Chinese-English Library of Chinese Classics - Chinese Philosophy - Zhuangzi

Library of Chinese Classics: Zhuangzi
Translated into English by Wang Rongpei
Translated into Modern Chinese by Qin Xuqing and Sun Yongchang
Library binding book, dimensions 960 x 640, 1/16, hardcover, two volumes
Published by Hunan People's Publishing House and Foreign Languages Press, 1999
ISBN: 7543820870 
Zhuangzi, also known as The Holy Canon of Nanhua, is a Taoist classic written by the Warring States period philosopher Zhuangzi and his students. The book is composed of 33 chapters including 7 Inner Chapters, 15 Outer Chapters, and 11 Miscellaneous Chapters.
In this book, Zhuangzi inherited and developed Laozi's viewpoint of "the ways of Tao being conditioned by the self-so." Taking Tao as the origin of the world, he held that Tao is self-sufficient and eternal whereas the difference between things is relative. To correspond with this world outlook, Zhuangzi advocated an outlook on life of "non-action in face of nature," which recommended maintaining personal freedom of body and mind, and of attaining a spiritual plane of complete liberty and of harmony between man and nature.
The Zhuangzi is one of the most celebrated texts of the Chinese tradition impressive for both its bold philosophical imagination and its striking literary style. Before being translated into modern Chinese, the original Chinese text of the present edition has been checked and punctuated with reference to Guo Qingfan's A Variorum Zhuangzi. The English translation, which is its latest complete edition, has been accomplished with reference to the existing complete as well as selected English translations of the book.
大中华文库:庄子
大中华文库:庄子(汉英对照 全两册 精装)
作者:秦旭卿 孙雍长 今译 汪榕培 英译
出 版 社:湖南人民出版社
出版日期:2003-1-1
ISBN:7543820870
《庄子》又称《南华经》,是道家经典之一,由战国时期哲学家庄子及其后学所著。全书包括内篇7篇、外篇15篇、杂篇11篇,一共33篇。
庄子在本书中继承和发展了老子关于“道法自然”的观点,把“道”作为世界的本源,认为“道”是自足的和永恒的,事物之间的差别只是相对的。与这种宇宙观相适应,庄子提倡“自然无为”的人生观,主张保持个人身心自由,追求一种无拘无束、天人合一的精神境界。
本书以郭庆藩的《庄子集释》为底本进行校点和今译,英译借鉴了现有的各种英文全译本和选择本,是目前最新的《庄子》英文全译本。
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