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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...
Tao of the Westby J.J. Clarke
Routledge 2000; US$ 39.95In this book J.J Clarke shows us how Taoist texts, ideas and practices have been assimilated within a whole range of Western ideas and agendas. A fascinating introduction to Taoism and the history of the West's encounter with it. more...
Place and Spirit in Taiwanby Alessandro Dell'Orto
RoutledgeCurzon 2002; US$ 195.00Based on field-work in Taiwan, this book examines the cult of Tudi Gong both as a religio-social phenomenon and as an appropriate medium for exploring and analysing the social changes that have been occurring in contemporary Taiwan. 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RoutledgeCurzon 2001; US$ 64.95Stephan Feuchtwang has brought together unpublished as well as published results of his own and other anthropologists' fieldwork in the People's Republic of China and Taiwan and put them into an historical,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...
Taoismby Norman J. Giradot; Russell Kirkland
Routledge 2004; US$ 36.95This concise and reliable introduction to Taoism (also known as Daoism) brings a fresh dimension to a tradition that has found a natural place in Western societies. 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...