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Chinese Wisdom

Китайская мудрость

Lev Tolstói en Yásnaia Poliana (1908)
byLeo Tolstoy

Unfinished fragment of 1884, from the period when Tolstoy began reading Laozi and Confucius (his diary for March 1884 notes: "Have been translating Lao Tzu. It does not come out as I want"). Under the title Chinese Wisdom he published in 1907, together with the Letter to a Chinese, a selection of passages from Confucius, The Great Learning and Laozi.

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  • Bodde, Derk (con Galia Speshneff Bodde). Tolstoy and China. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1950; y base de datos China-West de la Universidad de Zúrich (cronología de Tolstói y China: diario de marzo de 1884; Izrechéniia kitáiskogo mudretsa Lao-Tze, Posrédnik, 1910; Tao-Te-King, trad. D. P. Konishi, ed. Tolstói, 1913).

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