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A Chinese Reading of the Daodejing: Wang Bi's Commentary on the Laozi with Critical Text and Translation

A Chinese Reading of the Daodejing: Wang Bi's Commentary on the Laozi with Critical Text and Translation

Wagner, Rudolf G.

Hardcover

Series: Suny Chinese Philosophy and Culture

Literary CriticismTaoism

ISBN10: 079145181X
ISBN13: 9780791451816
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Published: Oct 23 2003
Pages: 540
Weight: 1.86
Height: 1.38 Width: 6.24 Depth: 9.50
Language: English

Presenting the commentary of the third-century sage Wang Bi, this book provides a Chinese way of reading the Daodejing, one which will surprise Western readers.

Many of the brightest Chinese minds have used the form of the commentary to open the terse and poetic chapters of the Laozi to their readers and also to develop a philosophy of their own. None has been more sophisticated, philosophically probing, and influential in the endeavor than a young genius of the third century C.E., Wang Bi (226-249). In this book, Rudolf G. Wagner provides a full translation of the Laozi that extracts from Wang Bi's Commentary the manner in which he read the text, as well as a full translation of Wang Bi's Commentary and his essay on the subtle pointers of the Laozi. The result is a Chinese reading of the Laozi that will surprise and delight Western readers familiar with some of the many translations of the work.

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