The author and translator of the Tao Te Ching uses his acclaimed skills and insight to provide the first complete, popular translation of the strangely beautiful stories and writings of ancient Chinese philosopher Chuang Tzu. Illustrated throughout with woodcuts by the illustrator of the Tao Te Ching.
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The author and translator of the Tao Te Ching uses his acclaimed skills and insight to provide the first complete, popular translation of the strangely beautiful stories and writings of ancient Chinese philosopher Chuang Tzu. Illustrated throughout with woodcuts by the illustrator of the Tao Te Ching.
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This book is a complete translation of the Chuang Tzu (The Book of Master Chuang), a foundational text of Daoism alongside the Tao Te Ching.
In contrast to the gnomic and concise Tao Te Ching, the Chuang Tzu is quite a lengthy prose work, and it also clearly contains the work of several authors. This has meant that although it contains various famous stories (Chuang Tzu dreaming he was a butterfly and on waking wondering whether he was butterfly dreaming he was a man; Chuang Tzu refusing a court appointment, commenting he would rather be a live turtle waggling his tail in the mud than a dead one in a court-temple; the Lord Wenhui?s butcher, who would carve up a carcass by intuition, not conscious thought; Master Chuang?s reaction to his wife?s death, and many others) it has not enjoyed the same popularity in the west as the Tao Te Ching. Western translators used to stick to the first seven, the so-called ?inner chapters?, which are those which are the earliest in date ( C4 ? C3 BCE) and probably the work of one author. (The text was probably edited into its present form by the C2 CE, using the work of later authors, some of whom have different versions of Daoist thought, and some of whom are not Daoist at all!).
However along with a greater understanding of the number of strands of authorship which make up the text, their dates and the likely philosophical allegiances of their respective authors, more recent translators have taken to translating the whole text. Of these Mair?s version is one of the best: the translation is lively, colloquial and humorous (where the Chinese names are meant to be nicknames, for example, Mair translates them as such), and distinguishes between prose passages and the poems contained in the text. His introduction is also very accessible and very informative.
With this translation the Chuang Tzu can now be appreciated by English-speaking readers as one of the most entertaining and profound works ever written.
