Daoist Master Changchun's Journey to the West
To the Court of Chinggis Qan and Back
- Hardcover
296 pages
- Release Date
10 March 2024
Summary
The Hsu-Tang Library presents authoritative and eminently readable translations of classical Chinese literature, in bilingual editions, ranging across three millennia and the entire Sinitic world.
In the early years of the Mongol empire, the Quanzhen Daoist master Qiu Chuji (1148-1227, religious name Changchun) made an arduous three-year round-trip journey from north China to the Hindu Kush in 1221-23 in response to a summons by Chinggis Qan. The record of this journey compiled by Li …
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780197668375 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0197668372 |
| Author: | Translated by Ruth W. Dunnell, Translated by Stephen H. West, Translated by Shao-yun Yang, Li Zhichang |
| Publisher: | Oxford University Press Inc |
| Imprint: | Oxford University Press Inc |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 296 |
| Release Date: | 10 March 2024 |
| Weight: | 522g |
| Dimensions: | 226mm x 163mm x 43mm |
| Series: | The Hsu-Tang Library of Classical Chinese Literature |
What They're Saying
Critics Review
[The Hsu-Tang Library] will open up a classical tradition that spans millennia, relatively little of which has ever been translated into English. There is a humanity and irreverence to some of these works that readers expecting stuffy, prim Confucian moralizing will find refreshing. * The Wall Street Journal *
Changchun’s Journey to the West is an important document that reveals conditions in thirteenth-century Central Asia as the Mongols established their empire. * Frances Wood, Times Literary Supplement *
About The Author
Translated by Ruth W. Dunnell
Li Zhichang (1193-1256), a disciple of Qiu Chuji, became Overseer of Daoists in Yanjing, head abbot of the Monastery of Eternal Spring, and the head instructor and nominal leader of the Quanzhen sect.
Ruth W. Dunnell is Professor Emerita of History at Kenyon College and the author of Chinggis Khan: World Conqueror.
Stephen H. West is Professor of Chinese Emeritus at Arizona State University.
Shao-yun Yang is Associate Professor of History and director of the East Asian Studies program at Denison University, and the author of The Way of the Barbarians: Redrawing Ethnic Boundaries in Tang and Song China.
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