Archive - Ink & Space

The Winding Path

Part 2: On disenchantment, loss, and finding stillness in unexpected places

Jun 7 • Yuxuan Francis Liu

May 2026

Music and Philosophy

Part 2: The notion of harmony in Ji Kang’s life

May 17 • Yuxuan Francis Liu

Ji Kang — The Paragon of the Wei-Jin Literati

Part 1: An individualist in a time of great confusion

May 17 • Yuxuan Francis Liu

And welcome to Ink & Space.

May 2 • Yuxuan Francis Liu

SERIES: Stories of Lao Tzu

The Forgotten Taoist Way of Living

May 2 • Yuxuan Francis Liu

April 2026

I am going to make some changes to my newsletter site, “Taoism Reimagined,” in the coming weeks.

Apr 5 • Yuxuan Francis Liu

Political Realism: The Neo-Taoist Way

Part 3: Guo Xiang on life and politics

Apr 5 • Yuxuan Francis Liu

March 2026

The Metaphysics of Being

Part 2: Guo Xiang’s theory of spontaneous self-generation

Mar 29 • Yuxuan Francis Liu

Guo Xiang — the Architect of Neo-Taoism

Part 1: The rise of the Chuang Tzu 莊子 in Wei-Jin China

Mar 22 • Yuxuan Francis Liu

Ch’an Buddhism in Wang Wei’s Poetics

Part 1: Exploring the world of the poet-Buddha

Mar 15 • Yuxuan Francis Liu

From Non-being to Governance

Part 4: Wang Bi's political philosophy

Mar 8 • Yuxuan Francis Liu

Wu 無 as the Philosophy of Life

Part 3: An existential application

Mar 1 • Yuxuan Francis Liu