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The Mountain Hermits

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The Most Respected People in China Were the Ones Who Walked Away

For more than two thousand years, China's sacred mountains have sheltered men and women who gave up rank, salary, and comfort for a hut, a cave, and a life nobody could take from them. Emperors sent gifts uphill and were refused. Poets wrote their names into immortality. Today, thousands still live in the Zhongnan range alone — and this book walks up the mountain to meet them.

The Mountain Hermits traces reclusion from Xu You, w...