William Theodore de Bary

Five Women Who Loved Love: Amorous Tales from 17th-Century Japan

"Five charming novellas...which have astonishing freshness, color, and warmth." The New YorkerFirst published in 1686, this collection of five novellas was an immediate bestseller in the bawdy world that was Genroku Japan, and the book's popularity has in

Sources of Chinese Tradition, Vol 1: From Earliest Times to 1600

A collection of seminal primary readings on the social, intellectual, and religious traditions of China, "Sources of Chinese Tradition, Volume 1" has been widely used and praised for almost forty years as an authoritative resource for scholars and student

Sources of Indian Tradition: From the Beginning to 1800

Since 1958 Sources of Indian Tradition has been one of the most important and widely used texts on civilization in South Asia (now the nation-sates of India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, and Nepal). It has helped generations of students and lay reader

Sources of Japanese Tradition (Volume I)

Volume 1 addresses the development, through the eighteenth century, of Shinto, Buddhism, and Confucianism.