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第一部分，採用柏拉圖理想國的對話方式來介紹中國古代的甲骨文；第二部分，以先秦七大哲學家的生涯和思想為主，分為六章，並於各章中以中、英文雙語解釋哲學家的原始文獻，期望藉此方式引領年輕的英美人士對中國文化、語文及哲學的閲讀樂趣。
The book introduces some 300 inscriptions on Dragon Bones and traces the life and thought of seven ancient Chinese philosophers. It discusses their different interpretations of the key concept of Dao (previously translated as Tao) as either a road, a method, or the basis of being and quotes their distinct sayings in Chinese, believing that it is probably the best way to learn the language and culture of another nation.
作者簡介
謝善元 Shan-yuan Hsieh
生於上海。1949 遷至台灣，在台灣完成大學教育，考取美國富布萊特奬學金，就讀美國芝加哥大學，1972年取得博士學位。曾在加拿大及美國幾所大學教授中國歷史、政治和哲學。
Born in Shanghai in 1936, he moved to Taiwan before 1949 and got his college education there. With the help of a Fulbright Scholarship, he came to the U.S., studied at the University of Chicago, and earned his Ph.D. in 1972. After teaching Chinese history and philosophy for about ten years, he retired. Feeling that none of available translations of Plato's Republic was fully satisfactory, he turned Paul Shorey's work into Chinese in 2009. Then, stylistically, he used the dialogues between himself and his two young students as the basic material and wrote the Dragon Bones and Dao.
