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Musings of a Chinese Mystic. E-book. Formato PDF
Lionel Giles
edizioni Forgotten Books collana , 2017
If Lao Tzii then had revolted against the growing artificiality of life in his day, a return to nature must have seemed doubly imperative to his disciple Chuang Tzii, who ?ourished more than a couple of centuries later, when the bugbear of civilisation had steadily advanced. With chagrin he saw that Lao Tzii's teaching...
Ch'iu Chin: A Chinese Heroine. E-book. Formato PDF
Lionel Giles
edizioni Forgotten Books collana , 2017
Contending in beauty with their three-mob feet and slender bodies, light enough to ?it over the waves, The gentle swaying of their willow waists reminding one of the ?ight of a swallow.
Taoist Teachings From the Book of Lieh Tzü: Translated From the Chinese, With Introduction and Notes. E-book. Formato PDF
Lionel Giles
edizioni Forgotten Books collana , 2017
Condensed into a single phrase, the injunction of Lao Tzu to mankind is, Follow Nature. This Is a good practical equivalent for the Chinese expression, Get hold of Tao, although Tao does not exactly correspond to the word Nature, as Ordinarily used by us to denote the sum of phenomena in this ever-changing universe....
The Sayings of Lao Tzu. E-book. Formato PDF
Lionel Giles
edizioni Forgotten Books collana , 2017
The mention of this Classic, or Treatise of the Way and of Virtue (as it may be translated for want of better English equivalents), brings us naturally to the vexed question as to whether the text which has come down to us can really be attributed to the'hand of Lao Tzii, or whether it is not rather a garbled and unauthorised...
Sun Tzu on the Art of War: The Oldest Military Treatise in the World; Translated From the Chinese With Introduction, and Critical Notes. E-book. Formato PDF
Lionel Giles
edizioni Forgotten Books collana , 2017
Wu. Ho Lu said to him: I have carefully perused your 13 chapters. May I submit your theory of managing soldiers to a slight test? Sun ti replied: You may. Ho Lu asked: May the test be applied to women? The answer was again in the affirmative, so arrangements were made to bring 180 ladies out of the Palace. Sun Tzu...