BOOKS ON DAOISM
(and some articles)

Reference:

  • Komjathy, Louis, 2003. Title Index to Daoist Collections
  • Pas, Julian, 1998. Historical Dictionary of Taoism.
  • Pregadio, Fabrizio, ed., 2007. The Encyclopedia of Taoism
  • Schipper, Kristofer and Franciscus Verellen, eds., 2004. The Taoist Canon: A Historical Companion to the Daozang.

General:

  • Baldrian, Farzeen, 1987. "Taoism: An Overview," in Mircea Eliade, ed., Encyclopedia of Religion.
  • Blofeld, John, 1978. Taoism: The Road to Immortality.
  • Chan, Wing-tsit, 1963. A Source Book in Chinese Philosophy, chs. 7, 8, 19.
  • Creel, Herrlee Glessner, 1970. What is Taoism? And Other Studies in Chinese Cultural History
  • Fung Yu-lan, 1954. A History of Chinese Philosophy, vol. 1, chs. 8, 10; vol.2, chs. 5, 6
  • Graham, A.C., 1989. Disputers of the Tao, pp. 170-211, 285-292, 299-311.
  • History of Religions, 9 (2/3) Nov/Feb 1969/70 (special issue on Taoism)
  • Hsiao Kung-chuan, 1979. A History of Chinese Political Thought, pp. 273-318 (Lao-Chuang), 549-556 (Huang-Lao), 602-673 (Wei-Chin).
  • Kaltenmark, Max, 1965. Lao Tzu and Taoism.
  • Kohn, Livia, 1992. Early Chinese Mysticism: Philosophy and Soteriology
  • Kohn, Livia, 1993. The Taoist Experience: An Anthology
  • Kohn, Livia, 2000. Daoism Handbook
  • Maspero, Henri (orig. 1930s). Taoism and Chinese Religions, trans. Frank A. Kierman, Jr. (Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 1981)
  • Miller, James, 2003. Daoism: A Short Introduction
  • Needham, Joseph, 1956. Science and Civilisation in China, vol. 2, pp. 33-132 (philosophical Taoism), 132-164 (religious Taoism).
  • Penny, Benjamin, ed. Daoism in History: Essays in Honour of Liu Ts'un-yan (London: Routledge, 2006)
  • Robinet, Isabelle, 1992 (trans. 1997). Taoism: Growth of a Religion.
  • Schwartz, Benjamin I., 1985. The World of Thought in Ancient China, pp. 186-215 (Lao Tzu), 215-237 (Chuang Tzu), 237-254 (Huang-Lao).
  • Seidel, Anna K., and Strickmann, Michel, 1974. "Taoism," in The New Encyclopedia Britannica: Macropedia.
  • Sivin, Nathan, 1978. "On the word 'Taoist' as a source of perplexity. With special reference to the relations of science and religion in traditional China," in History of Religions, vol. 17, pp. 303-330.
  • Strickmann, Michel, 1980. "History, Anthropology, and Chinese Religion," in Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies, vol. 40, pp. 201-248.
  • Welch, Holmes, 1957. The Parting of the Way; Lao Tzu and the Taoist Movement.
  • Welch, Holmes, and Seidel, Anna, 1979. Facets of Taoism.
  • Wu, Yao-yü, 1976. The Taoist Tradition in Chinese Thought.
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Lao-Zhuang:

     Translations (chronologically)

  • Arthur Waley, 1958. The Way and its Power
  • Eduard Erkes, 1958. Ho-shang-kung's Commentary on Lao-Tse
  • John C. H. Wu, 1961. Lao Tzu: Tao Te Ching
  • D. C. Lau, 1963. Lao Tzu: Tao Te Ching
  • Wing-tsit Chan, 1963. The Way of Lao Tzu
  • Chang Chung-yuan, 1975. Tao: A New Way of Thinking
  • Paul J. Lin, 1977. A Translation of Lao Tzu's Tao Te Ching and Wang Pi's Commentary
  • Robert G. Henricks, 1989. Lao Tzu: Te Tao Ching
  • D. C. Lau, 1989. Lao Tzu: Tao Te Ching [Ma-wang-tui text]
  • Ellen M. Chen, 1989. The Tao Te Ching
  • Victor H. Mair, 1990. Tao Te Ching: The Classic Book of Integrity and the Way
  • Michael LaFargue, 1992. The Tao of the Tao Te Ching: A Translation and Commentary
  • Moran, Patrick Edwin, 1993. Three Smaller Wisdom Books: Lao Zi's Dao De Jing, the Great Learning (Da xue), and the Doctrine of the Mean (Zhong yong).
  • Stephen Addiss and Stanley Lombardo, 1993. Tao Te Ching
  • Red Pine, 1996. Lao-tzu's Taoteching, with Selected Commentaries of the Past 2000 Years
  • Philip J. Ivanhoe, 2002. The Daodejing of Laozi (Hackett)

