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• Chinese Puzzle in Seven Pieces

  Author:Lesley SyngeFrom:Hecate (Vol. 42, Issue 1) Peer-Reviewed

  May 20166,022 words Critical essay 1050L1. By mid-morning the hire-truck, loaded with supplies and yesterday's wet things, is gunning along the Tasman Highway. Tea Cosy, a bald man who likes to wear rainbow-coloured beanies, is driving. He and his offsider...

• MING [phrase omitted] IN THE LAOZI DAODEJING [phrase omitted]: INTERPRETATIONS AND TRANSLATIONS OF THE OPENING VERSE.

  Author:Yumi SuzukiFrom:Philosophy East and West (Vol. 71, Issue 3) Peer-Reviewed

  July 20219,236 words Critical essay 1690LIntroduction The traditionally received sources of the Daodejing begin with the following memorable verse on dao [phrase omitted] and ming [phrase omitted]: [phrase omitted] * Dao ke dao, fei chang dao. [1] [phrase...

• Anaphors or cataphors? A discussion of the two qi [TEXT NOT REPRODUCIBLE IN ASCII] graphs in the first chapter of the Daodejing

  Authors:Yoav Ariel and Gil RazFrom:Philosophy East and West (Vol. 60, Issue 3) Peer-Reviewed

  July 201012,875 words Critical essay 1410LNo one realized that the book and the labyrinth were one and the same. Jorge Luis Borges, "The Garden of Forking Paths" Introduction [TEXT NOT REPRODUCIBLE IN ASCII.] [1] The dao that can be spoken of is not...

• The coming time "between" being and Daoist emptiness: an analysis of Heidegger's article inquiring into the uniqueness of the poet via the Lao Zi

  Author:Xianglong ZhangFrom:Philosophy East and West (Vol. 59, Issue 1) Peer-Reviewed

  Jan. 20097,278 words Critical essay 1490LIn volume 75 of Heidegger's Complete Works, there is an article written in 1943 in which Heidegger cited the whole of chapter 11 of the Lao Zi to illustrate his view of the uniqueness of the poet. This essay attempts to...

• Hegel's criticism of Laozi and its implications

  Author:Wong Kwok KuiFrom:Philosophy East and West (Vol. 61, Issue 1) Peer-Reviewed

  Jan. 201111,352 words Report 1430LThis essay looks at the fundamental differences between Chinese and Western philosophy as reflected in Hegel's famous criticism of Laozi. In his Lectures on the History of Philosophy, Hegel argues that Laozi's thought...

• Leadership requires creative use of 'what is not': it is only in unused space that there is the possibility for growth. "What is not" is not a deficit; it's the only place where leadership has the room to make a difference

  Author:George MantheyFrom:Leadership (Vol. 39, Issue 1)

  September-October 2009306 words Brief article 1270LIt is somewhat ironic, or perhaps a case of being ornery, that I find myself returning to an ancient poet as I contemplate this month's Leadership magazine theme, "Leadership for a Changing World." In approximately 400...

• The abduction of vagueness: interpreting the Laozi

  Author:Steve CoutinhoFrom:Philosophy East and West (Vol. 52, Issue 4) Peer-Reviewed

  Oct. 20028,476 words Article The Vagueness of Abduction The writings of the early Daoists are permeated with the unmistakable flavor of vagueness. The highly metaphorical, laconic, and imagistic text of the Laozi seems, for better or worse, to...

• Corrigendum to "Dual Effects of Cellular Immunotherapy in Inhibition of Virus Replication and Prolongation of Survival in HCV-Positive Hepatocellular Carcinoma Patients".

  Authors:Lei Qian, Nanya Wang, Huimin Tian, Haofan Jin, Hengjun Zhao, Chao Niu, et al.From:Journal of Immunology Research (Vol. 2022) Peer-Reviewed

  July 16, 2022464 words Correction notice 1500LAuthor(s): Lei Qian [1]; Nanya Wang [1]; Huimin Tian [1]; Haofan Jin [1]; Hengjun Zhao [1]; Chao Niu [1]; Hua He [1]; Tingwen Ge [1]; Wei Han [1]; Jifan Hu [1]; Dan Li [1]; Fujun Han [1]; Jianting Xu [1]; Xiao Ding [1];...

