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Book Three (Wisdom) Book Eight (Knowledge) Book Eleven (The Journey) Book Fifteen (The Earth) Book Sixteen (Donkeys)
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Wao Zheng was a Chinese philosopher who lived from 1727-1793. His parents were very wealthy, and
traveled all over the world. From a very young age, Wao learned to appriciate the value of other cultures. As his life's
work, he collected wise saying from a variey of countries and published them in a series of delicate books called
The Quotes of Wao. Joshua Bennington, an American banker and aficionado of Oriental art and literature, obtained several dozen complete sets of The Quotes of Wao on a trip to China in 1933. Some of these he gave to friends and relatives, but many were lost when an anti-Japanese group burned his collection in a riot during the outbreak of World War II. Reserchers are working on tracking down what remains of the collection. This site is dedicated to publishing found copies of these books to the Information Superhighway. As more are found, the complete set will be reconstructed here. Some quotes are cryptic, others have become confused through translation, but all contain a valuable nugget of wisdom that Wao recognized so many years ago. | ||
