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A Page Wiser is built on an old idea: you don't need to read the classics in one sitting. One page a day is enough.

How we read. Every page keeps three habits. Make the key words clear. Break the passage into first, second, third. And always come back to your life and mine. Reading should finally help us give an account of our own lives.

How each page is made. The original passage, a plain translation and key words, then the passage taught step by step, with illustrations that draw the ideas out. For the full classroom, each page links to the matching lecture in Prof. Tsai Bi-ming's National Taiwan University OpenCourseWare course on Zhuangzi.

What's next. After 30 pages of Zhuangzi, Laozi, Confucius and Mencius are on the shelf.

An independent study guide. The classical text is public domain; translations, explanations, illustrations and prompts are our own. “Go deeper” links to National Taiwan University OpenCourseWare.