Taoism and the Arts of China

Taoism and the Arts of China
By:Stephen Little,Shawn Eichman,Kristofer Shipper,Patricia Buckley Ebrey
Published on 2000-01-01 by Univ of California Press

A celebration of Taoist art traces the influence of philosophy on the visual arts in China.

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Do not you type of pine (secretly, in the marrow of one's gut's merry druthers) for the great ol'times of Goodreads (known then as GodFearingGoodlyReading.com) when all evaluations were uniformly plainspoken, just effective, unpretentious, and -- above all otherwise -- boring, dull, dull? Do not you sort of loathe when persons claim'don't you believe in this way or feel this way'in an attempt to goad you equally psychologically and grammatically into accepting using them? In the language of ABBA: I actually do, I really do, I do(, I do, I do). Properly, as the interwebs is a world in which yesteryear stands shoulder-to-shoulder with today's (and with fetish porn), we could revisit yesteryear in their inviolable presentness any time we wish. Or at least till this website ultimately tanks. Contemplate (won't you?) Matt Nieberle's overview of Macbeth in its entirety. I've destined it with a heavy string and drawn it here for the perusal. (Please recognize that many a sic are implied in the next reviews.) their actually complex and ridiculous! why cant we be studying like Romeo and Juliet?!?! at least that book is excellent! There you've it. Refreshingly, not just a review written in one of many witch's voices or alluding to Hillary and Statement Clinton or discussing the reviewer's first period. Just a primal yell unleashed in to the black wilderness of the cosmos.Yes, Mr. Nieberle is (probably) a teenager, but I admire his ability to strongarm the temptation to be clever or ironic. (Don't you?) He speaks the native language of the idk generation with an economy and an understanding that renders his convictions much more emphatic. Here's MICHAEL's review of the exact same play. You might'know'MICHAEL; he is the'Problems Architect'here at Goodreads. (A problematic title itself in so it implies that he designs problems... that will be the case, for all I know.) This book shouldn't be required reading... reading plays that that you don't want to see is awful. Reading a play kinda sucks to start with, if it absolutely was meant to be read, then it would be a novel, not really a play. Along with that the teach had us students browse the play aloud (on person for every character for a couple pages). None of us had browse the play before. None folks wanted to read it (I made the mistake of taking the'easy'english class for 6 years). The teacher picked students that looked like they weren't paying attention. This compounded to create me virtually hate reading classics for something like 10 years (granted macbeth alone wasn't the problem). I also hate iambic pentameter. Pure activism there. STOP the mandatory reading of plays. It's wrong, morally and academically. And yes it can really fuck up your GPA. 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