Book “Five” Completed (September 2025)

Our own handbook Learning of the Way: An Explanation of Terms (Daoxue ziyi 道學字義) is now compete. In essence this small book is a paraphrase of the longer essay definitions by Zhu Xi's renowned pupil Chen Chun, from his text Chen Chun’s Explanation of Terms (Beixi ziyi 北溪字義), which served as a sort of “fifth book” by which the terms in the other four could be understood. This will be included inside the Four Books App, accessible when you search for a term. The first version of the app, which is now in coding production, will launch with these two books, and new content from the other three books will post each month.

Book One Completed (July 2025)

The first ever complete translation of the Great Learning with Commentary (Daxue zhangju 大學章句) is now finished and will be available in the coming months as part of our Four Books App. As the shortest of the Four Books, this still required forty days of intense eight-hour sessions. With this book now completed, we also have some hard numbers (averaging 220 characters per day), which allow us to better estimate the schedule for the remainder of the project.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​

Daoxue Academy Founded (April 2025)

Daoxue Academy 道學學堂 (Korean: 다오쉐 아카데미) has been founded to address the persistent lack of knowledge of East Asian thought in the English world and to seize the great opportunity which modern technology provides for transmitting the Classics. Our approach is neither that of the intellectualized translations by academics nor that of the commercialized translations by the publishing industry, but first-person practitioner translations—how these texts are actually written and used in East Asia—with only the traditional commentary, free of any obscuring layer of Western opinion or comment. In our view a classical text should just be an English replica of itself (ziran 自然), and that is all.