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Variety
March 8, 2018
Though less of a brainteaser than the original film, director-writer Chen Sicheng infuses Chinese color into a plot that solves crimes by using feng shui as clues, ... A possible influence here is Taiwanese director-producer Chen Kuo-fu's psycho-horror pic “Double Vision” (2002), with its combination of TaoistÃâà...
Catholic Herald Online (blog)
March 6, 2018
Although there is a Gnostic element to his thinking and he sometimes appears to equate “the Way, the Taoist path of life [as] the same Way as that ... On its own this might sound like woolly secular mysticism, but the author constantly refines “Being” so that his Rules often seem a secular paraphrase ofÃâà...
Inquirer.net
February 9, 2018
(Sources: Tihanny L. Bayanin; www.bahaytsinoy.org; www.taoisttemplecebu.com; “The Manila Chinese Cemetery: A Repository of Tsinoy Culture and Identity”; Chinese Deathscapes in Insulindia (2016): 92. journal; “Heritage advocates condemn demolition of ancient Chinese temple.”) The author is aÃâà...
Winter Is Coming
February 8, 2018
I spent many hours in genre book clubs throughout junior high and high school, enjoying novels and short stories by great writers such as Vonnegut, ... that “Le Guin has accepted a few labels over the years as 'approximately accurate': novelist, radical, feminist, Taoist and, more recently, Western writer.”.
EurasiaNet
February 7, 2018
A taoist and practitioner of tai chi, Shota and his 25-year-old son Giorgi went to China in 2009 to begin a four-year process of learning the ins and outs of tea: varieties, cultivation, technologies and production. Now they are at the forefront of a Georgian tea renaissance. Their wild black tea picked up awardsÃâà...
The Straits Times
December 31, 1999
Kafka's surreal world of metamorphosis and transformation creates a canvas that is expertly exploited in this collaboration. Added to the mix of iconic Kafka-esque imagery, such as continual references to insects, the dance theatre choreography also delves into the artist's life and philosophy. A projectedÃâà...
The Newtown Bee
December 31, 1999
But in reconnecting with the Taoist principles she had learned years earlier in college, she rediscovered and began effectively applying their practical application to her own modern life. That rediscovery not only got her through the transition to being a loving, caring grandmother, but inspired her first book,Ãâà...
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