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Liezi: The Book of Master Lie
Liezi lived forty years in a garden and nobody knew who he was. His book is a collection of Daoist stories: the man who rode the wind, the old man who moved mountains, the dream of the Yellow Emperor and the mechanical man. Some of the most famous parables in Chinese come from it, and its chapter on pleasure is one of the most daring texts of antiquity. This is a complete new English translation, with names in modern pinyin and the text rendered as plain, readable English prose. It is short enough to read in an evening and deep enough to return to for years, and the English keeps the paradoxes and stories intact. The early Chinese thinkers argued about the same questions we still ask: how to live, how to govern, what is natural and what can be known.
