Ancient Literati

12 books

Two Ounces of Poetry, Three Ounces of Heart Medicine: 26 Emotional Prescriptions from Ancient Literati cover
Rating 2.8
Two Ounces of Poetry, Three Ounces of Heart Medicine: 26 Emotional Prescriptions from Ancient Literati 魏祎 Chongqing Publishing House · 2025 Open the long scroll of history, and countless poets have left behind poems that endure in literary history; between the lines, their life trajectorie…
Tan'an's Ci Poems cover
Rating 3.6
Tan'an's Ci Poems 赵师使 · 2025 Contains 149 poems. The author, Zhao Shishi, styled Tan'an, was a Southern Song ci poet who served in office in several places. His work is distinguis…
When Chinese-Style Images Meet Classic Poetry and Prose (6 Volumes) cover
Rating 3.3
When Chinese-Style Images Meet Classic Poetry and Prose (6 Volumes) 为你读诗 / 湘人彭二 / 董领 / 符殊 / 北册 天津博集新媒科技有限公司 · 2025 Animation-film-quality guofeng illustrations × the life aesthetics of ancient poets—a six-volume set from the poetic-living series of the humanities a…
Minglun Compilation, Social Relations Category, Farewell Banquet Section cover
Rating 3.9
Minglun Compilation, Social Relations Category, Farewell Banquet Section Chen Menglei · 2024 Traditional Chinese culture has a long intellectual history, marked by a high degree of originality, inventiveness, and literary quality. Its early mo…
Collected Works of Quiet Dwelling cover
Rating 3.8
Collected Works of Quiet Dwelling 张羽 · 2024 Traditional Chinese thought has a long history and is highly original, inventive and literary. Early forms of thought have distinctive features: relig…
Lofty Aspirations Do Not Fall in This World: A Record of the Rise and Fall of Ancient Literati cover
Rating 3.9
Lofty Aspirations Do Not Fall in This World: A Record of the Rise and Fall of Ancient Literati 叶楚桥 Beijing United Publishing Co., Ltd. · 2023 From the Seven Sages of the Bamboo Grove to the great Confucian scholars of the Ming and Qing dynasties, from the Wei-Jin style to Tang poetry and Son…
Ten Records of Pure Objects: The World of Meaning of Literati Objects cover
Rating 4.2
Ten Records of Pure Objects: The World of Meaning of Literati Objects 李溪 · 2025 This book is an intellectual history of the "things of the literati" in ancient China. Its main body comprises ten chapters, each devoted to one such …
Cold-Dispelling Chart: Take Care and Wait for the Spring Breeze cover
Rating 3.7
Cold-Dispelling Chart: Take Care and Wait for the Spring Breeze 袁瑾 Zhejiang Literature and Art Publishing House · 2023 The first popular cultural reader in China to offer a comprehensive account of the ancient xiaohan tu ("cold-dispelling charts") and their cultural an…
Selected Readings in Ancient Chinese Tea Literature cover
Rating 3.4
Selected Readings in Ancient Chinese Tea Literature 叶国盛 · 2021 Arranged chronologically by dynasty, this book selects classic works of ancient Chinese tea literature—including tea poetry and ci, prose and fu, sanq…
Fantasy Poems cover
Rating 3.8
Fantasy Poems 胡大川 · 2019 Hu Dachuan was a juren of the Jiaqing era who lived his whole life in obscurity, leaving behind only fifteen "Fantasy Poems." During the Guangxu era, …
Most Enlightening Philosophical Stories cover
Rating 3.1
Most Enlightening Philosophical Stories Xiao Feng Liaohai Publishing House · 2025 The great Tang poet Li Bai was traveling when, upon his return to Mianzhou in Sichuan, Emperor Xuanzong sent for him to come to the capital without de…
Biographies of the Literati cover
Rating 3.2
Biographies of the Literati Qin Yu Jinghua Publishing House · 2025 In ancient China, scholars were closely bound to official careers, for learning well was seen as the path to service. Yet these men often found the wo…