• Paperback: 96 pages
• Publisher: Center for Asian Research, 1992
• ISBN: 0-939252-24-4
• Monograph Series: 27
• List Price: USD $10.00

• Paperback: 154 pages
• Publisher: Center for Asian Research, 1990
• ISBN: 0-939252-23-6
• Monograph Series: 26
• List Price: USD $10.00

The Ch'ien-fu lun of Wang Fu (c. A.D. 78-163) is an important text in the lun or "discourse" genre. In this study, the author presents literary and historical contexts by which to appraise the Ch'ien-fu lun, examines the theoretical basis, structure, and asethetic features of the Ch'ien-fu lun as compared with other prominent prose works of the age, and provides translations of nine of its discourses.

• Paperback: 177 pages
• Publisher: Center for Asian Research, 1990
• ISBN: 0-939252-22-8
• Monograph Series: 25
• List Price: USD $10.00

In this completely reworked translation by John Roberts, each verse is written in the original Sanskrit script, provided with a Romanized transcription, and rendered into English poetry-form "as musical verses enhanced by regular rhythm patterns, varied rhyme-systems, and evocative alliteration."

• Paperback: 279 pages
• Publisher: Center for Asian Research, 1989
• ISBN: 0-939252-20-1
• Monograph Series: 23
• List Price: USD $10.00

Hua Guan Suo Zhuan, a tale about the life of a fictional hero, is one of fourteen works of hitherto-unknown popular literature that were unearthed from a Ming Dynasty tomb in Jiading County near Shanghai in 1967. Made up of four parts told in alternating passages of prose and verse, it is "an episodic tale intended to entertain, with strong roots in an oral tradition." This author introduces her new translation of this tale by discussing the story's historical context, as well as various aspects of its composition.

• Paperback: 277 pages
• Publisher: Center for Asian Research, 1988
• ISBN: 0-939252-19-8
• Monograph Series: 22
• List Price: USD $10.00

This work offers rhymed English translations - with facing Chinese and English texts - of the complete poems by twentieth-century China's most famous writer, Lu Hsun. Professor Ch'en's introduction places Lu Hsun's poetry in the context of the transitional literature that appeared in China between traditional and modern periods. In addition, the study includes more than one hundred pages of annotations and explication of the poems, reflecting a wide range of Lu Hsun's scholarship.

• Paperback: 240 pages
• Publisher: Center for Asian Research, 1987
• ISBN: 0-939252-17-1
• Monograph Series: 20
• List Price: USD $10.00

The ideas and images employed by these four early Chinese poets are now accessible for systematic study by both scholars of Chinese literature and non-Sinological scholars of comparative literature. The classified concordance arranges significant words, phrases, and collocations in 191 poems, according to 247 semantic categories; it is accompanied by translations of the poems. Professor Mair makes an important contribution to the study of the introspective strand of Chinese poetry so well represented by Roan Jyi (Juan Chi), Chern Tzyyarng(Ch'en Tzu-ang), Jang Jeouling (Chang Chiu-ling), and Lii Bor (Li Po).

• Paperback: 183 pages
• Publisher: Center for Asian Research, 1986
• ISBN: 0-939252-15-5
• Monograph Series: 19
• List Price: USD $10.00

Chin Shushin, a Chinese citizen born and raised in Japan, is a popular author of historical mysteries that often have a Chinese setting. Murder in a Peking Studio (Pekin Yuyukan), set in Peking in late 1903 on the eve of the Russo-Japanese War, interweaves intelligence operations by historical figures, the art of inscription rubbing, and murder. This is the first of Mr. Chin's novels to be translated into English.

• Paperback: 36 pages
• Publisher: Center for Asian Research, 1985
• ISBN: 0-939252-14-7
• Monograph Series: 18
• List Price: USD $10.00

Professor Schwartz updates two lectures delivered at Arizona State University in 1982. "Chinese Culture: Enduring Orientations and Historic Change" identifies persistent characteristics of Chinese Culture and discusses how such continuities have not precluded change and conflict. "Chinese Culture and the Chinese Revolution" gauges the impact of the Chinese revolution on those cultural patterns.

• Paperback: 100 pages
• Publisher: Center for Asian Research, 1985
• ISBN: 0-939252-13-9
• Monograph Series: 17
• List Price: USD $10.00

Professor Bock discusses the functions of the Yin-yang Bureau and the Bureau of Higher Learning in Japan during the seventh through ninth centuries. Her translation is of the two chapters of the Engi-shiki that discuss those bureaus.