  • Burton Watson, 1964. Chuang Tzu: Basic Writings
  • Burton Watson, 1968. The Complete Works of Chuang Tzu
  • A. C. Graham, 1981. Chuang Tzu: The Inner Chapters
  • Mair, Victor H., 1994. Wandering on the Way: Early Taoist Tales and Parables of Chuang Tzu
  • David Hinton, 1997. Chuang Tzu: The Inner Chapters. (Counterpoint)
  • Brook Ziporyn, 2008. Zhuangzi: The Essential Texts (Hackett)

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     Secondary Works

  • Allan, Sarah and Crispin Williams, eds, 2000. The Guodian Laozi: Proceedings of the International Conference, Dartmouth College, May 1998 (Berkeley: Society for the Study of Early China and the Institute of East Asian Studies, University of California).
  • Allinson, Robert E., 1989. Chuang-tzu for Spiritual Transformation: An Analysis of the Inner Chapters.
  • Ames, Roger, 1981. "Taoism and the Androgynous Ideal," in Richard Guisso and Stanley Johannesen, eds., Women in China, pp. 21-45.
  • Ames, Roger, 1989. "Putting the Te back into Taoism," in J. Baird Callicott and Roger T. Ames, eds., Nature in Asian Traditions of Thought, pp. 113-144.
  • Berling, Judith, 1985. "Self and Whole in Chuang Tzu," in Donald Munro, ed., Individualism and Holism: Studies in Confucian and Taoist Values, pp. 101-120.
  • Carr, Karen L. and Philip J. Ivanhoe, The Sense of Anti-Rationalism: The Religious Thought of Zhuangzi and Kierkegaard (NY: Seven Bridges Press, 2000)
  • Chen, Ellen Marie, 1969. "Nothingness and the Mother Principle in Early Chinese Taoism," International Philosophical Quarterly, vol.9, pp. 391-405.
  • Cook, Scott, ed., 2003. Hiding the World in the World: Uneven Discourses on the Zhuangzi.
  • Csikszentmihalyi, Mark, and and Philip J. Ivanhoe, eds., 1999. Religious And Philosophical Aspects of the Laozi.
  • Girardot, Norman, 1977. "Myth and Meaning in the Tao Te Ching: Chapters 25 and 42," History of Religions, vol. 16, pp. 294-328.
  • Girardot, Norman, 1983. Myth and Meaning in Early Taoism.
  • Hansen, Chad, 1992. A Daoist Theory of Chinese Thought: A Philosophical Interpretation.
  • Ivanhoe, P.J.. A Concordance to the Tao Te Ching. (Stanford Chinese Concordance Series No. 3) Dept. of Philosophy, Stanford University.
  • Kjellberg, Paul, and Ivanhoe, Philip J., eds. 1996 Essays on Skepticism, Relativism, & Ethics in the Zhuangzi. (SUNY)
  • LaFargue, Michael, 1994. Tao and Method: A Reasoned Approach to the Tao Te Ching.
  • Lin, Shuen-fu, 1994. “The Language of the ‘Inner Chapters’ of the Chuang Tzu,” in The Power of Culture: Studies in Chinese Cultural History, ed. Willard J. Peterson, Andrew H. Plaks, Ying-shih Yü (Hong Kong: Chinese Univ. Press)
  • Liu Xiaogan, 1994. Classifying the Zhuangzi Chapters. (Michigan Monographs in Chinese Studies) No. 65 (Center for Chinese Studies)
  • Michael, Thomas. The Pristine Dao: Metaphysics in Early Daoist Discourse. Albany: SUNY Press, 2005.
  • Munro, Donald J., 1969. The Concept of Man in Early China, chs. 5-7.
  • Nivison, David S., 1987. "Tao and Te," in Mircea Eliade, ed., Encyclopedia of Religion.
  • Raphals, Lisa, 1992. Knowing Words: Wisdom and Cunning in the Classical Traditions of China and Greece, esp. ch. 4.
  • Roth, Harold, 1991. "Who Compiled the Chuang Tzu?" in Henry Rosemont, Jr., ed., Chinese Texts and Philosophical Contexts, pp. 79-128.
  • Slingerland, Edward. Effortless action: Wu-wei as Conceptual Metaphor and Spiritual Ideal in Early China. New York: Oxford University Press, 2003.
  • Ting, Nai-tung, 1962. "Lao Tzu's Critique of Language," from ETC., vol. 19, no.1, pp. 5-38.
  • Waley, Arthur, 1939. Three Ways of Thought in Ancient China, pp. 3-79.
  • Wu Kuang-ming, 1990. The Butterfly as Companion: Meditations on the First Three Chapters of the Chuang Tzu.
  • Yearley, Lee, 1983. "The Perfected Person in the Radical Chuang Tzu," in Victor H. Mair, ed., Experimental Essays on Chuang Tzu, pp. 125-139.
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Huang-Lao:

  • Jan Yün-hua, 1980. "Tao Yüan or Tao: The Origin," from Journal of Chinese Philosophy, vol. 7, pp. 195-204.
  • Jan Yün-hua, 1980. "Tao, Principle, and Law: The Three Key Concepts in the Yellow Emperor Taoism," from Journal of Chinese Philosophy, vol. 7, pp. 205-228.
  • Le Blanc, Charles, 1985. Huai-nan Tzu: Philosophical Synthesis in Early Han Thought: The Idea of Resonance (kan-ying) with a translation and analysis of chapter six
  • Leo, Jessieca, 2011. Sex in the Yellow Emperor's Basic Questions: Sex, Longevity, and Medicine in Early China (Magdelena, NM: Three Pines Press).
  • Major, John S., 1993. Heaven and earth in early Han thought : chapters three, four and five of the Huainanzi
  • Peerenboom, R. P., 1993. Law and Morality in Ancient China: The Silk Manuscripts of Huang-Lao
  • Rickett, W. Allyn, trans., 1985. Guanzi [Kuan Tzu], 2 vols.
  • Roth, Harold D., 1987. "Huang-Lao Chün," in Mircea Eliade, ed., Encyclopedia of Religion.
  • Roth, Harold D., 1991. "Psychology and Self-Cultivation in Early Taoistic Thought," in Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies, 51:2, pp. 599-650.
  • Roth, Harold D., 1992 The textual history of the Huai-nan tzu (Ann Arbor: Association for Asian Studies).
  • Roth, Harold D., 1985. “The concept of human nature in the Huai-nan Tzu,” in Journal of Chinese Philosophy, 12, pp. 1-22.
  • Tu Wei-ming, 1979. "The 'Thought of Huang-Lao': A Reflection on the Lao Tzu and Huang Ti Texts in the Silk Manuscripts of Ma-wang-tui," in Journal of Asian Studies, vol. 39, no.1, pp. 95-110.
  • Vankeerberghen, Griet, 2001. The Huainanzi and Liu An's Claim to Moral Authority (Albany: SUNY Press)
  • Wallacker, Benjamin E., 1962. The Huai-nan-tzu, Book Eleven: Behavior, Culture and the Cosmos (New Haven: American Oriental Society)
  • Yates, Robin D.S., 1997. Five Lost Classics: Tao, Huang-Lao, and Yin-Yang in Han China
  • Yü Ying-shih, 1964-65. “Life and immortality in the mind of Han China.” Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies, 25, pp. 80-122.
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Xuan-xue ("Neo-Daoism"):

