Rich and interesting ... this is not a work in classical reception, nor yet in the reception of China in Europe, but those interested in either field will read this book with profit and pleasure.
Chris Murray is Lecturer in Literary Studies at Monash University. He is the author of Tragic Coleridge (2013), and Crippled Immortals (2018) — a memoir about Zen martial-arts masters — and has been elected a Fellow of the Royal Asiatic Society.