Zhuangzi : the complete writings / translated, with introduction and notes, by Brook Ziporyn.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Zhuangzi, author.

Contributor:

Ziporyn, Brook, 1964- translator.

Language:

Chinese

English

Subjects (All):

Zhuangzi. Nanhua jing.

Zhuangzi.

Nanhua jing (Zhuangzi).

Taoism.

Physical Description:

xxxvii, 298 pages ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Indianapolis ; Cambridge : Hackett Publishing Company, Inc., 2020.

Language Note:

Translated from the Chinese.

Summary:

"This volume includes a complete translation of the 33 chapters of the Chinese text, Zhuangzi, a substantial portion of which I had previously translated and published in 2009 as the main text of a volume entitled, Zhuangzi: The Essential Writings with Selections from Traditional Commentaries (Hackett, 2009). Ziporyn has had many opportunities to further study and teach the Zhuangzi, reading through and discussing his translation and interpretation of this work of Zhuangzi with a great many very intelligent and attentive students and scholars. In these same ten years since the publication of the abridged Zhuangzi the digital tools available for research into classical Chinese texts, which played little to no role in his translation process previously, have become exponentially more powerful, allowing for instant comparison of huge quantities of texts and contexts that would have taken months and years only a short time ago. The selections from traditional commentaries in the earlier volume have been omitted in this one; the reader is invited to consult them there if interested. Amplified considerably are the explanatory material included in the footnotes, which provide important information to aid the real-time reading of the text, and endnotes have been added where a technical philological matter must be addressed or a more extended conceptual discussion is warranted than could be accommodated on the page without interrupting the reading process"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: Zhuangzi

The Inner Chapters

One. Wandering Far and Unfettered

Two. Equalizing Assessments of Things

Three. The Primacy of Nourishing Life

Four. In the Human World

Five. Fragmentations Betokening Full Virtuosity

Six. The Great Source as Teacher

Seven. Sovereign Responses for Ruling Powers

The Outer Chapters

Eight. Webbed Toes

Nine. Horse Hooves

Ten. Breaking into Trunks

Eleven. Being There and Giving Room

Twelve. Heaven and Earth

Thirteen. Heaven's Course

Fourteen. The Spinning of the Heavens

Fifteen. Graven Intentions

Sixteen. Repairing the Inborn Nature

Seventeen. Autumn Waters

Eighteen. Reaching Utmost Happiness

Nineteen. Fathoming Life

Twenty. The Mountain Tree

Twenty-One. Sir Squarescope of the Fields

Twenty-Two. Knowinghood Journeyed North

The Miscellaneous Chapters

Twenty-Three. Gengsang Chu

Twenty-Four. Ghostless Saunter

Twenty-Five. Zeyang

Twenty-Six. External Things

Twenty-Seven. Words Lodged Elsewhere

Twenty-Eight. Yielding Sovereignty

Twenty-Nine. Robber Zhi

Thirty. The Joys of Swordplay

Thirty-One. The Old Fisherman

Thirty-Two. Lie Yukou

Thirty-Three. The Whole World.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781624668555

1624668550

9781624668685

1624668682

OCLC:

1178778870