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 Décembre in 2013.
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.
Variously considered a Taoist and a cynic, Han Fei has been seen as a forerunner to Machiavelli. At the end of the Warring States, he was the brain and the plume of the Legalist School. From Han Fei's oeuvre, Mingyuan Hu selects and translates two extraits encapsulating his thinking.
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.
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.
An advocate of Confucian morality, Mencius exhorted ruling through virtue during the Warring States. 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.
The Annals of the Warring States records the School of Diplomacy at work during one of the most captivating times in Chinese history. Selected and translated by Mingyuan Hu, four dialogues make visible an astonishing relationship between politics and the intellect.
The writer and painter Mu Xin (1927-2011) enjoyed considerable 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.
