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The Collected Works of Dai Jianye (Ten-Volume Set)
· 2025
With his unique style of “reading classics with a smile, understanding life through tears,” Professor Dai Jianye spent thirty years writing ten heavyw…
Desperately Romantic
Tianjin People's Publishing House · 2025
The final installment of Dai Jianye's "Catchphrase Trilogy"—a collection of essays bursting with unmistakable Dai flavor! A chat with young friends ab…
Teacher Dai's High-Energy Song Ci Course
Beijing United Publishing Co., Ltd. · 2024
Grounded in a prosperous material life, the Song dynasty developed an elegant and refined literati culture. Faced with the extraordinary achievements …
Comics: A New Account of the Tales of the World
Zhejiang Literature and Art Publishing House · 2022
Reliable text, adapted from Professor Dai Jianye's acclaimed Close Reading of A New Account of Tales of the World, with selections personally chosen a…
Teacher Dai's High-Energy Tang Poetry Course
Beijing United Publishing Co., Ltd. · 2022
“National Professor” Dai Jianye’s new book for 2022—Professor Dai’s High-Energy Tang Poetry Course—offers an impassioned discussion of more than 80 re…
Dai Jianye's Collected Works (Nine-Volume Set)
Shanghai Literature and Art Publishing House · 2021
The "Dai Jianye Collected Works" is the first collected edition of the works of Dai Jianye, a doctoral supervisor at Central China Normal University a…
Dai Jianye's Close Reading of A New Account of Tales of the World
Shanghai Literature and Art Publishing House · 2021
A New Account of the Tales of the World is a collection of anecdotes recording the words and deeds of celebrated scholars of the Wei and Jin dynasties…
The Realm of Clarity: A New Study of Tao Yuanming
Shanghai Literature and Art Publishing House · 2021
Tao Yuanming had neither Qu Yuan's grand tragedy, nor Li Bai's bold and free spirit, nor Du Fu's vast and profound power. With only about a hundred po…
Dai Jianye's Close Reading of Laozi
Shanghai Literature and Art Publishing House · 2021
Laozi: A Close Reading by Dai Jianye. Often known as the Daodejing, Laozi is an abstract philosophical work of ancient China and a key source of Daois…
A Brief History of Northern and Southern Song Poetry
Shanghai Literature and Art Publishing House · 2021
The Song dynasty was a golden age for the development of shi and ci poetry. Song shi broke through the bounds of Tang poetry and opened up a new, rugg…
Did You Understand?
Shanghai Literature and Art Publishing House · 2021
“Wonder lies in a single turn of the mind; in an instant, life’s traps become life’s blessed ground.” This collection of eighty essays by Dai Jianye c…
A History of Six Dynasties Literature
Shanghai Literature and Art Publishing House · 2021
The Six Dynasties period in literary history runs from the late Eastern Han to the early Sui. The literature of this era achieved artistic distinction…
The Prisoner of Poetry: Essays on Meng Jiao
Shanghai Literature and Art Publishing House · 2021
Meng Jiao (751–814), courtesy name Dongye, was a major poet who helped shape the poetic style of the mid-Tang dynasty and, together with Han Yu, led t…
The Inside and Outside of Textual Interpretation
Shanghai Literature and Art Publishing House · 2021
The interpretation of a literary text may start from the text itself or from factors outside it—what the American literary theorist Wellek calls "intr…
On the Classification of Knowledge and of Books in Ancient China
Shanghai Literature and Art Publishing House · 2021
Ancient Chinese texts are vast as the sea, a treasury of China's millennia of knowledge—yet reading without method yields nothing. The classification …
Good Heavens!
Shanghai Literature and Art Publishing House · 2021
Who says there is nothing new under the sun? Dai Jianye always finds surprising treasures. My goodness! The Dragon Boat Festival has nothing to do wit…
Teacher Dai's Addictive Poetry Class
Beijing United Publishing Co., Ltd. · 2020
Dai Jianye's Mandarin has a distinctive Macheng accent, which always made him worry whether his students could follow what he taught in class. But as …
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