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Item Details
Title:
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VEGETABLE ROOTS DISCOURSE
WISDOM FROM MING CHINA ON LIFE AND LIVING |
By: |
Robert Aitken |
Format: |
Hardback |
List price:
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£17.99 |
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ISBN 10: |
1593760914 |
ISBN 13: |
9781593760915 |
Publisher: |
INGRAM PUBLISHER SERVICES US |
Pub. date: |
11 January, 2006 |
Pages: |
224 |
Language: |
Chinese, English |
Description: |
Written 400 years ago, by a scholar in the Ming Dynasty, "The Caigentan" or "Vegetable Roots" has been a fundamental literary guide for hundreds of years, outlining Asian philosophy. This edition, translated by Robert Aitken and Daniel W.Y. Kwok, contains 360 observations of life: its exaggerations, absurdities, grotesqueries, and falsities. Terse, humorous, witty, and timely, these Taoist, Buddhist, and Confucianist epigrams provide fundamental principles of life. Though often strict, puritan, and tough to live by, they provide the foundation for the art of living. Pocket-sized and agreeing seamlessly with the impulses of all ages, this discourse is read as a set of philosophical notions on personal development for all types. |
Synopsis: |
Written 400 years ago, by a scholar in the Ming Dynasty, The Caigentan or Vegetable Roots has been a fundamental literary guide for hundreds of years, outlining Asian philosophy. This edition, translated by Robert Aitken and Daniel W.Y. Kwok, contains 360 observations of life: its exaggerations, absurdities, grotesqueries, and falsities. Terse, humorous, witty, and timely, these Taoist, Buddhist, and Confucianist epigrams provide fundamental principles of life. Though often strict, puritan, and tough to live by, they provide the foundation for the art of living. Pocket-sized and agreeing seamlessly with the impulses of all ages, this discourse is read as a set of philosophical notions on personal development for all types. |
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US |
Imprint: |
Basic Civitas Books |
Returns: |
Non-returnable |
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