Gia-Fu Feng





Gia-Fu Feng

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China

gender
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Gia-Fu Feng (1919 - 1985) was prominent as both an English translator (with his wife, Jane English) of Daoist classics and a Daoist teacher in the United States, associated with Alan Watts, Jack Kerouac, The Beats and Abraham Maslow.

He was born in Shanghai in 1919 into a fairly wealthy family of some influence. His father was a prominent banker, one of the founders of the Bank of China; his mother died when he was 16. He was educated privately in his own home in the classics of the Chinese tradition and in private boarding schools. He was for several months tutored by the wife of the British Consul-General. His family members were Buddhist. For the springtime holiday, they traveled to the ancestral tombs in Yu Yao, in Chekiang Province, for...more


Average rating: 4.29 · 16,489 ratings · 474 reviews · 3 distinct works
Chuang Tsu: Inner Chapters
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4.3 of 5 stars 4.30 avg rating — 30 ratings — published 1974 — 2 editions
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Tai Chi, a Way of Centering...
4.0 of 5 stars 4.00 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 1969
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The Inner Chapters
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Tao Te Ching
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4.25 of 5 stars 4.25 avg rating — 4 ratings — published 1999
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