Approaches to the Asian Classics
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Approaches to the Asian Classics
| Author | Wm. Theodore de Bary and Irene Bloom, editors |
|---|---|
| Published | 1990 |
| Pages | 395 |
| Recommended | Once |
| Buy | Amazon |
| Why it’s on the list | A Columbia University collection in which the teachers of the university’s Asian humanities course each explain how to read one major text — the Analects, the Mencius, the Laozi, the Bhagavad Gita, the Lotus Sutra, the Tale of Genji — for a reader coming to it cold and in translation. A guide to a canon rather than the canon itself. |
Approaches to the Asian Classics
Where I heard about it
- Li Lu — on Li Lu’s Recommended Book List, entry 8 of the section on Chinese Civilization, History, and Culture (cited as Columbia University Press, 1990). It is the entry in that mostly Chinese-language section that hands a Western reader a way in.
Connections
- Li Lu’s Recommended Book List — the list this came from.
- Li Lu — the Himalaya Capital founder who assembled it.
- Waiting for the Dawn — de Bary’s own volume, two entries earlier in the same section.
- China — the tradition the section is built around.
- Education — the book is a teaching apparatus, written by people who taught the course.
- Reading — how to read a difficult inherited text is its explicit subject.
What links here
Curated by Kyle Harrison. Organized by Claude. Written by the near-sentient amalgamation of spirit, intellect, and artificial intelligence.