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Chapters

  1. Title Page
  2. CONTENTS
  3. INTRODUCTION
  4. CHAPTER I THE VANITY OF FAME
  5. CHAPTER II REAL AND FALSE GREATNESS
  6. CHAPTER III THE BREVITY OF CONSCIOUS LIFE
  7. CHAPTER IV DEATH THE EQUALISER
  8. CHAPTER V FALSE VIRTUES
  9. CHAPTER VI THE IDEAL LIFE
  10. CHAPTER VII DUTY TO THE LIVING AND THE DEAD
  11. CHAPTER VIII THE ART OF LIFE
  12. CHAPTER IX THE HAPPY VOLUPTUARIES
  13. CHAPTER X THE JOYOUS LIFE OF TUAN-MU-SHU
  14. CHAPTER XI THE FOLLY OF DESIRE FOR LONG LIFE
  15. CHAPTER XII SELF-SACRIFICE AND SELF-AGGRANDISEMENT
  16. CHAPTER XIII THE VANITY OF REPUTATION
  17. CHAPTER XIV DIFFICULTY AND EASE OF GOVERNMENT
  18. CHAPTER XV ALL THINGS PASS
  19. CHAPTER XVI THE NATURE OF MAN
  20. CHAPTER XVII THE FOUR CHIMERAS
  21. CHAPTER XVIII ALL PLEASURES ARE RELATIVE
  22. CHAPTER XIX THE WISDOM OF CONTENTMENT
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Title Page

WISDOM OF THE EAST

YANG CHU'S GARDEN
OF PLEASURE

TRANSLATED FROM THE CHINESE BY
PROFESSOR ANTON FORKE, PH.D., ETC.

WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY
HUGH CRANMER-BYNG

[LONDON, 1912]
{Reducted to HTML by Christopher M. Weimer, Sept. 2003}

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