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The Old Master: A Syncretic Reading of the Laozi from the Mawangdui Text A Onward

The Old Master: A Syncretic Reading of the Laozi from the Mawangdui Text A Onward

Kim, Hongkyung

Paperback

Series: Suny Chinese Philosophy and Culture

General Eastern ReligionsTaoism

ISBN10: 143844012X
ISBN13: 9781438440125
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Published: Jan 2 2013
Pages: 318
Weight: 1.05
Height: 0.80 Width: 5.90 Depth: 8.90
Language: English

A unique translation of and commentary on the Laozi, based on the oldest edition of the work.

This unique, highly contextualized translation of the Laozi is based on the earliest known edition of the work, Text A of the Mawangdui Laozi, written before 202 BCE. No other editions are comparable to this text in its antiquity. Hongkyung Kim also incorporates the recent archaeological discovery of Laozi-related documents disentombed in 1993 in Guodian, seeing these documents as proto-materials for compilation of the Laozi and revealing clues for disentangling the work from complicated exegetical contentions. Kim makes extensive use of Chinese commentaries on the Laozi and also examines the classic Chinese texts closely associated with the formation of the work to illuminate the intellectual and historical context of Laozi's philosophy.

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