
Chinese Wisdom
Inspiring Quotes on Life, Love and Family
James Trapp(Author)
Amber Books (Publisher)
Published on 14. June 2025
Book
Hardback
96 pages
978-1-83886-520-7 (ISBN)
Description
Ancient Chinese culture has a been a rich source of wisdom for many millennia. Chinese Wisdom provides a concise insight into the ideas of great Chinese thinkers, arranged thematically. Living in the 5th century BCE, great teacher Confucius laid the foundations for an outlook and way of life that focused on correct behaviour, humaneness and respect for one's elders, precepts that are deeply embedded across East Asian countries to this day. His disciple, Meng Ke, outlined new ideas for rulers which provided the basis of Chinese political culture for many centuries afterwards. Laozi, the founder of Taoism and author of the Tao Te Ching, wrote about the Tao, or the Way - the correct way of living attainable to all and which links all things. Sun Tzu's Art of War provides advice on how to overcome and outwit an opponent (the basic tenets of which are often applied to business strategy today), while Zhu Xi taught the advantages of meditation as a method for self-knowledge and self-cultivation. Beautifully produced in traditional Chinese binding, Chinese Wisdom offers more than 80 succinct quotes from Chinese thinkers through the ages, on topics as wide- ranging as filial piety, love, clear thinking, work, business, war and family.
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Amber Books Ltd
Product notice
Imitation cloth
Illustrations
Halftones, color; Illustrations, color
Dimensions
Height: 163 mm
Width: 123 mm
Thickness: 23 mm
Weight
305 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-83886-520-7 (9781838865207)
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Person
James Trapp is the author of Chinese Characters: The Art and Meaning of Hanzi, Chinese Proverbs and also has translated a bestselling new multilingual edition of Sun Tzu's The Art of War. A Chinese language graduate of the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London, he teaches Mandarin and was previously an Education Officer on the China Collection at the British Museum.
Content
Contents:
Introduction
Family
Learning and Education
Work and Business
Virtue and Kindness
Passion and Emotion
Strategy and Avoiding Conflict
Clear Thinking
Introduction
Family
Learning and Education
Work and Business
Virtue and Kindness
Passion and Emotion
Strategy and Avoiding Conflict
Clear Thinking