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Paperback. Condición: New. Variously considered a Taoist and a cynic, Han Fei, himself a prince, has been seen as a forerunner to Machiavelli. At the end of the Warring States, when oratory mattered hugely, Han Fei, with a stutter, was the brain and the plume of the Legalist School. From Han Fei's oeuvre, Mingyuan Hu selects and translates two extracts encapsulating the thinking that so impressed Zheng, King of Qin, who later became the first emperor of China, and in whose prison Han Fei died drinking poison. This book is part of the Erstwhile Series.…

Paperback. Condición: New. Variously considered a Taoist and a cynic, Han Fei, himself a prince, has been seen as a forerunner to Machiavelli. At the end of the Warring States, when oratory mattered hugely, Han Fei, with a stutter, was the brain and the plume of the Legalist School. From Han Fei's oeuvre, Mingyuan Hu selects and translates two extracts encapsulating the thinking that so impressed Zheng, King of Qin, who later became the first emperor of China, and in whose prison Han Fei died drinking poison. This book is part of the Erstwhile Series.…

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Paperback. Condición: New. The prodigious aristocrat Qu Yuan was a minister of Chu, a major power during the Warring States. Pressing for Vertical Alliance but not listened to, he was twice exiled. Bewailing affliction, he wrote verses in the Chu dialect, and liberated poetry from the four-syllable metre. Qu Yuan's vers libre, like his suicide, has been immortalised in East Asia, as one honours the Romantic poet and a wounded statesman, ill-treated and loyal to the end. Attribution to Qu Yuan has at times been disputed; some opuses stand emblematic. Two prose pieces and two poems are offered in a new translation by Mingyuan Hu. This book is part of the Erstwhile Series.…

Paperback. Condición: New. The Annals of the Warring States records the School of Diplomacy at work during one of the most captivating times in Chinese history. In four dialogues, thinking beings challenge sovereign power in ways that surprise and resonate. They make visible an astonishing relationship between politics and the intellect, and echo our notions of oratory and democracy in differing contexts. This book is part of the Erstwhile Series.…

Paperback. Condición: New. A radical thinker, Xunzi disagreed with Mencius on human nature. For him men are naturally evil. From this inverse assumption, he yet reached the same Mencian conclusion: moral education is paramount for society to function, and the ruler should be meritorious, protecting the people. This makes Xunzi a Confucianist, though Han Fei and Li Si, his students, were to subvert Confucian principles. From Xunzi, Mingyuan Hu selects and translates three treatises, illustrating his argument. This book is part of the Erstwhile Series.…

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Paperback. Condición: New. Elegance of personality, a peculiar notion of the Chinese literati, is encapsulated in the Shishuo Xinyu - character sketches from the fifth century of elevated, often eccentric, beings. Bygone archetypes of soaring individuality, poets, politicians, artists, and musicians here come in an ensemble of the bold and untrammelled, selected from the Shishuo and translated by Mingyuan Hu. This book is part of the Erstwhile Series.…

Paperback. Condición: New. An advocate of Confucian morality, Mencius exhorted ruling through virtue during the Warring States, when sundry ideas of effectual governance prospered. Like Confucius had done two centuries before him, Mencius wandered from state to state, lobbying sovereigns. Mencian virtue politics has been pivotal to political thinking in China, though most appealing, it may be argued, to scholars.From Mencius, Mingyuan Hu selects and translates four dialogues exemplary of this thinking.This book is part of the Erstwhile Series.…

Paperback. Condición: New. Elegance of personality, a peculiar notion of the Chinese literati, is encapsulated in the Shishuo Xinyu - character sketches from the fifth century of elevated, often eccentric, beings. Bygone archetypes of soaring individuality, poets, politicians, artists, and musicians here come in an ensemble of the eremitic and extravagant, selected from the Shishuo and translated by Mingyuan Hu. This book is part of the Erstwhile Series.…

Paperback. Condición: New. An advocate of Confucian morality, Mencius exhorted ruling through virtue during the Warring States, when sundry ideas of effectual governance prospered. Like Confucius had done two centuries before him, Mencius wandered from state to state, lobbying sovereigns. Mencian virtue politics has been pivotal to political thinking in China, though most appealing, it may be argued, to scholars.From Mencius, Mingyuan Hu selects and translates four dialogues exemplary of this thinking.This book is part of the Erstwhile Series.…

