this book reveals is a mysterious person eminent by a pheasant feather in a cap emerges on the Chinese scene two millennia ago with expressive imaginations of a futuristic world of peace and fair-mindedness. Like Laozi, Hequanzi (Pheasant Cap) understood the fundamental unity in naturistic things and theinfluence of Dao to adapt issues.

The threat of a triumph by the state of Qin, he searched for a messiah like personage, the ninth Augustan, to initiate a new age based on the authority of the god Grand Unity. What this masterpiece book also reveals is early Daoism and its ideology superbly written and ingeniously laid out. The photographic pictures headed up as plates 1-24 are simply breath taking and give a unique photogenic aspect to the work of this book.