• A leader is best when people barely know he exists

  From:Journal of Property Management (Vol. 75, Issue 6) Peer-Reviewed

  November-December 201028 words Brief article, Quota... 500L"A leader is best when people barely know he exists; when his work is done, his aim fulfilled, they will say: we did it ourselves. --LAO-TZU, CHINESE PHILOSOPHER...

• The metaphysics and unnamability of the dao in the Daodejing and Wittgenstein

  Author:Leo K.C. CheungFrom:Philosophy East and West (Vol. 67, Issue 2) Peer-Reviewed

  Apr. 201712,749 words Critical essay 1480LIntroduction This essay is basically exegetical in nature, and its purpose is fourfold. First, I argue against the prevailing view that the dao of the Daodejing is metaphysically either a non-being or something...

• Evidence-based policymaking in a VUCA world.

  Authors:Lorraine Eden, Charles F. Hermann, and Stewart R. MillerFrom:Transnational Corporations (Vol. 28, Issue 3) Peer-Reviewed

  Nov. 20218,992 words Article 1420LIn a volatile, uncertain, complex and ambiguous (VUCA) world, responses by governments to global shocks will vary in substance and rate of success. We argue that policymakers can make better decisions when high-quality...

• Lao-Tzu Te-Tao Ching: A New Translation Based on the Recently Discovered Ma-Wang-Tui Texts

  Author:Wayne AltFrom:Philosophy East and West (Vol. 44, Issue 2) Peer-Reviewed

  Apr. 19943,953 words Book review Almost twenty years ago, near the village of Ma-wang-tui in Hunan province, archaeologists began to excavate the tomb of the son of the Prime Minister of Changsha, who lived in the early years of the former Han dynasty....

• How to rule without taking unnatural actions ([TEXT NOT REPRODUCIBLE IN ASCII]): a comparative study of the political philosophy of the Laozi

  Author:Tongdong BaiFrom:Philosophy East and West (Vol. 59, Issue 4) Peer-Reviewed

  Oct. 200910,884 words Article 1550LIn this essay, the understanding of naturalness and of ruling without taking unnatural actions in the Laozi will be clarified and elaborated on, and it will be argued that the Laozi offers a theoretically adequate and...

• Demi. The Legend of Lao Tzu and the Tao Te Ching

  Author:Margaret BushFrom:School Library Journal (Vol. 53, Issue 5)

  May 2007260 words Book review, Brief a... 1050LDEMI. The Legend of Lao Tzu and the Tao Te Ching. illus. by author. unpaged. CIP. S & S/Margaret K. McElderry Bks. 2006. RTE $21.99. ISBN 978-1-4169-1206-4. LC 2005029695. Gr 5 Up--"This is the legend of Lao Tzu, who...

• Li Er: Ying Wu Xiong

  Author:Gong QiangweiFrom:World Literature Today (Vol. 94, Issue 1) Peer-Reviewed

  Winter 2020402 words Book review 1250LLi Er Ying Wu Xiong Beijing. People's Literature Publishing House. 2018. 1,039 pages. YING WU XIONG (Brother Yingwu), Li Er's latest novel, won the 2019 Mao Dun Literature Prize in China. In the afterword,...

• The Dao that cannot be named

  Author:Richard McDonoughFrom:Philosophy East and West (Vol. 67, Issue 3) Peer-Reviewed

  July 201711,751 words Critical essay 1470LThis essay claims that the first stanza of the Dao-de Jing (DDJ) attempts to formulate the sense of paradox-and loss-in the transition from pre-linguistic humanity to the first linguistically self-aware Chinese...

• Peng Yin [PhD]: Persisting in the Good: Thomas Aquinas in Conversation with Early Chinese Ethics

  Author:Mark D. JordanFrom:Harvard Theological Review (Vol. 113, Issue 4) Peer-Reviewed

  Oct. 2020255 words Author abstract, Bri... 1560LThis dissertation addresses the question, How do we persist in the good when the world's contingency, fortune, and evil are not hospitable to virtue? Drawing on the legacy of Matteo Ricci, I put Thomas Aquinas in...

• A paradox of virtue: the Daodejing on virtue and moral philosophy

  Author:Hektor K.T. YanFrom:Philosophy East and West (Vol. 59, Issue 2) Peer-Reviewed

  Apr. 20097,473 words Critical essay 1510LBased on a reading of chapter 38 of the Daodejing [TEXT NOT REPRODUCIBLE IN ASCII], this article examines the question of moral motivation in relation to moral philosophy in general. It starts with a philosophical...