Arthur Waley

02 Mar 2004 19:26

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British poet and scholar, best known, and rightly so, for his translations from the Chinese.

Recommended:
• Ivan Morris (ed.), Madly Singing in the Mountains; an Appreciation and Anthology of Arthur Waley
• AW (original, translations or mixed):
  • The Analects of Confucius
  • The Book of Songs
  • Chinese Poems
  • Li Po
  • The No Plays of Japan
  • Travels of an Alchemist: the Journey of the Taoist, Ch'ang-Ch'un, from China to the Hindu Kush at the Summons of Chingiz KhanThree Ways of Thought in Ancient China
  • The Way and Its Power: A Study of the Tao Te Ching and Its Place in Chinese Thought
  • Yuan Mei

To read:
• Ballads and Stories from Tun-huang
• Monkey
• The Opium War Through Chinese Eyes