A very good introduction to the 3 'religions' Chinese that the author prefers to call 'wisdom'. Cyrille Javary, through many etymological explanation of Chinese characters, allows us a better understanding of the ideas conveyed by the Chinese philosophical culture, such as the concept of Wú Wéi ('') Taoist. This book is aimed particularly French culture to its readers: the author tells us, for example, Voltaire to introduce Confucius ...
The only downside of this book, in my opinion, is the order in which ideas are exposed, the 3 parts Taoism, Confucianism and Buddhism make sense, however in each part the order of the topics is difficult to identify well by the time dimension ...
