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A study of Balfour’s English translation of the Zhuangzi in light of comparative religion

Humanities & Social Sciences Communications
As an important text of Chinese philosophy and Daoism, the English translation of the Zhuangzi has played a key role in cultural exchange between China and the West.
Ziqiang Zhao
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“I Lost Myself”: Variations on Ziqi, a Name Wandering Through Zhuangzian Landscapes

Religions
For two millennia, scholarship on the Zhuangzi has extracted doctrines, analyzed concepts, and dissected arguments, all of which is valuable and necessary.
Thomas Michael
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Zhuangzi - The Non - Post -Nietzschean Perspectivist [PDF]

, 2002
It is not uncommon to find both Nietzsche and Zhuangzi referred to as perspectivists, or thinkers belonging to a variety of philosophical thought that supports the belief that truth is relative to perspective and perspective bound.
Atkinson, David
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A Decolonial Reading of the Zhuāngzĭ

Asian Studies
This paper offers a decolonial reading of the Zhuāngzǐ, situating it within a South-South dialogue between classical Chinese thought and contemporary Latin American concerns about inequality.
Manuel Salvador Rivera Espinoza
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The Hermeneutics of Contentious Imagery: What Exactly the Zhuangzi Has to Say about the Straw Dogs in the Laozi

Religions, 2019
The image of “straw dogs” (chugou 刍狗) is a simile used in chapter five of the Laozi (老子), in a passage generally understood as an explicit Daoist rejection of kind acts (or benevolence as ren 仁 was translated for a long time), well known as ...
Callisto Searle
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Fanaticism and the Zhuangzi: The Discursive Conditions for Unhealthy Commitments

Religions
This article utilizes the Zhuangzi’s critical approach to language to expand contemporary discourse on the philosophy of fanaticism beyond the conceptual categories derived from European Enlightenment-era critiques of religious and political fanaticism ...
Daniel Sarafinas
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Experimental Essays on Zhuangzi

Experimental Essays on Zhuangzi is a classic in the field. Originally published in 1983, this edition makes it available again in an expanded version, with four additional contributions, and in an updated format, with pinyin transcription, Chinese ...
Mair, Victor.
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New Visions of the Zhuangzi

A collection of thirteen essays on the ancient Daoist philosophical work Zhuangzi, this presents new angles and approaches. It overcomes the traditional division of schools in favor of topics, sheds new light on key philosophical notions, examines ...
Kohn, Livia.
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Encountering the Zhuangzi

Asian Studies
The Zhuangzi 莊子 often uses its multicoloured characters and imaginative stories to make its points. So much so that one of these characters is, I wish to argue, a stand-in for the text of the Zhuangzi itself. Huzi 壺子, when he meets Jixian 季咸 through the
Thaddée Chantry-Gellens
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Harmonizing Openness in the Zhuangzi: A Critique of Respecting Diversity

Religions
In contemporary societies, increasing diversity is often accompanied by intensified conflicts across various public domains. While respecting differences is commonly proposed as a solution, this necessarily narrows the scope of shared values, which ...
Luyao Li, Paul J. D’Ambrosio
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