In the seventh century the kingdom of Samarkand sent formal gifts of fancy yellow peaches, large as goose eggs and with a color like gold, to the Chinese court at Ch'ang-an. What kind of fruit these
The Vermilion Bird attempts to recover the actual character of the monsoon realms of T'ang-a scattering of palisaded garrisons, isolated monasteries, and commercial towns, all surrounded by dark, haun
This twelth century catalogue assmedbled by Tu Wan is the first whole work in Chinese literature devoted to stones as objects of aesthetic value. this date the appreciation of viewing stones in garden
This engaging study by the eminent Sinologist Edward H. Schafer examines one of those kingdoms, the so-called Empire of Min, centered in the coast al and semitropical present-day province of Fujian .
An important exploration of Chinese mythology that focuses on the diverse and evocative associations between women and water in the literature of the T'ang dynasty.
Noted Sinologist Edward H. Schafer presents a literary and cultural history of the island of Hainan, located off the south coast of China east of Vietnam, from the earliest times to the twelfth centur
In the author's own words, this work endeavors 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'a
Since the early seventeenth century, Taoism---the native religion of China---has been regarded as superstition and potentially subversive. Chinese arbiters of taste systematically ignored the Taoist
From its ancient Indian peoples to its troubled beginning as a French colony to the tragic events of Hurricane Katrina, Louisiana has a history that, whatever else one might say about the state, has n
