...Roger T. Ames Chuang-tzu: The Seven Inner Chapters and Other Writings from the Book Chuang-tzu . Translated by A. C. Graham . London : Allen and Unwin , 1981 . ix, 293 pp. Introduction, Finding List for the Chinese Text, Notes, List of Characters, Index. £15.95 (approx. $28.50...

...Derk Bodde Czuang-tsy, Nan-hua-czen-king . (Chuang-tzu, Nan-hua-chen-ching) . Translated by Witold Jablonski , Janusz Chmielewski , and Olgierd Wotasiewicz . Warsaw : Panstowe Wydawnictwo Naukowe , 1953 . 364 . Ill. Zlotys 50. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1954...

...Y. P. Mei The Complete Works of Chuang Tzu . Translated by Burton Watson . New York : Columbia University Press , 1968 . 397 pp. Index. $10.00. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1969 1969 BOOK REVIEWS 617 fount of truth, it is at times, nonetheless, a bit...

...Robert Eno Experimental Essays on Chuang-tzu . Edited by Victor H. Mair . Honolulu : University of Hawaii Press , 1983 . xvii, 171 pp. Bibliographic Appendix, Index. $10 (paper). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1985 1985 BOOK REVIEWS CHINA AND INNER ASIA 379...

...Harvey Molé The Teaching of Taoist Master Chuang . By Michael Saso . New Haven and London : Yale University Press , 1978 . xiii, 317 pp. Illustrations, Figures, Diagram, Notes, Select Bibliography, Index, Chinese Characters. $17.50. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc...

...Dore J. Levy The Song-Poetry of Wei Chuang (836–910 a.d. ) . Translated, with an introduction and supplementary material, by John Timothy Wixted . Calligraphy by Eugenia Y. Tu. Tempe, Ariz .: Center for Asian Studies, Arizona State University , (Occasional Paper No. 12), May 1979 . 144...

...Dale Riepe The Sayings of Chuang Chou . Trans, by James R. Ware . New York : The New American Library , 1963 . 240 . $.75 (A Mentor Classic). Copyright © Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1965 1965 BOOK REVIEWS 329 Teng and Biggerstaff's Annotated Bibliography of Selected...

...Bryan W. Van Norden Chuang-Tzu for Spiritual Transformation . By Robert E. Allinson . Albany : State University of New York Press , 1989 . 203 pp. $39.50 (cloth); $12.95 (paper). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1990 1990 366 THE JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES...

...Susan Mann Jones Shanghai Old-Style Banks (Ch'ien-Chuang), 1800–1935 . By Andrea Lee McElderry . Ann Arbor : Center for Chinese Studies, University of Michigan , 1976 . 230 pp. Appendix, Bibliography, Glossary. $3.00 Copyright © Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1977 1977 BOOK...

...H. C. Chuang Chinese Literature: Popular Fiction and Drama . By H. C. Chang . Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press ; Chicago: Aldine Publishing Co., 1973 . x, 466 pp. £3.50. $8.75. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1975 1975 BOOK REVIEWS 515 and a "drifting-sand...

.... The paradoxical strength of passivity, the power of compliance, and the endurance of the peripheral already form a central theme in the mystical writings gathered in the fourth and third century b.c. Lao-tzu and Chuang-tzu . The Taoism of these ancient texts advanced a doctrine of liberation through submission...

... tendencies. Hsün Tzu's presentation of the mind as spectator— an idea developed chiefly in his discussion of obsession—accepts Chuang Tzu's stress on the importance of detachment, but argues that such detachment need not necessitate withdrawal from normal action. Hsün Tzu's two views of the mind can...

...Chuang Ying-Chang; Arthur P. Wolf Abstract Sinologists have long agreed that many aspects of Chinese culture vary widely from region to region and even from valley to valley and town to town. The question for contemporary scholars is why and with what consequences. The problem we face is that while...

...Andrew Morris The book's final section provides a similar treatment of locality, showing how advocacy of place also need not be limited to reactionary politics but instead can provide a groundedness and a natural sense of heterogeneity. Chuang's distinction between boom-era ideas of the difang...

... that it was the mid-Ch'ing, not the late-Ch'ing period, and Chuang Ts'un-yu and his grandson Liu Feng-lu that should be the focus of study for the origins of the revival of New Text Confucianism. By examining the complex relationship between scholarship, gentry strategies, and politics, Elman shows that the New Text...

...Michael Levien Beneath the China Boom: Labor, Citizenship, and the Making of a Rural Land Market . By Julia Chuang . Berkeley : University of California Press , 2020 . 256 pp. ISBN: 9780520305441 (cloth). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2021 2021 China's...

... of these is the Chuang Autonomous Region in Western Kwangsi. This covers an area of 134,000 square kilometers, and includes 8,500,000 people. Within it are 12 non-Chinese nationalities, of whom Chuang people make up 64 per cent of the total population. On page 15, in Table IV, "Minority Groups (1953 census ten minority...

... analysis, etc., it was hoped that in the long run all groups and approaches would come together, help each other, and advance our knowledge. EDWARD FRIEDMAN Stanford Center, Taipei Editor, Journal of Asian Studies: "Once upon a time, Chuang Chou dreamed that he was a butterfly, a butterfly fluttering about...

... and man go their own ways. Chapters are devoted to such major figures as Confucius, Mo-tzu, Chuang-tzu, Lao-tzu, and Hsiin-tzu. Graham sees Confucius as the conservative and Mo-tzu as the radical reaction to the breakdown of world order decreed by Heaven. His presentation of Confucius is narrow, largely...

... our most contemporary writings on China tell us more about China or America. EDWARD FRIEDMAN University of Wisconsin The Complete Works of Chuang Tzu. TRANSLATED BY BURTON WATSON. New York: Columbia University Press, 1968. 397 pp. Index. $10.00. The works of Chuang Tzu are truly to be read and reread...