Brook Ziporyn's Zhuangzi: The Essential Writings, With Selections From Traditional Commentaries, published by Hackett Publishing Company in 2009, is a scholarly critical translation of the classical Daoist text that also includes translated excerpts from its historical Chinese commentarial tradition. Its authority rests on Ziporyn's standing as a specialist translator and scholar of classical Chinese philosophy and on standard academic press review. Including the traditional commentaries alongside the text itself is a deliberate scholarly choice that helps a reader see how the text has actually been read within its own tradition, rather than through a single modern interpretive lens.
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Brook Ziporyn's Zhuangzi: The Essential Writings, With Selections From Traditional Commentaries, published by Hackett Publishing Company in 2009, the top tier reflecting a scholarly critical translation by a specialist translator and scholar of classical Chinese philosophy, including translated excerpts from the text's historical Chinese commentarial tradition. Including the traditional commentaries is a deliberate scholarly choice that helps a reader see how the text has actually been read within its own tradition, rather than through a single modern interpretive lens. NotesScholarly critical translation of the Zhuangzi with selections from traditional commentaries.
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AuthorBrook Ziporyn (translator and editor)
PublisherHackett Publishing Company
Publication Year2009
Source Typecritical translation
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