Sections:
Indian Literature
Persian Literature
Turkish Literature
Other Eastern Literatures
Categories:
- Classical
- Modern
- Anthologies & Secondary Literature
Classical:
Authors & Works:
- Mir Amman (c.17th century-18th century)
- Babur (1483-1530)
- The Jātaka Tales (c.5th century)
- Kālidāsa (c.4th-6th century)
- Kalyana Malla (c.15th-16th century)
- The Mahābhārata (c.4th century BC)
- Narayana (c.12th century)
- The Pañcatantra (c.3rd century BC)
- The Simhāsana Dvātrimśikā (c.12th century)
- Śivadāsa (c.12th-14th century)
- Somadeva (c.11th century)
- Vālmīki (c. 4th century BC)
- Mallanaga Vātsyāyana (c.4th-6th century)
Mir Amman (c.17th-18th century)
- Mir Amman. A Tale of Four Dervishes. Translated from the Urdu with an Introduction by Mohammed Zakir. Penguin Classics. New Delhi: Penguin, 1994.
Emperor Zahiruddin Muhammad Babur (1483-1530)
- Thackston, Wheeler M., trans & ed. The Baburnama: Memoirs of Babur, Prince and Emperor. 1996. Introduction by Salman Rushdie. The Modern Library. New York: Random House, Inc., 2002.
The Jātaka Tales (c.5th century)
- Rhys Davids, T. W. trans. Buddhist Birth-Stories (Jātaka Tales): The Commentarial Introduction Entitled Nidāna-Kathā, The Story of the Lineage. 1880. Broadway Translations. London & New York: Routledge & Dutton, 1925.
- Cowell, E. B., ed. The Jātaka, or Stories of the Buddha’s Former Births. Trans. R. Chambers, W. H. D. Rouse, H. T. Francis & R. A. Neil, W. H. D. Rouse, H. T. Francis, E. B. Cowell & W. H. D. Rouse. 6 vols in 3. 1895-1907. Delhi: Motilal Banarsidass Publishers, 1990.
Kālidāsa [Devanāgarī] (c.4th-6th century)
- Kalidasa. Shakuntala and Other Works. Trans. Arthur W. Ryder. Everyman’s Library 629. 1912. London: J. M. Dent / New York: E. P. Dutton, 1920.
Kalyana Malla (c.15th-16th century)
- The Ananga Ranga of Kalyana Malla and The Symposium of Plato. Trans. Richard F. Burton & F. F. Arbuthnot, and Benjamin Jowett. 1885 & 1871. Kimber Pocket Editions. London: William Kimber & Co., Ltd., 1963.
The Mahabharata [Mahābhārata] (c.4th century BC-c.4th century AD)
- Ganguli, Kisari Mohan, trans. The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa: Translated into English Prose from the Original Sanskrit Text. 1883-1896. 4 vols. New Delhi: Munshiram Manoharlal Publishers Pvt Ltd., 2002.
- Vyasa. Mahabharata: The Epic of Ancient India, Condensed into English Verse. Trans. Romesh Dutt, C.I.E. 1898. The Temple Classics. Ed. Israel Gollancz. London: J. M. Dent and Co., 1903.
- Mascaró, Juan, trans. The Bhagavad Gita: Translated from the Sanskrit. Penguin Classics. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1962.
- van Buitenen, J. trans. The Mahābhārata. Book 1: The Book of the Beginning. 1973. Chicago & London: University of Chicago Press, 1983.
- Prabhupāda, A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami. Bhagavad-Gītā As It Is: Complete Edition, Revised and Enlarged, with the original Sanskrit text, Roman transliteration, English equivalents, translation and elaborate purports. 1983. Los Angeles, California: The Bhaktivedanta Book Trust, 1994.
- Smith, John D. trans. The Mahābhārata: An Abridged Translation. Penguin Classics. London: Penguin, 2009.
Narayana (c.12th century)
- Chandiramani, G. L., trans. The Hitopadesha: An Ancient Fabled Classic. 1995. Mumbai: Jaico Publishing House, 1999.
The Panchatantra [Pañcatantra] (c.3rd century BC)
- Ryder, Arthur W., trans. The Panchatantra. 1925. Chicago: Phoenix Books, 1964.
- Edgerton, Franklin, trans. The Panchatantra. London: Allen & Unwin, 1965.
- Visnu Sarma. The Pancatantra. Trans. Chandra Rajan. 1993. London: Penguin, 1995.
- Olivelle, Patrick, trans. The Pañcatantra: The Book of India’s Folk Wisdom. The World’s Classics. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1997.
The Simhāsana Dvātrimśikā [Thirty-two Tales of the Throne] (c.12th century)
- Edgerton, Franklin, ed. & trans. Vikrama’s Adventures, or the Thirty-two Tales of the Throne. Harvard Oriental Series, ed. Charles Rockwell Lanman, 26 & 27. 1926. 2 vols. Delhi: Motilal Banarsidass Publishers, 1993.
- Haksar, A. N. D., trans. Simhāsana Dvātrimśikā: Thirty-two Tales of the Throne of Vikramaditya. New Delhi: Penguin, 1998.
- Bhoothalingam, Mathuram. Stories of Vikramaditya. Illustrated by Jomraj. New Delhi: Publications Division, Ministry of Information and Broadcasting, Government of India, 1982.
Śivadāsa (c.12th-14th century)
- [Burton, Richard F. Vikram and the Vampire, or Tales of Hindu Devilry. 1870. Memorial Edition. Ed. Isabel Burton. London: Thylston & Edwards, 1893.]
- Śivadāsa. The Five-and-Twenty Tales of the Genie: Vetālapañćavinśati. Trans. Chandra Rajan. 1995. Penguin Classics. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 2006.
Somadeva (c.11th century)
- Penzer, N. M., ed. The Ocean of Story: Being C. H. Tawney’s Translation of Somadeva’s Kathā Sarit Sāgara (or Ocean of Streams of Story). 1880-87. 10 vols. London: Privately Printed for Subscribers Only by Chas. J. Sawyer Ltd., Grafton House, W.1., 1924-1928.
- Penzer, N. M., ed. The Ocean of Story: Being C. H. Tawney’s Translation of Somadeva’s Kathā Sarit Sāgara (or Ocean of Streams of Story). 1880-87. 10 vols. 1924-28. Delhi: Motilal Banarsidass, 1968.
- Somadeva. Tales from the Kathāsaritsāgara. Trans. Arshia Sattar. Foreword by Wendy Doniger. 1994. Penguin Classics. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1996.
- Somadeva. Océan des rivières de contes. Ed. Nalini Balbir, with Mildrède Besnard, Lucien Billoux, Sylvain Brocquet, Colette Caillat, Christine Chojnacki, Jean Fezas & Jean-Pierre Osier. Traduction des ‘Contes du Vampire’ par Louis & Marie-Simone Renou, 1963. Bibliothèque de la Pléiade, 438. Paris: Gallimard, 1997.
Valmiki [Vālmīki] (c. 4th century BC)
- Valmiki. Ramayana: The Epic of Rama, Prince of India, Condensed into English Verse. Trans. Romesh Dutt, C.I.E. 1899. The Temple Classics. Ed. Israel Gollancz. London: J. M. Dent and Co., 1903.
- Shastri, Hari Prasad, trans. The Ramayana of Valmiki. 1953. 3 vols. London: Shanti Sadan, 1976.
Mallanaga Vātsyāyana (c.4th-6th century)
- Burton, Richard F., and F. F. Arbuthnot, trans. The Kama Sutra of Vatsyayana. 1883. Ed. John Muirhead-Gould. 1963. London: Panther, 1968.
- Daniélou, Alain, trans. The Complete Kāma Sūtra. The First Unabridged Modern Translation of the Classic Indian text by Vātsyāyana: including the Jayamangalā commentary from the Sanskrit by Yasodhara and extracts from the Hindi commentary by Devadatta Shāstrā. Prepared with the help of Kenneth Hurry. Rochester, Vermont: Park Street Press, 1994.
- Vatsyayana Mallanaga. Kamasutra: A New, Complete Translation of the Sanskrit Text, with Excerpts from the Sanskrit Jayamangala Commentary of Yasodhara Indrapada, the Hindu Jaya Commentary of Devadatta Shastri, and Explanatory Notes by the Translators. Trans. Wendy Doniger & Sudhir Kakar. 2002. Oxford World’s Classics. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2003.
The Ocean of Story
Modern:
Authors:
- Mulk Raj Anand (1905-2004)
- Bibhutibhushan Bandyopadhyay (1894-1950)
- Musharraf Ali Farooqi (1968- )
- Mahatma Gandhi (1869-1948)
- Rohinton Mistry (1952- )
- Dom Moraes (1938-2004)
- R. K. Narayan (1906-2001)
- Salman Rushdie (1947- )
- Vikram Seth (1952- )
- Idries Shah (1924-1996)
- Jaspreet Singh (1969- )
- Rabindranath Tagore (1861-1941)
Mulk Raj Anand (1905-2004)
- Anand, Mulk Raj. Untouchable. 1935. Penguin Modern Classics. Haryana: Penguin Books India, 2001.
Bibhutibhushan Bandyopadhyay [Banerji] (1894-1950)
- Banerji, Bibhutibhushan. Pather Panchali: Song of the Road. 1929. Trans. T.W. Clark & Tarapada Mukherji. 1968. Lithographs by Janet Archer. London: The Folio Society, 1971.
Musharraf Ali Farooqi (1968- )
- Lakhnavi, Ghalib, & Abdullah Bilgrami. The Adventures of Amir Hamza: Lord of the Auspicious Planetary Conjunction. 1855. Trans. Musharraf Ali Farooqi. Introduction by Hamid Dabashi. New York: The Modern Library, 2007.
Mohandas Karamchand [Mahatma] Gandhi (1869-1948)
- Gandhi, Mohandas K. An Autobiography: The Story of My Experiments with Truth. 1927 & 1929. Trans. Mahadev Desai. 1940. Beacon Paperback, 35. Boston: Beacon Press, 1957.
- Shirer, William L. Gandhi: A Memoir. 1979. Abacus. London: Sphere Books, 1981.
Rohinton Mistry (1952- )
- Mistry, Rohinton. A Fine Balance. 1995. London: Faber, 1997.
Dominic Francis [Dom] Moraes (1938-2004)
- Moraes, Dom. Collected Poems 1954-2004. New Delhi: Penguin Books India, 2004.
Rasipuram Krishnaswami Iyer Narayanaswami [R. K. Narayan] (1906-2001)
- Narayan, R. K. The Man-Eater of Malgudi. 1961. A Four Square Book. London: New English Library, 1965.
- Narayan, R. K. The Indian Epics Retold: The Ramayana (1972); The Mahabharata (1978); Gods, Demons, and Others (1964). 1995. New Delhi: Penguin Books, 2000.
- Narayan, R. K. A Story-Teller's World: Stories, Essays, Sketches. 1989. Introduction by Syd Harrex. New Delhi: Penguin Books, 1990.
Sir Ahmed Salman Rushdie (1947- )
- Rushdie, Salman. Grimus. 1975. Panther Books. Frogmore, St Albans: Granada Publishing Limited, 1977.
- Rushdie, Salman. Midnight's Children. 1981. London: Picador, 1982.
- Rushdie, Salman. Shame. 1983. A Picador Original. London: Pan Books / Jonathan Cape, 1983.
- Rushdie, Salman. The Jaguar Smile: A Nicaraguan Journey. 1987. London: Picador, 1999.
- Rushdie, Salman. The Satanic Verses. London: Viking, 1988.
- Rushdie, Salman. Haroun and the Sea of Stories. 1990. London: Granta Books, 1991.
- Rushdie, Salman. Imaginary Homelands: Essays and Criticism, 1981-1991. 1991. London: Granta Books, 1992.
- Rushdie, Salman. East, West. London: Jonathan Cape, 1994.
- Rushdie, Salman. The Moor's Last Sigh. London: Jonathan Cape, 1995.
- Rushdie, Salman. The Ground Beneath Her Feet: A Novel. London: Jonathan Cape, 1999.
- Rushdie, Salman. Fury: A Novel. 2001. London: Vintage Books, 2002.
- Rushdie, Salman. Step Across This Line: Collected Non-Fiction, 1992-2002. London: Jonathan Cape, 2002.
