The Discourses of Master Wenzhong

In the ruins of a broken age, one teacher set out to restore the Way. After nearly four centuries of division, Wang Tong - a prodigy who lectured at fifteen and advised an emperor at nineteen - walked away from the court to teach. The students who gathered around him would help shape the coming Tang.

The ritual codes, philosophical discourses, educational primers and religious classics that shaped Chinese civilization for over two millennia. Where the narrative classics tell China’s stories, these texts encode its institutions, its ethics and its inner life.