The Annotated Critical Laozi: With Contemporary Explication and Traditional Commentary(19 Modern Chinese Philosophy)

Chen Guying’s Laozi dissects different versions of the Laozi and provides close readings of traditional and contemporary commentaries, from Han Fei, Wang Bi, and Heshang Gong through to Shi Deqing, Xu Kangsheng and Ding Yuanzhi. This book completely changed Laozi studies in China, where no serious student or scholar can ignore Chen’s amazing work. It is the standard interpretation of the Laozi at nearly every Chinese university. The English translation provided here seeks to accurately reflect the detail of Chen’s meticulous work by providing multiple English translations of key characters, allowing the reader to follow complex Sinological arguments. The close “word-for-character” translation of the Laozi text enables scholars to interact with the Laozi on a level previously unavailable in English.

Table of Contents:
Terms Texts (Classic, and early versions of the Laozi) Translator’s Introduction Introduction: The Formation and Development of Laozi’s Philosophy 一 One 二 Two 三 Three 四 Four 五 Five 六 Six 七 Seven 八 Eight 九 Nine 十 Ten 十一 Eleven 十二 Twelve 十三 Thirteen 十四 Fourteen 十五 Fifteen 十六 Sixteen 十七 Seventeen 十八 Eighteen 十九 Nineteen 二十 Twenty 二十一 Twenty-One 二十二 Twenty-Two 二十三 Twenty-Three 二十四 Twenty-Four 二十五 Twenty-Five 二十六 Twenty-Six 二十七 Twenty-Seven 二十八 Twenty-Eight 二十九 Twenty-Nine 三十 Thirty 三十一 Thirty-One 三十二 Thirty-Two 三十三 Thirty-Three 三十四 Thirty-Four 三十五 Thirty-Five 三十六 Thirty-Six 三十七 Thirty-Seven 三十八 Thirty-Eight 三十九 Thirty-Nine 四十 Forty 四十一 Forty-One 四十二 Forty-Two 四十三 Forty-Three 四十四 Forty-Four 四十五 Forty-Five 四十六 Forty-Six 四十七 Forty-Seven 四十八 Forty-Eight 四十九 Forty-­Nine 五十 Fifty 五十一 Fifty-One 五十二 Fifty-Two 五十三 Fifty-Three 五十四 Fifty-Four 五十五 Fifty-Five 五十六 Fifty-Six 五十七 Fifty-Seven 五十八 Fifty-Eight 五十九 Fifty-Nine 六十 Sixty 六十一章 Sixty-One 六十二 Sixty-Two 六十三章 Sixty-Three 六十四章 Sixty-Four 六十五章 Sixty-Five 六十六章 Sixty-Six 六十七章 Sixty-Seven 六十八章 Sixty-Eight 六十九章 Sixty-Nine 七十章 Seventy 七十一 Seventy-One 七十二 Seventy-Two 七十三 Seventy-Three 七十四 Seventy-Four 七十五 Seventy­Five 七十六 Seventy-Six 七十七 Seventy-Seven 七十八 Seventy-Eight 七十九 Seventy-Nine 八十 Eighty 八十一 Eighty­One Appendix: Major Commentators on the Laozi

About the Author :
Chen Guying (陈鼓应) was born in Fujian province in 1935. He received his degree in philosophy from National Taiwan University, where he taught for most of his life. Chen now teaches at Peking University's Center for Daoist Studies. Paul J. D’Ambrosio is associate professor of Chinese philosophy at East China Normal University, fellow of the Institute of Modern Chinese Thought and Culture, Dean of the Center for Intercultural Research, and program coordinator ECNU’s graduate philosophy program in English. Xiao Ouyang (欧阳霄) is Associate Professorial Research Fellow at Wuhan University, China. He was an Irish Research Council Postdoctoral Fellow (2016-2018) at University College Cork, Ireland, where he also completed his PhD in philosophy in 2016.