Lima ribu tahun peradaban Tiongkok dan talenta inovatif rakyatnya telah menciptakan puluhan produk pertama di dunia, di buku strategi dan taktik perang Sun Zi, teknolgi percetakan, kompas, bahan peledak, seismograf, sempoa, tusuk jarum, kain sutra, porselen, perdagangan internasional (Silk Road), navigasi (Cheng Ho), dan masih banyak lainnya. Di samping itu, filosof dan pemikir besar Tiongkok juga telah meninggalkan banyak kata bijak. Kiranya masih relevan untuk dibaca dan direnungkan kembali di abad ke-21 yang amat konsumtif ini. Karena itulah Penulis menyajikan peribahasa Tiongkok kuno dan mancanegara dalam buku ini untuk dibaca dan direnungkan kembali. Semoga bisa menjadi pencerahan bagi pembaca yang budiman.
not a great book, but still good. this book containing about 50 quotes from Chinese culture, mostly the writer write it that it's from Confucius, Lao Zi, and Mo Zi.
this book is good if u want to read while in short time, since every point is not that long, i think u could get 1-2 sub-chapter for 5minutes deep reading(after read a chapter, u could reflect the point to your life). and don't forget to keep critical to the content of the books, because it has something that maybe not in line with your belief(i find it has a chapter that mentioning about life after death, and its content is contradictive with my belief. so i just take a good part from it)
overall good books, especially since i like chinese quotes(because i find it looks cool, and i getting to know it from chinese novel&comic, haha)