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Pacing the Void

T’ang Approaches to the Stars

by Edward H. Schafer

Attempts to recreate for the 20th-century reader the sky and the apparitions that ornament it as they were conceived, imagined, and reacted to by the men of T’ang-dynasty China.

368 pp, 7 x 10, Soft
Chinese culture / Literature
1-891640-14-3
$50.00

Shore of Pearls

Hainan Island in Early Times

by Edward H. Schafer

Monograph by the eminent Sinologist on the history and culture of China’s southern largest island, a source of pearls for the Han dynasty as early as the first century BCE, later a place of banishment, and today a thriving resort.

174 pp, 6 x 9, Soft
Glossary, bibliography, index
ISBN: 978-1-891640-52-0
$40.00

Mirages on the Sea of Time

The Taoist Poetry of Ts’ao T’ang

by Edward H. Schafer

All the surviving verse of the ninth-century poet, with introductory remarks on the source of his imagery and short essays on his treatment of figures of the Taoist pantheon.

164 pp, 5.25 x 8.25, Soft
Notes, bibliography, glossary, index
Literature / Chinese poetry / Daoist philosophy
ISBN: 1-891640-45-3
$40.00

Seasons of Sacred Celebration

Flowers and Poetry from an Imperial Convent

Institute for Medieval Japanese Studies

Presents 18 beautiful calligraphic renderings of classical poems from well-known anthologies, with delicate floral illustrations, preserved since the 17th century at Daishoji Imperial Convent in Kyoto, one of the main Rinzai Zen convents in Japan.

114 pp, 6.5 x 8, Soft
18 full-color illustrations, bibliography, notes
Japanese art & culture
ISBN: 1-891640-35-6
$19.95

Traces

Memories of H.I.H. Prince Takamado

by Stephen Comee; foreword by H.I.H. Princess Takamado

Readers of this intimate portrait of the first cousin to the current emperor will understand more about Japan and its people through learning about one of that nation’s greatest modern advocates of international cultural exchange, environmental protection, and world peace.

260 pp, 5.75 x 8.25, Hard
8 pp of color photos
Biography / Memoirs / Japanese art & culture
ISBN: 1-891640-42-9
$39.95

 

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