- Rushdie, Salman. Step Across This Line: Collected Non-Fiction 1992-2002. 2002. London: Vintage, 2003.
- Rushdie, Salman. Shalimar the Clown: A Novel. 2005. London: Vintage Books, 2006.
- Rushdie, Salman. The Enchantress of Florence: A Novel. Jonathan Cape. London: Random House, 2008.
- Rushdie, Salman. Luka and the Fire of Life. Jonathan Cape. London: Random House, 2010.
- Rushdie, Salman. Joseph Anton: A Memoir. Jonathan Cape. London: Random House, 2012.
- Rushdie, Salman. Two Years, Eight Months and Twenty-Eight Nights: A Novel. Jonathan Cape. London: Random House, 2015.
- Rushdie, Salman. The Golden House. Jonathan Cape. London: Vintage Publishing, 2017.
- Rushdie, Salman. Quichotte. Jonathan Cape. London: Penguin Random House, 2019.
- Rushdie, Salman. Victory City. Jonathan Cape. London: Penguin Random House UK, 2023.
- Rushdie, Salman, & Elizabeth West, ed. The Vintage Book of Indian Writing. London: Vintage Books, 1997.
Vikram Seth (1952- )
- Seth, Vikram. A Suitable Boy. 1993. A Phoenix Paperback. London: Orion Books Ltd., 1994.
Idries Shah [Sayed Idries el-Hashimi] (1924-1996)
- Shah, Idries. The Sufis. 1964. London: Star, 1977.
- Shah, Idries, ed. Caravan of Dreams. 1968. London: Quartet Books, 1973.
- Shah, Idries. Wisdom of the Idiots. 1969. A Dutton paperback. New York: E. P. Dutton & Co., Inc., 1971.
- Shah, Idries, ed. World Tales: the Extraordinary Coincidence of Stories Told in All Times, in All Places. 1979. London: Octagon P, 1991.
Jaspreet Singh (1969- )
- Singh, Jaspreet. Helium. 2013. London: Bloomsbury India, 2013.
Rabindranath Tagore Gurudev (1861-1941)
- Tagore, Rabindranath. Hungry Stones and Other Stories. 1916. Macmillan Pocket Tagore Edition. Madras: Macmillan India, 1973.
- Tagore, Rabindranath. Collected Poems and Plays. 1936. Adelaide: Macmillan, 1977.
- Tagore, Rabindranath. Poems. Ed. Krishna Kripalani with Amiya Chakravarty, Nirmalchandra Chottopadhyaya, & Pulinbihari Sen. 1942. Calcutta: Visva-Bharati, 1946.
- Tagore, Rabindranath. Selected Poems. Trans. William Radice. 1985. Rev. ed. 1987. Rev. ed. 1993. Rev. ed. 1994. Penguin Classics. London: Penguin, 2005.
- Dutta, Krishna, & Andrew Robinson. Rabindranath Tagore: The Myriad-Minded Man. 1995. London: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, 1997.
Anthologies & Secondary Literature:
- Alphonso-Karkala, John B., trans. An Anthology of Indian Literature. A Pelican Book. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1971.
- Beck, Brenda E. F., Peter J. Claus, Praphulladata Goswami, & Jawaharlal Handoo, ed. Folktales of India. Foreword by A. K. Ramanujan. Folktales of the World, ed. Richard M. Dorson. 1987. Chicago & London: The University of Chicago Press, 1989.
- Brough, John, trans. Poems from the Sanskrit. Penguin Classics. 1968. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1969.
- De Bary, Wm. Theodore, Stephen Hay, Royal Weiler & Andrew Yarrow, ed. Sources of Indian Tradition. Introduction to Oriental Civilisations. 1958. Delhi: Motilal Banarsidass, 1988.
- de Souza, Eunice de. 101 Folktales from India. Illustrated by Sujata Singh. A Puffin Book. New Delhi: Penguin Books India, 2004.
- Joshi, Jagdish, illus. Romantic Classics. New Delhi: Children’s Book Trust, 1983.
- Keith, A. Berriedale. A History of Sanskrit Literature. 1920. London: Oxford University Press, 1966.
- Manucci, Niccolao. Memoirs of the Mogul Court. Trans. William Irvine. 1907. Ed. Michael Edwardes. London: The Folio Society, n.d. [1957].
- O’Flaherty, Wendy, trans. Hindu Myths: A Sourcebook Translated from the Sanskrit. Penguin Classics. 1975. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1980.
- Ramanujan, A. K. ed. Folktales from India: A Selection of Oral Tales from Twenty-two Languages. 1991. The Pantheon Fairy Tale and Folklore Library. Pantheon Books. New York: Random House, Inc., 1993.
Bears (c.1500 BC)
[30 books]
Authors & Works:
- Farīd ud-Dīn ʿAṭṭār (1145-1221)
- Behrouz Boochani (1983- )
- Ferdowsi (940-1020)
- Nizami Ganjavi (1141-1209)
- Omar Khayyám (1048-1131)
- Azar Nafisi (1947- )
- Rumi (1207-1273)
- Saʿdī (1210-1291)
- Tutinama (c. 14th century
- Sa'ad ad-Din Varavini (c. 13th century
- Anthologies & Secondary Literature
Farīd ud-Dīn ʿAṭṭār (1145-1221)
- Attar, Farid ud-Din. The Conference of the Birds. Trans. Afkham Darbandi and Dick Davis. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1984.
- Attar, Farid ud-Din. The Conference of the Birds, Mantiq ut-Tair:
A Philosophical Religious Poem in Prose - Rendered into English from
the Literal and Complete French Translation of Garcin de Tassy. Trans. C. S. Nott. 1954. London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1967.
Behrouz Boochani (1983- )
- Boochani, Behrouz. No Friend but the Mountains: Writing from Manus Prison. Trans. Omid Tofighian. 2018. Picador. Sydney: Pan Macmillan Australia Pty Ltd, 2019.
Hakīm Abul-Qāsim Ferdowsī Tūsī (940-1021)
- Ferdowsi. The Epic of the Kings: Shah-Nama, the National Epic of Persia. Trans. Reuben Levy. 1967. Rev. Amin Banani. London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1985.
- Ferdowsi, Abolqasem. Shahnameh: The Persian Book of Kings. Trans. Dick Davis. 2007. Rev. ed. Foreword by Azar Nafisi. Penguin Classics. London: Penguin, 2016.
Nizami Ganjavi (1141-1209)
- Ganjavi, Nizami. Haft Paykar: A Medieval Persian Romance. 1197. Trans. Julie Scott Meisami. World’s Classics. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1995.
Ghiyāth ad-Dīn Abu'l-Fatḥ ʿUmar ibn Ibrāhīm al-Khayyām Nīshāpūrī (1048-1131)
- Avery, Peter, & John Heath-Stubbs, trans. The Ruba’iyat of Omar Khayyam. 1979. Penguin Classics. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1981.
- Dole, Nathan Haskell, ed. Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám: Multi-Variorum Edition. English, French, German, Italian and Danish Translations Comparatively Arranged in Accordance with the the Text of Edward Fitzgerald's Version, with Further Selections, Notes, Biographies, Bibliographies, and Other Material. 2 vols. Boston: L. C. Page and Company (Incorporated) / London: Macmillan & Co., Limited., 1898.
- Fitzgerald, Edward, trans. Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám. Ed. Reynold Alleyne Nicholson. 1909. London: A. & C. Black., 1973.
- Fitzgerald, Edward, trans. The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám and Six Plays of Calderon. Everyman’s Library 819. 1928. London & New York: J. M. Dent & E. P. Dutton, 1948.
- Fitzgerald, Edward, trans. Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám. Courage and Friendship Booklets, 2. Auckland: Whitcombe & Tombs, n.d. [1941]
- Ganz, Charles, ed. A Fitzgerald Medley. London: Methuen & Co. Ltd., 1933.
- Fitzgerald, Edward. Selected Works. Ed. Joanna Richardson. The Reynard Library. London: Rupert Hart-Davis, 1962.
Azar Nafisi (1947- )
- Nafizi, Azar. Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books. 2003. Random House Trade Paperbacks. New York: Random House, Inc., 2004.
Jalāl ad-Dīn Muhammad Rūmī (1207–1273)
- Rumi, Jalal al-Din. Tales from the Masnavi. Trans. A. J. Arberry. 1961. London: George Allen & Unwin, 1968.
- Rumi, Jalal al-Din. Selected Poems.
Trans. Coleman Banks, with John Moyne, A. J. Arberry & Reynold
Nicholson. As 'The Essential Rumi', 1995. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 2004.
Abū-Muhammad Muslih al-Dīn bin Abdallāh Shīrāzī, Saadi Shirazi [(1210-1291)
- Burton, R. F., trans [Edward Retnisak]. Tales from the Gulistân, or Rose-Garden of the Sheikh Sa’di of Shirâz. 1888. London: Philip Allen, 1928.
- Sadi. Gulistan or Flower-Garden. Trans. James Ross. Ed. Charles Sayle. London: Walter Scott, n.d. [c.1890].
Tutinama (c. 14th century)
- Rosen, Georg, trans. Tutti-Nameh: Das Papageienbuch. Aus der türkischen Fassung übertragen von Georg Rosen. Stuttgart: Europäischer Buchklub, 1957.
Sa'ad ad-Din Varavini (c. 13th century)
- Varâvini, Sa’d al-Dîn. Contes du Prince Marzbân. 1220. Trans. Marie-Hélène Ponroy. Connaissance de l’Orient. Paris: Gallimard, 1992.
Anthologies & Secondary Literature:
- Arberry, A. J., ed. The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám and Other Persian Poems: An Anthology of Verse Translations. Everyman’s Library 1996. London & New York: Dent & Dutton, 1954.
- Dole, Nathan Haskell, & Belle M. Walker, eds. The Persian Poets. New York: Thomas Y. Crowell, 1901.
- Ernst, Paul, ed. Erzählungen aus tausendundein Tag; Vermehrt um andere Morgenländische Geschichten. Trans. Felix Paul Greve and Paul Hansmann. 2 vols. Frankfurt: Insel Verlag, 1987.
- Fehse, Willi, ed. The Thousand and One Days. Trans. Anthea Bell. London: Abelard-Schumann, 1971.
- Levy, Reuben, trans. The Three Dervishes and other Persian Tales and Legends. Oxford: Humphrey Milford, 1923.
- McCarthy, J., trans. The Thousand and One Days: Persian Tales. Vol. 1 of 2. London: Chatto, 1892.
- Olcott, Frances Jenkins. Tales of the Persian Genii. Illustrated by Willy Pogany. London: George G. Harrap & Company Limited, 1919.
- Pétis de la Croix, ed. The Persian and Turkish Tales, compleat. Trans. Dr. King. Vol. 2 of 2. London: Richard Ware, 1714.
- Safâ, Z., ed. Anthologie de la poésie persane: XIe-XXe siècle. Trans. G. Lazard, R. Lescot & H. Massé. Paris: Éditions Gallimard, 1964.
Authors & Works:
- Nâzım Hikmet (1902–1963)
- Orhan Pamuk (1952- )
- Anthologies & Secondary Literature
Nâzım Hikmet Ran (1902–1963)
- Hikmet, Nâzım. Poems of Nazim Hikmet: Revised and Expanded. Trans. Randy Blasing & Mutlu Konuk. 1994. Foreword by Carolyn Forché. A Karen and Michael Braziller Book. New York: Persea Books, 2002.
- Hikmet, Nâzım. Human Landscapes from My Country: An Epic Novel in Verse. Trans. Randy Blasing & Mutlu Konuk. Foreword by Edward Hirsch. A Karen and Michael Braziller Book. New York: Persea Books, 2002.
Ferit Orhan Pamuk (1952- )
- Pamuk, Orhan. The White Castle. 1979. Trans. Victoria Holbrook. 1990. London : Faber, 1991.
- Pamuk, Orhan. Istanbul: Memories of a City. 2003. Trans. Maureen Freely. 2005. London: Faber, 2006.
- Pamuk, Orhan. The Museum of Innocence: A Novel. 2008. Trans. Maureen Freely. 2009. London: Faber, 2010.
Anthologies & Secondary Literature:
- de Bellaigue, Christopher. The Lion House: The Coming of a King. The Bodley Head. London: Penguin Random House UK, 2022.
- Lewis, Geoffrey, trans. The Book of Dede Korkut. Penguin Classics. Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1974.
