Bright and current.

It is true that some remarks translators are qu'agaçantes. Just the back cover announcing "For [...] people of taste, here is a book that will mark our century" is worth seeing, and some explanatory notes overflowing from a somewhat unlikely claim in a book dealing Taoism.
Irritating, therefore, but the book itself is worth seeing. I was looking for to develop my knowledge of this philosophy too little known in the West and this comprehensive book (and the details of translators, really useful, admittedly) really helped me there.

We are dealing with a positive philosophy, realistic and nuanced -it rarely devoid of fatalism that kindly lent it (fate, here, has a very different meaning from that given to it in the West ). A philosophy where acceptance of what can not be changed does not prevent the work and questioned. Where generosity principle is castigated as well as the most negative feelings. Where we deplore the misplaced ambition, the pursuit of honors, the outrageous intellectualism blind attachment to secular traditions ... and where we explain why.
Book a rich sense in our country and our time, so that puts things in perspective without easy or naïve moralism. A great book, simply.