Paperback. Condición: New. The Annals of the Warring States records the School of Diplomacy at work during one of the most captivating times in Chinese history. In four dialogues, thinking beings challenge sovereign power in ways that surprise and resonate. They make visible an astonishing relationship between politics and the intellect, and echo our notions of oratory and democracy in differing contexts. This book is part of the Erstwhile Series.…

Paperback. Condición: New. A radical thinker, Xunzi disagreed with Mencius on human nature. For him men are naturally evil. From this inverse assumption, he yet reached the same Mencian conclusion: moral education is paramount for society to function, and the ruler should be meritorious, protecting the people. This makes Xunzi a Confucianist, though Han Fei and Li Si, his students, were to subvert Confucian principles. From Xunzi, Mingyuan Hu selects and translates three treatises, illustrating his argument. This book is part of the Erstwhile Series.…

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Paperback. Condición: New. ''We could see them because we couldn't see them; we can no longer see them because we could see them.'Mael Renouard's historical and aesthetical contemplation on the Lascaux Cave enlivens a conceptual space for the spectator's dream.This book is translated from the French, Notes sur Lascaux (Editions du Sandre, 2018).…

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Paperback. Condición: New. 'I had seen so many men celebrated and then disgraced, and so many men disgraced and then rehabilitated, that for a long time I kept the hope of someday being held worthy of the history of our country. The wheel had turned, and would turn. Undoubtedly, I would not be there to witness it. I recited to myself the words that men condemned to die defiantly utter on the scaffold: "In twenty years, I shall be a handsome young man again, one of the brave."' In this enigmatic novella, one hears of the life of a litterateur before, during, and after the Great Revolution. The Peking Opera Reform was awarded Prix Decembre in 2013. This work is translated from the French, La reforme de l'opera de Pekin (Payot and Rivages, Paris, 2013).…

Paperback. Condición: New. Writers talk about literature on the Singapore River. Distinct and displaced pasts meet. Individual encounters with a revolutionary ballet carry a generation's lost youth and unspoken tragedy. Laureate of innumerable literary prizes, Jiang Yun leaves no reader indifferent. Annelise Finegan teaches at NYU. Her translations have been nominated for the International Booker Prize and won the Best Translated Book Award. Mingyuan Hu is an historian; she translates French, English and Chinese literature. …

Paperback. Condición: New. From 1998 to 2017, Jean Fremon visited David Hockney in his studio in Los Angeles, Bridlington and London. Intimate observation mingled with spirited conversation, a tableau of vision, meditation, and passion for invention.Jean Fremon's poetry, fiction, and art criticism have appeared in more than 20 volumes. He is the President of the Galerie Lelong in Paris. This book is translated from the French, David Hockney a l'atelier (L'Echoppe, 2017).…

Paperback. Condición: New. Bilingual. In his memoirs, which he finished writing in February 1942, Stefan Zweig recalled the first days of the War in 1914. In a belligerent world, friendship had become a trying matter. A letter arrived in Vienna from Romain Rolland, with the line: 'Non, je ne quitterai jamais mes amis.'It was, considered Zweig, a time still more civilised than the Second War, when the printed words of intellectuals no longer carried weight.A new translation from the German into French and English, this book is part of the Luminary Collection.…

Paperback. Condición: New. From 1998 to 2017, Jean Fremon visited David Hockney in his studio in Los Angeles, Bridlington and London. Intimate observation mingled with spirited conversation, a tableau of vision, meditation, and passion for invention.Jean Fremon's poetry, fiction, and art criticism have appeared in more than 20 volumes. He is the President of the Galerie Lelong in Paris. This book is translated from the French, David Hockney a l'atelier (L'Echoppe, 2017).…

Paperback. Condición: New. Bilingual. In his memoirs, which he finished writing in February 1942, Stefan Zweig recalled the first days of the War in 1914. In a belligerent world, friendship had become a trying matter. A letter arrived in Vienna from Romain Rolland, with the line: 'Non, je ne quitterai jamais mes amis.'It was, considered Zweig, a time still more civilised than the Second War, when the printed words of intellectuals no longer carried weight.A new translation from the German into French and English, this book is part of the Luminary Collection.…

Paperback. Condición: New. Visiting Normandy in October 2018, on a whim David Hockney decided to settle in Pays d'Auge. Confined to his house during the 2020 lockdown, on canvas, paper, and iPad, he dialogued with the trees in his garden, the moon, and the rain. Hockney's life and work during this time have been portrayed by his friend and neighbour, the gallerist Jean Fremon. Thanks to this portrait of an artist, we witness the Arrival of Spring.This book is translated from David Hockney en Pays d'Auge (L'Echoppe, 2020).…

