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Cosmology and Logic in the Dao of Changes By Ma Baoshan Trans. by Wen Haiming and Christine A. Hale U. Hawaii Press, Honolulu, HI: 2019 This book, written by Ma Baoshan — a brother-in-law of Xi Jinping — is absolutely stunning. While some of the foundational material seems at first to be repetitive to the
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