the official pub. date of AN ACCOUNT OF MARVELS AND BEASTS (tr. Maxwell Massa) is in a week, but the book is in Seattle & orders began shipping this wk
at 356pp + with hundreds of notes, this is a monumental work of scholarship & translation.
preview it at the link below:
Jacob Siefring
“What would please this Jingbo would be to descend the mountain on a stout horse in fine attire, then give my ear to melody and indulge in sensual delights, wandering between Chang’an and Luoyang.”
Niu Sengru (c. 780–848; Tang dyn.), tr. Max Massa
out on May 15
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