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In \u003ci\u003eA Cure for Chaos\u003c\/i\u003e, he uses his virtuosic artistic skill and sly humor to create an entertaining and enlightening illustrated version of key selections from the \u003ci\u003eMencius\u003c\/i\u003e, a profoundly influential work of Chinese philosophy.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eYou cannot understand Chinese philosophy without understanding Mencius (fourth century BCE), who is known as the Second Sage, after Confucius, and whose ideas were for many centuries part of the standard Confucian curriculum. \u003ci\u003eA Cure for Chaos \u003c\/i\u003eis a playful and accessible comic that brings alive the clever stories and thought experiments that Mencius uses to convey his ideas. 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