Way of Governance

20 books

The Scripture of Great Peace (3 Volumes) cover
Rating 4.5
The Scripture of Great Peace (3 Volumes) 于吉 / 杨寄林 Zhonghua Book Company · 2013 Also known as the Book of Great Peace with Blue-Green Silk, The Scripture of Great Peace originally comprised ten sections in 170 scrolls. According t…
Xinjiang 1912 cover
Rating 3.5
Xinjiang 1912 崔保新 Social Sciences Academic Press (SSAP) · 2026 1912 is a pivotal point in modern Xinjiang history. In this book, author Cui Baoxin writes about Yang Zengxin, Yuan Dahuan, Fan Yaonan, Prince Sha, Sh…
A General Interpretation of the Shangshu (I) cover
Rating 3.4
A General Interpretation of the Shangshu (I) 钟永圣 Xinhua Publishing House · 2026 In this book, the author offers an accessible lecture-style explanation and interpretation of the classic Shangshu (Book of Documents). The author emp…
The Spring and Autumn Annals of Lü Buwei cover
Rating 4.4
The Spring and Autumn Annals of Lü Buwei Liu Yuejin / Lü Buwei / 谢久胜 / 徐建委 Liaohai Publishing House · 2025 The Lüshi Chunqiu is a representative work of the Miscellaneous School, drawing mainly on Confucian and Daoist thought while incorporating the doctrin…
On Government cover
Rating 3.8
On Government 崔寔 · 2024 Traditional Chinese culture and thought have a long history, marked by a high degree of originality, inventiveness, and literary quality. Early though…
Outer Commentary on Emperor Xuanzong of Tang's Imperially Composed Subcommentary on the True Scripture of the Way and Its Virtue cover
Rating 4.1
Outer Commentary on Emperor Xuanzong of Tang's Imperially Composed Subcommentary on the True Scripture of the Way and Its Virtue 李隆基 · 2024 Chinese traditional culture has a long intellectual lineage, marked by a high degree of originality, inventiveness, and literary quality. Early forms …
Essentials of Jin Administration cover
Rating 3.3
Essentials of Jin Administration 海宁 · 2024 Traditional Chinese thought has a long history and is highly original, inventive and literary. Early thought forms have distinctive features: religiou…
Man and the Classics: Han Feizi cover
Rating 4.2
Man and the Classics: Han Feizi 高柏园 Huashan Literature and Art Publishing House · 2026 This book is one volume in the "People and Classics" series by Daoshan Culture, intended to illuminate the contemporary significance of classic texts …
Law and Technique: Yu Zhong Reads Han Fei cover
Rating 4.1
Law and Technique: Yu Zhong Reads Han Fei 喻中 China Legal Publishing House · 2022 Han Fei is China's Machiavelli. The Han Feizi is China's The Prince: a de-moralized political science and jurisprudence. As Chinese politics shifted f…
Emperor Taizong of Tang cover
Rating 2.7
Emperor Taizong of Tang 皮波人物国际名人研究中心 International Culture Publishing Corporation · 2020 Tang Taizong (r. 626–649): Li Shimin (599–649). Second son of Li Yuan. In the late Sui, he joined his father in raising troops. After Li Yuan declared…
Huainanzi cover
Rating 4.7
Huainanzi Liu An The Commercial Press · 2025 Compiled by Liu An, King of Huainan of the Western Han, with his retainers during the reign of Emperor Wu, the Huainanzi is a monumental work of philo…
A Treatise on Guo Chongtao cover
Rating 2.6
A Treatise on Guo Chongtao Anonymous Bashu Publishing House · 2024 People say that Emperor Gaozu of Han, rising from humble commoner origins, summoned the heroes and raised them up to quell disorder, then carved up th…
Words as Tallies cover
Rating 4.3
Words as Tallies Anonymous Bashu Publishing House · 2024 Laozi said: The Way is highest with nothing above it, deepest with nothing below it; level as the water level, straight as the plumb line, round as th…
Explaining Mountains cover
Rating 4.0
Explaining Mountains Anonymous Bashu Publishing House · 2024 Huainanzi, also known as Huainan Honglie or Liu Anzi, is a collection of essays written in the Western Han dynasty of China. It was compiled under the…
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Rating 2.4
Chapter on Distinguishing the Broadly Learned Anonymous Bashu Publishing House · 2024 This piece is titled "Distinguishing the Thorough Man" and concerns how to recognize a "thorough man" (tongren). The "thorough man" is what the chapte…
Explaining Laozi cover
Rating 2.2
Explaining Laozi 蔡廷干 Nanhai Publication Company · 2024 The Legalist school of the pre-Qin period was originally an extremely sharp and forceful body of learning, with much in it that is genuine and compell…
Book of Documents cover
Rating 5.0
Book of Documents Anonymous Jinzhang Book Company (Jinzhang Shuju) · 2024 The Book of Documents, originally titled simply The Book, is China's first collection of classical writings and its earliest historical record, consis…
The Complete Works of the Dao De Jing cover
Rating 2.7
The Complete Works of the Dao De Jing Niu Yue Shantou University Press · 2021 Tailored to how general readers absorb knowledge, this edition stays faithful to the original while adding clear, simple annotations and plain-languag…
The Secret of Divine Civilization cover
Rating 3.3
The Secret of Divine Civilization ‘Abdu’l-Bahá Project Gutenberg · 2019 Project Gutenberg was the first provider of free electronic books, or eBooks. Michael Hart, founder of Project Gutenberg, invented eBooks in 1971 and …
Stories from the Huainanzi (Revised and Enlarged Edition) cover
Rating 3.8
Stories from the Huainanzi (Revised and Enlarged Edition) 陈广忠 China Culture and History Press · 2025 The Huainanzi is a major scholarly work compiled under the auspices of Liu An, King of Huainan, in the early Western Han dynasty, more than two thousa…