(Your shopping cart is empty)
You are here: Home > Books and DVDs > Books > Chinese Tradition

Chinese Tradition Books

Sort By:
1
I Ching: The Book of Change The Art of War The Art of War: The Definitive Interpretation of Sun Tzu's Classic Book of Strategy for Themartial Artist
I Ching: The Book of Change
List Price: $6.95
Our Price: $6.77
You save $0.18!
The Art of War
List Price: $11.95
Our Price: $11.77
You save $0.18!
The Art of War: The Definitive Interpretation of Sun Tzu's Classic Book of Strategy for Themartial Artist
List Price: $12.95
Our Price: $11.77
You save $1.18!
About this book:

The "I Ching " is the most ancient and profound of the Chinese classics, venerated for over three thousand years as an oracle of fortune, a guide to success, and a dispensary of wisdom. This new translation, with commentary by Confucius, emphasizes applying practical wisdom in everyday affairs.

Product Details:
  • Translated by: Thomas F. Cleary
  • Language: English
  • Format: Softcover
  • Pages: 169
  • Publisher: Shambhala Publications
Book Dimensions:
  • Weight: 0.2 Pounds
  • Length: 4.5 Inches
  • Width: 3 Inches
  • Height: 0.5 Inches
About this book:

Providing a much-needed translation of this classic, Samuel Griffith has made this powerful and unique work even more relevant to the modern world. Including an explanatory introduction and selected commentaries on the work, this edition makes Sun Tzu's timeless classic perfectly accessible to modern readers.

Product Details:
  • Author: Sun Tzu
  • Translated by: Samuel B. Griffith
  • Language: English
  • Format: Softcover
  • Pages: 222
  • Publisher: Oxford University Press
Book Dimensions:
  • Weight: 0.4 Pounds
  • Length: 8 Inches
  • Width: 5.4 Inches
  • Height: 0.5 Inches
About this book:

A definitive interpretation and free of academic commentary and ambiguous metaphors, as Hanshi Kaufman uses straightforward prose to explain Sun Tzu's message.

Product Details:
  • Author: Sun Tzu
  • Translated by: Stephen F. Kaufman
  • Language: English
  • Format: Softcover
  • Pages: 109
  • Publisher: Tuttle Publishing
Book Dimensions:
  • Weight: 0.4 Pounds
  • Length: 9 Inches
  • Width: 5.5 Inches
  • Height: 0.5 Inches
Health is Blessedness Simple Taoism: A Guide to Living in the Balance Awakening to the Tao
Health is Blessedness
List Price: $12.95
Our Price: $12.77
You save $0.18!
Simple Taoism: A Guide to Living in the Balance
List Price: $12.95
Our Price: $12.77
You save $0.18!
Awakening to the Tao
List Price: $13.95
Our Price: $13.77
You save $0.18!
About this book:

Taoist health secrets from China's 'Living Treasure', Master Chu Hok Ting. Diet and herbal formulas for all seasons. Ancient Taoist recipes for health and longevity.

Product Details:
  • Author: Chu Hok Ting
  • Language: English
  • Format: Softcover
  • Publisher: S.M.A.E.
About this book:

Discusses key Taoist concepts and how to apply them to daily life, and offers instructions for life-enhancing exercises, including meditation, breathing, chi kung, and tai chi chuan.

Product Details:
  • Author: C. Alexander Simpkins and Annellen M. Simpkins
  • Language: English
  • Format: Softcover
  • Pages: 192
  • Publisher: Tuttle Publishing
Book Dimensions:
  • Weight: 0.4 Pounds
  • Length: 6.5 Inches
  • Width: 5.3 Inches
  • Height: 0.5 Inches
About this book:

This book, "Awakening to the Tao," is none of these but includes something of all of them, and more--over one hundred methods of attaining reality as a fully conscious human being.

Product Details:
  • Author: Liu I-Ming
  • Translated by: Thomas F. Cleary
  • Language: English
  • Format: Softcover
  • Pages: 105
  • Publisher: Shambhala Publications
Book Dimensions:
  • Weight: 0.38 Pounds
  • Length: 8.45 Inches
  • Width: 5.51 Inches
  • Height: 0.43 Inches
Song of a Water Dragon Wisdom's Way: 101 Tales of Chinese Wit The Chinese Martial Code: The Art of War of Sun Tzu, The Precepts of War By Sima Ranju, and Wu Zi on the Art of War
Song of a Water Dragon
List Price: $14.95
Our Price: $14.77
You save $0.18!
Wisdom's Way: 101 Tales of Chinese Wit
List Price: $15.95
Our Price: $15.77
You save $0.18!
The Chinese Martial Code: The Art of War of Sun Tzu, The Precepts of War By Sima Ranju, and Wu Zi on the Art of War
List Price: $16.95
Our Price: $15.77
You save $1.18!
About this book:

Song of a Water Dragon is a biography of He Yi An, a Chinese Daoist born amidst the shift from Imperial to modern China. His life, steeped in centuries-old beliefs, ceremonies, and practices, collides with the rise of Communism, the frenzy of modernation, and rejection of "superstitious traditions."

Product Details:
  • Author: Norman S. Track
  • Language: English
  • Format: Hardcover
  • Pages: 151
  • Publisher: YMAA Publication Center
Book Dimensions:
  • Weight: 0.9 Pounds
  • Length: 9.5 Inches
  • Width: 6.5 Inches
  • Height: 0.8 Inches
About this book:

Wisdom's Way is a collection of true stories from ancient China. Filled with palace intrigue, ambitious warlords, greedy swindlers, and justice-seeking wise men, each story evokes the legendary wisdom of the Far East.

