How did the ancient Chinese think about the world? What does environmental consciousness stand for in the Chinese tradition? Where does Chinas obsession with education come from?

We are often told that the twenty-first century is bound to become Chinas century. Never before has Chinese culture been so physically, digitally, economically or aesthetically present in everyday life in the Western world. But how much do we really know about its origins and key beliefs, especially compared to the many histories of Western philosophy?

In this enlightening book, Roel Sterckx, one of the foremost...