Tian Wen: A Chinese Book of Origins

by Qu Yuan

Book Overview

Relatively unknown in the West, Tian Wen: A Chinese Book of Origins is a fascinating, though often baffling, archaic collection of 186 "questions" about the origins of life and the meanings of a wide... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0811210111
• ISBN13: 9780811210119
• Release Date: October 1986
• Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation
• Length: 123 Pages
• Weight: 0.36 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 4.8" x 7.9"

Customer Reviews

Like a clear nightsky

Stephen Field gives us a wonderfull translation of this old Chinese text. It seems to me, that he always find the right words to express the depth behind the Chinese signs.It is a small book. But in the foreword and the footnotes the reader can find a surprise amount of information about the old believes, the deities and the sages of China.This book is a gem.