South of the Yangtze
$25.41
- Paperback
288 pages
- Release Date
9 August 2016
Summary
Chinese civilization first developed 5,000 years ago in North China along the middle and lower reaches of the Yellow River. And the Yellow River remained the center of Chinese civilization for the next 4,000 years. Then a thousand years ago, this changed. A thousand years ago, the center of Chinese civilization moved to the Yangtze. And the Yangtze, not the Yellow River, has remained the center of its civilization. A thousand years ago, the Chinese came up with a name for this new center…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781619027343 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1619027348 |
| Author: | Bill Porter |
| Publisher: | Counterpoint |
| Imprint: | Counterpoint |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 288 |
| Release Date: | 9 August 2016 |
| Weight: | 428g |
| Dimensions: | 228mm x 152mm |
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Winner of the 2018 Thornton Wilder Prize for Translation
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Bill Porter
Bill Porter (aka “Red Pine”) is widely recognized as one of the world’s preeminent translators of Chinese poetry and religious texts; he assumes the pen name “Red Pine” for his translations.Writing as Red Pine, he was the first translator to ever translate the entirety of Han-shan’s oeurve into English, published as The Collected Songs of Cold Mountain. Red Pine was also the first to translate into English the entirely of The Poems of the Masters. He has also translated several of the major Buddhist sutras, including the Heart Sutra, Diamond Sutra, and Platform Sutra.
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