What is the greatest work of chinese literature/philosophy/etc.?
What is the greatest work of chinese literature/philosophy/etc.?
Caleb Russell
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Jonathan Hughes
Take out menus
Easton Martin
Daodejing
Ayden Harris
Lu Xun id great for something more modern. Start with A Madman's Diay.
Jaxon Baker
*is sorry about the typo. Also the Zhuangzi.
Ryder Evans
I Ching
maybe....
John Taylor
too many. and each can only be truly appreciated once you get acquainted with them all as a whole.
pointless question guided by a western conception.
here are some great less known gems:
wenxin diaolong. a treatise on literature
huayulu. a philosophical treatise on painting
linjilu. ch'an buddhism at its best
piyenlu. koan collection
Landon Roberts
Jaxon Collins
For philosophy, the Analects of Confucius without a doubt.
For poetry, Li Bai.
Thomas Reyes
>Li Bai
Any links pls?
Chase Hill
Gavin Lewis
>confucius
Nothing but Eastern slave morality
Read some fucking Laozi and Zhuangzi instead
Camden Russell
>Eastern slave morality
How? Confucius is about reforming oneself and finding and maintaining order. I'm sorry that you can't fulfill your power fantasy of returning to an uninhibited state of nature. Enforce some authority over yourself and you'll shape up.
Gabriel Russell
>instead
>impying they are not complementary to each other and so maintain the imperial order in flux
Jaxon Watson
I Ching is awesome so is Tao te Ching(not sure if that's Chinese). I just like the tellings like the guan yin stories. I like that one where the guy says he will kill himself if he can't be this one dudes disciple and the master says he's gonna have to cause he can't take him in the curren state. The guy jumps off the cliff and then the master ressurects him and takes him under his wing. Love that one, and dude the rhetoric of the Falun Dafa book is very accessible and easy to understand id highly suggest it just to entertain certain new ideas
Jackson Long
This.
Isaiah Jenkins
Not that user but you answered your own question.
>maintaining order
>slave morality
Austin Thomas
>implying having any kind of restraint or education is somehow slave morality
>we're reaching brainlet levels that shouldn't be possible
Brayden Gray
HUAINANTZU
it is the synthesis of all the schools that preceded it, and gave the base for the next 2k years.
Eli Powell
the collected works of Jin Yong
Henry Hernandez
What's a good, accessible entry point for English-speakers?
Daniel Ross
they don’t complement each other they conflict with one another fundamentally
Brayden Wilson
nope.
Julian Sanchez
I'm reading this classic right now
Wyatt Walker
Jace Morgan
confucious is garbage
Thomas Thomas
obviously Tao Te Ching
runner up being Chuang Tzu, which is more or less a storybook based on Tao Te Ching, with some good sarcasm and banter, and a lot of shitting on Confucious for being a brainlet pleb
Nathaniel Thomas
Literature: Dream of the Red Chamber or the collected Li Bai
Philosophy: Maybe the Analects, the Tao Te Ching, or Zhuangzi. Probably not one answer, though.
Juan Murphy
dear lord. that was painful to read.
Grayson Nelson
stop posting here, Confucious
Aiden Brown
Does anyone know books on the more obscure schools of ancient Chinese philosophy like legalism or agriculturalism?
Thomas Rogers
炸弹客 did a good book on agriculturalism
Ryder Ross
a.c.graham
Angel Bennett
Zhuangzi is based.
How so?
Carter Gutierrez
same! 你好李友,我 姓 王。