
There has never been a time when this article didn’t exist
The root of time itself is in fertile nothingness: how ancient Chinese Daoism shatters our illusions about time and being
by David Chai
David Chai is associate professor of philosophy at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. He is the author of Zhuangzi and the Becoming of Nothingness (2019), and the editor of Dao Companion to Xuanxue [Neo-Daoism] (2020) and Daoist Encounters with Phenomenology (2020). Professor Chai’s research focuses on ancient and medieval Chinese philosophy, and comparative philosophy.