- Menemencioglu, Nermin, in collaboration with Fahir Iz, ed. The Penguin Book of Turkish Verse. Penguin Poets. Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1978.
- Penzer, N. M. The Harēm: An account of the Institution as it existed in the Palace of the Turkish Sultans with a history of the Grand Seraglio from its foundation to modern times. 1936. London: Bookplan, 1965.
Categories:
- Korean
- Singaporean
- Tibetan
- Vietnamese
- Anthologies & Secondary Literature
Korean:
- Kim Man-Choong. The Cloud Dream of the Nine: A Korean Novel – A Story of the Times of the Tangs of China about 840 A.D. Trans. James S. Gale. London: Daniel O’Connor, 1922.
- Yi Mun-Yol. The Poet. 1992. Trans. Chung-wha Chung & Brother Anthony of Taizé. London: The Harvill Press, 1995.
Singaporean:
- Jee Leong Koh. Seven Studies for a Self Portrait: Poems. Charleston, SC: Bench Press, 2012.
- Yap, Arthur. The Space of City Trees: Selected Poems. Introduction by Anne Brewster. Skoob Pacifica. London: Skoob Books Ltd., 2000.
Tibetan:
- Evans-Wentz, W. Y. ed. The Tibetan Book of the Dead, or The After-Death Experiences of the Bardo Plane, according to Lama Kazi Dawa-Samdup's English Rendering. 1927. 2nd edition. 1949. 3rd edition. 1957. Oxford University Press Paperback. 1960. London: Oxford University Press, 1970.
- Lhalungpa, Lobsang P. trans. The Life of Milarepa. 1977. London: Paladin, 1979.
- Tshe ring dbang rgyal. The Tale of the Incomparable Prince. 1727. Trans. Beth Newman. The Library of Tibet. New York: HarperPerennial, 1997.
Vietnamese:
- Bosley, Keith, ed. The War Wife: Vietnamese Poetry. London: Allison & Busby, 1972.
Anthologies & Secondary Literature:
- Haleby, Omar. El Ktab des Lois Secrètes de l’Amour. Trans. Paul de Régla. 1893. Collection Le Nadir. Paris: Balland, 1992.
- Mathers, Edward Powys, trans. The Anthology of Eastern Love. Engravings by Hester Sainsbury. 12 vols in 4. London: John Rodker, 1927-30.
- Vol. I - The Lessons of a Bawd: English Version of the Kuttanimatam of Dāmodaragupta (1927)
- The Harlot’s Breviary: English Version of the Samayamātrikā of Kshemendra (1927)
- The Book of Women & Education of Wives: English Versions of the Zenan-Nameh of Fazil-Bey & Ta’dīb ul-Nisvān (1927)
- Vol. II - The Young Wives’ Tale & Tales of Fez: English Versions of the Kissat al-‘Arā’is Al-Sabīya of Amor ben Amar & Tales of Fez from the Arabic (1927)
- The Loves of Rādhā and Krishna & Amores: English Versions from the Bengali of Chandīdāsa & from the Sanskrit of Amaru and Mayūra (1928)
- Love Stories and Gallant Tales from the Chinese: English Versions by E. Powys Mathers (1928)
- Vol. III - Comrade Loves of the Samurai by Saīkaku Ihara & Songs of the Geishas: English Versions by E. Powys Mathers (1928)
- Ninety Short Tales of Love and Women from the Arabic: English Versions by E. Powys Mathers (1928)
- The Loves of Dāsīn and Musag-ag-Amāstān from the Tamashek & Camel-boy Rhythms from the Arabic: English Versions by E. Powys Mathers (1929)
- Vol. IV - Love Tales of Cambodia & Songs of the Love Nights of Lao: English Versions by E. Powys Mathers (1929)
- Anthology of Eastern Love I: English Versions by E. Powys Mathers (1929)
- Anthology of Eastern Love II: English Versions & Terminal Essays by E. Powys Mathers (1930)
- Mathers, Edward Powys, trans. Love Songs of Asia. ['Black Marigolds' (1919); from 'Coloured Stars' (1918) & 'The Garden of Bright Waters' (1920)]. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1946.
- Yohanna, John D., ed. A Treasury of Asian Literature. Readers Union. 1958. London: Phoenix House, 1960.
Tsao Hsueh-Chin & Kao Ngo: A Dream of Red Mansions.
Trans. Yang Hsien-Yi & Gladys Yang (1978)
Bookcase 13 (House):
Chinese & Japanese Literature
[7 Shelves / 469 books]
1, 2 … = shelf numbers counting downwards
[…] = bound Xerox copy
Shelves:
[1] Japanese Literature
[2] Japanese Literature (Traditional)
[3] Japanese Literature (Modern)
[4] Chinese Literature
[5] Chinese Literature (cont.)
[6] Chinese Literature (cont.)
[7] Chinese & Eastern Literature
- Philippi, Donald L., trans. Kojiki. Princeton & Tokyo: University of Princeton and University of Tokyo Press, 1969.
- The Tale of the Heike: Heike Monogatari. Trans. Hiroshi Kitagawa & Bruce T. Tsuchida. Foreword by Edward Seidensticker. 1975. Tokyo: University of Tokyo Press, 1981.
- The Tale of the Heike. Trans. Helen Craig McCullough. 1988. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2002.
- The Tale of the Heike. Trans. Royall Tyler. Viking Penguin. London: Penguin, 2012.
- Ernst, Earle. The Kabuki Theatre. 1956. An East-West Centre Book. Honolulu: The University Press of Hawaii, 1974.
- Bashō, Matsuo. The Complete Haiku. Trans. Jane Reichhold. Illustrated by Shiro Tsujimura. Tokyo: Kodansha International, 2008.
- Keene, Donald, trans. Major Plays of Chikamatsu. The Records of Civilization: Sources and Studies, 66. New York: Columbia University Press, 1961.
- Keene, Donald. Seeds in the Heart: Japanese Literature from the Earliest Times to the Late Sixteenth Century. A History of Japanese Literature. Volume 1 of 4. 1993. New York: Columbia University Press, 1999.
- Keene, Donald. World Within Walls: Japanese Literature of the Pre-Modern Ear 1600-1867. A History of Japanese Literature. Volume 2 of 4. 1976. New York: Grove Press, 1978.
- Keene, Donald. Dawn to the West: Japanese Literature in the Modern Era – Poetry, Drama, Criticism. A History of Japanese Literature. Volume 3 of 4. 1984. New York: Henry Holt, 1987.
- Keene, Donald. Dawn to the West: Japanese Literature in the Modern Era – Fiction. A History of Japanese Literature. Volume 4 of 4. 1993. New York: Henry Holt, 1999.
- Keene, Donald. Travelers of a Hundred Ages: The Japanese as Revealed Through 1,000 Years of Diaries. 1989. New York: Columbia University Press, 1999.
- Keene, Donald. Modern Japanese Diaries: The Japanese at Home and Abroad as Revealed through Their Diaries. New York: Columbia University Press, 1999.
- Michener, James A. The Floating World. London: Secker & Warburg Ltd., 1954.
- The Pillow Book of Sei Shōnagon. Trans. Ivan Morris. Introduction by Robin Duke. Illustrations by Jasper Deane. 1979. London: The Folio Society, 1980.
- Morris, Ivan. The Nobility of Failure: Tragic Heroes in the History of Japan. London: Martin Secker & Warburg, 1975.
- Tokitsu Kenji. Miyamoto Musashi: His Life and Writings. 2000. Trans. Sherab Chödzin Kohn. Art captions by Stephen Addiss. Boston: Shambhala, 2004.
- Ihara Saikaku. The Life of an Amorous Woman and Other Writings. Ed. & trans. Ivan Morris. London: Chapman & Hall, 1963.
- Saitō Mokichi. Red Lights: Selected Tanka Sequences from Shakkō. 1913. Trans. Seishi Sinoda & Sanford Goldstein. West Lafayette, Indian: Purdue Research Foundation, 1989.
- Seidensticker, Edward. Low City, High City: Tokyo from Edo to the Earthquake. 1983. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1985.
- Omori, Annie Shepley & Kochi Doi, trans. Diaries of Court Ladies of Old Japan: The Sarashina Diary; Diary of Murasaki Shikibu & Diary of Izumi Shikibu. Introduction by Amy Lowell. 1935. Tokyo: Kenkyushu Ltd., 1961.
- Harper, Thomas, & Haruo Shirane, ed. Reading The Tale of Genji: Sources from the First Millennium. New York: Columbia University Press, 2015.
- McCormick, Melissa. The Tale of Genji: A Visual Companion. 1510. Princeton & London: Princeton University Press, 2018.
- Murasaki Shikibu. The Tale of Genji. Trans. Royall Tyler. 2001. Penguin Classics. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 2003.
- Murasaki Shikibu. The Tale of Genji: Norton Critical Edition. Ed. & trans. Dennis Washburn. New York & London: W. W. Norton & Co., 2021.
- Murasaki Shikibu. The Tale of Genji. Trans. Edward Seidensticker. 1976. Penguin Classics. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1981.
- Murasaki Shikibu. The Tale of Genji. Trans. Dennis Washburn. New York & London: W. W. Norton & Company, Inc., 2015.
Murasaki Shikibu. The Tale of Genji. Trans. Royall Tyler. 2 vols. New York: Viking, 2001.
- Vol. 1
- Vol. 2
Shelf 2:
[Japanese Literature] (Traditional)
- Japan National Tourist Organization. The New Official Guide: Japan. Tokyo: Japan Travel Bureau, Inc., 1966.
- Chamberlain, Basil Hall, trans. The Kojiki: Records of Ancient Matters. 1882. Tokyo & Rutland, Vermont: Charles E. Tuttle, 1988.
- Aston, W. G., trans. Nihongi: Chronicles of Japan from the Earliest Times to A. D. 697. Translated from the Original Chinese and Japanese by W. G. Aston. 1896. Tokyo & Rutland, Vermont: Charles E. Tuttle, 1988.
- The Manyōshū: The Nippon Gakujutsu Shinkökai Translation of One Thousand Poems. 1940. With a Foreword by Donald Keene. 1965. New York: Columbia University Press, 1969.
- Murasaki, Lady. The Tale of Genji: A Novel in Six Parts. Trans. Arthur Waley. 1935. London: George Allen & Unwin, 1957.
- Murasaki, Lady. The Tale of Genji: A Novel in Six Parts. Volume One: Part 1. The Tale of Genji; Part 2. The Sacred Tree; Part 3. A Wreath of Cloud. Trans. Arthur Waley. 1935. 2 vols. London: George Allen & Unwin, 1965.
- Murasaki, Lady. The Tale of Genji: A Novel in Six Parts. Volume Two: Part 4. Blue Trousers; Part 5. The Lady of the Boat; Part 6. The Bridge of Dreams. Trans. Arthur Waley. 1935. 2 vols. London: George Allen & Unwin, 1973.
- Waley, Arthur, trans. The Pillow-Book of Sei Shōnagon. 1928. Unwin Books. London: George Allen & Unwin Ltd., 1960.
- Waley, Arthur. The Nō Plays of Japan. With Letters by Oswald Sickert. 1920. Evergreen Books. New York: Grove Press, Inc., n.d.
- Tyler, Royall, trans. Japanese Nō Dramas. 1992. Penguin Classics. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 2004.
- Murasaki Shikibu. The Tale of Genji. Trans. & abridged Edward Seidensticker. 1985. Vintage Classics. New York: Random House, Inc., 1990.
- Seidensticker, Edward G. Genji Days. Tokyo & New York: Kodansha International Ltd., 1977.
- Seidensticker, Edward G. Genji Days. 1977. Tokyo & New York: Kodansha International Ltd., 1983.
- Seidensticker, Edward, trans. The Gossamer Years (Kagerō Nikki): The Diary of a Noblewoman of Heian Japan. 1964. Tokyo & Rutland, Vermont: Charles E. Tuttle, 1981.
- Bowring, Richard, trans. The Diary of Lady Murasaki. 1982. Penguin Classics. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1996.
- Bowring, Richard. Murasaki Shikibu: The Tale of Genji. Landmarks of World Literature. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1988.
- Dalby, Liza. The Tale of Murasaki. 2000. London: Vintage, 2001.
- Dalby, Liza. Kimono: Fashioning Culture. 1993. A Vintage Original. London: Random House, 2001.
