8 must-read china books like Written in Exile: The Poetry of Liu Tsung-yuan by Liu Tsung-Yuan

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Written in Exile: The Poetry of Liu Tsung-yuan

By: Liu Tsung-Yuan

3.84

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

After a failed push for political reform, the T'ang era's greatest prose-writer, Liu Tsung-yuan, wa…

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1. Poems of the Late T'ang (New York Review Books Classics)

By: Du Fu , A.C. Graham , Li Shang-yin , None , None , None , None

4.00

Format: 175 pages, Paperback

Classical Chinese poetry reached its pinnacle during the T'ang Dynasty (618-907 A.D.), and the poet… read more

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  • poetry
  • china
"Keep away from sharp swords, Don't go near a lovely woman. A sharp sword too close will wound your hand, Woman's beauty too close will wound your life. The danger of the road is not in the distance, …"

-Du Fu, Poems of the Late T'ang (New York Review Books Classics)

Cover of Tao Te Ching by Lao Tzu, Gia-Fu Feng, Jane English, Jacob Needleman, Toinette Lippe

2. Tao Te Ching

By: Lao Tzu , Gia-Fu Feng , Jane English , Jacob Needleman , Toinette Lippe

4.30

Format: 107 pages, Paperback

A lucid translation of the well-known Taoist classic by a leading scholar-now in a Shambhala Pocket… read more

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  • china
"The heart that gives, gathers."

-Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching

"Love is a decision - not an emotion!"

-Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching

"When nothing is done, nothing is left undone."

-Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching

"To understand the limitation of things, desire them."

-Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching

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3. Cold Mountain: One Hundred Poems by the T'Ang Poet Han-Shan

By: Burton Watson

3.77

Format: 341 pages, Paperback

This collection is one of the earliest and most important works of Chinese Buddhist poetry and is e… read more

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  • poetry
  • china
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4. Li Po and Tu Fu: Poems

By: Du Fu , Li Bai , Arthur Cooper , None , Tu Fu

3.95

Format: 302 pages, Paperback

Li Po (AD 701-62) and Tu Fu (AD 712-70) were devoted friends who are traditionally considered to be… read more

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  • poetry
  • china
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5. The Pickwick Papers

By: Charles Dickens , Mark Wormald

3.87

Format: 172 pages, Paperback

Few first novels have created as much popular excitement as The Pickwick Papers--a comic masterpiec… read more

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6. The Selected Poems

By: Wang Wei , David Hinton

3.91

Format: 360 pages, Paperback

Wang Wei (701-761 C.E.) is often spoken of, with his contemporaries Li Po and Tu Fu, as one of the … read more

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  • china
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7. The Collected Songs of Cold Mountain

By: None , John Blofeld , Red Pine

3.98

Format: 350 pages, Paperback

A Zen-Taoist poetry classic, in a handsome Chinese-English format This definitive translation of Ha… read more

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  • poetry
  • china

8. The Man in the Iron Mask (The D'Artagnan Romances, #3.3)

By: Alexandre Dumas , Francine du Plessix Gray , Joachim Neugroschel

4.11

Format: None pages, Paperback

A swashbuckling novel of political intrigue. In the concluding installment of Alexandre Dumas's cel… read more

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9. The Mountain Poems of Stonehouse

By: Red Pine , None

3.95

Format: 315 pages, Paperback

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10. If on a Winter's Night a Traveler

By: Italo Calvino , William Weaver

3.90

Format: 216 pages,

If on a Winter's Night a Traveleris a marvel of ingenuity, an experimental text that looks longingl… read more

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11. Leaves of Grass

By: Walt Whitman

3.50

Format: 364 pages, Paperback

A collection of quintessentially American poems, the seminal work of one of the most influential wr… read more

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12. The Holy Teaching of Vimalakirti: A Mahayana Scripture

By: Unknown , Robert A.F. Thurman

3.50

Format: 364 pages, Paperback

This book presents the major teachings of Mah y na Buddhism in a precise, dramatic, and even humoro… read more

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13. Selected Poems of Su Tung-p'o

By: Burton Watson , None

4.22

Format: None pages, Paperback

Gathers poems about travel, nature, daily life, friendship, and exile by the eleventh-century Chine… read more

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14. The Way of Zen

By: Alan W. Watts

4.17

Format: 236 pages, Paperback

The Way of Zen begins as a succinct guide through the histories of Buddhism and Taoism leading up t… read more

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"I have no other self than the totality of things of which I am aware."

-Alan W. Watts, The Way of Zen

"For there is never anything but the present, and if one cannot live there, one cannot live anywhere."

-Alan W. Watts, The Way of Zen

"[T]he joy of travel is not nearly so much in getting where one wants to go as in the unsought surprises which occur on the journey."

-Alan W. Watts, The Way of Zen

"A te elibera de convenție nu înseamnă a o refuza cu dispreț, ci a nu fi amăgit de ea. Înseamnă a fi capabil să o folosești ca pe un instrument, nu a fi folosit de ea."

-Alan W. Watts, The Way of Zen

15. In Such Hard Times: The Poetry of Wei Ying-wu

By: Red Pine , None

3.73

Format: 192 pages, Paperback

Wei Ying-wu (737-791) is considered one of the great poets of the T'ang Dynasty, ranked alongside s… read more

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16. Poems of the Masters: China's Classic Anthology of T'ang and Sung Dynasty Verse

By: Red Pine

3.79

Format: 160 pages, Paperback

Bilingual: Chinese/English Poetry is China's greatest art, and for the past eight centuries Poems o… read more

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17. Road to Heaven: Encounters with Chinese Hermits

By: Bill Porter , None

1.00

Format: 64 pages,

Bill Porter (Red Pine) trekked through China's remote Chungnan Mountains in search of hermits. Less… read more

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18. The Platform Sutra of the Sixth Patriarch

By: Philip B. Yampolsky , Hui-Neng , None

4.15

Format: None pages, Paperback

The "Platform Sutra" records the teachings of Hui-neng, the Sixth Patriarch, who is revered as one … read more

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19. The Zen Teaching of Huang Po: On the Transmission of Mind

By: John Blofeld , None , None

4.47

Format: 907 pages, Paperback

This complete translation of the original collection of sermons, dialogues, and anecdotes of Huang … read more

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20. What If? 2: Additional Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions (What If?, #2)

By: Randall Munroe

4.37

Format: 354 pages, Hardcover

The #1 New York Times–bestselling author of What If? and How To provides his best answers yet to th… read more

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21. Written in Exile: The Poetry of Liu Tsung-yuan

By: Liu Tsung-Yuan

3.84

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

After a failed push for political reform, the T'ang era's greatest prose-writer, Liu Tsung-yuan, wa… read more

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  • poetry
  • china
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22. Zen Roots: The First Thousand Years

By: Red Pine

4.62

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

Including nine new translations from the first thousand years of Zen, this collection of sacred Bud… read more

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23. Choosing to Be Simple: Collected Poems of Tao Yuanming

By: Tao Yuanming

4.31

Format: 304 pages, Paperback

Navigating the uncertainty of a divided China wracked by warfare and corruption, Tao Yuanming’s poe… read more

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