Instructions for Practical Living and Other Neo-Confucian Writings

New York and London: Columbia University Press, 1963. First Edition. First Printing. Octavo (23.5cm); black cloth, with titles stamped in silver on spine; dustjacket; xlii,[3],4-358pp, with black and white frontispiece. Spine ends gently bumped, else a clean, Near Fine copy. Dustjacket is price-clipped, spine-sunned, and lightly shelfworn, with some rubbing to panels, and a few tiny nicks, tears, and attendant creases; Very Good or better.

"Wing-tsit Chan here translates Wang Yang-ming's Ch'uan-hsi lu, or Instructions for Practical Living, his Inquiry on the "Great Learning," and seven documents which demonstrate Wang's practical application of his doctrines" (from front flap). 86794.