David C Hawkes

Over the last 20 years, the concept of 'economic' activity has come to seem inseparable from psychological, semiotic and ideological experiences. In fact, the notion of the 'economy' as a discrete area of life seems increasingly implausible. This returns us to the situation of Shakespeare's England,...

John Milton poet, polemicist, public servant, and author of one of the greatest masterpieces in English literature, Paradise Lost is revered today as a great writer and a proponent of free speech. In his time, however, his ideas far exceeded the orthodoxy of English life; spurred by his conscience a...

The Story of the Stone(c. 1760), also known by the title ofThe Dream of the Red Chamber, is the great novel of manners in Chinese literature. "The Story of the Stone" (c. 1760), also known as "The Dream of the Red Chamber", is one of the greatest novels of Chinese literature. The fifth part of Cao X...

The Story of the Stone(c. 1760), also known by the title ofThe Dream of the Red Chamber, is the great novel of manners in Chinese literature.Divided into five volumes, of whichThe Warning Voiceis the third, it charts the glory and decline of the illustrious Jia family (a story which closely accords ...

Masterworks of early Chinese poetryDating from the second century AD, this anthology is the second- oldest collection of Chinese poems in existence. The poems, originating from the state of Chu and rooted in Shamanism, are grouped under seventeen titles and contain all that we know of Chinese poetry...

The deepest and most varied of the Tang Dynasty poets, Tu Fu (Du Fu) is, in the words of David Hinton, the “first complete poetic sensibility in Chinese literature.” Tu Fu merged the public and the private, often in the same poem, as his subjects ranged from the horrors of war to the delights of fri...

The Story of the Stone(c. 1760), also known by the title ofThe Dream of the Red Chamber, is the great novel of manners in Chinese literature. Divided into five volumes,The Story of the Stonecharts the glory and decline of the illustrious Jia family. This novel re-creates the ritualized hurly-burly o...