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13 mai 2021
- doi: 10.4000/books.cdf.11610
- eisbn: 9782722605756
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Anne Cheng et al., « Foreword », Collège de France, ID : 10.4000/books.cdf.11610
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In the general opinion, Asia as a whole tends to be represented (and more often than not, to represent itself) as devoid of violence: look at Indian “non-violence”, Chinese Taoist “non-action”, Confucian “harmony”, Buddhist “love for peace” or Japanese “Zen philosophy”. This may fill the shelves of “Oriental wisdom” sections in our bookshops, but most historians do not buy into this kind of “chicken broth for the soul” (the expression has been used to describe Yu Dan’s politically correct and...