By Jack Joseph Smith
Original Scan
AI Interpretation
This page works as a compact research note linking Gia-fu Feng, Jane English, Esalen, Taoist texts, and academic credentials.
The page is informational rather than lyrical, but it still reveals the writer's network of interests: Asian philosophy, translation, Esalen, and intellectual biography. It looks like preparatory material, the kind of note made when gathering context around figures rather than composing directly.
Dense biographical research on two figures. Gia-fu Feng is logged with dates and credentials (Shanghai 1919 to 1985, US 1947, BA Peking University, MA Penn, taught at Esalen, 'First Book TAI CHI & I CHING'), then his collaborator Jane English (Boston 1942, Mount Holyoke, a Wisconsin doctorate in 'particle physics') and their joint 'TAO TE CHING'. The juxtaposition the writer is noting is striking: a physicist who also translates Lao Tsu. A Big Sur Chamber of Commerce address and phone number close the page, grounding the esoteric in a P.O. box.