New Publications

Journal of Daoist Studies volume 3, 2010

in New Publications

Articles
Alan K. L. Chan
Affectivity and the Nature of the Sage: Gleanings from a
Tang Daoist Master

Norman Harry Rothschild
Empress Wu and the Queen Mother of the West

Shih-Shan Susan Huang
Daoist Imagery of Body and Cosmos, Part 1:
Body Gods and Starry Travel

Kenneth R. Robinson
Daoist Geographies in Three Korean World Maps

Experimental Essays on Zhuangzi

in New Publications, Zhuangzi

Victor Mair, ed.,

A revised and expanded reprint of this important collection, originally published by the University of Hawai’i Press in 1983. New papers by Erin Cline, Ronnie Littlejohn, Harold Roth, and Deborah Sommer (contents below).

February 2010, ISBN 978-1-931483-15-5, US $29.95
Prepublication offer, until 1 March 2010: US $25 from www.threepinespress.com

EXPERIMENTAL ESSAYS ON ZHUANGZI, edited by Victor H. Mair

Foreword
Burton Watson

Daoist Dietetics: Food for Immortality

in New Publications, Dietetics, food, IMMORTALITY, Livia Kohn

Daoist Dietetics: Food for Immortality
Livia Kohn

An introductory overview of the main characteristics, historical developments, and recipes of the Daoist diet, including a discussion of Chinese medicinal diets,translations of original sources, and recipes (contents below).

February 2010, ISBN 978-1-931483-14-8, US $29.95
Prepublication offer, until 1 March 2010: US $25 from www.threepinespress.com

INTRODUCTION

Awakening to Reality (Wuzhen pian)

in New Publications, ALCHEMY, Neidan, Wuzhen pian, Zhang Boduan

Fabrizio Pregadio
Awakening to Reality: The "Regulated Verses" of the Wuzhen pian, a Taoist Classic of Internal Alchemy
viii + 102 pp.
Golden Elixir Press, 2009
ISBN 9780984308217

Paperback, US$ 15.95

Users of this website can buy this book with a 10% discount from http://www.createspace.com/3411594. Please enter code UN9RSYQA at checkout.

Introduction, translations of Poems 3 and 7, and preview: http://www.goldenelixir.com/press/trl_01_wuzhenpian.html

Index of Zhonghua Daozang

in New Publications, Daoist Canon, Daozang, Zhonghua Daozang

Fabrizio Pregadio
Index of Zhonghua Daozang
viii + 108 pp.
Golden Elixir Press, 2009
ISBN 9780984308200

Paperback, US$ 17.95
E-book (PDF), US$ 8.95

Preview: http://www.goldenelixir.com/press/ref_03_zhonghua_dz_index.html

Beyond the Daode jing: Twofold Mystery in Tang Daoism

in New Publications, Daoism, philosphy, twofold mystery

Three Pines Press presents:

Beyond the Daode jing, by Friederike Assandri

US$29.95 -- www.threepinespress.com

This book is the first monograph to present early Twofold Mystery (chongxuan) teaching to a Western audience: historical context, protagonists, and major texts, and philosophy, including cosmogony, epistemology, salvation, and the pantheon.

Readings in Daoist Mysticism

in New Publications, Daoism, Mysticism, translations

New from Three Pines Press

Readings in Chinese Mysticism, by Livia Kohn

US$29.95 -- www.threepinespress.com

Introducing Daoism: The eBook

in New Publications, Daoism, electronic, textbook

New, electronic textbook for your classroom.

US$24.15 -- jbeonlinebooks.org

(hardcopy available from Routledge)

Readers might be interested to learn of the recent publication of Introducing Daoism (the ebook edition) by Livia Kohn. Designed with the needs of both students and teachers in mind the book provides a turnkey solution for anyone wishing to offer an introductory course on Taoism. All the resources needed to teach the course are online and ready to go.

The eBook

The Tao of Business

in New Publications, daodejing, strategies for leadership and management

Contemporary discussions on business and management strategies are not always that far apart from the leadership topics debated in pre-Qin China.
The Tao of Business shows how core strategies of the Daodejing can be successfully applied in modern management and help to build a profitable and sustainable business.
The Tao of Business, Earnshaw Books (www.earnshawbooks.com), Hong Kong, 2009The Tao of BusinessThe Tao of Business

Han Xin’s Revenge, a Daoist Mystery

in New Publications, contemporary, ethnography, film, Han Xin, ritual, theater, video

Han Xin’s Revenge, a Daoist Mystery by Patrice Fava has just received the Award for Excellency at the International Union of Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences film festival, held in Kunming (Yunnan Province) from 27th to 31st July 2009. This was the 16th Congress of the IUAES and saw more than 4000 scholars participating in the event which is held every five years.