It is challenging to understand the Chinese philosophical tradition because

A) there is no tradition of philosophy in China.
B) you have to take part in Chinese religious rituals to grasp it.
C) we've had access to the texts for so long that we tend to read them unimaginatively.
D) even if we read Chinese texts, it's hard to enter into the context within which those texts are comprehensible.


D

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