The Inner Chapters

Zhuangzi

Original title: Nanhua jing

Also published as: Chuang-Tzu

first published 1889 Hackett Pub. Company, 2009 256 pages

Translations from the Asian classics

Revered for millennia in the Chinese spiritual tradition, Chuang Tze stands alongside the Tao Te Ching as a founding classic of Taoism. The Inner Chapters are the only sustained section of this text widely believed to be the work of Chuang Tzu himself, dating to the fourth century B.C.E. But this is an ancient text that yields a surprisingly modern effect. In bold and startling prose, David Hinton's translation capt...

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This book in English

David Hinton 1 printing we hold · 1997 · Counterpoint LLC
A. C. Graham 1 printing we hold · 2001 · Hackett Publishing Company

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Editions we hold

Zhuangzi edition · 2009 · Hackett Pub. Company · 256 pages · 9780872209114
Les oeuvres de maître Tchouang edition · 2006 · Editions de l'Encyclopédie des nuisances · 330 pages
The Inner Chapters paperback · 2001 · Hackett Publishing Company · 304 pages
Zhuangzi edition · 2000 · Li xu wen hua shi ye you xian gong si · 221 pages
Wandering on the way edition · 1998 · University of Hawaiʻi Press · 402 pages
The inner chapters edition · 1998 · Counterpoint · 120 pages
Zhuangzi edition · 1997 · Hunan ren min chu ban she · 742 pages
Chuang Tzu hardcover · 1997 · Counterpoint LLC · 118 pages · 9781887178341
Basic writings edition · 1996 · Columbia University Press · 159 pages
Wandering on the way edition · 1994 · Bantam Books · 402 pages
Changja edition · 1993 · Hyonamsa · 810 pages · 9788932307565
Chuang-Tzu paperback · 1987 · Harpercollins · 304 pages · 9780042990132

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