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| View Larger Image | Heaven and Earth in Early Han Thought: Chapters Three, Four and Five of the Huainanzi (S U N Y Series in Chinese Philosophy and Culture)
by John S. Major
| | List Price: | $29.95 |  | | Available: | Usually ships in 24 hours | | | | | Sales Rank: | 520086 | | Studio: | State University of New York Press | | | Binding: | Paperback | | Number Of Pages: | 388 | | Publication Date: | December 31, 1969 | | Publisher: | State University of New York Press |
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CUSTOMER REVIEWS (Average Customer Rating: 4.5 based on 2 reviews)
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Wonderful Illustrations and Explanations! 
My copy of this book is well-loved, annotated, and flagged in many places. It is not a perfect book (see commentary in "Early China" on certain issues, such as Major's portrayal of the Xing-de text from Mawangdui) but overall it is far more information than has been available in English to a wide audience.
Contrary to the other reviewer's comments, I relished the footnotes for their explanations and areas of further study. If you are looking for one book to understand Daoism, especially the Daoist adepts at the court of Liu An, this is the book. It blows away the pop-Daoism you find in the typical feng-shui book, and sheds light on some of that practice as well.
January 31, 2004 | |
How to read the unreadable 
John S. Major takes the impenetrable Huainan Zi and penetrates it. The book is very academic and crawls with footnotes, but then I don't think there's any other way to deal with a 2,000 year old encyclopedia from a culture we know almost nothing about. If you're after cool, cosmic Dao, this ain't the book. But if you want to know how and what the inventors of Daoism were really thinking, it definitely is.
April 05, 2000 | |
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