  • Chan, Alan Kam-leung, 1991. Two Visions of the Way: A Study of the Wang Pi and the Ho-Shang Kung Commentaries on the Lao-Tzu.
  • Feng Yu-lan, 1931. Chuang Tzu: A New Selected Translation with an Exposition of the Philosophy of Kuo Hsiang.
  • Lin, Paul J. A Translation of Lao Tzu's Tao Te Ching and Wang Pi's Commentary
  • Rump, Ariane, with Wing-tsit Chan, trans., 1977. Wang Pi: Commentary on the Lao Tzu
  • T'ang Yung-tung, 1947. “Wang Pi's new interpretation of the I Ching and Lun Yü” (trans. W. Liebenthal), Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies, 10, pp. 124-61.
  • Wright, Arthur F., 1947. Review of A. A. Petrov, Wang Pi (226-249): His Place in the History of Chinese Philosophy, in Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies, 10, pp. 75-88.
  • Yü Ying-shih, 1985. "Individualism and the Neo-Taoist Movement in Wei-Chin China," in Donald Munro, ed., Individualism and Holism: Studies in Confucian and Taoist Values, pp. 121-156.
  • Zürcher, Erik, 1959. "Ming-chiao and Hsüan-hsüeh [Neo-Taoism]," in The Buddhist Conquest of China, vol. 1., pp. 86-95.
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Daoist Religion:

