#DaiZhen

“The son of a poor cloth-peddler, who failed the empire's highest examination six times, used the humblest tools in scholarship — dictionaries, rhymes, ancient pronunciations — to indict a six-hundred-year orthodoxy for cruelty, and to argue that desire, rightly ordered, is the Way.”

“The orthodox philosophy of "heavenly principle versus human desire" rests on a misreading of the classics — provable character by character — and a "principle" set above human desires becomes a weapon for the strong to kill the weak.”