According to the hypothesis proposed by Karl Jaspers, "the axial period" is supposed to range from the eighth century BC to the second...

Lao Zi, as a Daoist philosopher, is attracting more and more attention and interest both in the East and the West. Accordingly his book enjoys a...

Dao De Jing(The Book of Lao Zi)is widly read and celebrated as a Daoist classic. It is full of aphorisms that display the orginality of Lao Zi's...

This book looks into some highlights of　Chinese poetics from a historical and　transcultural perspective. It carries out　an in-depth discussion of su...

In order to facilitate a more fruitful reading of the classic, a new approach is thesefore recommended with due consideration of the reading habit in...

This book is intended to reconsider the ethosof Chinese culture against the status quo ot China and the world today, and with aparticular reference...

Lao Zi ( c. 580-500 B.C. ) and Confucius (551-479 B.C. ) have traditionally been regarded as the two most celebrated thinkers in the history of...