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My Journey in Mystic China: Old Pu's Travel Diary de John Blofeld

My Journey in Mystic China: Old Pu's Travel Diary

Autor John Blofeld Traducere de Daniel Reid
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 29 feb 2008
The only English translation of John Blofeld’s memoirs as a Westerner living in China prior to the Communist Revolution

• Paints an intimate portrait of the grace and refinement of ancient Chinese civilization

• Originally written in Chinese for Chinese readers, revealing a rare glimpse of Blofeld’s private Chinese side and uncensored views

• The last book by the great English sinologist, translator of the I Ching and author of Taoist Mystery and Magic

The reveries and remembrances contained in the travel diaries of John Blofeld cover every aspect of his life in China--from visits to opium dens and sing-song houses to sojourns in the Buddhist monasteries and Taoist hermitages of China’s sacred mountains. Here is a vivid glimpse of “old” China as it existed in elegance and grace for three thousand years before China’s Communist Revolution. Originally written in Chinese for a Chinese audience, Blofeld’s travel diary reveals a rare, uncensored view of pre-communist China to which few westerners have been exposed.
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ISBN-13: 9781594771576
ISBN-10: 159477157X
Pagini: 247
Dimensiuni: 159 x 233 x 25 mm
Greutate: 0.48 kg
Ediția:Us.
Editura: INNER TRADITIONS INTERNATIONAL

Notă biografică

John Blofeld (1913-1987) was an eminent sinologist and humanist who authored numerous books on Buddhism and Taoism, including The Zen Teachings of Huang Po, Taoist Mystery and Magic, and a translation of the I Ching, the Book of Changes. He lived in China from 1932 until 1949 when the Communist Revolution forced him to relocate to Thailand, where he remained for the rest of his life. Daniel Reid, translator, met and became close friends with Blofeld at his home in Bang-kok during the last year of his life. After Blofeld’s death, Reid lived and worked in Blofeld’s own study translating this, his last work, into English.

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"The book reads like a charming account from a long-forgotten era, and that is precisely what it is. Blofeld gives a detailed and scintillating portrait of ancient China, still extant when he lived there--a culture that was highly stratified and regimented, and included the virtues of always welcoming 'guests from afar' such as Blofeld himself, who made a comfortable niche for himself by being the perfect visitor."--Curled Up with a Good Book, June 2008

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MEMOIR / CHINA"This is John Blofeld's intimate and heartfelt personal account of a life spent in the old China we have all heard and dreamt about, but which is gone forever. As such it should be savored as a first-class treasure, for it is like a long-lost gem recovered for the world to appreciate. What makes John Blofeld's memoir so uniquely special is the man himself, who, as international traveler, sinologist, translator, and scholar embodied the perfect balance of Yin and Yang; an ideal synthesis of the meeting of East and West."--Chungliang Al Huang, author of Embrace Tiger, Return To Mountain and founder of the Living Tao Foundation

"The discovery of a missing manuscript of Mozart could not bring greater joy than John Blofeld's memoir of his journey through a China that is barely visible nowadays but brought to life once more in this most welcome translation. To read this book is to travel again with this marvelous man on the path he walked so well: the path of the translator, the path of the pilgrim, the path of a stranger in a strange land. The bodhisattvas must be singing."--Bill Porter (Red Pine), translator and editor of The Collected Songs of Cold MountainThe reveries and remembrances contained in the travel diaries of English-born John Blofeld cover every aspect of his life in China. Perhaps best known for his translation of the I Ching, the Book of Change, this renowned scholar and prolific author spent over fifteen years of his adult life during the 1930s and '40s traveling the country and immersing himself in its incredibly rich culture. His favorite city was Peking, and his eloquent discourses on the wonders of this ancient city include riveting experiences of its opium dens and singsong houses. Believing from an early age that he had a preordained link with China, John Blofeld was fascinated with its cultural past and developed a deep understanding of its three great philosophies--Confucianism, Taoism, and Buddhism. He became a devout Buddhist whose journeys throughout the country included sojourns in the Buddhist monasteries and Taoist hermitages of the country's sacred mountains, where he often studied with spiritual masters and received their sacred teachings. He also visited Guilin, Yulin, Chufu, and Chusien as well as many remote villages where no foreigner had ever traveled before.Here is a vivid glimpse of "old" China as it existed in elegance and grace for three thousand years before the Communist Revolution. Originally written in Chinese for a Chinese audience, Blofeld's travel diary reveals a beautiful, rare, and uncensored view of pre-communist China to which few Westerners have been exposed.JOHN BLOFELD (1913-1987) was an eminent sinologist and humanist who authored numerous books on Buddhism and Taoism, including The Zen Teachings of Huang Po and Taoist Mystery and Magic. As a speaker of Chinese and master of that language, he brought a unique interpretation to his translation of the I Ching, the Book of Change, one of the seminal translations of this work in the twentieth century. He lived in China from 1932 until 1949, when the Communist Revolution forced him to relocate to Thailand, where he remained for the rest of his life. DANIEL REID, translator, met and became close friends with Blofeld at his home in Bangkok during the last year of his life. After his death, Reid lived and worked in Blofeld's own study translating this, Blofeld's last work, into English.

Cuprins


Translator's Preface: A Friend from Afar

A Note on the Translation

Translator's Introduction: The Wheel of Life

Foreword by Huang Li-sung: My Lifelong Friendship with John Blofeld

Foreword by Chungliang Al Huang: Old Pu's Travel Diary


Author's Preface: My Ideal Shangri-la

1 My Preordained Destiny to Tread the Land of the Dragon

2 The Place I Love Most of All--Peking

3 Roaming the Famous Mountains and Monasteries of Northern China

4 Studying Zen and Seeking the Tao While Wandering in the Southwest

5 Travels in Szechuan on My Second Sojourn in China

6 Exotic Encounters in Southern China

7 Souls from Distant Lands Fulfill Their Distant Destinies

Descriere

This translation of John Blofeld's memoirs as a Westerner living in pre-Communist Revolution China paints an intimate portrait of ancient Chinese civilization. Originally written in Chinese for Chinese readers, Blofeld's travel diary reveals a rare uncensored view of the culture of "old" China.