The Eternal Spirit of the River: Sixteen Keywords to Understanding Chinese Culture

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Author: Lin Guzhen
Publisher: Uni-Books

Content Summary:
A grand cultural journey, spanning the ages, past and present;
the study of life itself, lucid and crystal clear.
Lin Guzhen—Zen practitioner and cultural scholar—on sixteen keywords of Chinese culture.

A uniquely perceptive examination of "Chinese culture,"
and a fresh exposition opening new horizons on "humanity and the world."

"The river flows through the ages" refers to the long and deep continuity of Chinese culture, while "meaning" lies in human understanding. That understanding differs from person to person; but if the threads of different dimensions can be woven together, a fuller whole can be built. The sixteen dimensions in this book are precisely the sixteen coordinates—the sixteen "keywords"—that Lin Guzhen considers indispensable for viewing Chinese culture in its entirety.

Among them, some touch directly on the foundational qualities of the culture, such as worldliness, Chinese characters, and "Confucianism-Buddhism-Daoism"; some are the lofty crystallizations of humanistic achievement, such as Confucianism, Buddhism, Daoism, and Zen; some concern actual lived life, such as the literati and the folk; some ad...

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