Paperback. Condición: New. 'There was a time when we would toss peanuts to the baby monkeys in the Vincennes Zoo. It was party time. It was not forbidden to feed wild animals. We hardly had any props to dress the stage. The comings and goings of the pawnbroker were easy to follow. He who lived not in those times, knows not the true pleasures of life.'Party Time is translated from Un temps de fete (La Table Ronde, 2024). Guillaume Decourt is a double laureate of the Prix Max-Jacob and the Prix Lucette-Moreau de l'academie francaise. Spencer Matheson is a Canadian poet living in Paris.…

Paperback. Condición: New. On 18 April 1776, shortly before his death, David Hume recounted his life as one lived, by choice, as a man of letters. 'A man of mild dispositions, of command of temper', he told of how, even his love of literary fame, his ruling passion, never soured his temper, notwithstanding frequent disappointments. A bilingual edition in English and French, this book is part of the Luminary Collection. …

Paperback. Condición: New. Une fine pluie tombe sur une grande ville. Une nuit. Un homme rend visite a une femme. Elle lui fait du the. Dans cette exquise nouvelle, l'une des premieres de Chi Li, aujourd'hui l'une des plus lues en Chine, nous sommes face a un mystere. Un mystere du coeur humain, ou tout se comprend sans rien reveler. Shao Baoqing enseigne a l'universite Bordeaux Montaigne. Depuis trois decennies, il traduit Chi Li et Chen Zhongshi, ainsi que Theophile Gautier.…

Paperback. Condición: New. Un double recit dans le recit. Des passes rouges telescopes. Une reverence irresolue pour la nuit noire. La romanciere evoque des emotions refoulees dans l'histoire recente de l'Asie.Laureate de nombreux prix litteraires, Jiang Yun maitrise la fiction courte, directe, complexe. Romain Graziani est professeur a l'Ecole normale superieure de Lyon ; il est traducteur d'ouvrages chinois classiques et modernes. Song Gang est ancien eleve de l'Ecole normale superieure de Paris ; il est traducteur d'Emil Cioran, de Jean-Francois Billeter et de Philippe Descola. …

Paperback. Condición: New. What has Confucius to do with a transatlantic quarrel and a post-truth epoch? As the Chinese past becomes the academic expression of a clash between superpowers, and as the question of Confucius's realness, or not, echoes a rather ludicrous Sino-American rivalry for pseudo world hegemony, Jean Levi regards, with a clinical and wry eye, current academia as an ideological battle site and an image of our time.The Assassins of Confucius was published by Hermits United in 2023. This 2025 edition includes a postscript, where the renowned sinologist tells of a recent archaeological discovery, one that makes certain the validity of his 2023 argument.…

Paperback. Condición: New. This book gives us glimpses of literary Paris before and during the First World War. We have a guided tour of Auteuil, where Apollinaire spent his saddest days. We meet Monsieur Lehec the bookseller, who loved his books so much that 'he could bring himself to sell them only to the few he deemed worthy of acquiring them' and Liseux the publisher, who, when asked his political views, replied: 'I am a republican, but of the republic of letters.'The Flaneur of Paris was published in the year of Apollinaire's death. More than a century later, it makes its debut in English, elegantly translated by Alex Andriesse.From the Cafe Napo to Ernest La Jeunesse's room, from an obscure Napoleonic museum to Monsieur Vollard's cellar, The Flaneur of Paris is a fragmented song, inviting us to walk down to the Seine.Alex Andriesse is a poet and has translated, notably, Chateaubriand's Memoirs from Beyond the Grave (NYRB Classics), Cristina Campo's The Unforgivable (NYRB Classics), and Jacques Dupin's Notched (Hermits United).…

Paperback. Condición: New. 'There was a time when we would toss peanuts to the baby monkeys in the Vincennes Zoo. It was party time. It was not forbidden to feed wild animals. We hardly had any props to dress the stage. The comings and goings of the pawnbroker were easy to follow. He who lived not in those times, knows not the true pleasures of life.'Party Time is translated from Un temps de fete (La Table Ronde, 2024). Guillaume Decourt is a double laureate of the Prix Max-Jacob and the Prix Lucette-Moreau de l'academie francaise. Spencer Matheson is a Canadian poet living in Paris.…