Eastern Culture

20 books

The Book of Tea cover
The Book of Tea 冈仓天心 China Overseas Publishing House · 2015 The Book of Tea is an aesthetic essay written in English in 1906 by Okakura Kakuzō, a Japanese art historian and thinker of the Meiji era. While livin…
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The Soul of the Far East Percival Lowell Houghton, Mifflin and Company · 1888 The Soul of the Far East is a collection of observational essays on Eastern culture published in 1888 by the American Percival Lowell (1855–1916). Low…
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The Road to the Indian Subcontinent Hermann Hesse Zhejiang Literature and Art Publishing House · 2017 The Road to the Indian Subcontinent is a collection of travel essays by the German writer Hermann Hesse, winner of the 1946 Nobel Prize in Literature,…
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Rating 3.4
The Emperor of the Lute Tang Jia San Shao Hunan Juvenile & Children's Publishing House · 2017 The Emperor of the Lute is a long fantasy novel by Tang Jia San Shao, serialized on Qidian from January 2008 and completed that December at roughly 3.…
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Rating 3.7
Journey to the East Hermann Hesse Zhejiang Literature and Art Publishing House · 2017 Journey to the East is a collection of travel writing and essays by Nobel laureate Hermann Hesse, gathering his reflections on and writings about East…
The Book of Tea cover
The Book of Tea 冈仓天心 Hunan People's Publishing House · 2022 The Book of Tea is an English-language work published in the United States in 1906 by the Japanese Meiji-era thinker and art critic Okakura Kakuzō (18…
The Collected Works of Ji Xianlin (14-Volume Digital First Edition) cover
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The Collected Works of Ji Xianlin (14-Volume Digital First Edition) Ji Xianlin Zhejiang People's Publishing House · 2016 The Collected Works of Ji Xianlin (14-Volume Digital First Edition) is a fourteen-volume collection of Ji Xianlin's writings, released first in digita…
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Rating 4.5
The Emperor of Music Tang Jia San Shao Hunan Juvenile & Children's Publishing House · 2017 The Emperor of Music is a long fantasy novel by Tang Jia San Shao, serialized on Qidian from January 2008 and completed in December of the same year, …
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Selected Prose of Ji Xianlin Ji Xianlin Yangtze River Literature and Art Publishing House · 2009 This representative anthology gathers the finest essays of Ji Xianlin, a scholar renowned in academic circles for his research in Indology, Tocharian …
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A Preliminary Study of Chinese Art Criticism Patterns 蒲震元 Peking University Press · 2025 As an Eastern cultural phenomenon and form of art criticism with a long history and worldwide attention, does traditional Chinese art criticism posses…
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Tagore and Twentieth-Century Chinese Literature 黎跃进 Peking University Press · 2026 Against the broad background of East-West cultural conflict and fusion in the twentieth century and the modern transformation of national traditions, …
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Japan, Land of the Gods Lafcadio Hearn (Koizumi Yakumo) / 曹晔 · 2026 Kokoro: Hints and Echoes of Japanese Inner Life
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Rating 3.6
Inheritance and Innovation of Oriental Culture in the 21st Century 唐孟生 / 李政 · 2025 This collection of essays is drawn from the papers presented at the First International Academic Conference of the "21st-Century Oriental Culture Foru…
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Index of the Project Gutenberg Works of Herbert Allen Giles Giles, Herbert Allen, 1845-1935 Project Gutenberg · 2019 Project Gutenberg was the first provider of free electronic books, or eBooks. Michael Hart, founder of Project Gutenberg, invented eBooks in 1971 and …
Gleanings in Buddha-Fields: Studies of Hand and Soul in the Far East cover
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Gleanings in Buddha-Fields: Studies of Hand and Soul in the Far East Hearn, Lafcadio, 1850-1904 Project Gutenberg · 2019 Project Gutenberg was the first provider of free electronic books, or eBooks. Michael Hart, founder of Project Gutenberg, invented eBooks in 1971 and …
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Our Little Japanese Cousin Wade, Mary Hazelton Blanchard, 1860-1936 Project Gutenberg · 2019 Project Gutenberg was the first provider of free electronic books, or eBooks. Michael Hart, founder of Project Gutenberg, invented eBooks in 1971 and …
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Rating 4.1
Japan: The Divine Country Lafcadio Hearn (Koizumi Yakumo) / 曹晔 杂志社 · 2025 Lafcadio Hearn's last book on Japan. It covers virtually every aspect of research on Japan. The most compelling part of the book is arguably its study…
Guided Readings in Foreign Literary Classics Series: Essentials of Oriental Literature and Culture cover
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Guided Readings in Foreign Literary Classics Series: Essentials of Oriental Literature and Culture 陈义华 / 王伟均 Jinan University Press · 2019 Oriental countries have a long history and rich literary creation, embodying the spiritual wealth of Eastern peoples over thousands of years. However,…
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A History of Japanese Poetry (Oriental Culture Integration) 唐月梅 Peking University Press · 2025 Like the history of Japanese literature and culture, Japanese poetry has gone through a process of absorbing the Chinese poetic tradition in ancient t…
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Eastern Wisdom: Essays by Gu Hongming (Great Scholars' Essays Series) Gu Hongming Peking University Press · 2025 Called "the most honorable Chinese man" by India's Mahatma Gandhi, Gu Hongming was above all a defender of Eastern culture. Though he lived in an unfo…