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Ways of Heaven: An Introduction to Chinese Thought

Autor Roel Sterckx
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 16 sep 2019
A brilliant history of ancient China's masters of philosophy -- and how they help us understand China today

InWays of Heaven, leading China scholar Roel Sterckx offers an engrossing introduction to classical China's world of ideas. Drawing on evocative examples from philosophical texts, literature, and everyday life over centuries of Chinese history, Sterckx introduces major thinkers and traditions, illuminates key concepts like thedao,qi,yin, andyang, and examines questions of leadership, social order, death, nature, and more. He also reveals how these ideas shape contemporary China, from table manners at a traditional banquet, to the Chinese obsession with education and family, to the rhetoric of political leaders and the nation's grand strategy.

Essential reading for students, travelers, businesspeople, and anyone curious about this rising global power,Ways of Heavenshows that to comprehend China today we must learn to think Chinese.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781541618442
ISBN-10: 1541618440
Pagini: 512
Dimensiuni: 163 x 243 x 46 mm
Greutate: 0.76 kg
Editura: BASIC BOOKS
Colecția Basic Books

Notă biografică

Roel Sterckxis Joseph Needham Professor of Chinese History, Science, and Civilization at the University of Cambridge and Fellow of Clare College. The author of several books on early China, he lives in Cambridge, England.