  • Assandri, Friederike, 2009. Beyond the Daode jing : Twofold Mystery in Tang Daoism.
  • Barrett, T.H., 1996. Taoism Under the T'ang: Religion and Empire During the Golden Age of Chinese History.
  • Bell, Catherine M., 1987. "T'ao Hung-ching," in Mircea Eliade, ed., Encyclopedia of Religion.
  • Benn, Charles D., 1991. The Cavern-Mystery Transmission: A Taoist ordination Rite of A.D. 711.
  • Bokenkamp, Stephen R. 1997. Early Daoist Scriptures.
  • Bokenkamp, Stephen R. 2007. Ancestors and Anxiety: Daoism and the Birth of Rebirth in China. Berkeley: University of California Press.
  • Boltz, Judith M., 1987. "Taoist Literature," in Mircea Eliade, ed., Encyclopedia of Religion.
  • Boltz, Judith M., 1983. "Opening the Gates of Purgatory," from Michel Strickmann, ed., Tantric and Taoist Studies in Honour of R.A. Stein, vol. 2, pp. 487-511.
  • Cahill, Suzanne E., trans, 2006. Divine Traces of the Daoist Sisterhood: "Records of the Assembled Transcendents of the Fortified Walled City," by Du Guangting.
  • Chao, Shin-Yi. 2011. Daoist Rituals, State Religion, and Popular Practices: Zhenwu Worship from Song to Ming (960-1644). NY: Routledge.
  • Chappell, David, ed., 1987. Buddhist and Taoist Practice in Medieval Chinese Society.
  • Cleary, Thomas, trans., 1987. Understanding Reality: A Taoist Alchemical Classic, by Chang Po-tuan [Sung dyn.], with commentary by Liu I-ming [Ch'ing dyn.]
  • Cleary, Thomas, trans., 1986. The Inner Teachings of Taoism, by Chang Po-tuan, with commentary by Liu I-ming [shorter version of above].
  • Cleary, Thomas, trans., 1989. The Book of Balance and Harmony, by Li Tao-ch'un
  • Dean, Kenneth, 1993. Taoist Ritual and Popular Cults of Southeast China
  • De Meyer, Jan, 2006. Wu Yun's Way: Life and Works of an Eighth-Century Daoist Master. Leiden: Brill, 2006.
  • Despeux, Catherine and Livia Kohn, 2003. Women in Daoism
  • Eskildsen, Stephen, 1998. Asceticism in Early Taoist Religion.
  • Eskildsen, Stephen, 2004. The Teachings and Practices of the Early Quanzhen Taoist Masters.
  • Hawkes, David, trans., 1985. Ch'u Tz'u: The Songs of the South.
  • Hendrischke, Barbara, trans., 2006. The Scripture on Great Peace: The Taiping Jing and the Beginnings of Daoism
  • Huang, Jane and Wurmbrand, Michael, trans., 1987. The Primordial Breath: An Ancient Chinese Way of Prolonging Life Through Breath Control [translations from Tao Tsang], 2 vols.
  • Huang, Shih-shan Susan. Picturing the True Form: Daoist Visual Culture in Traditional China. Harvard University Press, 2012.
  • Katz, Paul R. Images of the immortal: The Cult of Lü Dongbin at the Palace of Eternal Joy. Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press, 1999.
  • Kleeman, Terry F., 1994. A God's Own Tale: The Book of Transformations of Wenchang, the Divine Lord of Zitong.
  • Kleeman, Terry F., 1998. Great Perfection: Religion and Ethnicity in a Chinese Millennial Kingdom. [Da Cheng kingdom (Ba people) in Sichuan]
  • Kohn, Livia, ed., 1989. Taoist Meditation and Longevity Techniques
  • Kohn, Livia, 1991. Taoist Mystical Philosophy: The Scripture of Western Ascension.
  • Kohn, Livia, 2001. Daoism and Chinese Culture.
  • Kohn, Livia, n.d. Living with the Dao: Conceptual Issues in Daoist Practice
  • Kohn, Livia, 2004. Cosmos and Community: The Ethical Dimension of Daoism
  • Kohn, Livia, n.d. Supplement to Cosmos and Community
  • Kohn, Livia, 2004. Laughing at the Tao: Debates Among Buddhists and Taoists in Medieval China.
  • Kohn, Livia, 2005. Health and Long Life: The Chinese Way (mainly on traditional Chinese medicine)
  • Kohn, Livia, ed., 2006. Daoist Body Cultivation
  • Kohn, Livia and Harold D. Roth, eds., 2002. Daoist Identity: History, Lineage, and Ritual
  • Kohn, Livia and Robin R. Wang, eds., 2009. Internal alchemy: Self, Society, and the Quest for Immortality
  • Komjathy, Louis, 2007. Cultivating Perfection: Mysticism and Self-transformation in Early Quanzhen Daoism. Leiden: Brill.
  • Komjathy, Louis, 2013. The Way of Complete Perfection: A Quanzhen Daoist Anthology. Albany: State University of New York Press.
  • Kwok Man Ho and Joanne O'Brien, 1991. The Eight Immortals of Taoism: Legends and Fables of Popular Taoism.
  • Lagerwey, John, 1987. "The Taoist Religious Community," in Mircea Eliade, ed., Encyclopedia of Religion.
  • Lagerwey, John, 1987. Taoist Ritual in Chinese Society and History
  • Liu, Kwang-Ching and Richard Shek, eds., 2004. Heterodoxy in Late Imperial China
  • Liu, Xun, 2009. Daoist Modern: Innovation, Lay Practice, and the Community of Inner Alchemy in Republican Shanghai.
  • Lu K'uan-Yü, 1970. Taoist Yoga: Alchemy and Immortality [translation of early 20th century manual of "inner alchemy"].
  • Maspero, Henri, 1937. "'Nourishing the Vital Principle' in the Ancient Taoist Religion," in Taoism and Chinese Religions, pp. 443-554.
  • Needham, Joseph, 1974-83. Science and Civilisation in China, vol.5 (on alchemy): parts 2, 3, 4, 5.
  • Nickerson, Peter, 2008. Taoism, Bureaucracy, and Popular Religion in Early Medieval China
  • Nivison, David S., 1987. "Hsien," in Mircea Eliade, ed., Encyclopedia of Religion.
  • Pregadio, Fabrizio, 2006. Great Clarity: Daoism and Alchemy in Early Medieval China
  • Robinet, Isabelle, 1993. Taoist Meditation: The Mao-shan Tradition of Great Purity
  • Saso, Michael, 1978. The Teachings of Taoist Master Chuang.
  • Saso, Michael, 1991. Blue Dragon, White Tiger: Taoist Rites of Passage
  • Saso, Michael R., 1989. Taoism and the Rite of Cosmic Renewal, 2nd ed.
  • Saso, Michael and Chappell, David W. eds., 1977. Buddhist and Taoist studies I
  • Schipper, Kristofer, 1974. "The Written Memorial in Taoist Ceremonies," in Arthur P. Wolf, ed., Religion and Ritual in Chinese Society," pp. 309-324.
  • Schipper, Kristofer M. Concordance du Houang-t'ing king. Publications de l'Ecole Française d'Extrme-Orient, Paris, 1975.
  • Schipper, Kristofer M. Concordance du Pao-p'u-tzu nei/wai-p'ien. Publications de l'Ecole Française d'Extrme-Orient, Paris, 1975.
  • Schipper, Kristofer M. Concordance du Tao Tsang. Publications de l'Ecole Française d'Extrme-Orient, Paris, 1975.
  • Schipper, Kristofer, 1978. "The Taoist Body," History of Religions, vol. 17, pp. 355-386.
  • Schipper, Kristofer, 1993. The Taoist Body.
  • Schipper, Kristofer and Franciscus Verellen, eds., 2004. The Taoist Canon: A Historical Companion to the Daozang.
  • Seidel, Anna K., 1969. "The Image of the Perfect Ruler in Early Taoist Messianism: Lao Tzu and Li Hung," History of Religions, vol. 9, pp. 216-247.
  • Sivin, Nathan, 1977. "Chinese Alchemy and the Manipulation of Time," from Sivin, ed., Science and Technology in East Asia.
  • Stein, Rolf A., 1979. "Religious Taoism and Popular Religion from the Second to Seventh Centuries," in Welch and Seidel, eds., Facets of Taoism, pp. 53-82.
  • Strickmann, Michel, 1977. "The Mao Shan Revelations: Taoism and the Aristocracy," in T'oung Pao, vol. 63, no.1, pp. 1-40.
  • Strickmann, Michel, 1979. "On the Alchemy of T'ao Hung-ching," in Welch and Seidel, eds., Facets of Taoism, pp. 123-192.
  • Strickmann, Michel, ed., 1981. Tantric and Taoist studies in honour of R. A. Stein, vol. 1. Mélanges Chinois et Bouddhiques, 20 (Brussels: Institut des Hautes Etudes Chinoises).
  • Strickmann, Michel, ed., 1983. Tantric and Taoist studies in honour of R. A. Stein, vol. 2. Mélanges Chinois et Bouddhiques, 21 (Brussels: Institut des Hautes Etudes Chinoises).
  • Tsao, Pen-Yeh and Daniel P. L. Law, eds. 1989. Studies of Taoist Rituals and Music of Today. Hong Kong: Society of Ethnomusicological Research
  • Waley, Arthur, 1955. The Nine Songs: A Study of Shamanism in Ancient China.
  • Ware, James, trans., 1966. Alchemy, Medicine & Religion in the China of A.D. 320: The Nei P'ien of Ko Hung (Pao-p'u tzu).
  • Wong, Eva, trans., 1992. Cultivating Stillness: A Taoist Manual for Transforming Body and Mind. Trans. of T'ai-shang Ch'ing-ching ching.
  • Wong, Eva, trans., 1997. Harmonizing Yin and Yang: The Dragon-tiger Classic (Shambhala)
  • Yoshioka, Yoshitoyo, 1979. "Taoist Monastic Life," in Welch and Seidel, Facets of Taoism, pp. 229-52.
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Nature and Environment:

