homepage | worldcat | academia |

Tony Blishen lived and worked in Beijing in the mid 60s. He has been translating for the Better Link Press for some years. Two of his translations from the Chinese of books dealing with Buddhism have been re-translated into Polish by Anna Zdziemborska.

Translations
~The Art of Attainment, The Art of Self Cultivation by Yang Tianwen (Better Link Press, 2012) -- Two collections of quotations assembled by a middle school teacher who feared the extinction of classical literature during the Cultural Revolution.
~Chinese Zen by Wu Yansheng (Better Link Press, 2013) -- An introduction to Zen Buddhism by the Director of Buddhist Studies at Shaanxi Normal University.
~Chinese Jade, the Spiritual and Cultural Significance of Jade in China by Gu Fang and Li Hongjuan (Better Link Press, 2013) -- A comprehensive exploration of jade and its history in China from Neolithic times to the Qing Dynasty.
~All the Tea in China by Wang Jian (Better Link Press, 2013) -- An historical anthology of writings about tea.
~The Power of Enlightenment, Chinese Zen Poems (Better Link Press, New York 2014) – 66 Zen poems chosen by Professor Wu Yansheng, Director of the Institute of Buddhist Studies at Shaanxi Normal University.
~The New Analects,Confucius Reconstructed by Qian Ning (Better Link Press, 2014) -- The Analects analysed and arranged logically.
~The Power of Enlightenment, Chinese Zen Poems by Wu Yansheng (Better Link Press, 2014) -- 60 Zen poems with a commentary. One of four books listed for the American University in Paris fall module 2019.
~No Sail on the Western Sea by Ma Yuan (Better Link Press, 2015) -- Two novellas about the Chinese experience in Tibet.
~A Journey to Inner Peace and Joy, Tracing Contemporary Chinese Hermits by Zhang Jianfeng (Better Link Press, 2015) -- A hermit's account of the search for fellow hermits in the Western Hills near Xi’an. Inspired by Bill Porter's 1989 Road to Heaven.
~Reading Chinese Painting, Beyond Forms and Colors by Sophia Sukmun Law (Better Link Press, 2016) -- By a professor at the Chinese University Hong Kong and expert on the Chinese painter (and forger supreme) Zhang Daqian.
~Aroma's Little Garden by Qin Wenjun (Better Link Press, 2016) -- A novel about childhood in the Shanghai of an uncertain past.
~An Illustrated Modern Reader of the Classic of Tea by Wu Juenong (Better Link Press, 2017) -- Wu Juenong was Vice-Minister of Agriculture and the major figure in the revival of the Chinese tea industry.
~Illustrated Myths and Legends of China by Huang Dehai et al (Better Link Press, 2018) -- Re-assembling folklore into a consistent historical and cultural whole.
~The Elegant Life of the Chinese Literati,Treatise on Superfluous Things by Wen Zhenheng (Better Link Press, 2019) -- First complete translation of an early 17th century manual on the philosophy and reality of good taste. To be published in Penguin Classics Aug 2026.
~The Art of Living, the Vegetable Roots Discourse – Hong Yingming (Better Link Press, 2020) -- Another Ming collection with commentary by Wu Yansheng.
~Building Inner Strength, The Chinese Philosophy of Wang Yangming's School of Mind by Wang Jueren (Better Link Press, 2022) -- Wang Yangming is Xi Jinping's favourite philosopher.
~The Way to Inner Peace, Finding the Essence of Dao Through the Sayings of Zhuangzi by Chen Yinchi (Better Link Press, 2023) -- Selection and commentary by Professor Chen of Fudan University.
~Memory and Oblivion by Wang Zhousheng (Better Link Press, 2025) -- A novel about the effect of Alzheimer's on a middle class family in near contemporary Shanghai.

Read Now: On Paper Republic