Nonfiction - Asian Reads
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Zhu Xi: Basic Teachings
PaperbackOriginal price $30.00 - Original price $30.00Original price $30.00$43.99$43.99 - $43.99Current price $43.99| /Zhu Xi (1130–1200) was the preeminent Confucian thinker of the Song dynasty (960–1279). His teachings profoundly influenced China, where for cent...
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Han Fei Tzu: Basic Writings / Edition 1
PaperbackOriginal price $27.00 - Original price $27.00Original price $27.00$40.99$40.99 - $40.99Current price $40.99| /Representative of the Fachia, or Legalist, school of philosophy, the writings of Han Fei Tzu (280?-233 B.C.) confront the issues of preserving an...
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Xunzi: Basic Writings / Edition 1
PaperbackOriginal price $28.00 - Original price $28.00Original price $28.00$41.99$41.99 - $41.99Current price $41.99| /Xunzi asserted that the original nature of man is evil, differing on this point from Mencius, his famous predecessor in the Confucian school. In ...
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Chinese Visions of World Order: Tianxia, Culture, and World Politics
PaperbackOriginal price $29.95 - Original price $29.95Original price $29.95$41.99$41.99 - $41.99Current price $41.99| /The Confucian doctrine of tianxia (all under heaven) outlines a unitary worldview that cherishes global justice and transcends social, geographic...
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Mo Tzu: Basic Writings / Edition 1
PaperbackOriginal price $27.00 - Original price $27.00Original price $27.00$40.99$40.99 - $40.99Current price $40.99| /The thoughts and writings of this important fifth century B.C. political and social thinker - and formidable rival of the Confucianists - are pre...
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Han Feizi: Basic Writings / Edition 1
PaperbackOriginal price $26.00 - Original price $26.00Original price $26.00$38.99$38.99 - $38.99Current price $38.99| /Trenchant, sophisticated, and cynical, Han Feizi has been read in every age and is still of interest today when people are more than ever concern...
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Darsan: Seeing the Divine Image in India / Edition 3
PaperbackOriginal price $22.00 - Original price $22.00Original price $22.00$30.99$30.99 - $30.99Current price $30.99| /The role of the visual is essential to Hindu tradition and culture, but many attempts to understand India's divine images have been laden with mi...
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Zhuangzi: Basic Writings / Edition 1
PaperbackOriginal price $28.00 - Original price $28.00Original price $28.00$41.99$41.99 - $41.99Current price $41.99| /Only by inhabiting Dao (the Way of Nature) and dwelling in its unity can humankind achieve true happiness and freedom, in both life and death. Th...
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Thinking Through Confucius / Edition 1
PaperbackOriginal price $37.95 - Original price $37.95Original price $37.95$50.99$50.99 - $50.99Current price $50.99| /Thinking Through Confucius critically interprets the conceptual structure underlying Confucius' philosophical reflections. It also investigates "...
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The Complete Works of Zhuangzi
HardcoverOriginal price $75.00 - Original price $75.00Original price $75.00$95.99$95.99 - $95.99Current price $95.99| /Only by inhabiting Dao (the Way of Nature) and dwelling in its unity can humankind achieve true happiness and freedom, in both life and death. Th...
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The Art of War (Chiron Academic Press - The Original Authoritative Edition)
PaperbackOriginal price $7.30 - Original price $7.30Original price $7.30$11.99$11.99 - $11.99Current price $11.99| /THE ART OF WAR (Chinese: 孫子兵法; pinyin: Sūnzĭ bīngfǎ) is an ancient Chinese military treatise attributed to Sun Tzu, a high-ranking military general...
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The Emergence of Word-Meaning in Early China: Normative Models for Words
PaperbackOriginal price $34.95 - Original price $34.95Original price $34.95$47.99$47.99 - $47.99Current price $47.99| /Jane Geaney is Professor of Religious Studies at the University of Richmond. She is the author of Language as Bodily Practice in Early China: A Chi...
