Course: Taoism and Western Culture

(This article is excerpt from Introducing Daoism written by Livia Kohn(2008), London: Routledg. ) Daoist thought in the West is represented first and foremost in the Daode jing, the best-known …

(This article is excerpted from THINKING THROUGH CHINA (Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2015) by Jerusha Hull McCormack and John G Blair, chapter 7.) There is a basic confrontation in …

This article is excerpt from Jerusha Hull McCormack and John G Blair, THINKING THROUGH CHINA (Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2015), chapter 7. Here is an English translation of The …

Longevity is distinctly a Chinese value, a long-standing goal of Chinese traditional medicine and a focus of Daoist religious practices. Valuing a long life in good health fits well with …

This article is excerpted from Western Civilization with Chinese Comparisons, by Professor John G. Blair and Professor Jerusha Hull McCormack(2003), Fudan University Press. Below in condensed and abstract form are …

This article is excerpted from Western Civilization with Chinese Comparisons, by Professor John G. Blair and Professor Jerusha Hull McCormack (2003), Fudan University Press Zhuangzi: “A path is made by …

This article is excerpted from Western Civilization with Chinese Comparisons, by Prof. John G. Blair and Prof. Jerusha Hull McCormack(2003), Fudan University Press The Perfect Truth [quanzhen] Sect is the …

This article is excerpted from Western Civilization with Chinese Comparisons, by John G. Blair and Jerusha McCormack (2003), Fudan University Press. Etymologically yang and yin are as intimately connected as …