A Chinese Reading of the Daodejing: Wang Bi's Commentary on the Laozi With Critical Text and Translation,9780791451816

A Chinese Reading of the Daodejing: Wang Bi's Commentary on the Laozi With Critical Text and Translation

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Edition: Bilingual
ISBN13: 9780791451816
ISBN10: 079145181X
Format: Hardcover
Pub. Date: 2003-11-01
Publisher(s): State Univ of New York Pr
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Summary

Rudolf G. Wagner is Professor of Chinese Studies at the University of Heidelberg.

Table of Contents

Preface vii
Introduction 1(2)
1 The Wang Bi Recension of the Laozi 3(30)
Introduction
3(2)
The Problem
5(1)
Wang Bi's Original Recension of the Laozi
6(11)
Superimposition
17(8)
The Division into zhang and pian
25(2)
Conclusion
27(1)
Appendix A: Differences between Wang Bi Laozi Receptus and Laozi Text Used in Wang Bi Commentary
28(2)
Appendix B Differences between Wang Bi Laozi Receptus and Places Where Fan Yingyuan's Laozi Daode jing guben jizbu Comments That Wang Bi's Manuscript Coincided with the "Old Manuscript[s]"
30(3)
2 Patronage and the Transmission of the Wang Bi Commentary: Foundations for a Critical Edition 33(36)
The Problem
33(2)
A History of Wang Bi's Commentary on the Laozi: the Evidence
35(30)
Conclusions
65(4)
3 Wang Bi: "The Structure of the Laozi's Subtle Pointers," Laozi weizhi lüeli, a Philological Study and Translation Together with the Text. 69(38)
Introduction
69(1)
The Authenticity of the Laozi weizhi lüeli (LZWLL)
69(4)
Wang Bi's LZWLL and the Transmitted Text
73(2)
The Genre of the LZWLL
75(3)
The Laozi's Structure according to the LZWLL
78(2)
The Basis for the Edition of the Text
80(2)
Wang Bi: The Structure of the Laozi's Pointers
82(25)
4 A Reconstruction and Critical Edition of the Laozi Text Used by Wang Bi; a Reconstruction and Critical Edition of Wang Bi's Commentary on the Laozi; an Extrapolative Translation of the Laozi through Wang Bi's Commentary; and a Translation of Wang Bi's Commentary on the Laozi 107(282)
A Note on the Edition
107(5)
A Note on Extrapolative Translation
112(4)
A Note on Previous Translations
116(3)
Wang Bi, Commentary on the Laozi
119(270)
Notes 389(110)
Bibliography 499(14)
Index 513

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