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Tao Te Chingby Lao-Tzu; Stephen Addiss; Stanley Lombardo
Hackett Publishing Company, Inc. 1993; US$ 8.95This translation captures the terse and enigmatic beauty of the ancient original and resists the tendency toward interpretive paraphrase found in many other editions. Along with the complete translation, Lombardo and Addiss provide one or more key lines from the original Chinese for each of the eighty-one sections, together with a transliteration of the Chinese characters and a glossary commenting on the pronunciation and meaning of each Chinese character displayed. This greatly enhances the reader's appreciation of how the Chinese text works and feels and the different ways it can be translated into English. "This crystalline translation of the Tao Te Ching is accurate down to the nuance and as concisely poetic as the original. It... more...
Linguistic Strategies in Daoist Zhuangzi and Chan Buddhismby Youru Wang
RoutledgeCurzon 2003; US$ 180.00Whilst focusing on language use, the study reveals some important truths about Daoist Zhuangzi and Chan Buddhism and challenges many conventional understandings of them. more...
Daoism in Historyby Benjamin Penny
RoutledgeCurzon 2005; US$ 170.00Daoism in History brings together essays by some of the leading scholars from Australia, Hong Kong, Japan, the UK, France, Italy and the US, thus presenting new and important research in the field. more...
Popular Religion in Chinaby Stephan Feuchtwang
RoutledgeCurzon 2001; US$ 64.95Stephan Feuchtwang has brought together unpublished as well as published results of his own and other anthropologists' fieldwork in the People's Republic of China and Taiwan and put them into an historical, political and theoretical context. more...
Geology & Mineralogy, Considered with Reference to Naturalby William Buckland
Routledge 2003; US$ 340.00Moving away from his earlier belief in a short, catastrophic history of the Earth, Buckland's Treatise envisages instead progressive change as the Earth gradually cooled as it was prepared for human occupation. more...
Encyclopedia of Taoismby Fabrizio Pregadio
Routledge 2005; US$ 315.00This encyclopedia provides an overview of Taoist history, thought, and religion with 1750 cross-referenced entries and bibliographical data. No other work of this kind on Taoism is available in a western language. more...
An Introduction to Confucianismby Xinzhong Yao
Cambridge University Press 2000; US$ 30.00Taking into account the history and range of Confucian Studies, this book introduces Confucianism - initiated in China by Confucius (551 BC-479 BC) - primarily as a philosophical and religious tradition. It draws together the many strands of Confucianism in a style accessible to students, teachers, and general readers. more...
Dao De Jingby Laozi; Moss Roberts
University of California Press 2001; US$ 24.95Dao De Jing is one of the richest, most suggestive, and most popular works of philosophy and literature. Composed in China between the late sixth and the late fourth centuries b.c., its enigmatic verses have inspired artists, philosophers, poets, religious thinkers, and general readers down to our own times. This new translation, both revelatory and authentic, captures much of the beauty and nuance of the original work. In an extensive and accessible commentary to his translation, Moss Roberts reveals new depths of Dao De Jing. This edition is distinguished by the literary quality of the translation, its new renderings for a number of the stanzas, and by Roberts's knowledgeable contextualizations. Utilizing recently discovered manuscripts... more...
The Sinister Wayby Richard von Glahn
University of California Press 2004; US$ 65.00The most striking feature of Wutong, the preeminent God of Wealth in late imperial China, was the deity's diabolical character. Wutong was perceived not as a heroic figure or paragon of noble qualities but rather as an embodiment of humanity's basest vices, greed and lust, a maleficent demon who preyed on the weak and vulnerable. In The Sinister Way, Richard von Glahn examines the emergence and evolution of the Wutong cult within the larger framework of the historical development of Chinese popular or vernacular religion?as opposed to institutional religions such as Buddhism or Daoism. Von Glahn's study, spanning three millennia, gives due recognition to the morally ambivalent and demonic aspects of divine power within the common Chinese... more...
Popular religious movements and heterodox sects in Chinese historyby H. Seiwert
BRILL 2003; US$ 182.00This work surveys the history of popular religious sects in Chinese history. It covers the formation of the notions of orthodoxy and heterodoxy in the contexts of Confucianism, Daoism, and Buddhism. It also deals with each new religious movements, its teachings, scriptures, and social organization. more...