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Shortlisted for the 2022 Lucien Stryk Prize for Best Translation of the Year from an Asian Language, awarded by the American Literary Translators Association. 
Broad Sea and Empty Sky
China’s Greatest Modern Poet, Xu Zhimo translated by Dorothy Trench Bonett Xu Zhimo (1897–1931) was China’s first great modern poet and a major figure of the intellectual revolution that shaped modern China. This book presents the largest selection of Xu’s poems available in English, as well as some of his prose works. |
Chosen as one of the “Ten Best Rural Poets” by the Chinese Writers Association 
Twilight
A Contemporary Pastoral Poet of China, Zhang Lian translated by Keming Liu A struggling potato farmer in rural north China, Zhang Lian (b. 1957) turned to poetry to describe the harsh beauty of his environment and his daily struggle to eke out an existence. His work has appeared in more than one hundred anthologies and been translated into several languages, now including English. |
Cave of the Immortals
The Poetry and Prose of Bamboo Painter Wen Tong (1019–1079) by Jonathan Chaves Wen Tong (1019–1079) is considered the supreme master of bamboo painting in the history of Chinese art. Wen was a poet as well, and perhaps because of his fame as a painter, his poetry has remained virtually unknown for centuries. This book is the first in any Western language to present translations of selected poems by Wen, over three hundred of them, as well as examples of his prose writings, which shed new light on religious and folk beliefs of the day. |
Winner of the 2014 Lucien Stryk Prize for Best Translation of the Year from an Asian Language, awarded by ALTA (the American Literary Translators Association). The Yellow Mountains and Chinese Travel Writing including the first complete translation of Wang Hongdu's A Record of Comprehending the Essentials of the Yellow Mountains by Jonathan Chaves A fascinating eighteenth-century travel journal to an area of scenic beauty that remains a hugely popular tourist destination today, written by poet and artist Wang Hongdu (1646–1721/1722) and never before available in English. |
Gitanjali
Offerings of Song and Art by Rabindranath Tagore; paintings by Mark W. McGinnis The enduringly popular verses of poet, playwright, and novelist Rabindranath Tagore (1861–1941) illustrated with 103 exquisite paintings by artist Mark McGinnis, after the fashion of Indian Kangra style paintings of the late 18th century. |
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. |
Voices of the Fourth Generation
China's Poets Today edited by Keming Liu An anthology of the outstanding work of China's so-called Fourth Generation of poets emerging from a vibrant and rapidly developing cultural scene, offered for the first time in bilingual format. |
Cloud Gate Song
The Verse of Tang Poet Zhang Ji translated by Jonathan Chaves The first book in any Western language devoted to the work of this major poet of the Tang dynasty, with 300 poems rendered in accurate, readable translation. |
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. |
The Tatar Whirlwind
A Novel of Seventeenth-Century East Asia by Shiba Ryotaro, translated by Joshua Fogel A sweeping epic of battles and international intrigue at the time of the Manchu invasion of China, by Japan's most popular writer of historical fiction. |
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