About the author

Hui Yu is an author about whom little public information is available; the library currently holds only one work under this name, the four-volume *The Foremost Art Under Heaven (Guiguzi's Wisdom, the Way of Laozi and Zhuangzi, Wang Yangming's Mind Teaching, and the Words of the Sages)*. Judging from this work, Hui Yu's interests center on classical Chinese philosophy and the Eastern intellectual tradition, spanning Guiguzi's strategic thought, the Daoist wisdom of Laozi and Zhuangzi, Wang Yangming's philosophy of mind, and the sayings of sages across dynasties, from the pre-Qin period to the Ming and Qing. Presented as a four-volume set, the book gathers philosophical resources from different schools and eras in one place and appears to be popularizing and compilatory in nature, suited to general readers interested in philosophy and religion, Eastern philosophy, and philosophical reading. Because reliable information on the author's life, academic background, and writing career is lacking, a full picture of Hui Yu's personal experience and body of work cannot yet be drawn; the existing work suggests a focus on organizing and presenting traditional thought in accessible form.

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Publishers

Xiamen University Press