Product Details:
  • Author: Walton Lee
  • Language: English
  • Format: Softcover
  • Pages: 156
  • Publisher: YMAA Publication Center
Book Dimensions:
  • Weight: 0.6 Pounds
  • Length: 9 Inches
  • Width: 6 Inches
  • Height: 0.5 Inches
About this book:

The classics of Chinese martial strategy have been studied for millennia and their lessons applied with devastating success by warlords and military generals. Today this timeless advice is analyzed as much for its application in the boardroom as on the battlefield-as thousands of Asian businessmen can attest.

Product Details:
  • Translated by: Arthur Lindsay Sadler
  • Foreword by: Edwin Lowe
  • Language: English
  • Format: Hardcover
  • Pages: 192
  • Publisher: Tuttle Publishing
Book Dimensions:
  • Weight: 0.6 Pounds
  • Length: 7.8 Inches
  • Width: 5.3 Inches
  • Height: 0.8 Inches
Ancient Chinese Esoteric Art of Health Improvement and Longevity Mastering The Art of War: Classical Commentaries on The Classic The 36 Secret Strategies of the Martial Arts: The Classic Chinese Guide for Success in War, Business, and Life
Ancient Chinese Esoteric Art of Health Improvement and Longevity
List Price: $17.95
Our Price: $17.77
You save $0.18!
Mastering The Art of War: Classical Commentaries on The Classic
List Price: $18.95
Our Price: $18.77
You save $0.18!
The 36 Secret Strategies of the Martial Arts: The Classic Chinese Guide for Success in War, Business, and Life
List Price: $18.95
Our Price: $18.77
You save $0.18!
About this book:

Taoist health secrets from China's "Living Treasure," Master Chu Hok Ting. Includes: Chi Gung Exercises for Longevity; Diet and Herbal Formulas for All Seasons; Cultivation of Body, Mind and Spirit; History and Philosophy.

Product Details:
  • Author: Chu Hok Ting
  • Language: English
  • Format: Softcover
  • Pages: 178
  • Publisher: S.M.A.E.
About this book:

Mastering the Art of War presents practical summaries of these essential laws along with tales of conflict and strategy that show in concrete terms the proper use of Sun Tzu's principles. The book also examines the social and psychological aspects of organization and crisis management.

Product Details:
  • Edited by: Zhuge Liang and Liu Ji
  • Translated by: Thomas F. Cleary
  • Language: English
  • Format: Softcover
  • Pages: 134
  • Publisher: Shambhala Publications
Book Dimensions:
  • Weight: 0.6 Pounds
  • Length: 9 Inches
  • Width: 6 Inches
  • Height: 0.5 Inches
About this book:

The 36 Secret Strategies of the Martial Arts is a collection of ancient Chinese maxims that encapsulate some of the Far East's most cunning tactics for battle and deception. Each of these strategies represents a distilled nugget of Chinese wisdom.

Product Details:
  • Author: Hiroshi Moriya
  • Translated by: William Scott Wilson
  • Language: English
  • Format: Hardcover
  • Pages: 255
  • Publisher: Kodansha International
Book Dimensions:
  • Weight: 0.8 Pounds
  • Length: 7.8 Inches
  • Width: 5.5 Inches
  • Height: 0.8 Inches
Tao Te Ching: An All-New Translation The Taoist I Ching The Shaolin Grandmasters' Text: History, Philosophy, And Gung Fu of Shaolin Ch'an
Tao Te Ching: An All-New Translation
List Price: $19.95
Our Price: $19.77
You save $0.18!
The Taoist I Ching
List Price: $22.95
Our Price: $22.77
You save $0.18!
The Shaolin Grandmasters' Text: History, Philosophy, And Gung Fu of Shaolin Ch'an
List Price: $39.95
Our Price: $36.77
You save $3.18!
About this book:

Renowned translator William Scott Wilson offers a fresh version of the Tao Te Ching that will resonate with the modern reader. While most translators have relied on the "new" text of 200 B.C., Wilson went back another 300 years to work from the original characters used during Lao Tzu's lifetime.

Product Details:
  • Author: Lao Tzu
  • Translated by: William Scott Wilson
  • Language: English
  • Format: Hardcover
  • Pages: 255
  • Publisher: Kodansha International
Book Dimensions:
  • Weight: 0.8 Pounds
  • Length: 7.5 Inches
  • Width: 5.5 Inches
  • Height: 0.5 Inches
About this book:

Presented for the first time with a Taoist interpretation, this Chinese classic, used as a basic map of conscious development and containing the underlying principles of all religions, features an exposition of the Taoist spiritual alchemy

Product Details:
  • Author: Liu I-Ming
  • Translated by: Thomas Cleary
  • Language: English
  • Format: Softcover
  • Pages: 338
  • Publisher: Shambhala Publications
Book Dimensions:
  • Weight: 1.2 Pounds
  • Length: 9 Inches
  • Width: 6.3 Inches
  • Height: 1.01 Inches
About this book:

This text, written by Shaolin monks, explains the core of Shaolin philosophy to a public audience for the first time since the Order was founded in 520. Since 1970, Shaolin and its martial arts have increasingly become a focal point of popular culture.

Product Details:
  • Author: Order of Shaolin Chan
  • Language: English
  • Format: Hardcover
  • Pages: 303
  • Publisher: Tuttle Publishing
Book Dimensions:
  • Weight: 2.1 Pounds
  • Length: 10.5 Inches
  • Width: 7.5 Inches
  • Height: 1.3 Inches
   
 
1
Contact Martial Arts Equipment Direct Customer Service