Skip to main content
Search Button
Canada Kobo store Gift Cards Help

Rakuten Kobo

Wishlist

Shopping Cart

You're getting the VIP treatment!

Item(s) unavailable for purchase
Please review your cart. You can remove the unavailable item(s) now or we'll automatically remove it at Checkout.
itemsitem
itemsitem

Recommended For You

Loading...


“lin yutang”

Showing 1 - 12 of 12 results for “lin yutang”
Skip side bar filters

  • Between Tears and Laughter

    by Lin Yutang ...
    Now sorrowful, now joking, but always in deadly earnest, the Chinese philosopher faces the grim facts of war and the grimmer prospects of peace. Dismayed by the materialism of the West, he offers not a "blueprint" for the postwar world, but an approach to thinking about it, that is new to us but not new at all to the Orient, wise in the ways of Man.This book is a positive contribution from the ... Read more

    $1.38 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • My Country and My People

    by Lin Yutang ...
    In this classic book, Yutang Lin does a fantastic job of describing Chinese people, customs and culture in an understandable way for the Western reader. This book was the first of it's kind, Lin being a rarity as he was fluent in both English and Chinese, having been born in China but growing up in America. This extremely popular book will prove to be a fascinating read, and is highly recommended ... Read more

    $4.11 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Chuang Tzu

    by Yutang Lin ...
    Chuang Tzu (c. 369 - 286 BC).An ancient Chinese great thinker, philosopher and writer.He is also one of the founders of Taoism.He inherited and developed Lao Tzu .Chuang Tzu is a wise man, living in poverty, but his life is simple and happy.This made the king very envious. He had dreamed of a butterflies, then the final analysis, people dreamed of a butterfly, or a butterfly dreaming that ... Read more

    $5.99 CAD

People who read these also enjoyed

  • 8-in-1 Chinese Classics: Art of War; Analects of Confucius; Sayings of Mencius; Shi Ching (Book of Songs); Travels of FaHien; Sorrows of Han; Tao Te Ching; Myths and Legends of China

    by Confucius, Laozi, Mencius ...
    The 8-in-1 CHINESE CLASSICS brings together in one volume some of the greatest Chinese clazzical writings of all time. Here, in full, are:THE ART OF WAR (the full 13 chapters)THE ANALECTS OF CONFUCIUS (the full 20 chapters)THE SAYINGS OF MENCIUS (the full 28 chapters)THE SHI CHING (aka: Shi King or The Book of Songs - the full 4 Parts, 29 'Books')THE TRAVELS OF FA HIEN (40 chapters)THE SORROWS OF ... Read more

    $5.88 CAD

  • The Tao Teh King (Complete )(Free Aduiobook Link)

    by Lao-Tse, Translated by James Legge ...
    Series series Greenhouse Classics
    Laozi is traditionally regarded as the author of the Daodejing (Tao Te Ching), though the identity of its author(s) and/or compiler(s) has been debated throughout history. It is one of the most significant treatises in Chinese cosmogony. As with most other ancient Chinese philosophers, Laozi often explains his ideas by way of paradox, analogy, appropriation of ancient sayings, repetition, symmetry ... Read more

    $2.73 CAD

  • The Way of Chuang Tzu (Second Edition)

    by Thomas Merton, Dalai Lama XIV ...
    Classic writings from the great Zen master in exquisite versions by Thomas Merton, in a new edition with a preface by His Holiness the Dalai Lama.Working from existing translations, Thomas Merton composed a series of his own versions of the classic sayings of Chuang Tzu, the most spiritual of Chinese philosophers. Chuang Tzu, who wrote in the fourth and third centuries B.C., is the chief authentic ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD

  • The Wisdom of Confucius

    by Philosophical Library ...
    Series series Wisdom
    Hundreds of sage observations from China's most revered scholarTeacher, politician, philosopher, and student, Confucius offered wisdom and aphorisms on a variety of topics that transcend borders and time. Whether considering his own life, human nature, or a society's responsibilities, Confucius's teachings emphasize personal and governmental morality, correctness of social relationships, justice, ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Tao Te Ching

    by Lao Tzu ...
    The Tao Te Ching, Daodejing, Dao De Jing, or Daode jing, also simply referred to as the Laozi, is a Chinese classic text. According to tradition, it was written around 6th century BC by the sage Laozi, a record-keeper at the Zhou dynasty court, by whose name the text is known in China. The text's true authorship and date of composition or compilation are still debated, although the oldest ... Read more

    $1.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

    Also available as: Audiobooks

    Also available as: Audiobooks

  • Master of the Three Ways

    Reflections of a Chinese Sage on Living a Satisfying Life

    Translated by William Scott Wilson ...
    by Hung Ying-ming ...
    At once profound, spiritual, and witty, Master of the Three Ways is a remarkable work about human nature, the essence of life, and how to live simply and with awareness. In three hundred and fifty-seven verses, the author, Hung Ying-ming—a seventeenth-century Chinese sage—explores good and evil, honesty and deception, wisdom and foolishness, and heaven and hell. He draws from the wisdom of the ... Read more

    $23.19 CAD

  • The Complete Works of Zhuangzi

    Series series Translations from the Asian Classics
    Only by inhabiting Dao (the Way of Nature) and dwelling in its unity can humankind achieve true happiness and freedom, in both life and death. This is Daoist philosophy's central tenet, espoused by the person—or group of people—known as Zhuangzi (369?-286? B.C.E.) in a text by the same name. To be free, individuals must discard rigid distinctions between good and bad, right and wrong, and follow a ... Read more

    $78.99 CAD

  • The Illustrated Tao Te Ching

    by Andrew Forbes, David Henley, James Legge ...
    Series series Cognoscenti Books
    The Tao Te Ching or ‘Canon of the Way of Virtue' is a classical Chinese text generally dated to the 6th century BCE. It has traditionally been attributed to Laozi (or Lao Tzu), the ‘Old Master', said to have been a scribe at the court of the Zhou Dynasty.The Tao Te Ching, is central to both religious and philosophical Taoism, and represents a central tenet of the san jiao or ‘Three Teachi... ... Read more

    $10.98 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Lao Tzu's Tao and Wu Wei

    by Dwight Goddard ...
    In this clarion translation of Laotzu's Tao Te Ching, first published in 1919, Goddard brings the complexity and depth of the ancient philosopher's poetry into the English language, his great love for the topic overcoming the necessary shortcomings of translation. There are three concepts that are essential to the Tao Te Ching-Tao, Te, and Wu Wei-- that all have complex meanings that cannot be ... Read more

    $1.99 CAD