- Morris, Ivan. The World of the Shining Prince: Court Life in Ancient Japan. 1964. Peregrine Books. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1969.
- Varley, H. Paul, with Ivan & Nobuko Morris. The Samurai. 1970. A Pelican Book. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1974.
- Morris, Ivan, trans. As I Crossed a Bridge of Dreams: Recollections of a Woman in Eleventh Century Japan. 1971. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1975.
- Morris, Ivan, trans. The Pillow Book of Sei Shōnagon: Introduction & Translation. vol. 1 of 2. London: Oxford University Press, 1967.
- Morris, Ivan, trans. The Pillow Book of Sei Shōnagon: A Companion Volume. vol. 2 of 2. London: Oxford University Press, 1967.
- Morris, Ivan, trans. The Pillow Book of Sei Shōnagon. 1967. Abridged Ed. Penguin Classics. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1971.
- Sei Shōnagon. The Pillow Book. Trans. Meredith McKinney. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 2006.
- Blensdorf, Jan. My Name is Sei Shōnagon. Chatto & Windus. London: Random House, 2003.
- Bashō, Matsuo. Narrow Road to the Interior and Other Writings. Trans. Sam Hamill. Shambhala Classics. Boston: Shambhala, 2000.
- Bashō, Matsuo. Back Roads to Far Towns: Basho's Travel Journal. Trans. Cid Corman & Kamiake Susumu. Illustrated by Hide Oshiro. Fredonia, New York: White Pine Press, 1986.
- Bashō, Matsuo. A Haiku Journey: Bashō’s Narrow Journey to a Far Province. Trans. Dorothy Bretton. Tokyo & New York: Kodansha International, 1981.
- Bashō, Matsuo. The Narrow Road to the Deep North and Other Travel Sketches. Trans. Nobuyuki Yuasa. Penguin Classics. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1966.
- Bashō, Matsuo. On Love and Barley: Haiku of Bashō. Trans. Lucien Stryk. Penguin Classics. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1985.
- Bond, Edward. Narrow Road to the Deep North: A Comedy. 1968. London: Eyre Methuen, 1973.
- Hahn, Kimiko. The Narrow Road to the Interior: Poems. New York & London: W. W. Norton & Company, Inc., 2006.
- Hass, Robert, ed. & trans. The Essential Haiku: Versions of Bashō, Buson, and Issa. Ecco. New York: HarperCollins Publishers, 1994.
- Henderson, Harold G., ed. An Introduction to Haiku: An Anthology of Poems and Poets from Bashō to Shiki. Doubleday Anchor Books. New York: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1958.
- Keene, Donald, ed. Anthology of Japanese Literature to the Mid-Nineteenth Century. 1955. Penguin Classics. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1968.
- Takeda Izumo, Miyoshi Shōraku & Namiki Senryū. Chūsingura (The Treasury of Loyal Retainers): A Puppet Play. 1748. Trans. Donald Keene. New York: Columbia University Press, 1971.
- Keene, Donald, trans. Four Major Plays of Chikamatsu. 1961. New York: Columbia University Press, 1964.
- Bownas, Geoffrey & Anthony Thwaite, trans. The Penguin Book of Japanese Verse. The Penguin Poets. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1964.
- Harries, Phillip Tudor, trans. The Poetic Memoirs of Lady Daibu. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 1980.
- Kenko. Essays in Idleness. Trans. G. B. Sansom. Ed. Noel Pinnington. Wordsworth Classic of World Literature. Ware Hertfordshire: Wordsworth, 1998.
- Kenkō & Chōmei. Essays in Idleness and Hōjōki. Trans. Meredith McKinney. Penguin Classics. London: Penguin, 2013.
- Mitford, A. B. (Lord Redesdale). Tales of Old Japan. 1871. Tokyo & Rutland, Vermont: Charles E. Tuttle, 1986.
- Brazell, Karen, trans. The Confessions of Lady Nijō. 1304-7, 1975. London: Zenith, 1983.
- Whitehouse, Wilfrid, & Eizo Yanagisawa, trans. Ochikubo Monogatari: The Tale of the Lady Ochikubo. A Tenth-Century Japanese Novel. 1934. London: Arena, 1985.
- Ihara Saikaku. The Life of an Amorous Man. Trans. Kenji Hamada. Illustrations by Masakuza Kuwata. 1963. Boston, Rutland, Vermont & Tokyo: Tuttle Publishing, 2001.
- Ihara Saikaku. Five Women Who Loved Love. Trans. Wm Theodore de Bary. 1956. Tokyo & Rutland, Vermont: Tuttle Publishing, 2000.
- Ihara Saikaku. Five Japanese Love Stories (Koshoku gonin onna). Trans. William Theodore de Bary. London: The Folio Society, 1958.
- Ikku Jippensha. Shanks’ Mare, or Hizakurige: Being a Translation of the Tokaido Volumes of Japan’s Great Comic Novel of Travel and Ribaldry. 1802-20. Trans. Thomas Satchell. 1960. Tokyo & Rutland, Vermont: Charles E. Tuttle, 1976.
- Tyler, Royall, trans. Before Heike and After: Hōgen, Heiji, Jōkyūki. 2012. Lexington, KY: An Arthur Nettleton Book, 2013.
The Tale of the Heike: Heike Monogatari. Trans. Hiroshi Kitagawa & Bruce T. Tsuchida. Foreword by Edward Seidensticker. 1975. 2 vols. Tokyo: University of Tokyo Press, 1981.
- Vol. 1
- Vol. 2
- The Ten Foot Square Hut and Tales of the Heike: Being Two Thirteenth-Century Japanese Classics, The “Hōjōki”and Selections from the “Heike Monogatari.” Trans. A. L. Sadler. 1928. Tokyo & Rutland, Vermont: Charles E. Tuttle Company, 1972.
- Sadler, A. L. Shogun: The Life of Tokugawa Ieyasu. The dramatic story of the man who united feudal Japan and established the traditional Japanese way of life. 1937. Foreword by Stephen Turnbull. Tokyo / Rutland, Vermont / Singapore: Tuttle Publishing, 1978.
- Storry, Richard. A History of Modern Japan. 1960. A Pelican Book. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1963.
- Ueda Akinari. Ugetsu Monogatari: Tales of Moonlight and Rain. A Complete English Version of Eighteenth-Century Japanese Collection of Tales of the Supernatural. 1768. Trans. Leon Zolbrod. London: George Allen & Unwin Ltd., 1974.
- Kondo Ichitaro. Kitagawa Utamaro (1753-1806). Adaptation by Charles S. Terry. Kodansha Library of Japanese Art, 5. Tokyo & Rutland, Vermont: Charles E. Tuttle Company, 1956.
Shelf 3:
[Japanese Literature] (Modern)
- Abé Kobo. The Woman in the Dunes. 1962. Trans. E. Dale Saunders. Drawings by Machi Abé. 1964. New York: Vintage, 1972.
- Abé Kobo. The Face of Another. 1964. Trans. E. Dale Saunders. 1966. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1972.
- Abé Kobo. The Ruined Map: A Novel. 1967. Trans. E. Dale Saunders. 1969. Vintage International. New York: Random House, Inc., 2001.
- Abé Kobo. The Box Man. 1973. Trans. E. Dale Saunders. 1974. Tokyo: Charles E. Tuttle Company, 1975.
- Akutagawa Ryunosuke. Rashomon and Other Stories. Trans. Takashi Kojima. Introduction by Howard Hibbett. 1952. Tokyo: Charles E. Tuttle Company, 1978.
- Akutagawa Ryunosuke. Rashōmon and Seventeen Other Stories. Trans. Jay Rubin. Introduction by Haruki Murakami. Penguin Classics. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 2006.
- Akutagawa Ryunosuke. Rashōmon and Seventeen Other Stories. Trans. Jay Rubin. Introduction by Haruki Murakami. Penguin Classics. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 2006.
- Arikawa, Hiro. The Travelling Cat Chronicles. ['Tabineko Ripouto', 2011-12]. Trans. Philip Gabriel. Doubleday. London: Transworld Publishers, 2017.
- The Benshi – Japanese Silent Film Narrators. Ed. Larry Greenberg & Reiko Ehara. Friends of Silent Film Association / Matsuda Film Productions. Tokyo: Urban Connections, 2001.
- Birnbaum, Alfred, ed. Monkey Brain Sushi: New Tastes in Japanese Fiction. 1991. Tokyo: Kodansha International Ltd., 1993.
- Dazai Osamu. No Longer Human. 1937. Trans. Donald Keene. 1958. New York: New Directions, 1973.
- Dazai Osamu. The Setting Sun. 1947. Trans. Donald Keene. 1950. London: Peter Owen, 1958.
- Dazai Osamu. Return to Tsugaru: Travels of a Purple Tramp - Reminiscences. 1944. Trans. James Westerhoven. 1985. Tokyo & New York: Kodansha International Ltd., 1987.
- Endo Shusaku. The Sea and Poison. 1958. Trans. Michael Gallagher. London: Peter Owen, 1972.
- Endo Shusaku. Wonderful Fool. 1959. Trans. Francis Mathy. 1974. London: Quartet Books Limited, 1979.
- Endo Shusaku. Foreign Studies. 1965. Trans. Mark Williams. 1989. Sceptre. London: Hodder & Stoughton Ltd., 1990.
- Endo Shusaku. Silence. 1967. Trans. William Johnston. 1969. London: Quartet Books Limited, 1984.
- Endo Shusaku. The Samurai. 1980. Trans. Van C. Gessel. 1982. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1983.
- Endo Shusaku. Scandal. 1986. Trans. Van C. Gessel. 1988. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1989.
- Guest, Harry & Lynn, & Kajima Shōzō, trans. Post-War Japanese Poetry. The Penguin Poets. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1972.
- Hatano Isoko & Ichirō. Mother and Son: A Japanese Correspondence. 1959. Trans. Margaret Shenfield. London: Chatto & Windus, 1962.
- Hibbett, Howard. The Floating World in Japanese Fiction. London: Oxford University Pres, 1959.
- Hoffmann, Yoel. The Sound of The One Hand: 281 Zen Koans with Answers. Foreword by Hirano Sōjō. Introduction by Ben-Ami Scharfstein. 1975. St Albans, Herts: Paladin, 1977.
- Hoffmann, Yoel, ed. Japanese Death Poems: Written by Zen Monks and Haiku Poets on the Verge of Death. Boston & Tokyo: Tuttle Publishing, 1986.
- Hyakken Uchida. Realm of the Dead: Stories. ['Meido', 1922 / 'Ryojun Nyujōshiki', 1934]. Trans. Rachel DiNitto. London: Dalkey Archive Press, 2006..
- Keene, Donald, ed. Modern Japanese Literature: From 1868 to Present Day. An Anthology. 1956. An Evergreen Book. New York: Grove Press, Inc., 1960.
- Keene, Donald. Five Modern Japanese Novelists: Tanizaki Jun'ichirō, Kawabata Yasunari, Mishima Yukio, Abe Kōbō, Shiba Ryōtarō. New York: Columbia University Press, 2003.
- Kerne, Adam L., trans. The Penguin Book of Haiku. Penguin Classics. London: Penguin, 2018.
- Komatsu Sakyo. Japan Sinks. 1973. Trans. Michael Gallagher. 1976. London: New English Library, 1977.
- Inoue Yasushi. Lou-lan and Other Stories. Trans. James T. Araki & Edward G. Seidensticker. 1979. Tokyo: Kodansha International Ltd., 1981.
- Kawabata Yasunari, & Inoue Yasushi. The Izu Dancer and Other Stories. 1926. Trans. Edward G. Seidensticker & Leon Pica. 1954 & 1965. Tokyo: Charles E. Tuttle Company, 1983.
- Kawabata Yasunari. Snow Country / Thousand Cranes. 1935-37 & 1949-52. Trans. Edward G. Seidensticker. 1956 & 1958. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1971.
- Kawabata Yasunari. The Master of Go. 1951-54. Trans. Edward G. Seidensticker. 1972. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1974.
- Kawabata Yasunari. The Sound of the Mountain. 1949-54. Trans. Edward G. Seidensticker. 1970. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1974.
- Kawabata Yasunari. The Lake. 1954. Trans. Reiko Tsukimura. 1974. Tokyo: Kodansha International Ltd., 1980.
