Chapter 1: Calligraphy of the Tao of China

Tao, the method, path, or way
Tao, the ideogram
Zhöng = Middle
Middle Kingdom = China
Gúo, Kingdom
Fractal perspective: huò turns to gúo within huò turns to gúo Summary

Chapter 2: My Author & his Agenda

Sources & Readers
Maximizing growth potentials
Third ‘us’, me and my selves

Chapter 3: China & her Three Doctrines

Traditionally, a borderless country
China manifests through the ‘Three Doctrines’

Chapter 4: The History of Taoism?

Historical Ambiguities of Taoism or Nothing official
Initial Appearance of Taoism - 2nd Century BC
Confucian/Taoist polarity: Religions of state and people
Those Taoists or Named by the opposition
Whose tao? or The taoless Tao
The Taoists, social outsiders
Taoism, a religion of the people, not the government
Taoism, an outgrowth of prehistoric shamanism
History of Taoism is history of Chinese populace
Ambiguous Chinese are both Confucian & Taoist
In China things rarely as they seem

Chapter 5: An Overview of what’s coming next

Introduction to China, the Historical and Cultural Context of the Journey
My Author’s Fertility editorial
What’s Coming

Chapter 6: China’s Body

China’s river plains
China separated from rest of world
A fanciful theory of China’s tectonic development
Plateaus and Passes
Mongolian Plateau and the Ordos

Chapter 7: The Dynamics of Eurasian Geography

The Great Arid Zone only good for nomadic herding
Geography leads to bi-cultural development
The Warrior Morality
Dynamic consistent throughout Eurasiafrican history
Even Language base different

Chapter 8: China’s Geography

Modern China’s 5 historical parts
Topography of Asia
Continental River Basins
China’s River Valleys
Hwang Po: the Yellow River Geography
Yangtze River Valley