This is a small, hardback book with a marker ribbon and full page photographs inside. Quotations abound set opposite photos of the natural beauty of China. Many of the great philosophers and thinkers of Taoism and Confucianism are set side by side and, since Shaugnessey is a professor of Chinese Studies, these are not the fortune cookie slips and slops we often see. From these views we see that the range of Chinese thought is wide and deep and the subjects, though sharing a common vocabulary, are subtle and profound. A discounted remainder so you save more than 55%.