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eBook
The Old Master
2012
Overview
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. Kim offers several original and
thought-provoking arguments on the Laozi , including that
the work was compiled during the Qin, which has traditionally been
viewed as typical of Legalist states, and that the Laozi
should be recognized as a syncretic text before being labeled a
Daoist one.
Publisher
SUNY Press,State University of New York Press
Subject
ISBN
9781438440132, 1438440138, 9781438440125, 143844012X, 1438440111, 9781438440118
