Mingyuan Hu - Böcker

A radical thinker, Xunzi disagreed with Mencius on human nature. For him men are naturally evil. From this inverse assumption, he yet reached the same Mencian conclusion: moral education is paramount for society to function, and the ruler should be meritorious, protecting the people. This makes Xunzi a Confucianist, though Han Fei and Li Si, his students, were to subvert Confucian principles. From Xunzi, Mingyuan Hu selects and translates three treatises, illustrating his argument. This book is part of the Erstwhile Series.

The prodigious aristocrat Qu Yuan was a minister of Chu, a major power during the Warring States. Pressing for Vertical Alliance but not listened to, he was twice exiled. Bewailing affliction, he wrote verses in the Chu dialect, and liberated poetry from the four-syllable metre. Qu Yuan's vers libre, like his suicide, has been immortalised in East Asia, as one honours the Romantic poet and a wounded statesman, ill-treated and loyal to the end. Attribution to Qu Yuan has at times been disputed; some opuses stand emblematic. Two prose pieces and two poems are offered in a new translation by Mingyuan Hu. This book is part of the Erstwhile Series.

Elegance of personality, a peculiar notion of the Chinese literati, is encapsulated in the Shishuo Xinyu - character sketches from the fifth century of elevated, often eccentric, beings. Bygone archetypes of soaring individuality, poets, politicians, artists, and musicians here come in an ensemble of the eremitic and extravagant, selected from the Shishuo and translated by Mingyuan Hu. This book is part of the Erstwhile Series.

Elegance of personality, a peculiar notion of the Chinese literati, is encapsulated in the Shishuo Xinyu - character sketches from the fifth century of elevated, often eccentric, beings. Bygone archetypes of soaring individuality, poets, politicians, artists, and musicians here come in an ensemble of the bold and untrammelled, selected from the Shishuo and translated by Mingyuan Hu. This book is part of the Erstwhile Series.

The tragic conscience of modern China's most revered critic-translator is portrayed in this biography. Discoveries made in Parisian archives by the biographer illuminate Fou Lei's youthful journey, a little-known cross-cultural story; a global intellectual history. This edition is a revised version of Fou Lei: An Insistence on Truth (Brill, 2017; Hermits United, 2023). It is a concomitant publication of Fou Lai. Un heros vaincu, translated into the French by Mael Renouard.

Olivier returns from New York to Paris to find his sister Constance in pieces. Trying to fulfil his brotherly duty, he discovers a world beyond his imagination. What has an ancient diagram got to do with it all? Why is colour a metaphor for our existence? Why is divination a science?