Master Incapable: A Medieval Daoist on the Liberation of the Mind

by De Meyer

The Hsu-Tang Library presents authoritative and eminently readable translations of classical Chinese literature, in bilingual editions, ranging across three millennia and the entire Sinitic world.

Master Incapable (Wunengzi) is an important but relatively little-known Daoist work written in 887, as the Tang dynasty (618-907) was breathing its last. The unknown author, a former government official now living as a recluse, witnesses internecine...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0197603270
• ISBN13: 9780197603277
• Release Date: October 2023
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 168 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.4" x 8.8"