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Author : John Blofeld
Release : 2008
Genre : China
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Book Synopsis My Journey in Mystic China by : John Blofeld
Download or read book My Journey in Mystic China written by John Blofeld. This book was released on 2008. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The only English translation of John Blofeld's memoirs as a Westerner living in China prior to the Communist Revolution"--Provided by publisher.
Author : John Blofeld
Release : 2008-03-18
Genre : Biography & Autobiography
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 576/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis My Journey in Mystic China by : John Blofeld
Download or read book My Journey in Mystic China written by John Blofeld. This book was released on 2008-03-18. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The only English translation of John Blofeld’s memoirs as a Westerner living in China prior to the Communist Revolution • Paints an intimate portrait of the grace and refinement of ancient Chinese civilization • Originally written in Chinese for Chinese readers, revealing a rare glimpse of Blofeld’s private Chinese side and uncensored views • The last book by the great English sinologist, translator of the I Ching and author of Taoist Mystery and Magic The reveries and remembrances contained in the travel diaries of John Blofeld cover every aspect of his life in China--from visits to opium dens and sing-song houses to sojourns in the Buddhist monasteries and Taoist hermitages of China’s sacred mountains. Here is a vivid glimpse of “old” China as it existed in elegance and grace for three thousand years before China’s Communist Revolution. Originally written in Chinese for a Chinese audience, Blofeld’s travel diary reveals a rare, uncensored view of pre-communist China to which few westerners have been exposed.
Author : John Blofeld
Release : 2001-05-01
Genre : History
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 375/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis City of Lingering Splendor by : John Blofeld
Download or read book City of Lingering Splendor written by John Blofeld. This book was released on 2001-05-01. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In his early twenties, John Blofeld spent what he describes as "three exquisitely happy years" in Peking during the era of the last emperor, when the breathtaking greatness of China's ancient traditions was still everywhere evident. Arriving in 1934, he found a city imbued with the atmosphere of the recent imperial past and haunted by the powerful spirit of the late Dowager Empress Tzu Hsi. He entered a world of magnificent palaces and temples of the Forbidden City, of lotus-covered lakes and lush pleasure-gardens, of bustling bazaars and peaceful bathhouses, and of "flower houses" with their beautiful young courtesans versed in the arts of pleasing men. With a novelists' command of detail and dialogue, Blofeld vividly re-creates the magic of these years and conveys to the reader his appreciation and nostalgia for a way of life long vanished.
Author : Zhongxian Wu
Release : 2011-03-15
Genre : Philosophy
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 158/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis The 12 Chinese Animals by : Zhongxian Wu
Download or read book The 12 Chinese Animals written by Zhongxian Wu. This book was released on 2011-03-15. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: * Silver Medal Winner in the 2010 BOTYA Awards Body, Mind and Spirit Category * The Chinese horoscope holds the key to a better understanding of self and others, and to living a life of harmony. Not just the year of birth, but also the month, day and hour have significance in true Chinese astrology. Master Zhongxian Wu explains how to find your power animal symbols, and how to learn from their wisdom. By fully understanding what each animal signifies, and how they relate to the major hexagrams of the Yijing, he shows that they can help you to find inner peace and live in harmony with family, friends, the wider community, and with nature. Using the wisdom of the twelve animal symbols as a guide, you will learn how to better understand your personality, and make choices that profoundly influence your health, relationships, career, and finances, allowing you to live up to your greatest potential. Making the wisdom of the twelve Chinese animals accessible to the Western reader for the first time in its relationship with the Yijing, this book will be an illuminating read for anyone interested in understanding themselves and their life patterns better, Chinese astrology, and the Yijing.
Author : John D. Barbour
Release : 2022-03-31
Genre : Literary Criticism
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 837/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Journeys of Transformation by : John D. Barbour
Download or read book Journeys of Transformation written by John D. Barbour. This book was released on 2022-03-31. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Compelling exploration of how journeys to a Buddhist culture changed 30 Western writers as they explored the meaning of 'no-self'.