- Kawabata Yasunari. House of the Sleeping Beauties and Other Stories. Trans. Edward G. Seidensticker. Introduction by Mishima Yukio. 1969. Tokyo: Kodansha International, 1982.
- Kawabata Yasunari. House of the Sleeping Beauties and Other Stories. 1961. Trans. Edward G. Seidensticker. Introduction by Yukio Mishima. London: The Quadriga Press / Tokyo: Kodansha International Ltd., 1969.
- Kawabata Yasunari. Beauty and Sadness. 1964. Trans. Howard Hibbett. 1975. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1979.
- Kawabata Yasunari. Japan, The Beautiful, and Myself. 1968. Trans. Edward G. Seidensticker. 1969. Tokyo: Kodansha International Ltd., 1981.
- Kawabata Yasunari. Palm-of-the-Hand Stories. Trans. Lane Dunlop & J. Martin Holme. 1988. Picador Classics. London: Pan Books Ltd., 1989.
- Mishima Yukio. Confessions of a Mask. 1948. Trans. Meredith Weatherby. 1958. London: Peter Owen, 1960.
- Mishima Yukio. Thirst for Love. 1950. Trans. Alfred H. Marks. 1969. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1978.
- Mishima Yukio. Forbidden Colours. 1953. Trans. Alfred H. Marks. 1968. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1976.
- Mishima Yukio. The Sound of Waves. 1954. Trans. Meredith Weatherby. Drawings by Yoshinori Kinoshita. 1956. London: Secker & Warburg, 1957.
- Mishima Yukio. The Temple of the Golden Pavilion. 1956. Trans. Ivan Morris. Introduction by Nancy Wilson Ross. Drawings by Fumi Komatsu. London: Secker & Warburg, 1959.
- Mishima Yukio. After the Banquet. 1960. Trans. Donald Keene. 1963. A Berkley Medallion Book. New York: Berkley Publishing Corporation, 1971.
- Mishima Yukio. The Frolic of the Beasts. 1961. Trans. Andrew Clare. Vintage International. New York: Vintage Books, 2018.
- Mishima Yukio. The Sailor Who Fell from Grace with the Sea. 1963. Trans. John Nathan. 1965. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1977.
- Mishima Yukio. Death in Midsummer and Other Stories. Trans Donald Keene, Ivan Morris, Geoffrey W. Sargent, & Edward G. Seidensticker, 1966. London: Secker & Warburg, 1967.
- Mishima Yukio. On Hagakure: The Samurai Ethic and Modern Japan. 1967. Trans. Kathryn Spurling. A Condor Book. London: Souvenir Press, 1977.
- Mishima Yukio. The Sea of Fertility: Spring Snow; Runaway Horses; The Temple of Dawn; The Decay of the Angel. 1968, 1969, 1970, 1971. Trans. Michael Gallagher, E. Dale Saunders & Cecelia Sagawa Seigle, Edward G. Seidensticker. 1972, 1973, 1974, 1975. Penguin Modern Classics. 1985. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1986.
- Mishima Yukio. Madame de Sade: A Play. 1965. Trans. Donald Keene. Photographs by Koichi Yamada. 1967. International Play Series, 1. London: Peter Owen, 1968.
- Haynes, Jim, ed. Traverse Plays: A Wen & Orange Soufflé, by Saul Bellow; The Old Tune, by Robert Pinget, adapted by Samuel Beckett; La Musica, by Marguerite Duras; The Lady Aoi, by Yukio Mishima; Allergy, by Cecil Taylor; The Master of Two Servants, by George Mully; The Local Stigmatic, by Heathcote Williams. 1965, 1962, 1965, 1957, 1966. Penguin Plays. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1966.
- Mishima Yukio & Geoffrey Bowen, ed. New Writing in Japan. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1972.
- Stokes, Henry Scott. The Life and Death of Yukio Mishima. 1975. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1986.
- Morris, Ivan, ed. Modern Japanese Stories: An Anthology. Trans. Edward Seidensticker, George Saitō, Geoffrey Sargent, & Ivan Morris. Woodcuts by Masakazu Kuwata. 1962. Tokyo & Rutland, Vermont: Charles E. Tuttle Company, 1972.
- Rimer, J. Thomas. Modern Japanese Fiction and Its Traditions: An Introduction. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1978.
- Murakami Haruki. Hear the Wind Sing. 1979. Trans. Alfred Birnbaum. 1987. Trilogy of the Rat, 1. Tokyo: Kodansha International, n.d.
- Murakami Haruki. Pinball, 1973. 1980. Trans. Alfred Birnbaum. 1985. Trilogy of the Rat, 2. Tokyo: Kodansha International, n.d.
- Murakami Haruki. Wind Pinball. Two Novels: Hear the Wind Sing / Pinball, 1973. 1979 & 1980. Trans. Ted Goossen. Trilogy of the Rat, 1 & 2. Harvill Secker. London: Vintage Books, 2015.
- Murakami Haruki. A Wild Sheep Chase. 1982. Trans. Alfred Birnbaum. 1989. Trilogy of the Rat, 3. Vintage Books. London: Random House, 2003.
- Murakami Haruki. Hard-boiled Wonderland and the End of the World. 1985. Trans. Alfred Birnbaum. 1991. Vintage Books. London: Random House, 2003.
- Murakami Haruki. Norwegian Wood. 1987. Trans. Jay Rubin. 2 vols. London: The Harvill Press, 2000.
- Murakami Haruki. Dance Dance Dance. 1988. Trans. Alfred Birnbaum. 1994. Vintage Books. London: Random House, 2003.
- Murakami Haruki. Dance Dance Dance. 1988. Trans. Alfred Birnbaum. 1994. Vintage Books. London: Random House, 2003.
- Murakami Haruki. South of the Border, West of the Sun. 1992. Trans. Philip Gabriel. 1998. Vintage Books. London: Random House, 2003.
- Murakami Haruki. The Elephant Vanishes. 1992. Trans. Alfred Birnbaum & Jay Rubin. 1998. Vintage Books. London: Random House, 2003.
- Murakami Haruki. The Wind-up Bird Chronicle. 1994-95. Trans. Jay Rubin. London: The Harvill Press, 1999.
- Murakami Haruki. Underground: The Tokyo Gas Attack and the Japanese Psyche. 1997-98. Trans. Alfred Birnbaum & Philip Gabriel. 2000. Vintage Books. London: Random House, 2002.
- Murakami Haruki. Sputnik Sweetheart. 1999. Trans. Philip Gabriel. 2001. Vintage Books. London: Random House, 2002.
- Murakami Haruki. after the quake. 2000. Trans. Jay Rubin. London: The Harvill Press, 2002.
- Murakami Haruki. Kafka on the Shore. 2002. Trans. Philip Gabriel. 2003. Vintage Books. London: Random House, 2005.
- Murakami Haruki. After Dark. 2004. Trans. Jay Rubin. London: Harvill Secker, 2007.
- Murakami Haruki. Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman. Trans. Philip Gabriel & Jay Rubin. 2005. London: Harvill Secker, 2006.
- Murakami Haruki. What I Talk About When I Talk About Running. Trans. Philip Gabriel. 2007. London: Harvill Secker, 2008.
- Murakami Haruki. The Strange Library. 2008. Trans. Ted Goossen. Harvill Secker. London: Penguin Random House Company, 2014.
- Murakami Haruki. 1Q84. Books 1 & 2. 2009. Trans. Jay Rubin. Book 3. 2010. Trans. Philip Gabriel. Borzoi Books. Alfred A. Knopf. New York: Random House, Inc., 2011.
- Murakami Haruki. Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage. 2013. Trans. Philip Gabriel. Harvill Secker. London: Random House, 2014.
- Murakami Haruki. Men Without Women. 2014. Trans. Philip Gabriel & Ted Goossen. 2017. Vintage. London: Penguin Random House Group, 2018.
- Murakami Haruki. Killing Commendatore. 2017. Trans. Philip Gabriel & Ted Goossen. 2018. Vintage. London: Penguin Random House Group, 2019.
- Murakami Haruki. First Person Singular: Stories. 2020. Trans. Philip Gabriel. 2021. Vintage. London: Penguin Random House Group, 2022.
- Murakami Haruki. The City and Its Uncertain Walls. 2023. Trans. Philip Gabriel. Harvill Secker. London: Penguin Random House UK, 2024.
- Murakami Haruki, ed. Birthday Stories. 2002. Trans. Jay Rubin. 2004. Vintage. London: Random House, 2006.
- Rubin, Jay. Haruki Murakami and the Music of Words. 2003. Vintage Books. London: Random House, 2005.
- Natsume Sōseki. I am a Cat: Three Volumes in One. 1905-07. Trans. Aiko Ito & Graeme Wilson. 1972, 1979, 1986. Tuttle Publishing. Tokyo / Rutland, Vermont / Singapore: Periplus Editions (HK) Ltd., 2002.
- Natsume Soseki. The Three-Cornered World. 1906. Trans. Alan Tuney. 1965. An Arena Book. London: Arrow Books Ltd., 1984.
- Natsume Sōseki. The Gate. 1910. Trans. William F. Sibley. Introduction by Pico Iyer. New York Review Books Classics. New York: nyrb, 2013.
- Natsume Soseki. The Wayfarer [Kōjin]. 1912-13. Trans. Beongcheon Yu. Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 1967.
- Natsume Soseki. Kokoro. 1914. Trans. Ineko Kondo. 1941. Tokyo: Kenkyusha, 1970.
- Natsume Sōseki. Kokoro. 1914. Trans. Meredith McKinney. Penguin Classics. London: Penguin, 2010.
- Oe Kenzaburo. Nip the Buds Shoot the Kids. 1958. Trans. Paul St John Mackintosh & Maki Sugiyama. 1995. London: Picador, 1996.
- Oe Kenzaburo. The Silent Cry. 1967. Trans. John Bester. 1974. Tokyo: Kodansha International Ltd., 1981.
- Oe Kenzaburo. Somersault. 1967. Trans. Philip Gabriel. 1999. New York: Grove Press, 2003.
- Ōoka Shōhei. Fires on the Plain. 1955. Trans. Ivan Morris. 1957. Corgi Books. London: Transworld Publishers Ltd., 1980.
- Tanizaki Junichirō. Seven Japanese Tales. Trans. Howard Hibbett. 1963. A Berkley Medallion Book. New York: Berkley Publishing Corporation, 1970.
- Tanizaki Junichirō. Naomi. 1924. Trans. Anthony H. Chambers. 1986. London: Pavanne, 1987.
- Tanizaki Junichirō. Quicksand. 1928-30. Trans. Howard Hibbett. London: Vintage, 1994.
- Tanizaki Junichirō. Some Prefer Nettles. 1928. Trans. Edward G. Seidensticker. 1956. London: Secker & Warburg, 1983.
- Tanizaki Junichirō. Some Prefer Nettles / The Secret History of the Lord of Musashi / Arrowroot. 1928, 1935, 1932. Trans. Edward G. Seidensticker & Anthony H. Chambers, 1982. London: Picador, 1985.
- Tanizaki Junichirō. Ashikari and the Story of Shunkin: Modern Japanese Novels. 1932 & 1933. Trans. Roy Humpherson & Hajime Okita. 1936. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, Publishers, 1970.
- Tanizaki Junichirō. The Reed Cutter and Captain Shigemoto's Mother: Two Novellas. 1932 & 1949. Trans. Anthony H. Chambers. 1994. Vintage International. Vintage Books. New York: Random House, Inc., 1995.
- Tanizaki Junichirō. A Cat, A Man, and Two Women: Stories. 1936, 1918, 1925-36. Trans. Paul McCarthy. 1990. Tokyo: Kodansha International Ltd., 1991
- Tanizaki Junichirō. The Makioka Sisters. 1948. Trans. Edward G. Seidensticker. 1957. London: Secker & Warburg, 1983.
- Tanizaki Junichirō. Childhood Years: A Memoir. 1955-56. Trans. Paul McCarthy. 1990. London: Flamingo, 1991.
- Tanizaki Junichirō. The Key. Trans. Howard Hibbett. 1961. London: Panther Modern Fiction, 1968.
- Tanizaki Junichirō. Diary of a Mad Old Man. 1961. Trans. Howard Hibbett. 1965. Vintage International. New York: Random House, Inc., 1991.
- Tanizaki Junichirō. The Gourmet Club: A Sextet. Trans. Anthony H. Chambers & Paul McCarthy. Tokyo: Kodansha International, 2001.
