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The Humanist Spirit of Daoism
In The Humanist Spirit of Daoism, Chen Guying presents a concise overview of his understanding of the meaning and significance of Daoist philosophy. Chen is a leading contemporary Chinese thinker and spokesperson for a new Daoist approach to existential and socio-political issues. He was born in mainland China in 1935, but after having resettled to Taiwan, he received his education there and was a student activist in the 1960s. He became famous in the Chinese-speaking world with his writings on Nietzsche, Laozi and Zhuangzi. At present he is a Professor at Peking University. This volume collects representative essays from the past 25 years which not only outline Chen’s interpretation of Daoism as a deeply humanist way of thinking and living, but also show how he employs this philosophy in a critique of totalitarianism and neo-imperialism.
The Annotated Critical Laozi
Chen Guying's Laozi includes some of the most significant traditional commentary and influential contemporary scholarship. This book completely changed Laozi studies in China, and its English translation gives scholars a unique inroad to Chinese perspectives on the Laozi.
The Philosophy of Life
Chen Guying, one of the leading scholars on Daoism in contemporary China, provides in his book The Philosophy of Life, A New Reading of the Zhuangzi a detailed analysis and a unique interpretation of Zhuangzi’s Inner, Outer and Miscellaneous chapters. Unlike many other Chinese scholars Chen does not focus on a philological, but on a philosophical reading of the Zhuangzi highlighting the main topics of self-cultivation, aesthetics, and epistemology. Chen’s perspectives on the Zhuangzi range from the historical background of the Warring States Period to his own personal (political) experience. Since Chen is also a specialist on Nietzsche, he elaborates Zhuangzi’s philosophy of life and the idea of regulating one’s heart by drawing a parallel to Nietzsche’s perspectivism.
Rediscovering the Roots of Chinese Thought
This book translates Lao Zhuang xinlun, a key work of contemporary Chinese scholarship. It offers a unique discussion of the Laozi, arguing - in contrast to standard Western scholarship - that the text goes back to Laozi as a single author and identifying him as an older contemporary, and even teacher, of Confucius. This places the Confucian Analects after the Daode jing and makes the text the most fundamental work of ancient Chinese thought. Chen explores decades of debates regarding these points, providing evidence based on materials excavated from Mawangdui and Guodian. His book is fascinating in its documentation of contemporary Chinese arguments and debates, offering a complete revision of the history of Chinese thought with Daoism as its major focus. The work is an absolute must for anyone studying Chinese philosophy and history. -- from back cover.
THE WORLD OF MASTER ZHUANG
The World of Master Zhuang is translated from Zhuangzi annotated and put into modern Chinese by Chen Guying. It is a fascinating collection of essays and tales composed by Zhou Zhuang of China’s Warring States Period and his followers. It is classified as literary, rich in philosophical ideas and taken as one of the three major classics of Daoism (the other two are Laozi and Liezi). This is why virtually all literate Chinese know the book, and its readers adopt the rich supply of idioms in their daily communication and always learn from it something helpful, whether it is wisdom, knowledge, insight, consonance, sympathies, comfort, relief, reconciliation or compromise. All those who have a...
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The Study of Chuang Tzu's Philosophy
These words were continuously written while teaching the course "the philosophy of Lao Tzu and Chuang Tzu" as a philosophy professor in Taiwan University. I was planning to write something to introduce the philosophy of Chuang Tzu briefly, but because it took too long for me to write "Explanation and Translation of Chuang Tzu", now I changed the thought on Chuang Tzu, and in recent years my emotion was not steady, the plan was hold for a while. This book is more like a magazine, is not a systematic thing. I only wrote two from the Inner chapters, Outer chapters and Miscellaneous chapters, I haven't wrote for Miscellaneous chapter yet, at the same time, about the discussion of the philosophy of Chuang Tzu, I wanted to write article like "The View of Nature in the Philosophy of Chuang Tzu", "Important opinions in the philosophy of Chuang Tzu", " The Remarkable Value on Era of Philosophy of Chuang Tzu", etc. but I wasn't able to write them. There are a lot of work undone, hope to implement these works in the future.
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本书又名《道德经》, 共八十一章, 前三十七章为《道经》, 后四十四章为《德经》.
