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Watching the Tree: A Chinese Daughter Reflects on Happiness, Tradition and Spiritual Wisdom

By: Adeline Yen Mah

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Adeline Yen Mah, whose autobiography โ€˜Falling Leavesโ€™ is an international bestseller, here interweaves her own experiences with her views on Chinese thought and wisdom to create an illuminating and highly personal guide for Western readers.

Adeline Yen Mah was born in Tianjin, and through the conversations and wisdom of her grandfather and aunt learnt a great deal of traditional Chinese thought, history and religion. Through her fatherโ€™s second marriage to a Eurasian woman, and their subsequent move to Hong Kong, she learnt more about the Chinese attitudes to business and to family, and the strength of the Chinese in exile.

Since living in London and California, Adeline Yen Mah has studied Chinese thought, looking at both the strengths and weaknesses which it gives those who follow it and now, in โ€˜Watching the Treeโ€™, she takes us on a journey through the Chinese language, religions and history, using both Chinese proverbs and her own experiences, to bring to us an understanding of the richness of China and the ways that we can take and use some of the wisdom for ourselves in the West.
ISBN:9780767904100

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Weight 337 g
Dimensions 179 × 152 × 25 mm
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ISBN 9780767904100