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The Ten Thousand Year Calendar (Pocket Edition)
Portability is the Name of the Game Losing none of the essential information from the regular Ten Thousand Year Calendar, this mini-sized edition is an indispensable resource for students and practitioners on-the-go. Lugging around big volumes is simply no longer a must, as you can whip this essential reference anytime, anywhere. Handy, informative and convenient - all in your pocket.
THE COMPLETE WORKS OF BRAINPOWER; 智囊全集 ZHI NANG QUAN JI
Written by Feng Menglong 冯梦龙, the Complete Works of Brainpower (智囊全集, Zhi Nang Quan Ji) was first compiled in 1626 or the Sixth Year of Tianqi in Ming Dynasty. It contains more than 1200 stories of brainpower and intelligence from the Pre-Qin Dynasty to the Ming Dynasty. There are twenty-eight sub-categories of wisdom, sagacity, courage, tact, wisdom, language, military, boudoir and so on. This book records the history of creation and practice of Chinese wisdom. The characters in the book are all using wisdom and strategy to create history. It is not only a magic book reflecting the ancient people's ingenious use of wisdom to solve problems and overcome enemies, but also a huge intellectual treasure in the history of Chinese culture.
Zhuang Zi
Zhuang Zi is not unknown in the West, but his work is not appreciated nor understood as well as it deserves to be. Perhaps that is not surprising given that his work originates from the Warring States period of ancient China (475–221 bce). Of course, his ideas are sometimes quite abstruse and not as accessible as those of Plato; nor are they suited to the Western preference for linear methods of exposition. But Zhuang Zi does reveal a remarkably sophisticated philosophical outlook; a gentle, if sometimes, provocative humour; and, incidentally, displays and affirms our common humanity despite the passage of over two thousand years. Zhuang Zi writes mainly using allegory and example. The Wes...
Gentlemen's Prescriptions for Women's Lives: A Thousand Years of Biographies of Chinese Women
As far back as the first century BCE, Chinese dynastic historians - all men - began recording the achievements of Chinese women and creating a structure of understanding that would be used to limit and control them. To men, these women became role models for their daughters and wives; to the few literate women readers, they became paradigms for their own behavior. Thus, although these biographies are descriptive by nature, they actually became prescriptive. Gentlemen's Prescriptions for Women's Lives is an enlightening source for studying Chinese women of the Imperial era as well as for understanding Chinese womanhood in general. By contextualizing these biographies, the author shows us these women not just as the complaisant, calm-eyed, delicate figures that adorn Confucian texts, but also as the products of the Confucian tradition's appropriation of women.
Biographical Dictionary of Chinese Women: Antiquity Through Sui, 1600 B.C.E. - 618 C.E
This new volume of the "Biographical Dictionary of Chinese Women" spans more than 2,000 years from antiquity to the early seventh century. It recovers the stories of more than 200 women, nearly all of them unknown in the West. The contributors have sifted carefully through the available sources, from the oracle bones to the earliest legends, from Liu Xiang's didactic Biographies to official and unofficial histories, for glimpses and insights into the lives of women. Empresses and consorts, nuns and shamans, women of notoriety or exemplary virtue, women of daring and women of artistic or scholarly accomplishment - all are to be found here. The editors have assembled the stories of women high born and low, representing the full range of female endeavor. The biographies are organized alphabetically within three historical groupings, to give some context to lives lived in changing circumstances over two millennia. A glossary, a chronology, and a finding list that identifies women of each period by background or field of endeavor are also provided.
Constant Words Awakening the World
“Constant Words Awakening the World (醒世恒言 Xing Shi Heng Yan) is the third of a trilogy of widely celebrated Ming dynasty (1368–1644) vernacular story collections, compiled and edited by Feng Menglong. The first compilation, called Gujin Xiaoshuo (古今小説) (Stories Old and New), which is sometimes also referred to as Yushi Mingyan (喻世明言) (Clear Words to Understand the World) was published in Suzhou in 1620. The second publication was called Jingshi Tongyan (警世通言) (Warnings of the World). These three collections, often referred to as Sanyan (三言, "Three Words") because of the character yan (言) found at the end of each title, each contain 40 stories. Xingshi Hengyan is considered to be a huaben (话本), that is, short novel or novella. The huaben genre has been around since the Song dynasty (960-1279). The huaben genre includes collections of short stories, historical stories, and even stories from Confucian classics.
Qi Men Dun Jia Compendium Second Edition
An Improved Must-Have Reference for Everything Qi Men Joey Yap's Qi Men Dun Jia Compendium is the most comprehensive reference book to the Qi Men Dun Jia in the Chinese Metaphysics world. This book contains all the detailed references to the components, methodologies and attributes pertaining to the Qi Men Dun Jia system. Joey Yap has extracted, transliterated and tabulated the essential information from the ancient classics of Qi Men Dun Jia and presented them in simple English. Designed for the purpose of facilitating studies and further research, this book aims to bridge the gap for students and further research, this book aims to bridge the gap for students who want to learn, and the teachers who want to teach Qi Men Dun Jia. It is also designed to enable the genuine enthusiasts who want to dig deeper into the knowledge, but don't have the time to do extensive research and prefer to find all the sources of information in ONE single volume.
San Yuan Qi Men Xuan Kong Da Gua Compendium
A comprehensive guide to San Yuan Qi Men Xuan Kong Da Gua The San Yuan Qi Men Xuan Kong Compendium is a detailed book that integrates the studies and methodologies of both Qi Men Dun Jia and Xuan Kong 64 Hexagrams. This book also includes all the detailed references and application methods to the San Yuan Qi Men Xuan Kong Da Gua system all packed into ONE single volume for an easy read. The Compendium is an ideal source for committed students, practitioners and even masters wishing to study or teach San Yuan Qi Men Xuan Kong Da Gua