  • Chen, Ellen Marie. 1973. “The meaning of te in the Tao Te Ching: an examination of the concept of nature in Chinese Taoism.” Philosophy East & West, 23, pp. 457-70.
  • Girardot, N.J., James Miller, and Liu Xiaogan, eds., 2001. Daoism and Ecology: Ways Within a Cosmic Landscape
  • Ip, Po-keung. 1983. “Taoism and the foundations of environmental ethics.” Environmental Ethics, 5, no. 4, pp. 335-43.
  • Kinsley, David. 1995. Ecology and Religion: Ecological Spirituality in Cross-Cultural Perspective, ch. 6, "Chinese Religions: Ecological Themes"
  • Mitsuda, Masato. 1988. “Taoist philosophy and its influence on Tang naturalist poetry.” Journal of Chinese Philosophy, 15 no. 2, pp. 199-216.
  • Palandri, Angela Jung. 1988. “The Taoist Vision: A Study of T'ao Yuanming's Nature Poetry.” Journal of Chinese Philosophy, 15 no. 2, pp. 97-121.
  • Palmer, Martin. 1998. “Chinese Religion and Ecology,” in Spirit of the Environment, ed. David E. Cooper and Joy A. Palmer
  • Roth, H. D. 1985. “The concept of human nature in the Huai-nan Tzu.” Journal of Chinese Philosophy, 12, pp. 1-22.
  • Schafer, Edward H. 1965 “The Idea of Created Nature in T'ang Literature.” Philosophy East & West, 15 no. 2 , pp. 153-60.
  • Sivin, N. 1976. “Chinese cosmology.” Nature, 259, p. 249.
  • Van Houten, Richard L. 1988. “Nature and tzu-ran in early Chinese philosophical literature.” Journal of Chinese Philosophy 15, pp. 35-49.
  • Yosida, Mitukuni. 1973. “The Chinese concept of nature.” In Nakayama Shigeru and Nathan Sivin, eds., Chinese Science (Cambridge: MIT Press), pp. 71-89.
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Daoism and Art:

