A spectacular father/son collaboration like no other, Stephen King and Owen King tell the highest of high stakes stories: what might happen if women disappeared from the world of men?

Hailed as the most important and most comprehensive single study of Tang poetry to have appeared in English when originally published by Yale University Press in 1981, this Quirin Press…

This book explores, through a series of essays, a set of interrelated elements that define the literary culture of China in the late 8th and early 9th centuries.

Stephen Owen contends that in the new money economy of the Song Dynasty, writers became preoccupied with the question of whether material things can bring happiness. In a series of…

This volume offers new perspectives on the Chinese arch-poet Qu Yuan and the Lyrics of Chu, including fresh analyses of Chuci poetics, richly annotated translations, and multi-faceted scholarship on the…

This volume presents twelve essays on the evolution of shih poetry from the second to the tenth century, the period that began with the sudden flowering of shih poetry in…

From the beginnings of the Chinese written language to the lively world of internet literature, these two volumes tell the story of Chinese writing. The chapters, organized chronologically, treat not…

Presents essays on seven core, premodern classical Chinese texts. This book draws from literature, philosophy, religion, and art history and challenges the presumption of a monolithic Chinese tradition that has…