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Lessons in the Shanghai Dialect
A rare textbook on Shanghai dialect by Reverend F. L. H. Pott, an American missionary and educator who lived in China for more than 50 years…
The Analects of Confucius
The Analects gathers sayings and conversations associated with Confucius and his disciples, offering a portrait of a teacher concerned with …
US China Relations
University of Oxford Podcasts
Letter from China
This is a poignant and irreverent diary of the author's yearlong (2001-2) experience of teaching English to college students in Beijing, Peo…
A CHINAMAN ON OXFORD
In Orpheus in Mayfair and Other Stories and Sketches
In this urbane collection of short stories by Maurice Baring, characters ranging from legendary figures to schoolboys find themselves in ste…
The Chinese Nightingale
In The Chinese Nightingale and Other Poems
This is a collection of poems on various topics by Vachel Lindsay.Please note that the Booker T. Washington trilogy had to be omitted from t…
Told in China, by Elizabeth Flint Wade
In The Black Cat Vol. 03 No. 01 October 1897
The Black Cat (1895-1922) was a monthly literary magazine, publishing original short stories, often about uncanny or fantastical topics. Man…
Coming Down from Chung-nan by Li Po
In Gems of Chinese Verse
Translations of various Chinese poets' work. - Summary by KevinS
Denton (Cy) Young
In Baseball Ballads
Grantland Rice, was a sports journalist with several newspapers, although his Sportlights column, in the New York Tribune was what brought h…
China
In Verse and Worse
A collection of dark and humorous verse from "Col D. Streamer". This collection includes poems from The Baby's Baedeker, Perverted…
Invocation
In The Rainbow and the Rose
A collection of poetry in the whimsical style of Edith Nesbit, author of "The Five Children and It" and "The Railway Children…
Some Fiction; The Baffled Asian
In The Fiend's Delight
This book, the fiend’s delight, was published in 1873, during the lifetime of author Ambrose Bierce, 1842-1914, pseudonym Dod Grile.It is a …
Chinese
In Little Minnie, and Other Stories
This is a little book of very short stories or vignettes, about children and intended for children. Many of the stories reference the includ…
The Children of Lir
In Celtic Wonder-tales
Stories of might and main, romance and tragedy among the Tuatha DeDanaan with Brigit, Lir, Manannaun, Ethaun and others. Great ancient gods …
Nishi Hongwanji
In Selected Poems
Iris Barry was a British and American poet, novelist, film critic and curator at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City. These poems were…
Lice
In Tales Grotesque and Curious
Here collected are eleven of the over 200 stories that Ryūnosuke Akutagawa wrote during his all-too-brief lifetime and give a sample of the …