For other versions of this work, see Chuang Tzŭ.
Chuang Tzŭ (1889)
by Zhuang Zi, translated by Herbert Allen Giles
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Chuang Tzŭ

Mystic, Moralist, and Social Reformer


TRANSLATED FROM THE CHINESE

BY

HERBERT A. GILES

H. B. M.'s Consul at Tamsui

道

London

BERNARD QUARITCH

1889

CONTENTS.

Page
Introduction v
Note on the Philosophy of Chuang Tzŭ, by Canon Moore xviii
 
CHAPTER I — Transcendental Bliss 1
II — The Identity of Contraries 12
III — Nourishment of the Soul 33
IV — Man among Men 38
V — The Evidence of Virtue Complete 56
VI — The Great Supreme 68
VII — How To Govern 91
VIII — Joined Toes 99
IX — Horses' Hoofs 106
X — Opening Trunks 110
XI — On Letting Alone 119
XII — The Universe 135
XIII — The Tao of God 157
XIV — The Circling Sky 173
XV — Self-Conceit 190
XVI — Exercise of Faculties 195
XVII — Autumn Floods 200
XVIII — Perfect Happiness 220
XIX — The Secret of Life 229
XX — Mountain Trees 245
XXI — T'ien Tzŭ Fang 261
XXII — Knowledge travels North 276
XXIII — Kêng Sang Ch'u 294
XXIV — Hsü Wu Kuei 311
XXV — Tsê Yang 335
XXVI — Contingencies 352
XXVII — Language 363
XXVIII — On Declining Power 370
XXIX — Robber Chê 387
XXX — On Swords 407
XXXI — The Old Fisherman 413
XXXII — Lieh Tzŭ 423
XXXIII — The Empire 437
Index 455
Errata and Addenda 466

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