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Self-Cultivation in Early China
PaperbackOriginal price $36.95 - Original price $36.95Original price $36.95$49.99$49.99 - $49.99Current price $49.99| /An introduction to ancient Chinese ideas on how to live a good life.Product DetailsISBN-13: 9781438488349 Media Type: Paperback Publisher: State Un...
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Daoism in Modern China: Clerics and Temples in Urban Transformations,1860-Present
PaperbackOriginal price $48.95 - Original price $48.95Original price $48.95$65.99$65.99 - $65.99Current price $65.99| /This book questions whether temples and Daoism are two independent aspects of modern Chinese religion or if they are indissolubly linked. It presen...
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The Many Lives of Yang Zhu: A Historical Overview
PaperbackOriginal price $36.95 - Original price $36.95Original price $36.95$49.99$49.99 - $49.99Current price $49.99| /Presents the most important portrayals of the Daoist master Yang Zhu throughout Chinese history, from the Warring States period until today.Product...
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Modern Chinese Counter-Enlightenment: Affect, Reason, and the Transcultural Lexicon
HardcoverOriginal price $38.00 - Original price $38.00Original price $38.00$52.99$52.99 - $52.99Current price $52.99| /In Modern Chinese Counter-Enlightenment: Affect, Reason, and the Transcultural Lexicon, Peng Hsiao-yen argues that a trend of Counter-Enlightenment...
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The History of Chinese Philosophy Book 1
PaperbackOriginal price $19.99 - Original price $19.99Original price $19.99$25.99$25.99 - $25.99Current price $25.99| /This volume of the China History Podcast takes us from the early days of Chinese philosophy more than 2,000 years ago, through to the Neo-Confucian...
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The History of Chinese Philosophy Book 2
PaperbackOriginal price $19.99 - Original price $19.99Original price $19.99$23.99$23.99 - $23.99Current price $23.99| /Laszlo Montgomery's award-winning podcasts on Chinese history have swept the world and gained many thousands of fans, including people who want to ...
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Kintsugi: Poems of Hope & Healing
PaperbackOriginal price $19.95 - Original price $19.95Original price $19.95$23.99$23.99 - $23.99Current price $23.99| /The art and philosophy of kintsugi which means "golden joinery," teaches us that even if we have survived illness and difficult times such as the p...
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Confucian Iconoclasm: Textual Authority, Modern Confucianism, and the Politics of Antitradition in Republican China
HardcoverOriginal price $99.00 - Original price $99.00Original price $99.00$117.99$117.99 - $117.99Current price $117.99| /Challenges deep-seated assumptions about the traditionalist nature of Confucianism by providing a new interpretation of the emergence of modern Con...
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Autobiography: The Story of My Experiments with Truth
PaperbackOriginal price $19.95Original price $19.95 - Original price $19.95Original price $19.95Current price $18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /"My purpose," Mahatma Gandhi writes of this book, "is to describe experiments in the science of Satyagraha, not to say how good I am." Satyagraha...
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Neurotic Beauty: An Outsider Looks at Japan
PaperbackOriginal price $27.50Original price $27.50 - Original price $27.50Original price $27.50Current price $25.99$25.99 - $25.99Current price $25.99| /Neurotic Beauty is a remarkable reevaluation of Japan's role in the modern world. It includes a new assessment of the events leading up to the drop...
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The Lone Samurai: The Life of Miyamoto Musashi
PaperbackOriginal price $22.95Original price $22.95 - Original price $22.95Original price $22.95Current price $20.99$20.99 - $20.99Current price $20.99| /An expert on samurai history paints a vivid, multi-faceted portrait of feudal Japan and Miyamoto Musashi--the legendary swordsman who wrote the cla...
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The Four Chinese Classics: Tao Te Ching, Chuang Tzu, Analects, Mencius
PaperbackOriginal price $24.95Original price $24.95 - Original price $24.95Original price $24.95Current price $22.99$22.99 - $22.99Current price $22.99| /Four seminal masterworks of Chinese thought--the Tao Te Ching, the Analects, the Chuang Tzu, and the Mencius--presented in one volume for the first...
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