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"During a period of political and social upheaval in China, the unconventional insights of the great Daoist Zhuangzi (369?-286? B.C.) pointed to a way of living naturally. Inspired by his fascination with the wisdom of this sage, the immensely popular Taiwanese cartoonist Tsai Chih Chung created a bestselling Chinese comic book. Tsai had his cartoon characters enact the key parables of Zhuangzi (pronounced jwawngdz), and he rendered Zhuangzi's most enlightening sayings into modern Chinese. Through Tsai's enthusiasm and skill, the earliest and core parts of the Zhuangzi were thus made accessible to millions of Chinese-speaking people with no other real chance of appreciating this major Daoist text. Translated into English by Brian Bruya, the comic book is now available to a Western audience. The classical Chinese text of the selections of the Zhuangzi is reproduced in the margins throughout. Evoked by the translation and the playful cartoons is the spontaneity that Zhuangzi favors as an attitude toward life: abandon presuppositions, intellectual debates, and ambitions, he suggests, and listen to the ""music of nature.""With the writings attributed to Laozi, the Zhuangzi contributed to an alternative philosophical ideal that matched Confucianism in its impact on Chinese culture.Over the centuries this classical Daoism influenced many aspects of Chinese life, including painting, literature, and the martial arts. It had a particularly strong effect on Chan Buddhism (Japanese Zen). For this book, Donald Munro has written an afterword that places Daoism and the Zhuangzi in historical and cultural context."

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Author:   C. C. Tsai ,  Brian Bruya
Publisher:   Princeton University Press
Imprint:   Princeton University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 21.60cm , Height: 1.00cm , Length: 23.50cm
Weight:   0.340kg
ISBN:  

9780691008820

ISBN 10:   0691008825
Pages:   160
Publication Date:   02 August 1992
Audience:   General/trade ,  College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  General ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Temporarily unavailable  
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Language:   English

Table of Contents

AcknowledgmentsGuide to PronunciationMapThe Summer Cicada and the Wonder Tortoise5The Little Sparrow's Small Happiness7Hui Shi's Giant Gourd8The Song Family's Secret Formula10The Useless Shu Tree12The Tattooed Yue People15The Music of the Earth16Zhao Wen Quits the Zither19Does Wang Ni Know?20Is Xi Shi Really Beautiful?22Li Ji's Tears23Zhang Wuzi's Dream24Shadows Talking25The Dream of the Butterfly26Three at Dawn and Four at Dusk27Hui Shi Leans against a Tree28The Cook Carves Up a Cow29Passing on the Flame31The Caged Pheasant32Like A Mantis Stopping a Cart33The Horse Lover35The Earth Spirit's Tree36A Tree's Natural Life Span38The Freak40Oil Burns Itself Out41The Tiger Trainer42Toeless Shu43Nature the Superhero44Forgetting the Dao45Zi Sang Questions His Fate46Digging a Canal in the Ocean Floor47Are a Duck's Legs Too Short?48The Lost Goat49Bandits Have Principles, Too50Good Wine, Bad Wine52The Yellow Emperor Questions Guangcheng53Nature's Friend54The Old Wheelwright55The Earth and the Sky57Crows and Seagulls58Confucius Sees a Dragon59Don't Ring the Bull's Nose60The Wind and the Snake61Courage of the Sage63The Frog in the Well65Learning How to Walk in Handan68A Crow Eating a Dead Rat69You're Not a Fish71Zhuangzi Dreams of a Skeleton72Sea Birds Don't Like Music74The Drunk Passenger76Riding with the Dao77The Sweet Water is Gone First79Lin Hui Forsakes a Fortune81Swallows Nest in the Eaves82The Mantis Getting the Cicada83Fan Was Never Destroyed85Knowledge and the Dao86Gengsang Forsakes Fame88The Yellow Emperor and the Pasture Boy89The Stone Mason and the Ying Man91Two Nations on a Snail's Antennae93Zhuangzi Borrows Grain94The Turtle That Could Predict the Future95Natural Use97Catch the Fish, Discard the Trap98Yang Zhu Studies the Dao99Zi Gong's Snow-White Clothes100The Bandit Speaks102Zhuangzi's Three Swords107Confucius in the Black Forest114The Man Who Hated His Footprints117The Man Who Hated His Shadow118Like a Drifting Boat119The Dragonslayer120Shattering the Dragonpearl122Don't Make Sacrifices124Zhuangzi on His Deathbed125Afterword127

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