Over two millennia ago, in troubled times not unlike our own, a mysterious figure, distinguished by a pheasant feather in his cap, emerged with poetic visions of a future world of peace and justice. Like Laozi, Pheasant Cap (Héguanzî) understood the underlying unity in things and the power of Dao to make things happen.Facing the threat of conquest by the westerly state of Qin, he looked to a messiah-like figure, the Ninth Augustan, to inaugurate a new era according to the mandate o...

What we think are Asian martial arts is usually derived by Hollywood images, fanciful novels, and a superficial idea of what role combatives played in the long histories of Far Eastern countries. There are only a few people in the world who can truly be called scholars in this field. A leading figure in the USA for the study of Chinese martial traditions is Stanley Henning.This special anthology is a collection of Henning’s superb articles that were previously published in the Jour...

Esta versión castellana de Eurípides no se publicaría ahora, si antes no hubiese costeado don José Gutiérrez de la Vega la impresión de parte de ella, en 1865, si el señor don Cayo Ortega, catedrático de Bibliología de la Universidad Central, no la hubiera elegido para la Biblioteca Clásica, asesorándose previamente de don Marcelino Menéndez y Pelayo, autoridad tan acatada por todos en tales materias; y si, por último, no existiese la Empresa editorial que, con tanto acierto como justicia,...