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The Book of Changes is an outstanding monument of Chinese and world culture and philosophical thought. More than half a century ago, “The Book of Changes” wa...

Chinese wisdom says that the basis of military success is the human factor - unbending perseverance and at the same time extraordinary sensitivity and vigila...

“Arranging Gardens” (in Chinese “Yuanye”, literally “Smelting Gardens”) is the first treatise on gardening art in the Chinese tradition. This is an amazing t...

The book publishes for the first time a Russian translation of the Manchu version of the dynastic chronicle “Liao Shi” - “Dailao Guruni Suduri” - the result ...

The book publishes for the first time a Russian translation of the Manchu version of “Anchun Gurun” - “The History of the Golden Empire” (1115–1234) - one of...

The poetry collection “Garden of Love” includes the immortal quatrains of Omar Khayyam, a classic of Persian poetry, a great philosopher, astronomer and math...

“The Tale of Genji” (“Genji-monogatari”), the greatest monument of Japanese and world literature, was created at the turn of the 10th-11th centuries, during ...

“The Tale of Genji” (“Genji-monogatari”), the greatest monument of Japanese and world literature, was created at the turn of the 10th-11th centuries, during ...

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.

This publication is the first publicly available collection of works by sinologist and ethnographer P. V. Shkurkin (1868–1943), one of the most famous orient...