• Paperback: 192 pages
• Publisher: Center for Asian Research, 1984
• ISBN: 0-939252-12-0
• Monograph Series: 16
• List Price: USD $10.00

This work includes a study and a complete, annotated translation of the late twelfth- or early thirteenth-century Japanese tale collection, the Kara monogatari (Tales of China). The twenty-seven tales are interesting as stories, literate as short written pieces, and important as a Japanese cultural source, as well as being of interest to students of China. The Kara monogatari gave Japanese readers vernacular translations of some of the most well-known stories about China. It offers an interesting example of the transition in Japanese literature from the uta monogatari (poem tale) form to the setsuwa bungaku (story literature) form.

• Paperback: 234 pages
• Publisher: Center for Asian Research, 1984
• ISBN: 0-939252-11-2
• Monograph Series: 15
• List Price: USD $10.00

Professor Shalom meticulously analyzes the estimates of the number of deaths attributable to communism that appear in Richard L Walker's famous 1971 study, the Human Cost of Communism in China. He carefully checks Walker's sources and cites a wealth of additional material, arguing that, given currently available sources, Walker's figures should be revised. This is a sobering, closely researched volume that tries to penetrate the fog of propaganda that has shrouded this sensitive subject.

• Paperback: 179 pages
• Publisher: Center for Asian Research, 1981
• ISBN: 0-939252-10-4
• Monograph Series: 14
• List Price: USD $10.00

A richly annotated translation and introduction to the Han shu biography of Yang Xiong, a Han dynasty litterateur and major figure in the intellectual history of Former Han times. "Professor Knechtges serves Yang Hsiung well with this... version of his biography... His translation of this complex, problematical work is careful and accurate... [He has] provided sinologists with an exemplary biographical translation." - Anne M. Birrell.

• Paperback: 121 pages
• Publisher: Center for Asian Research, 1981
• ISBN: 0-939252-09-0
• Monograph Series: 13
• List Price: USD $10.00

This treatise, a revised version of the author's Brown University doctoral dissertation, examines the evolution of the Ch'ing ginseng monopoly and shows that court-sponsored changes in the monopoly led to increased government regulation of the gathering, transportation, and marketing of ginseng. Professor Symons places the monopoly in its dynastic and institutional contexts.

• Paperback: 144 pages
• Publisher: Center for Asian Research, 1991 (reprint of 1979 edition)
• ISBN: 0-939252-08-2
• Monograph Series: 12
• List Price: USD $10.00

Wei Chuang is an important figure in the early history of song-poetry (tz'u) in China. This volume presents his extant work in that genre as represented in the first extensive anthology of song-poetry, the Hua-chien chi, compiled in the tenth century.

• Paperback: 45 pages
• Publisher: Center for Asian Research, 1977
• Monograph Series: 10
• List Price: USD $6.00

A journal-form article about the Japanese aggression in 1932 to mainland China and its effects on China's people and land.

• One fascicle with traditional Chinese binding: 33 pages (in Chinese)
• Publisher: Center for Asian Research, 1976
• Monograph Series: 8
• List Price: USD $6.00

Collected traditional poems, written by a former professor of modern Chinese literature at the University of Washington, Vincent Y.C. Shih. He has been described by his colleagues as a "...driving, well qualified Chinese scholar... [who is] brilliant and most energetic, with a main interest in philosophy."

• Paperback: 69 pages
• Publisher: Center for Asian Research, 1975
• Monograph Series: 6
• List Price: USD $6.00

This mini-symposium brought together Donald Gillin, Lord Michael Lindsay of Birker, Brooks Darlington, Stephen MacKinnon, A. T. Steele, and Yung-hwan Jo to discuss the political history of Chinese-American relations and relate this to contemporary issues facing the United States and China.

• Tape-bound or spiral-bound paperback: 65 pages
• Publisher: Center for Asian Research, 1972
• Monograph Series: 3
• List Price: USD $6.00

A biography of the poet-monk Chiao-jan (Hsieh Ch'ing-chou), generally considered one of the most outstanding of the 115 poet-monks included in the Complete Collection of T'ang Poetry and the only monk represented in the Three-Hundred T'ang Poems.

• Tape-bound paperback: 65 pages
• Publisher: Center for Asian Research, 1972
• Monograph Series: 2
• List Price: USD $6.00

This monograph examines the development of manufacturing in West Malaysia, focusing on the pivotal period of 1963-1968 in which Malaysia enjoyed sufficient stability and tranquility for developmental schemes to be carried out.