Description: Zhuangzi Speaks : The Music of Nature, Paperback by Ts'ai, Chih-chung; Bruya, Brian (TRN), ISBN 0691008825, ISBN-13 9780691008820, Like New Used, Free shipping in the US
During a period of political and social upheaval in China, the unconventional insights of the great Daoist Zhuangzi (369?-286? .) pointed to a way of living naturally. Inspired by his fascination with the wisdom of this sage, the immensely popular Taiwanese cartoonist Tsai Chih Chung created a bestselling Chinese comic book. Tsai had his cartoon characters enact the key parables of Zhuangzi (pronounced jwawngdz), and he rendered Zhuangzis most enlightening sayings into modern Chinese. Through Tsais enthusiasm and skill, the earliest and core parts of the Zhuangzi were thus made accessible to millions of Chinese-speaking people with no other real chance of appreciating this major Daoist text. Translated into English by Brian Bruya, the comic book is now available to a Western audience. The classical Chinese text of the selections of the Zhuangzi is reproduced in the margins throughout. Evoked by the translation and the playful cartoons is the spontaneity that Zhuangzi favors as an attitude toward life: abandon presuppositions, intellectual debates, and ambitions, he suggests, and listen to the "music of nature." With the writings attributed to Laozi, the Zhuangzi contributed to an alternative philosophical ideal that matched Confucianism in its impact on Chinese culture. Over the centuries this classical Daoism influenced many aspects of Chinese life, including painting, literature, and the martial arts. It had a particularly strong effect on Chan Buddhism (Japanese Zen). For this book, Donald Munro has written an afterword that places Daoism and the Zhuangzi in historical and cultural context.
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Book Title: Zhuangzi Speaks : the Music of Nature
Number of Pages: 160 Pages
Language: English
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Topic: Taoism (See Also Philosophy / Taoist)
Item Height: 0.6 in
Publication Year: 1992
Illustrator: Yes
Genre: Religion
Item Weight: 12 Oz
Item Length: 9.2 in
Author: C. C. Tsai
Item Width: 8.1 in
Format: Trade Paperback
