The Cipher of Fables (Exploring the Roots of Chinese Thought in the Axial Age)

Author: Zhang Yuanshan
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Publish Date: 2005-08-01
Features: Approaching Chinese history and its initial cultural and philosophical origins through the fables of the pre-Qin philosophers. The Code of Fables – Exploring the Roots of Chinese Thought in the Axial Age is the author's comprehensive investigation into Chinese history and its initial philosophical origins, based on twenty-five years (1980–2005) of repeated study of pre-Qin philosophical classics and related research works. Two-thirds of the fables selected in the book were picked by the author from vast ancient texts and summarized for the first time in the form of four-character idioms.