The Light of Asia

Autorentext
Christopher Harding is the author of J*apan Story, The Japanese and The Light of Asia. Harding teaches at the University of Edinburgh and frequently broadcasts on Radio 3 and Radio 4. He also writes the IlluminAsia* blog, about Asia's influence on Western life.

Zusammenfassung
This beautifully written, deeply absorbing and revelatory account ... offers a fresh perspective ... a judicious, far-reaching exploration of how the discovery of Eastern beliefs, customs and mores helped to shape Western ideas as much as Western advancements were in turn being taken up in the East ... fascinating ... makes an elegant and entertaining progress from the Ancient Greeks to the "raga rock" of the Beatles' Norwegian Wood Mick Brown The Telegraph