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• Author(s): Edward H. Schafer • Publisher: Floating World Editions • Publisher Imprint: Floating World Editions • BISAC: Asia - ChinaIn the seventh century the great T'ang nation was obliged to reconquer the southernmost portion of what had been...

• Author(s): Timothy Barrett • Publisher: Floating World Editions • Publisher Imprint: Floating World Editions • BISAC: Asian - JapaneseThis most comprehensive book on the subject sheds light on every facet of a time-honored craft and offers comp...

• Author(s): Laurence P. Roberts • Publisher: Floating World Editions • Publisher Imprint: Floating World Editions • BISAC: Asian - JapaneseThis is a limited-edition reprint of the most comprehensive and authoritative dictionary of Japanese artis...

• Author(s): Xu Zhimo • Publisher: Floating World Editions • Publisher Imprint: Floating World Editions • BISAC: Asian - ChineseXu Zhimo (1897-1931) was China's first great modern poet and a major figure of the intellectual revolution that shaped...

• Author(s): James Lord Bowes • Publisher: Floating World Editions • Publisher Imprint: Floating World Editions • BISAC: Asian - JapaneseThis extremely valuable reference work remains a fundamental resource for all students, scholars, connoisseur...

• Author(s): James Cahill • Publisher: Floating World Editions • Publisher Imprint: Floating World Editions • BISAC: Asian - ChineseThis is the most comprehensive English-language compilation available on Chinese painters and their works from the...

• Author(s): Edward H. Schafer • Publisher: Floating World Editions • Publisher Imprint: Floating World Editions • BISAC: Asian - GeneralThis important exploration of Chinese mythology focuses on the diverse and evocative associations between wom...

• Author(s): Edward H. Schafer • Publisher: Floating World Editions • Publisher Imprint: Floating World Editions • BISAC: Astronomy - GeneralIn the author's own words, this work attempts to recreate, for the 20th-century reader, the sky and the a...

• Author(s): Lian Zhang • Publisher: Floating World Editions • Publisher Imprint: Floating World Editions • BISAC: Asian - Chinese- The first book published in English by Chinese farmer poet Zhang Lian, who in 2012 was nominated one of the 10 bes...

• Author(s): Jonathan Chaves • Publisher: Floating World Editions • Publisher Imprint: Floating World Editions • BISAC: Asian - ChineseZhang Ji (c.766-c.830) was a major poet of the Tang dynasty, and friend and poetic correspondent of such giants...