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  • The Complete Writings

    by Zhuāngzï, Chris Fraser ...
    Series series Oxford World's Classics
    'Forget the years, forget norms, let yourself be stirred by the boundless.' The Zhuangzi -- an anthology of anonymous writings produced in China between the fourth and second centuries BC -- is one of the world's great literary treasures and the single most important source for early Daoist philosophy. It has exerted a profound influence on Chinese thought, literature, and culture, inspiring ... Read more

    $10.49 USD

  • The Essential Mòzǐ

    Ethical, Political, and Dialectical Writings

    by Mo Zi, Chris Fraser ...
    Series series Oxford World's Classics
    'The task of the benevolent person is surely to diligently seek to promote the benefit of the world and eliminate harm to the world' The Mòzǐ is among the founding texts of the Chinese philosophical tradition, presenting China's earliest ethical, political, and logical theories. The collected works introduce concepts, assumptions, and issues that had a profound, lasting influence throughout the ... Read more

    $10.49 USD

  • Inside China – From the Great Leap Backward to Huawei

    by Chris Fraser OBE ...
    This memoir is written from a Chinese speaker's and insider's viewpoint stretching over fifty years of working in and around China in both a public and private capacity. The writer saw tensions and chaos on the China Hong Kong Border in the wake of the Great Leap Forward in the People's Republic and during the murderous Cultural Revolution. Experiences of intelligence gathering and intelligence ... Read more

    $6.29 USD

  • The Philosophy of the Mòzĭ

    The First Consequentialists

    by Chris Fraser ...
    Mohism was an ancient Chinese philosophical movement founded in the fifth century BCE by the charismatic artisan Mòzi, or "Master Mo." Its practitioners advanced a consequentialist ethics, along with fascinating political, logical, and epistemological theories, that set the terms of philosophical argumentation and reflection in China for generations to come. Mohism faded away in the imperial era, ... Read more

    $37.79 USD

  • Late Classical Chinese Thought

    by Chris Fraser ...
    Series series The Oxford History of Philosophy
    Chris Fraser presents a rich and broad-ranging study of the culminating period of classical Chinese philosophy, the third century BC. He offers novel and informative perspectives on Confucianism, Daoism, Mohism, Legalism, and other movements in early Chinese thought while also delving into neglected texts such as the Guanzi, Lu's Annals, and the Zhuangzi 'outer' chapters, restoring them to their ... Read more

    $34.19 USD

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    The Complete Writings (Oxford World's Classics)

    by Zhuangzi ...
    Narrated by Martin Yeh ...

    Unabridged

    12 hours 44 min

    'Forget the years, forget norms, let yourself be stirred by the boundless'The Zhuangzi -- an anthology of anonymous writings produced in China between the fourth and second centuries BC -- is one of the world's great literary treasures and the single most important source for early Daoist philosophy. It has exerted a profound influence on Chinese thought, literature, and culture, inspiring ... Read more

    $39.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

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  • The Hong Kong Diaries

    by Chris Patten ...
    The diaries of the last British Governor of Hong Kong, published on the 25th anniversary of the handoverIn June 1992 Chris Patten went to Hong Kong as the last British governor, to try to prepare it not (as other British colonies over the decades) for independence, but for handing back in 1997 to the Chinese, from whom most of its territory had been leased 99 years previously. Over the next five ... Read more

    $16.79 USD

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  • The Science of Getting Rich

    Attracting Financial Success through Creative Thought

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  • The Party

    The Secret World of China's Communist Rulers

    by Richard McGregor ...
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    $17.29 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

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  • Laozi's Dao De Jing

    A New Interpretation for a Transformative Time

    by Laozi, Ken Liu ...
    A fresh, graceful translation of one of the most important and timeless classics—the foundational work of Daoism—by award-winning novelist Ken Liu, who contextualizes and demystifies this famously enigmatic text.Laozi’s Dao De Jing was written around 400 BC by a compassionate soul in a world torn by hatred and ambition, dominated by those that yearned for apocalyptic confrontations and prized ... Read more

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  • This Is It

    and Other Essays on Zen and Spiritual Experience

    by Alan Watts ...
    Six revolutionary essays from "the perfect guide for a course correction in life, away from materialism and its empty promise" (Deepak Chopra), exploring the relationship between spiritual experience and ordinary life—and the need for them to coexist within each of us.With essays on “cosmic consciousness” (including Alan Watts’ account of his own ventures into this inward realm); the paradoxes of ... Read more

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