Annping Chin: 4 books

Four Sisters of Hofei is an intimate encounter with Chinese history, told through the collective memory and stories of four sisters born between 1908 and 1924, and with the benefit of the extraordinary knowledge of Yale historian Annping Chin. Now in their late eighties and early nineties,...

For more than two thousand years, Confucius has been an inseparable part of China's history. Yet despite this fame,Confucius the man has been elusive. Now, in The Authentic Confucius, Annping Chin has worked through the most reliable Chinese texts in her quest to sort out what is really known about...

Confucius is one of the most humane, rational, and lucid of moral teachers, concerned not with arcane metaphysics but with practical issues of life and conduct. What is virtue? What sort of life is most conducive to happiness? How should the state be ruled? What is the proper relationship between...

Un fenomeno epocale come le nuove migrazioni verso l'Europa poteva essere l'occasione per una scommessa straordinaria: ragionare su una cultura della legalità, coniugata con il principio di solidarietà, collegare i comuni doveri con la capacità di estendere i diritti e di includere nuove popolazioni....