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Sixth printing. Edited, with an introduction, notes, and vocabulary by Maurice W. Mather and Joseph William Hewitt. Softcover volume, measuring approximately 5.25" x 7.75", shows crease to front cover. Book otherwise displays light shelfwear. Binding is sound. Pages are clean and bright. 516 pages."Born in the latter half of the fifth century B.C. near Athens, Xenophon enjoyed the best of educational and social advantages and for a time was a pupil and friend of Socrates. In 401 B.C., however, he was led by promises of adventure and fortune to join the ill-fated expedition of Cyrus against his brother, Artaxerxes the Second of Persia. After Cyrus lost his life and the other officers were murdered, Xenophon became one of the leading spirits of the army, eventually exacting revenge on the Persians, then retiring to Scillus, in Elis, to a life of sporting and literary activity. It was there that he composed the Anabasis, or "Up-Country March," a painstaking but brightly written account of the… Read More

Cornell East Asia series, 194. Translation, with an introduction, by Christopher G. Rea. Hardcover volume, measuring approximately 6.25" x 9.5", is new. Textual illustrations.Introduces the imagination of Xu Zhuodai (1880-1958), a comic dynamo who made Shanghai laugh through the tumultuous decades of the pre-Mao era. China's Chaplin contains a selection of Xu's best stories and stage plays (plus a smattering of jokes). vi/263 pages.

Volume, measuring approximately 6.5" x 9.5", is bound in black cloth, with stamped gilt lettering to spine. Book and dust jacket are like new. Jacket is preserved in mylar cover. x/220 pages."Has China in the 1980s gone through a phase of "youth rebellion" comparable with that represented in films such as "Rebel Without a Cause" (1954), "Look Back in Anger" (1959) or "Easy Rider" (1969)? The present study is an attempt to look for evidence in the "youth-rebellion" films produced over that period of time that may help to answer the question. In the last twenty years of the twentieth century, the People's Republic of China underwent profound transformations, of which the changing situation of youth was particularly striking. In a society that has traditionally assumed respect for age, the prominence of youth and their new autonomy were conspicuous. A young generation born on the eve of and growing up during the Cultural Revolution (1966–1976) came to depart from the established social norms by the… Read More