- Tasaki Hanama. Long the Imperial Way. 1949. London: Victor Gollancz Ltd., 1951.
- Ueda Makoto, trans. & ed. Modern Japanese Tanka: An Anthology. Modern Asian Literature Series. New York: Columbia University Press, 1996.
- Yamamoto Shugoro. The Flower Mat. 1948. Trans. Mihoko Inoue & Eileen B. Hennessy. Tuttle Publishing. Tokyo: Charles E. Tuttle Publishing Company Inc., 1977
- Yoshimoto Banana. N.P. 1990. Trans. Ann Sherif. Tuttle Publishing. London: Faber, 1994.
- Yoshimura Akira. Shipwrecks: A Novel. 1982. Trans. Mark Ealey. New York: Harcourt Brace & Company, 1996.
Lo Kuan-Chung: Romance of the Three Kingdoms. Trans. C. H. Brewitt-Taylor (1925)
Luo Guanzhong. Three Kingdoms: A Historical Novel. Trans. Moss Roberts. 1991. Introduction by Ma Jian. 4 vols. London: The Folio Society, 2013.
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- Vol. 4
Shi Nai’an. Outlaws of the Marsh: The Water Margin. Trans. J. H. Jackson. 1937. Introduction by Frances Wood. Illustrations from the Rong Yu Tang edition. 2 vols. London: The Folio Society, 2018.
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Lo Kuan-Chung. San Kuo, or Romance of the Three Kingdoms. Trans. C. H. Brewitt-Taylor. 2 vols. Shanghai: Kelly & Walsh, 1925.
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Luo Guanzhong. Three Kingdoms: A Historical Novel. Trans. Moss Roberts. Foreword by John S. Service. 1994. 3 vols. Beijing: Foreign Languages Press / Berkeley: University of California Press, 1997.
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Buck, Pearl, trans. All Men are Brothers [Shui Hu Chuan]. 2 vols. New York: The John Day Company, 1933.
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Shi Nai’an & Luo Guanzhong. Outlaws of the Marsh. Trans. Sidney Shapiro. 3 vols. Beijing: Foreign Languages Press, 1980.
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Shi Nai’an & Luo Guanzhong. The Marshes of Mount Liang. Trans. John & Alex Dent-Young. 5 vols. Hong Kong: Chinese University Press, 1994-2002.
- Vol. 1: The Broken Seals. 1994.
- Vol. 2: The Tiger Killers. 1997.
- Vol. 3: The Gathering Company. 2001.
- Vol. 4: Iron Ox. 2002.
- Vol. 5: The Scattered Flock. 2002.
- Weir, David. The Water Margin. London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1978. [based on the BBC TV series]
Roy, David Tod, trans. The Plum in the Golden Vase or, Chin P’ing Mei. 5 vols. Princeton Library of Asian Translations. Princeton & Oxford: Princeton University Press, 1993-2013.
- Vol. 1: The Gathering. 1993.
- Vol. 2: The Rivals. 2001.
- Vol. 3: The Aphrodisiac. 2006.
- Vol. 4: The Climax. 2011.
- Vol. 5: The Dissolution. 2013.
- Kuhn, Franz, ed. Chin P’ing Mei: The Adventurous History of Hsi Men and his Six Wives. Trans. Bernard Miall. 1939. London: John Lane The Bodley Head, 1952.
All Men are Brothers [Shui Hu Chuan]. Trans. Pearl Buck (1933)
Shelf 5:
[Chinese Literature] (cont.)
- Kuhn, Franz, ed. Ko Lien Hua Ying: Flower Shadows behind the Curtain: A Sequel to Chin P’ing Mei. Trans. Vladimir Kean. London: The Bodley Head, 1959.
Egerton, Clement, trans. The Golden Lotus: A Translation, from the Chinese Original, of the Novel Chin P’ing Mei. 1939. 4 vols. London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1972.
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- Vol. 3
- Vol. 4
- Wu Ch’êng-Ên. Monkey. Trans. Arthur Waley. 1942. Illustrated by Duncan Grant. London: The Folio Society, 1968.
- Waley, Arthur. The Real Tripitaka and Other Pieces. London: George Allen & Unwin Ltd., 1952.
Low, C. C. & Associates, trans. Pictorial Stories of Chinese Classics: The Adventures of the Monkey God. 1975. 4 vols. Singapore: Canfonian Pte Ltd., 1989.
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- Vol. 2
- Vol. 3
- Vol. 4
The Journey to the West. Trans. Anthony C. Yu. 4 vols. 1977-1983. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1980, 1982, 1980, 1984.
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- Vol. 2
- Vol. 3
- Vol. 4
The Journey to the West. Trans. Anthony C. Yu. 4 vols. 1977-83. Rev. ed. Chicago & London: University of Chicago Press, 2012.
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- Vol. 2
- Vol. 3
- Vol. 4
Wu Cheng’en. Journey to the West. Trans. W. J. F. Jenner. 1982. 3 vols. Beijing: Foreign Languages Press, 1990.
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- Vol. 2
- Vol. 3
- Wu Cheng’en. Monkey King: Journey to the West. Trans. Julia Lovell. Penguin Classics. London: Penguin Random House UK, 2011.
- Wou Tch'eng Ngen. Si Yeou Ki: Le Voyage en Occident. Trans. Louis Avenol. 1957. Paris: Éditions du Seuil, 1968.
- Tung Yueh. Hsi-yu pu. Tower of Myriad Mirrors: A Supplement to Journey to the West. Trans. Shuen-fu Lin & Larry J. Schultz. Berkeley, CA: Asian Humanities Press, 1978.
- Wu Ching-Tzu. The Scholars. Trans. Yang Hsien-Yi & Gladys Yang. 1957. Peking: Foreign Languages Press, 1973.
Tsao Hsueh-Chin & Kao Ngo. A Dream of Red Mansions. Trans. Yang Hsien-Yi & Gladys Yang. 3 vols. Peking: Foreign Languages Press, 1978.
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- Vol. 2
- Vol. 3
Fenollosa, Ernest F. Epochs of Chinese and Japanese Art: An Outline History Of East Asiatic Design. 1912. Rev ed. with Copious Notes by Professor R. Petrucci. Foreword by Mary Fenollosa. 2 vols. London: William Heinemann Ltd. / New York: Frederick A. Stokes Company, 1921.
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- Vol. 2
- Chuang Tsu. Inner Chapters. Trans. Gia-Fu Feng & Jane English. London: Wildwood House Ltd., 1974.
- Lao Tsu. Tao Te Ching. Trans. Gia-Fu Feng & Jane English. 1972. London: Wildwood House Ltd., 1975.
- Ma, Y. W. & Joseph M. Lau, eds. Traditional Chinese Stories: Themes and Variations. New York: Columbia University Press, 1978.
- Pisu, Silverio. The Ape. Illustrated by Milo Manara. New York: Catalan Communications, 1986.
- Ritsema, Rudolf, & Stephen Karcher, trans. I-Ching: The Classic Chinese Oracle of Change. The First Complete Translation with Concordance. 1994. Shaftesbury, Dorset: Element Books Ltd., 1995.
- Strassberg, Richard E., ed. & trans. Inscribed Landscapes: Travel Writing from Imperial China. Berkeley & Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1994.
- Waley, Arthur. An Introduction to the Study of Chinese Painting. 1923. London: Ernest Benn Limited, 1958.
- Warner, Marina. The Dragon Empress: Life and Times of T’zu-hsi (1835-1908), Empress Dowager of China. 1972. London: Cardinal: 1974.
- Carter, Howard. The Tomb of Tutankhamen. 1954. London: Sphere Books Ltd., 1972.
- Faulkner, R. O., trans. The Ancient Egyptian Book of the Dead. 1972. Ed. Carol Andrews. London: Guild Publishing, 1985.
- Gardiner, Sir Alan. Egyptian Grammar: Being an Introduction to the Study of Hieroglyphics. 1927. 3rd ed. 1957. Oxford: Griffith Institute, Ashmolean Museum, 1982.
- Jackson, Kevin & Jonathan Stamp. Pyramid: Beyond Imagination. Inside the Great Pyramid of Giza. London: BBC, 2002.
- Pritchard, James, ed. Ancient Near Eastern Texts Relating to the Old Testament. 1950. 2nd ed. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1955.
Shelf 6:
[Chinese Literature] (cont.)
Shih Nai-an. Water Margin. Trans. J. H. Jackson. 2 vols. 1937. Hong Kong: The Commercial Press, 1963.
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- Vol. 2
Jin Ping Mei: Fleur en Fiole d’Or. 2 vols. Trans. André Lévy. 1985. Collection Folio 3997-8. Paris: Gallimard, 2004.
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- Vol. 2
- Kuhn, Franz, ed. Chin P’ing Mei: The Adventurous History of Hsi Men and his Six Wives. Trans. Bernard Miall. 1939. London: New English Library, 1962.
- Kuhn, Franz, ed. The Love Pagoda: The Amorous Adventures of Hsi Men and his Six Wives. Trans. Bernard Miall. Abridged and introduced by Albert Ellis, Ph.D. Chatsworth, CA: Brandon Books, 1965.
'Lanling Xiiaoxiaosheng'. The Golden Lotus: Jin Ping Mei. Trans. Clement Egerton & Shu Qingchun (Lao She). 1939. Rev. ed. 1972. Introduction by Robert Hegel. 2 vols. Tokyo / Rutland, Vermont / Singapore: Tuttle Publishing, 2011.
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- Vol. 2
Gu Zhizhong, trans. Creation of the Gods. 2 vols. 1992. Beijing: New World Press, 1996.
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- Vol. 2
Low, C. C. & Associates, trans. Pictorial Stories of Chinese Classics: Canonization of Deities. 3 vols. Singapore: Canfonian Pte Ltd., 1989.
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- Vol. 2
- Vol. 3
- Journey to the West Playing Cards. Shandong: Heze Printing House, n.d.
- Li Ju-Chen. Flowers in the Mirror. Trans. Lin Tai-Yi. London: Peter Owen, 1965.
- Yang Xianyi & Gladys Yang, trans. Excerpts from Three Classical Chinese Novels: The Three Kingdoms, Pilgrimage to the West & Flowers in the Mirror. Beijing: Panda Books, 1981.
- Li Yu. The Carnal Prayer Mat. Wordsworth Erotic Classics: Ware, Hertfordshire: Wordsworth Editions, 1995.
- Li Yu. Jou Pu Tuan: The Before Midnight Scholar, or The Prayer-mat of Flesh. Ed. Franz Kuhn. 1959. Trans. Richard Martin. 1963. London: Corgi Books, 1974.
- Li Yu. The Carnal Prayer Mat. Trans. Patrick Hanan. 1990. Honolulu: University of Hawaí’i Press, 1996.
- Li Yu. A Tower for the Summer Heat. Trans. Patrick Hanan. 1992. New York: Columbia University Press, 1998.
- Cao Xueqin. The Dream of the Red Chamber. Trans. H. Bencraft Joly. 1892-93. Foreword by John Minford. Introduction by Edwin Lowe. Tokyo / Rutland, Vermont / Singapore: Tuttle Publishing, 2010.
- Kuhn, Franz, ed. Hung Lou Meng: The Dream of the Red Chamber – A Chinese Novel of the Early Ching Period. Trans. Isabel and Florence McHugh. 1958. The Universal Library. New York: Grosset & Dunlop, 1968.
Cao Xueqin. The Story of the Stone: A Chinese Novel by Cao Xueqin in Five Volumes. Trans. David Hawkes. Penguin Classics. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1973-80.
- Vol. 1: The Golden Days. 1978.
- Vol. 2: The Crab-Flower Club. 1977.
- Vol. 3: The Warning Voice. 1980.
Cao Xueqin. The Story of the Stone (Also Known as The Dream of the Red Chamber): A Chinese Novel by Cao Xueqin in Five Volumes, edited by Gao E. Trans. John Minford. Penguin Classics. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1982-86.
- Vol. 4: The Debt of Tears. 1982.
- Vol. 5: The Dreamer Wakes. 1986.
- Chen, Pauline. The Red Chamber. Virago Press. London: Little, Brown Book Group, 2012.
- Tsao Hsueh-Chin. Dream of the Red Chamber. Trans. Chi-chen Wang. 1929. Preface by Mark van Doren. London: Vision Press, 1959.
