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In this pamphlet, Jean Levi refutes the thesis of Confucius's non-existence, in vogue among Sinologists across the pond, that joins a general tendency of de-realisation of reality and echoes a ludicrous Sino-American rivalry for pseudo world hegemony.

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Spring. Florence. Giacomo's palazzo. Mark is invited to decipher some archival material. A young man's confession in 1957 recalls Mark's father-in-law, who has remained an enigma. How does one live with grief unspoken and walls unfallen? Can one forgive the unforgivable?

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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.

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Olivier returns from New York to Paris to find his sister Constance in pieces. Trying to fulfil his brotherly duty, he discovers a world beyond his imagination. What has an ancient diagram got to do with it all? Why is colour a metaphor for our existence? Why is divination a science?

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In this enigmatic novella, one hears of the life of a litterateur before, during and after the Great Revolution. The Reform of Peking Opera was awarded the Prix Decembre in 2013. Mael Renouard is a French writer, Prix Goncourt finalist.

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Fou Lei (1908-1966) is modern China's most renowned critic-translator. This biography is a revelation of his formative years in Europe between the Wars, and an investigation of his existential struggles between Revolutions. Other than minor corrections, this edition is identical to the Brill version (2017; 2020), discontinued since 2022.

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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.

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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 the 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 literatures.

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In this enigmatic novella, one hears of the life of a litterateur before, during and after the Great Revolution. The Reform of Peking Opera was awarded the Prix Decembre in 2013. Mael Renouard is a French writer, Prix Goncourt finalist.

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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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‘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 Décembre in 2013. This work is translated from the French, La réforme de l’opéra de Pékin (Payot & Rivages, Paris, 2013).

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Ce pamphlet s'emploie a refuter la these de l'inexistence de Confucius, fort en vogue chez les sinologues d'outre-Atlantique ; et a critiquer ces travaux qui ont recours aux memes arguments que les negationnistes et qui sont le contrecoup un peu derisoire de la rivalite entre les deux puissances, Chine et Amerique.

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A painter and writer, Mu Xin (1927–2011) received his artistic education in cosmopolitan Shanghai. During the Chinese Civil War, he fled to Taiwan; at the war’s conclusion, he returned to the mainland. Having survived persecution at home, for two decades he lived in New York, and resettled in his hometown, Wuzhen, at the end of his life. In old age, a reclusive Mu Xin enjoyed literary renown in the Sinophone sphere. Of his oeuvre, he was most content with his poetry. Toward Bravery, selected and translated by Mingyuan Hu, is the first collection of Mu Xin’s poetry to appear in English. Published in 2017, it is reissued in 2022 in a bilingual format.

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Une fine pluie tombe sur une grande ville. Une nuit. Un homme rend visite à une femme. Elle lui fait du thé. Dans cette exquise nouvelle, l’une des premières de Chi Li, aujourd’hui l’une des plus lues en Chine, nous sommes face à un mystère. Un mystère du cœur humain, où tout se comprend sans rien révéler. Shao Baoqing enseigne à l’université Bordeaux Montaigne. Depuis trois décennies, il traduit Chi Li et Chen Zhongshi, ainsi que Théophile Gautier.

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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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