EAN: 9780141984834

CHINESE THOUGHT - ROEL STERCKX KARTONIERT (TB)

Shortlisted for the PEN Hessel-Tiltman Prize    'A terrific book  rich and endlessly thought
provoking. . . If you are looking for one book to understand the core ideas of Chinese
civilisation  read this' - Michael Wood    An engrossing history of ancient Chinese philosophy
and culture from an eminent Cambridge expert   We are often told that the twenty-first century
is bound to become China's century. Never before has Chinese culture been so physically 
digitally  economically or aesthetically present in everyday Western life. But how much do we
really know about its origins and key beliefs? How did the ancient Chinese think about the
world?  In this enlightening book  Roel Sterckx  one of the foremost experts in Chinese thought
takes us through centuries of Chinese history  from Confucius to Daoism to the Legalists. The
great questions that have occupied China's brightest minds were not about who and what we are 
but rather how we should live our lives  how we should organise society and how we can secure
the well-being of those who live with us and for whom we carry responsibility.  With evocative
examples from philosophy  literature and everyday life  Sterckx shows us how the ancient
Chinese have shaped the thinking of a civilization that is now influencing our own.

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