  • Cahill, Suzanne E., 1993. Transcendence and Divine Passion: The Queen Mother of the West in Medieval China
  • Chang Chung-yuan, 1963. Creativity and Taoism: A Study of Chinese Philosophy, Art, and Poetry.
  • Huang, Shih-shan Susan. Picturing the True Form: Daoist Visual Culture in Traditional China. Cambridge: Harvard University Asia Center, 2012.
  • Little, Stephen with Shawn Eichman, 2000. Taoism and the Arts of China. Berkeley: University of California Press.
  • Rowley, George, 1959. The Principles of Chinese Painting.
  • Schafer, Edward H., 1985. Mirages on the Sea of Time: The Taoist poetry of Ts`ao T`ang
  • Sze, Mai-mai, 1956. The Tao of Painting.
  • Sze, Mai-mai, trans., 1956. The Mustard Seed Garden Manual of Painting.
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Other:

  • Anderson, Roger Kirk, 1987. Beckett et le Tao: Allant Sans But.
  • Barrett, Timothy Hugh, 1992. Li Ao: Buddhist, Taoist, or Neo-Confucian?
  • Blofeld, John, 1973. The Secret and Sublime: Taoist Mysteries and Magic. Personal account of visits to Taoist monasteries in the 1930s.
  • Chang, Lung-hsi, 1992. The Tao and the Logos: Literary Hermeneutics, East and West.
  • Deng Ming-dao, 1983. The Wandering Taoist. Biography of a modern Chinese Taoist Master, now living in the U.S.
  • Deng Ming-Dao, 1990. Scholar Warrior: An Introduction to the Tao in Everyday Life
  • Gulik, Robert H. van, 1977. The Haunted Monastery. Chinese detective fiction.
  • Siu, R.G.H., 1957. The Tao of Science: An Essay on Western Knowledge and Eastern Wisdom. (Cambridge: Technology Press, Massachusetts Institute of Technology) (1987 printing).
  • Siu, R.G.H., 1974. Ch'i: A Neo-Taoist Approach to Life. (Cambridge: MIT Press)
  • van der Loon, Piet, 1984. Taoist Books in the Libraries of the Sung Period: A Critical Study and Index. London: Ithaca Press.
  • Wong, Eva, trans., 1990. Seven Taoist Masters: A Folk Novel of China
  • Yang Erzeng, 2007. The Story of Han Xiangzi: The Alchemical Adventures of a Daoist Immortal (17th c. novel). Translated and Introduced by Philip Clart. (Seattle: Univ. of Washington Press)
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Journals:

(Those on the left publish more articles on Daoism and Chinese religions than those on the right.)

  • Journal of Daoist Studies (or here)
  • Dao: A Journal of Comparative Philosophy
  • Philosophy East & West
  • Journal of Chinese Philosophy
  • Journal of Chinese Religions
  • Journal of Asian Studies
  • History of Religions
  • Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies
  • International Philosophical Quarterly

Edit date: 11/20/13