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Author
Publisher
Hampton Roads Publishing Company, Inc
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
When I was a boy, I didn't get specific lessons on how to live. I got stories. If I asked why I had to believe some concept, a person like my grandmother might reply with something like, "This is the true because of what happened to the Yellow Emperor," and then the story would follow. What intrigues me is that this habit hasn't changed even after China's revolution, rapid modernization, digital technology, and global culture. People still say, "It's...
Author
Publisher
Wapner & Brent Books, a publishing project of the Institute for Publishing Arts, Inc
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
This new translation of the Chinese classic and foundation text of Daoism integrates the manuscript discoveries of the last 30 years, introducing a fundamentally different view of the nature of the Dao. Michael Puett, the Walter C. Klein Professor of Chinese History and Chair of the Committee on the Study of Religion at Harvard University, calls this translation "an excellent translation of one of the most important texts from the Chinese philosophical...
Author
Series
Publisher
Edaf Antillas
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
Español
Description
El I Ching (Libro del Cambio) es considerado el mas antiguo de los clasicos chinos, y durante toda la historia de China ha obtenido un prestigio y popularidad insuperables. Conteniendo varias capas de texto y numerosos niveles de interpretacion, el I Ching ha sido venerado por mas de tres mil anos como un oraculo de la fortuna, una guia para el exito y una fuente de sabiduria. El tema subyacente del texto es el cambio, y como esta fuerza fundamental...
Author
Publisher
Quality Paperback Book Club
Pub. Date
1998.
Language
English
Description
This classic collection of spiritual insights and observations embodies the search for a way to live based not on arbitrary rules of morality but on acheiving harmony with all things. Taoism explains the world in terms of contemplation, meditation, acceptance, and reconciliation, in striking imagery that penetrates the heart.
Author
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
2007.
Language
English
Description
"For more than 2,000 years, Confucius has been an inseparable part of China's history. Yet despite this fame, Confusius the man has been elusive. In this book the author has worked through the most reliable Chinese texts on her quest to sort out what is really known about Confucius from the reconstructions and guesswork that muddled his memory. Here the author illuminates the political and social climate in which Confucius lived. She explains how...