- Wu Shih-Ch’Ang. On The Red Chamber Dream: A Critical Study of Two Annotated Manuscripts of the XVIIIth Century. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1961.
- Acton, Harold & Lee Yi-Hsieh, trans. Four Cautionary Tales. London: John Lehmann, 1947.
- Lu Hsun. Selected Stories of Lu Hsun. Trans. Yang Hsien-Yi & Gladys Yang. 1960. Peking: Foreign Languages Press, 1978.
- Lu Hsun. Old Tales Retold. Trans. Yang Hsien-Yi & Gladys Yang. 1961. Peking: Foreign Languages Press, 1972.
- Lu Hsun. Wild Grass. 1974. Peking: Foreign Languages Press, 1980.
- Lu Hsun. Dawn Blossoms Plucked at Dusk. Trans. Yang Hsien-Yi & Gladys Yang. Peking: Foreign Languages Press, 1976.
- Lu Xun. Diary of a Madman and Other Stories. Trans. William A. Lyell. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 1990.
- Lu Xun. The Real Story of Ah-Q and Other Tales of China: The Complete Fiction of Lu Xun. Trans. Julia Lovell. Afterword by Yiyun Li. Penguin Classics. London: Penguin, 2009.
- Lu Hsun. A Brief History of Chinese Fiction. 1923-24. Trans. Yang Hsien-Yi & Gladys Yang. 1959. Peking: Foreign Languages Press, 1982.
- Van Over, Raymond, ed. Smearing the Ghost’s Face with Ink: A Chinese Anthology. 1973. London: Picador, 1982.
- P’u Sung-ling. Strange Stories from a Chinese Studio. Trans. Herbert A. Giles. 1916. Honolulu, Hawai’i: University Press of the Pacific, 2003.
- Pu Songling. Strange Tales of Liaozhai. Trans. Lu Yunzhong, Yang Liyi, Yang Zhihong, & Chen Tifang. Illustrated by Tao Xuehua. Hong Kong: The Commercial Press, Ltd., 1982.
- Pu Songling. Strange Tales from Make-Do Studio. Trans. Denis C. & Victor H. Mair. 1989. Beijing: Foreign Languages Press, 1996.
- Pu Songling. Strange Tales from a Chinese Studio. Trans. John Minford. Penguin Classics. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 2006.
- Rolston, David L., ed. How to Read the Chinese Novel. Contributions from Shuen-fu Lin, David T. Roy, Andrew H. Plaks, John C. Y Wang, David L. Rolston, Anthony C. Yu. Princeton Library of Asian Translations. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1990.
- Rou Shi. Threshold of Spring. Beijing: Foreign Languages Press, 1980.
- Shen Fu. Six Records of a Floating Life. Trans. Leonard Pratt & Chiang Su-Hui. Penguin Classics. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1983.
- Zhang Shouchen & Others. Traditional Comic Tales. Trans. Gladys Yang. Beijing: Panda Books, 1983.
- Lévy, André, trans. Le Sublime Discours de la fille candide : Manuel d’érotologie chinoise. 2000. Picquier Poche 224. Paris: Philippe Picquier, 2004.
- Lin Yutang, ed. The Wisdom of Confucius. New York: The Modern Library, 1938.
- Lin Yutang, ed. The Wisdom of China. 1944. London: Four Square, 1956.
- Lin Yutang. Famous Chinese Short Stories. 1952. Montreal: Pocket Books of Canada, 1953.
- Yang Xianyi & Gladys Yang, trans. The Dragon King’s Daughter: Ten Tang Dynasty Stories. 1954. Beijing: Foreign Languages Press, 1980.
- Yang Xianyi & Gladys Yang, trans. The Courtesan’s Jewel Box: Chinese Stories of the XIth-XVIIth Centuries. Beijing: Foreign Languages Press, 1981.
- Bauer, Wolfgang & Herbert Fiske, eds. The Golden Casket: Chinese Novellas of Two Millennia. 1959. Trans. Christopher Levenson. 1964. Penguin Classics. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1967.
- Birch, Cyril & Donald Keene, eds. Anthology of Chinese Literature. 1965. Penguin Classics. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1967.
- Giles, Herbert A. A History of Chinese Literature. 1901. Rutland, Vermont & Tokyo, Japan: Charles E. Tuttle, 1973.
- Harper, Damian et al., ed. Lonely Planet China. 1984. 15th Edition. Singapore: Lonely Planet Global Limited, 2017.
- Hearn, Lafcadio. Chinese Ghost Stories: Curious Tales of the Supernatural. ['Some Chinese Ghosts', 1886]. Tuttle Publishing. Hong Kong: Periplus Editions (HK) Ltd., 2011.
- Hearn, Lafcadio. Writings from Japan: An Anthology. Ed. Francis King. Penguin Travel Library. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1984.
- Hearn, Lafcadio. Kokoro: Hints and Echoes of Japanese Inner Life. 1896. Tokyo & Rutland, Vermont: Charles E. Tuttle Company, 1977.
- Hearn, Lafcadio. In Ghostly Japan. 1899. Tokyo & Rutland, Vermont: Charles E. Tuttle Company, 1972.
- Hearn, Lafcadio. Kwaidan: Stories and Studies of Strange Things. 1904. The Travellers’ Library. London: Jonathan Cape, 1927.
- Hegel, Robert E. The Novel in Seventeenth-Century China. New York: Columbia University Press, 1981.
- Hsia, C. T. The Classic Chinese Novel: A Critical Introduction. 1968. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1980.
- Gao Xingjian. Soul Mountain. 1990. Trans. Mabel Lee. Flamingo. Sydney: HarperCollins Publishers, 2000.
- Yuan Mei. Censored by Confucius: Ghost Stories. Ed. & trans. Kam Louie & Louise Edwards. New Studies in Asian Culture. An East Gate Book. New York & London: M. E. Sharpe, 1996.
- Lin Yutang. The Gay Genius: The Life and Times of Su Tungpo. London: Heinemann, 1948.
- Feng Menglong. Stories Old and New: A Ming Dynasty Collection. 1620. Trans. Shuhui Yang and Yunqin Yang. Seattle & London: Washington University Press, 2000.
De Bary, Theodore, Wing-Tsit Chan & Burton Watson, ed. Sources of Chinese Tradition. 2 vols. Introduction to Oriental Civilisations. 1960. New York: Columbia University Press, 1964.
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- Chan, Wing-Tsit, trans. A Source Book in Chinese Philosophy. 1963. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1973.
- Lao Tzu. Tao Te Ching. A Book about the Way & the Power of the Way. Trans. Ursula K. Le Guin, with J. P. Seaton. 1997. Boston & London: Shambhala Publications, Inc., 1998.
Legge, James, trans. The Texts of Taoism: The Tao Te Ching of Lao Tzŭ; The Writings of Chuang Tzŭ; The Tai Shang Tractate. 2 vols. The Sacred Books of China. 1891. New York: Dover, 1962.
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- Birrell, Anne, trans. The Classic of Mountains and Seas. Penguin Classics. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1999.
- Pound, Ezra. The Classic Anthology Defined by Confucius. 1955. London: Faber, 1974.
- Pound, Ezra. Confucius: The Great Digest; The Unwobbling Pivot; The Analects. New York: New Directions, 1969.
- Sekida, Katsuki, trans. Two Zen Classics: Mumonkan and Hekiganroku. Ed. A. V. Grimstone. New York & Tokyo: John Weatherhill, Inc., 1977.
- Sun-tzu. The Art of War. Trans. John Minford. 2002. Popular Penguins. London: Penguin, 2009.
- Szuma Chien. Selections from Records of the Historian. Trans. Yang Hsien-Yi & Gladys Yang. Peking: Foreign Languages Press, 1979.
- Chai, Ch’u & Winberg Chai, eds. A Treasury of Chinese Literature: A New Prose Anthology including Fiction and Drama. 1965. New York: Thomas J. Cowell Company, 1974.
- Watson, Burton. Early Chinese Literature. Companions to Asian Studies. New York: Columbia University Press, 1962.
- Watson, Burton. Chinese Lyricism: Shih Poetry from the Second to the Twelfth Century, with Translations. Companions to Asian Studies. New York: Columbia University Press, 1971.
- Wilhelm, Richard, trans. The Secret of the Golden Flower: A Chinese Book of Life. Foreword & Commentary by C. G. Jung. 1931. Trans. Cary F. Baynes. London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1972.
- The I-Ching, or Book of Changes: The Richard Wilhelm Translation. Trans. Cary F. Baynes. Foreword by C. J. Jung. 1951. London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1978.
Wu Ch’êng-Ên: Monkey. Trans. Arthur Waley (1942)
Shelf 7:
[Chinese & Eastern Literature] (cont.)
- Bramah, Ernest. The Wallet of Kai Lung. 1900. London: Penguin, 1936.
- Bramah, Ernest. The Wallet of Kai Lung. 1900. Introduction by Grant Richards. 1923. London: The Richards Press Ltd. Publishers, 1951.
- Bramah, Ernest. Kai Lung’s Golden Hours. Preface by Hilaire Belloc. 1922. London: the Richards Press, Ltd., 1942.
- Bramah, Ernest. Kai Lung Unrolls His Mat. London: The Richards Press Ltd. Publishers, 1928.
- Bramah, Ernest. The Moon of Much Gladness. London: Cassell and Company, Ltd., 1932.
- Bramah, Ernest. Kai Lung beneath the Mulberry-Tree. 1940. London: the Richards Press, Ltd., 1951.
- Bramah, Ernest. The Celestial Omnibus. Introduction by John Connell. London: Published by John Baker for the Richards Press, 1963.
- Buck, Pearl S. The Good Earth. 1931. Washington Square Press. New York: Simon & Schuster, Inc., 2004.
- Burchett, Wilfred, & Rewi Alley. China: The Quality of Life. A Pelican Book. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1976.
- Alley, Rewi, trans. Bai Juyi: 200 Selected Poems. Beijing: New World Press, 1983.
- Alley, Rewi, trans & ed. Light and Shadow Along a Great Road: An Anthology of Modern Chinese Poetry. Beijing: New World Press, 1984.
- Alley, Rewi, trans. Tu Fu: Selected Poems. Ed. Feng Chih. 1962. Peking: Foreign Languages Press, 1964.
- Lowell, Amy, & Florence Ayscough, trans. Fir-Flower Tablets: Poems Translated from the Chinese. 1921. Boston & New York: Houghton Mifflin Company / Cambridge: The Riverside Press, 1926.
- Birrell, Anne, trans. New Songs from a Jade Terrace: An Anthology of Early Chinese Love Poetry. 545. Foreword by Burton Watson. Critical Essay by J. H. Prynne. 1982. Penguin Classics. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1986.
- Bynner, Witter, trans. The Jade Mountain: A Chinese Anthology. Being Three Hundred Poems of the T’ang Dynasty, 618-906. Ed. Kiang Kang-Hu. 1929. Vintage Books. New York: Random House, Inc., 1972.
- Cooper, Arthur, trans. Li Po and Tu Fu: Poems. Calligraphy by Shui Chien-Tung. 1973. Penguin Classics. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1974.
- Kotewall, Robert, & Norman L. Smith, trans. The Penguin Book of Chinese Verse. Ed. A. R. Davis. 1962. The Penguin Poets. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1975.
- Dunn, Hugh. Cao Zhi: The Life of a Princely Chinese Poet. Beijing: New World Press, 1983.
- Graham, A. C., trans. Poems of the Late T’ang. 1965. Penguin Classics. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1977.
- Lai, T. C., & Y. T. Kwong. Chinese Poetry. Kowloon, Hong Kong: Swindon Book Company, 1981.
- Allen, Joseph R., trans. Sea of Dreams: The Selected Writings of Gu Cheng. New Directions Paperbook Original NDP1004. New York: New Directions Publishing Corporation, 2005.
- Hawkes, David, trans. The Songs of the South: An Ancient Chinese Anthology of Poems by Qu Yuan and Other Poets. 1959. Penguin Classics. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1985.
- Liu Wu-Chi, & Irving Lucheng Lo, ed. Sunflower Splendor: Three Thousand Years of Chinese Poetry. Anchor Books. New York: Anchor Press / Doubleday, 1975.
