A Chinese Reading of the Daodejing: Wang Bi's Commentary on the Laozi with Critical Text and Translation
A Chinese Reading of the Daodejing: Wang Bi's Commentary on the Laozi with Critical Text and Translation (SUNY Series in Chinese Philosophy and Culture) by Rudolf G. Wagner
English | October 1, 2003 | ISBN: 0791451828 | True PDF | 540 pages | 3.99 MB
English | October 1, 2003 | ISBN: 0791451828 | True PDF | 540 pages | 3.99 MB
Many of the brightest Chinese minds have used the form of the commentary to open the terse and poetic chapters of the Laozi to their readers and also to develop a philosophy of their own. None has been more sophisticated, philosophically probing, and influential in the endeavor than a young genius of the third century C.E., Wang Bi (226–249).
In this book, Rudolf G. Wagner provides a full translation of the Laozi that extracts from Wang Bi's Commentary the manner in which he read the text, as well as a full translation of Wang Bi's Commentary and his essay on the "subtle pointers" of the Laozi. The result is a Chinese reading of the Laozi that will surprise and delight Western readers familiar with some of the many translations of the work.