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"The General Explanation of Laozi" Author: Yu Qiuyu Publisher: Beijing United Publishing Company
"The General Explanation of Laozi" Author: Yu Qiuyu Publisher: Beijing United Publishing Company
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Introduction · · · · · ·
Yu Qiuyu's new milestone work, a complete explanation of the Tao Te Ching for modern people! For 2,500 years, this revelation has helped countless people get out of trouble! This time, you can easily understand it!
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★ Must read: For two thousand five hundred years, outstanding people have been reading it.
The Chinese classic book with the largest overseas circulation is second only to the Bible in terms of circulation. The Book of Revelation has helped countless people out of difficulties and is known as the "treasure book of life."
★ Useful: Zeng Guofan relied on it to get out of the trough of life, and Bai Yansong relied on it to overcome the mid-life crisis.
Philosophers can gain insight into the Way of Heaven from it, military strategists can comprehend strategic plans from it, politicians can stabilize the country from it, ambitious people can make achievements and leave their names from it, and those who are indifferent can maintain health and prolong their lives from it. Whether facing life difficulties or the transformation of the times, we especially need the inspiration of the Tao Te Ching.
★ Interesting information: The secrets of being a good person and achieving success have been fully revealed in the Tao Te Ching.
Cognitive pattern: Stand outside of things and outside of the situation, and look at life and the world.
Reverse thinking: strength and weakness, fortune and misfortune will inevitably be reversed.
Self-positioning: The highest good is like water, blending in with the world.
To establish oneself and accomplish things: establish oneself and life with the right path, and to develop individuality with the unconventional path.
★ Easy to read: This is a reading version of Tao Te Ching tailored for modern people by cultural master Yu Qiuyu.
Popular: Continues Yu's fluent and smooth prose, making it easy for ordinary readers to understand.
Comprehensive: The entire text is explained sentence by sentence and translated word by word.
Professional: Decades of in-depth research and integration of research results from past generations.
Height: With a high level of cultural awareness, readers can appreciate the charm of Tao Te Ching from a philosophical and literary perspective.
Special: Comes with a calligraphy work of "The Complete Running Script of Tao Te Ching" written by Yu Qiuyu.
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"Laozi Tongshi" is a milestone new work of Mr. Yu Qiuyu in interpreting ancient classics, and it is also an introductory reading of "Tao Te Ching" written for contemporary people. The book covers all the contents of the 81 chapters of "Tao Te Ching", analyzes the internal logic of each chapter and section, looks at the similarities and differences in thinking over the past two thousand years, feels the literary charm between the original text and the translation, discusses the consensus and differences of researchers from past generations, and examines the errors and corrections of various versions. The book is written in plain and accessible prose as a whole, and the interpretation and translation are both rigorous and poetic, enough to allow contemporary life and the thousand-year text to nourish each other.
In recent years, Mr. Yu Qiuyu has concentrated his efforts on tackling the most difficult ancient texts in Chinese traditional culture, such as "Tao Te Ching", "I Ching", "Diamond Sutra", "Platform Sutra", etc. On the one hand, he has conducted in-depth research at the academic level, and on the other hand, he has been committed to presenting ancient classics to contemporary readers in an easy-to-understand way, which makes his writings a significant cultural foundation project.
About the Author · · · · · ·
Yu Qiuyu is a writer and scholar. He was born in Zhejiang in August 1946. In the mid-1980s, he was elected as the youngest university president in mainland China at that time, and served as the head of the Shanghai Chinese professor review group and the head of the art professor review group. He has won honorary titles such as "National Outstanding Contribution Expert", "Shanghai Top Ten Higher Education Elites", and "China's Most Respectable Cultural Figure". Since the beginning of this century, he has lectured on Chinese culture at the Library of Congress, the United Nations Headquarters, Harvard University, Yale University, Columbia University, etc., and the response has been huge. The Shanghai Municipal Education Commission awarded the establishment of the "Yu Qiuyu Master Studio" and the Chinese Academy of Arts established the "Qiuyu Academy". He is currently the chairman of the Shanghai Library.
