Chinese thought. From Confucius to the cook of Dean. Sterks r

Chinese influence on the material and spiritual life of the modern world is becoming more and more noticeable, but the inhabitants of other countries still know almost nothing about China and its culture. Based on this indisputable fact, the Cambridge synologist Rul Sterks offers all of us, living outside the Celestial Office, a compressed but thorough outline of the history of Chinese thought: political, social, philosophical, religious, environmental and other. He masterfully owns his material, drawing before us an integral and, most importantly, live picture of the Chinese worldview. The perfectly written work of Sterx allows us to understand what it means to perceive the world in Chinese and live in it in Chinese. In 2020, the author became a laureate of the annual British Prize Hessel-Ltman, awarded for the best popular science book on history published in English.