| The Dancing Wu Li Masters: An Overview of the New Physics | |
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| Author(s) | Gary Zukav |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Publisher | William Morrow |
| Publication date | March 1979 |
| Media type | Print (book) |
| Pages | 352 |
| ISBN | 0-688-03402-0 |
| OCLC Number | 4493031 |
| Dewey Decimal | 530.1/2 |
| LC Classification | QC173.98 .Z84 |
The Dancing Wu Li Masters by Gary Zukav is a popular new age book from 1979 about mysticist interpretations of quantum physics. It was awarded the 1980 National Book Award for Science.
The toneless pinyin phrase Wu Li in the title is most accurately rendered 物理 in hanzi (one Chinese translation of the word "physics") in the light of the book's subject matter, but appears to be somewhat of a pun as there are many other Chinese characters that could be rendered as "wu li" in atonal pinyin. The chapters of the book are each titled with other alternative translations of Wu Li, such as "Nonsense" and "I Clutch My Ideas".
The author participated in a physics conference of eastern and western scientists at Esalen Institute, California, in 1976 and used the occasion as material for his book.