- Price, A. F. & Wong Mou-Lam, trans. The Diamond Sutra & The Sutra of Hui Neng. Forewords by W. Y. Evans-Wentz, Joe Miller & Christmas Humphreys. The Clear Light Series. 1969. Berkeley: Shambhala Publications, Inc., 1971.
- Hamill, Sam, & J. P. Seaton, trans. The Poetry of Zen. Boston: Shambhala Publications, Inc., 2007.
- Payne, Robert, ed. The White Pony: An Anthology of Chinese Poetry from the Earliest Times to the Present Day, Newly Translated. 1947. A Mentor Book. New York: New American Library, n.d.
- Xu Yuan Zhong, trans. Golden Treasury of Chinese Lyrics: Chinese-English / Chinese Phonetic Alphabet. Beijing: Peking University Press, 1990.
- Sheng-Yen, Master, trans. & ed. The Poetry of Enlightenment: Poems by Ancient Ch’an Masters. Dharma Drum Publications. New York: The Institute of Chung-Hwa Buddhist Culture, 1987.
- 'Red Pine' [Bill Porter], trans. The Collected Songs of Cold Mountain. Introduction by John Blofeld. 1983. Rev. ed. Port Townsend, Washington: Copper Canyon Press, 2000.
- Seaton, J. P., trans. & ed. The Shambhala Anthology of Chinese Poetry. With Additional Translations by James Cryer. Boston, Massachusetts: Shambhala Publications, Inc., 2006.
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- Rexroth, Kenneth. Love and the Turning Year: One Hundred More Poems from the Chinese. New Directions Paperbook, 308. New York: New Directions Publishing Corporation, 1970.
- Yang Xianyi, Gladys Yang, & Hu Shiguang, trans. Selections from the “Book of Songs.” Panda Books. Beijing: China Publications Centre, 1983.
- Robinson, G. W., trans. Poems of Wang Wei. Penguin Classics. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1973.
- Chang, Jung. Big Sister, Little Sister, Red Sister: Three Women at the Heart of Twentieth-Century China. Jonathan Cape. London: Vintage, 2019.
- Hsu Kai-Yu. The Chinese Literary Scene: A Writer’s Visit to the People’s Republic. 1975. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1976.
- Kingston, Maxine Hong. The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Childhood Among Ghosts. 1976. Vintage Books. New York: Random House, Inc., 1977.
- Leys, Simon. Chinese Shadows. 1974. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1978.
- Martin, Bernard. Strange Vigour: A Biography of Sun Yat-Sen. London: William Heinemann Ltd., 1944.
- Snow, Edgar. Red Star Over China. 1937. London: Victor Gollancz Ltd., 1946.
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- Han Suyin. Destination Chungking. 1942. Panther Books Ltd. Park Street, St Albans, Herts: Granada Publishing Limited, 1973.
- Han Suyin. A Many-Splendoured Thing. Introduction by Malcolm MacDonald. 1952. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1965.
- Han Suyin. … And the Rain my Drink. 1956. A Mayflower Paperback. London: Mayflower Books, 1970.
- Han Suyin. The Mountain is Young. 1958. Panther Books Ltd. Park Street, St Albans, Herts: Granada Publishing Limited, 1973.
- Han Suyin. Cast But One Shadow and Winter Love. 1962. Panther Books Ltd. Frogmore, St Albans, Herts: Granada Publishing Limited, 1973.
- Han Suyin. The Four Faces. London: Jonathan Cape, 1963.
- Han Suyin. The Crippled Tree. China Autobiography History, 1. 1965. Panther Books Ltd. Frogmore, St Albans, Herts: Granada Publishing Limited, 1973.
- Han Suyin. A Mortal Flower. China Autobiography History, 2. 1966. A Mayflower Paperback. London: Mayflower Books, 1970.
- Han Suyin. Birdless Summer. China Autobiography History, 3. 1968. Panther Books Ltd. London: Granada Publishing Limited, 1972.
- Han Suyin. My House Has Two Doors. China Autobiography History, 4. New York: G. P. Putnam’s Sons, 1980.
- Han Suyin. Till Morning Comes. 1982. New York: Bantam Books, Inc., 1983.
- Han Suyin. The Enchantress. New York: Bantam Books, 1985.
- Confucius. The Analects. Trans. David Hinton. Berkeley: Counterpoint, 1998.
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- Barnstone, Willis, & Ko Ching-Po, trans. The Poems of Mao Tse-Tung. New York: Harper & Row, Publishers, 1972.
- Engle, Hua-ling Nieh, & Paul Engle, trans. The Poetry of Mao Tse-Tung. Illustrations by Cheng Kar-chun. 1972. London: Wildwood House, 1973.
- Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-Tung. Peking: Foreign Languages Press, 1966.
- Chang Jung, & Jon Halliday. Mao: The Unknown Story. 2005. Vintage Books. London: Random House, 2006.
- Lao Tzu. Tao Te Ching. Trans. D. C. Lau. Penguin Classics. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1963.
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- Watson, Burton, trans. Chuang Tzu: Basic Writings. 1964. New York & London: Columbia University Press, 1969.
- Merton, Thomas. The Way of Chuang Tzu. 1965. New Directions Paperbook, 276. New York: New Directions Publishing Corporation, 1969.
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- Palmer, Martin & Jay Ramsay, with Man-Ho Kwok. Kuan Yin: Myths and Prophecies of the Chinese Goddess of Compassion. Thorsons. London: HarperCollins Publishers, 1995.
- Hung Sheng. The Palace of Eternal Youth. Trans. Yang Hsien-Yi and Gladys Yang. Peking: Foreign Languages Publishing House, 1955.
- Hsiung, S. I. Lady Precious Stream: An Old Chinese Play Done into English According to Its Traditional Style. Acting Edition. 1934. London: Methuen & Co. Ltd., 1971.
- Hsiung, S. I., trans. The Romance of the Western Chamber (Hsi Hsiang Chi). Preface by Gordon Bottomley. 1936. Foreword by Wm. Theodore de Bary. Critical Introduction by C. T. Hsia. 1968. New York: Columbia University Press, 1971.
- Liu Jung-en, trans. Six Yüan Plays. Penguin Classics. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1972.
- Reps, Paul, & Nyogen Senzaki, trans. Zen Flesh, Zen Bones: A Collection of Zen and Pre-Zen Writings. A Pelican Book. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1971.
- Stryk, Lucien, & Takashi Ikemoto, trans. The Penguin Book of Zen Poetry. Introduction by Lucien Stryk. 1977. The Penguin Poets. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1981.
- Suzuki, Daisetz Teitaro. Manual of Zen Buddhism. 1935. An Evergreen Book. Grove Weidenfeld. New York: Grove Press Inc., 1960.
- Suzuki, Daisetz T. Zen and Japanese Culture. 1938. Rev. ed. 1959. Bollingen Series LXIV. 1970. Mythos: The Princeton / Bollingen Series in World Mythology. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1993.
- Schurmann, Franz, & Orville Schell, ed. Imperial China: The Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries. China Readings, 1. 1967. A Pelican Book. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1977.
- Schurmann, Franz, & Orville Schell, ed. Republican China: Nationalism, War, and the Rise of Communism, 1911-1949. China Readings, 2. 1967. A Pelican Book. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1977.
- Schurmann, Franz, & Orville Schell, ed. Communist China: Revolutionary Reconstruction and International Confrontation, 1949-1966. China Readings, 3. 1967. A Pelican Book. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1977.
- Milton, David, Nancy Milton, & Franz Schurmann, ed. People’s China: Social Experimentation, Politics, Entry on to the World Scene, 1966-1972. China Readings, 4. 1974. A Pelican Book. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1977.
- Shimer, Dorothy Blair, ed. Rice Bowl Women: Writings by and about the Women of China and Japan. Mentor Books. New York: the New American Library, 1982.
- Sun-tzu. The Art of War. Ed. & trans. John Minford. 2002. Penguin. London: Penguin, 2003.
- Van Gulik, Robert, trans. Celebrated Cases of Judge Dee (Dee Goong An): An Authentic Eighteenth-Century Detective Novel. 1949. New York: Dover, 1976.
- Van Gulik, Robert. The Haunted Monastery & The Chinese Maze Murders: Two Chinese Detective Novels. 1961 & 1957. New York: Dover, 1977.
- Waley, Arthur, trans. One Hundred and Seventy Chinese Poems. 1918. London: Jonathan Cape, 1969.
- Waley, Arthur. The Way and Its Power: The Tao Tê Ching and Its Place in Chinese Thought. 1934. A Mandala Book. London: George Allen and Unwin, 1977.
- Waley, Arthur, trans. The Book of Songs. 1937. New York: Grove Press, 1960.
- Waley, Arthur, trans. The Analects of Confucius. 1938. London: George Allen and Unwin, 1971.
- Confucius. The Analects. Trans. Arthur Waley. 1938. Introduction by Robert Wilkinson. Wordsworth Classics of World Literature. Ware Hertfordshire: Wordsworth, 1996.
- Wu Ch’êng-Ên. Monkey. Trans. Arthur Waley. 1942. Penguin Classics. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1973.
- Waley, Arthur, trans. Chinese Poems. London: George Allen and Unwin, 1946.
- Waley, Arthur. The Poetry and Career of Li Po, 701-762 A.D. Ethical and Religious Classics of East and West. London & New York: George Allen and Unwin & The Macmillan Company, 1950.
- Waley, Arthur. The Nine Songs: A Study of Shamanism in Ancient China. 1955. San Francisco: City Lights Books, 1973.
- Waley, Arthur. Yuan Mei: Eighteenth Century Chinese Poet. London: George Allen and Unwin, 1956.
- Waley, Arthur. The Opium War Through Chinese Eyes. 1958. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 1968.
- Waley, Arthur. Ballads and Stories from Tun-huang: An Anthology. Ruskin House. London: George Allen & Unwin Ltd., 1960.
- Waley, Arthur. The Secret History of the Mongols and Other Pieces. London: George Allen & Unwin Ltd., 1963.
- Morris, Ivan, ed. Madly Singing in the Mountains: An Appreciation and Anthology of Arthur Waley. London: George Allen & Unwin, 1970.
- Waln, Nora. The House of Exile. 1933. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1939.
- West, Keith. Ma Wei Slope: A Novel of the T’ang Dynasty. London: The Cresset Press, 1944.
- Winchester, Simon. Bomb, Book and Compass: Joseph Needham and the Great Secrets of China. 2008. Camberwell, Victoria: Penguin Group (Australia), 2009.
[Korean]
- Kim Man-Choong. The Cloud Dream of the Nine: A Korean Novel – A Story of the Times of the Tangs of China about 840 A.D. Trans. James S. Gale. London: Daniel O’Connor, 1922.
- Yi Mun-Yol. The Poet. 1992. Trans. Chung-wha Chung & Brother Anthony of Taizé. London: The Harvill Press, 1995.
[Singaporean Literature]
- Jee Leong Koh. Seven Studies for a Self Portrait: Poems. Charleston, SC: Bench Press, 2012.
- Yap, Arthur. The Space of City Trees: Selected Poems. Introduction by Anne Brewster. Skoob Pacifica. London: Skoob Books Ltd., 2000.
[Tibetan]
- Lhalungpa, Lobsang P. trans. The Life of Milarepa. 1977. London: Paladin, 1979.
- Tshe ring dbang rgyal. The Tale of the Incomparable Prince. 1727. Trans. Beth Newman. The Library of Tibet. New York: HarperPerennial, 1997.
- Evans-Wentz, W. Y. ed. The Tibetan Book of the Dead, or The After-Death Experiences of the Bardo Plane, according to Lama Kazi Dawa-Samdup's English Rendering. 1927. 2nd edition. 1949. 3rd edition. 1957. Oxford University Press Paperback. 1960. London: Oxford University Press, 1970.
[Vietnamese]
- Bosley, Keith, ed. The War Wife: Vietnamese Poetry. London: Allison & Busby, 1972.
[General]
- Anderson, G. L. ed. The Genius of the Oriental Theatre: the Complete Texts of Ten Great Plays from the Traditional Indian and Japanese Drama. A Mentor Book. New York: The New American Library / London: The New English Library Limited, 1966.
- McLynn, Frank. Genghis Khan: The Man Who Conquered the World. 2015. Vintage. London: Penguin Random House UK, 2016.
- Yohanna, John D., ed. A Treasury of Asian Literature. Readers Union. 1958. London: Phoenix House, 1960.
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