The Four Chinese Classics by David Hinton - ISBN: 9781619028340
Paperback
Unlock ancient Chinese wisdom: Taoism, Zen, Confucianism, in one volume.

The Four Chinese Classics

Tao Te Ching, Chuang Tzu, Analects, Mencius

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  • Paperback

    576 pages

  • Release Date

    13 December 2016

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Summary

Discover 4 seminal masterworks of Chinese thought - Lao Tzu’s Tao Te Ching, the Analects of Confucius, the Chuang Tzu, and the Mencius - presented in one volume for the first time in nearly 2 centuries.

Award-winning translator David Hinton offers fresh insights on the most influential texts on Taoism, Zen Buddhism, Chinese philosophy, and more. Hinton’s award-winning experience translating a wide range of ancient Chinese poets makes these books sing in English as never before. But th…

Book Details

ISBN-13:9781619028340
ISBN-10:1619028344
Author:David Hinton
Publisher:Counterpoint
Imprint:Counterpoint
Format:Paperback
Number of Pages:576
Release Date:13 December 2016
Weight:734g
Dimensions:45mm x 290mm x 255mm
About The Author

David Hinton

David Hinton has been awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship, numerous fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the National Endowment for the Humanities, and both of the major awards given for poetry translation in the United States- the Landon Translation Award, and the PEN Translation Award. His recent book of essays, Hunger Mountain- A Field Guide to Mind and Landscape, was on the Best-Books-of-the-Year list at The Guardian in England. Hinton lives in Vermont.

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