Book description
Here, Taoist practitioner Eva Wong offers a colorful treatment of the history and evolution of Taoism, told through traditional teaching tales. These tales, which Wong first heard as a child growing up in Hong Kong, are gleaned from the local storytellers and the uncensored chronicles known as yeshi—the wild history…
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Eva Wong manages to make her tales so captivating that I couldn’t put this book down. I learnt about “the dynamic spiritual tradition” of Taoism/Daoism through hermits, revolutionaries, scholars, and mystics in her beautifully told account.
Reading this book, I felt like I was travelling with Eva from the East China sea to the heights of Mt Tai, from north of the Yangtze to the fields of Sichuan, meeting immortals, Daoist cultivators, writers and alchemists as the author made obscure theories and ancient scriptures eminently understandable through her story-telling style.
She brings the soul of China to life through its…
From Debra's list on finding the soul of China through travel and Tao.
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