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_aSterckx, Roel, _d1969- _eauthor. |
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_aWays of heaven : _ban introduction to Chinese thought / _cRoel Sterckx. |
250 | _aFirst US edition. | ||
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_aNew York : _bBasic Books, _c2019. |
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_axv, 481 pages : _billustrations, maps ; _c25 cm |
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505 | 0 | _aChina in time and space -- The way (Dao) and its ways -- The art of government -- The individual and the collective -- Behaving ritually -- Spirits and ancestors -- The world of nature -- Work and wealth -- Food for thought. | |
520 | _a"A brilliant history of ancient China's masters of philosophy -- and how they help us understand China today. In Ways 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 the dao, qi, yin, and yang, 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 Heaven shows that to comprehend China today we must learn to think Chinese."--Publisher's website. | ||
504 | _aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 435-449) and index. | ||
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_aChina _xHistory. |
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_aChina _xCivilization. |
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650 | 0 | _aPhilosophy, Chinese. | |
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