portrays female same-sex love in the entire premodern Chinese tradition. Written in 1651 by Li Yu, one of the most inventive and irreverent literary figures of seventee...
Three Kingdoms
“A material epic with an astonishing fidelity to history."—New York Times Book Review Three Kingdoms tells the story of the fateful last reign of the Han dynasty (206 B.C.–A.D. 220), when the Chinese empire was divided into three warring kingdoms. Writing some twelve hundred years later, the Ming author Luo Guanzhong drew on histories, dramas, and poems portraying the crisis to fashion a sophisticated, compelling narrative that has become the Chinese national epic. This abridged edition captures the novel's intimate and unsparing view of how power is wielded, how diplomacy is conducted, and how wars are planned and fought. As important for Chinese culture as the Homeric epics have been for the West, this Ming dynasty masterpiece continues to be widely influential in China, Korea, Japan, and Vietnam and remains a great work of world literature.
Three Kingdoms, A Historical Novel
"The Three Kingdoms gives us The Iliad of China. First of the five great works of traditional prose fiction, this master narrative transforms history into epic and has thereby educated and entertained readers of five centuries with unforgettable exemplars of martial and civic virtue, of personal fidelity and political treachery. Moss Roberts's translation, the first complete rendering in English, is one of surpassing excellence and impeccable scholarship. It should delight and captivate Western readers for many more years to come."—Anthony C. Yu, University of Chicago
First Ugly Husband
In order to save his brothers who had tragically died, Bao Ye did not hesitate to go against the heavens and change his fate, teleporting back into the past.Unexpectedly, the wrong time, back to thirty years ago, before he was born.Not only was he ugly, he was actually a lowly, shameless, vulgar, despicable, scum who betrayed his family and friends. Furthermore, he was also a lowly slave.Logically speaking, such a person shouldn't attract too much attention. Who knew that a powerful man would appear out of nowhere, take responsibility for his actions, aim for seeing him make a fool of himself, and even aim for making him happy?The worst case scenario was that the man actually did it to his head, forcing himself to do it.Bao Ye hurriedly touched his still ugly face and said in shock, "What the hell, to think that he would look so soul-stirring in this fellow's eyes. Isn't this way too f * cking heavy?!"
Heroes in the Three Kingdoms
The era of the Three Kingdoms was a time of chaotic wars. The times created heroes, and the chaotic times were the best stage for heroes to display their talents. The era of the Three Kingdoms was destined to be an era where heroes emerged.
Traditional Dietary Culture Of Southeast Asia
First Published in 2002.Foodways can reveal the strongest and deepest traces of human history and culture, and this pioneering volume is a detailed study of the development of the traditional dietary culture of Southeast Asia from Laos and Vietnam to the Philippines and New Guinea from earliest times to the present. Being blessed with abundant natural resources, dietary culture in Southeast Asia flourished during the pre-European period on the basis of close relationships between the cultural spheres of India and China, only to undergo significant change during the rise of Islam and the age of European colonialism. What we think of as the Southeast Asian cuisine today is the result of the complex interplay of many factors over centuries. The work is supported by full geological, archaeological, biological and chemical data, and is based largely upon Southeast Asian sources which have not been available up until now. This is essential reading for anyone interested in culinary history, the anthropology of food, and in the complex history of Southeast Asia.
Return From the Immortal Realm
When immortals descended to the mortal world, they were only envious of the mandarin ducks and not immortals.The school beauty is mine, the female teacher is mine, and the princess is still mine. "
三囯演义
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Three Kingdoms
Portrays a fateful moment at the end of the Han dynasty. Three young men pledge loyalty to each other and answer the emperor's appeal for help in suppressing a peasant rebellion.
中国当代紫砂艺术
本书把着力点放在了有作为、有造诣、有精品意识的中青年陶艺家身上,通过对他们作品的评析、解读,又联系到对老艺人的经典之作的评议、赏析,从中基本上可以理出一条宜兴紫砂艺术的走势的脉络。
