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Cha Jing (茶經, “tea canon”) is the first ever treatise on tea and tea drinking, created during the Chinese Tang Dynasty (3rd quarter of the 8th century) by th...

A 12th-century Japanese romance novel about a girl with an unusual outlook on life.

Hokku is one of the national poetic forms in Japan. It is a tercet, which became a serious genre at the beginning of the 16th century. This collection consis...

The collection presents selected sayings and aphorisms of the great Chinese thinker.

Publisher's abstract: The work of Saigyo, who lived in the bloody era of the formation of military feudalism in Japan, is characterized by motifs of grief. P...

The Classic Guide To Strategy

...In the East it was not customary to erect monuments, especially to women. But Mehseti Ganjavi erected a monument to herself with immortal quatrains...

Abu Bakr Ar-Razi (865-925) great Persian-Tajik scientist-encyclopedist, doctor and philosopher, rationalist and freethinker. Razi's works were translated int...

HOJOKI (“Notes from a Cell”) is one of the literary and philosophical monuments of Japan. Dated 1212. “Notes” appeared before the reader in the form of a kin...

“When I have no news from there, Again I die with a grieving soul, I don’t see consolation and joy anywhere, And tears run like pearls down my beard...”

The ancient Chinese erotological treatise, originally compiled during the Six Dynasties (265–589) and restored at the beginning of the 20th century from surv...