Eva Wong offers comprehensive instructions in the basics of feng-shui, with step-by-step guidance in analyzing sites, buildings, and interiors. Readers are given a glimpse into the history of feng-shui from prehistoric to modern times through stories of shamans, magicians, Taoist mystics, and scholars. They are introduced to the theoretical foundations of feng-shui as they learn about Taoist cosmology, the Chinese calendar, and the pa-k'ua, or eight-trigrams diagram. They will learn how to make and read a geomantic compass, a device from the tenth century that is still in use today. They will also be drawn into a world where nature is sentient and animated by energies. With the completion of the curriculum, readers will have a working knowledge of how to life harmoniously with these energies of the earth and environment.

Eva Wong's interest in feng-shui dates from her childhood in Hong Kong. She was apprenticed to a feng-shui master-her granduncle-around the age of fifteen. A practitioner of the Taoist arts and a translator of Taoist texts, she now lives in Colorado.