Description: An examination of pleasure--short-term delight and the cultivation of longer-term satisfaction--in early Chinese thought.
Brief description: Michael Nylan is Professor in the Department of History at the University of California, Berkeley. Her recent publications include Chang'an 26 BCE: An Augustan Age in China, Exemplary Figures (a complete translation of Yang Xiong's Fayan), and Yang Xiong and the Pleasures of Reading and Classical Learning in China.