http://bactra.org/notebooks Cosma's Notebooks en http://bactra.org/notebooks/1994/10/03#tao-chia Connections to <a href="shamanism.html">shamanism</a> and <a href="alchemy.html">alchemy</a>; the odd, proto-scientific, proto-socialist interpretation of <a href="needham.html">Joseph Needham</a>; its degeneration into superstition; its ties to Legalism and <a href="proto-industrialism.html">proto-industrialists</a> (e.g., L&uuml; shih). Its practioners, especially <a href="chuang-tzu.html">Chuang Tzu</a>. <ul>To read: <li>J. J. Clarke, <cite>The Tao of the West: Western Transformations of Taoist Thought</cite> <li><cite>Huai Nan Tzu</cite> <li>Toshihiko Izutsu, <cite>Sufism and Taoism: A Comparative Study of Key Philosophical Concepts</cite> [<a href="http://www.ucpress.edu/books/pages/1817.php">blurb</a>] <li><cite>Lieh Tzu</cite> <li><cite>L&uuml; shih ch'ung ch'iu</cite> = Master L&uuml;'s Spring and Autumn <li>Peter Nickerson, <cite>Taoism, Bureaucracy, and Popular Religion in Early Medieval China</cite> [<a href="http://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog/NICTAO.html">Blurb</a>] <li>Fabrizio Pregadio, <cite>Great Clarity Daoism and Alchemy in Early Medieval China</cite> [<a href="http://www.sup.org/book.cgi?id=5708">Blurb</a>] <li><cite>Tao Te Ching</cite> [Mair translation] </ul>