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Revised Edition
by Xiao Hong, Howard Goldblatt (Translator)
Xiao Hong is considered by many to be China's first feminist novelist. Originally published in Chinese in 1936, The Field of Life and Death is an unflinching collection of vignettes set in the rural China in which Xiao Hong grew up. Though it was... Read More »
A Collection of Poems Ancient and Modern
Translated by Laurel Rasplica Rodd, Mary Catherine Henkenius
This book is the first complete translation of the tenth-century Kokinshu, one of the most important anthologies of the Japanese classical tradition. Winner of the 1982 Japan-US Friendship Commission’s Literary Translation Award, Kokinshu links... Read More »
Lessons in Chinese Commerce for the New Millennium
Note: New Pathways: An Advanced Business Chinese Reader, a new and improved edition of Open For Business Volume 1, is available for purchase here.
Open for Business Volume 1 is a textbook & exercise book set filled with authentic, everyday... Read More »
A Novel
by Wang Shuo
Translated by Howard Goldblatt
Called "China's Kerouac" by the New York Times, Wang Shuo applies his genius for cultural irreverence to one of the world's sacred rituals: the Olympic Games. He imagines an Olympics where nations compete not on the basis of athletic prowess, but... Read More »
The Origin of Chingis Khan
Adapted by Paul Kahn
This adaptation of what is recognized today as the oldest Mongolian text (written two decades after Chingis Khan's death) tells the Mongols' own version of the origin of their nation, the life of Chingis Khan, and the creation of an empire that... Read More »
Selected Tanka from Midaregami
by Akiko Yosano
Translated by Sanford Goldstein, Seishi Shinoda
First published in 1901, Akiko Yosano’s Tangled Hair had a sensational impact on Japanese literature, reshaping the tanka into a modern poetic form. In this revised edition, her poems appear in their original Japanese, in romanized transliterations... Read More »
An Introductory Course for Professionals
by Dr. Jane C. M. Kuo
The Startup Business Chinese Level 1 Workbook is designed to accompany the Level 1 Textbook and contains exercises for improving learners’ listening, speaking, reading, and writing skills in a Chinese business context.
Units 1-6 begin with listening... Read More »