In the Letter from China column, Xiangning Li talks about the Qiantang River Museum in Hangzhou, designed by line+ studio.

Knowledge is not the final frontier of understanding reality; wisdom is. This idea is well elucidated by Daoist philosopher Zhuang Zi (庄子) in this parable: “Yan Hui said, ‘I am making progress.’ ...

Plucked, like the Chinese zither, or bowed, like the erhu, stringed instruments have been played for hundreds of years in China This is the sixth in a series of articles about classical Chinese ...

Originally, the grounds of the mansion contained numerous buildings: the front hall, called Happiness on the Hao River Bridge, after a story from Zhuang Zi; the Pavilion for Listening to the ...

(Waley, 127). Confucius’ spirit of humility in these passages is shared by the Daoist thinkers Laozi and Zhuangzi, whose texts posed the greatest challenge to Confucian thought. But while Confucian ...

The above is a famous episode in “Zhuangzi” (The Complete Works of Zhuangzi). Last week, the so-called CrowdStrike outage triggered a series of abnormal shutdowns of Windows-based computers ...

Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 1990. Daoism (in addition to the classics Dao De Jing and the writings of Zhuangzi) Saso, Michael. Blue Dragon, White Dragon: Taoist Rites of Passage ...

Il dolce far niente” is an Italian phrase, and philosophy, that roughly translates as “the sweetness of doing nothing.” To them, it can mean having a cup of coffee with a friend, heading to the ...

Officials and scholars have specific hats such as the putou, wushamao, si-fang pingding jin (fangjin), and Zhuangzi jin.

My work is informed by the works and lives of Martin Buber, Heesoon Bai, Paulo Freire, Alfred North Whitehead, Carolyn Mamchur, Thomas Merton, Celeste Snowber, Ted Aoki, Michel Foucault, Charles ...

MCPHERSON, DAVID 2015. Homo religiosus: does spirituality have a place in neo-Aristotelian virtue ethics?. Religious Studies, Vol. 51, Issue. 3, p. 335. White ...