Zhuangzi Bibliography
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Allinson, Robert E. Chuang-Tzu for Spiritual Transformation. Albany, NY: SUNY Press,
1989.
Ames, Roger T. Wandering at Ease in the Zhuangzi. Albany, NY: SUNY Press, 1998.
Bruya, Brian, tr. & Tsai Chih Chung. Zhuangzi Speaks: The Music of Nature.
Princeton, NJ: Princeton Univ. Press, 1992. (Cartoon Version)
_____ & Tsai Chih Chung. The Dao of Zhuangzi: The Harmony of Nature. NY:
Doubleday, 1997. (Cartoon Version)
Chen Guying. Zhuangzi Juyi. Hong Kong: Zhonghua Shuju, 1994.
ISBN 962-231-143-1.
Chin, Ping Wong PhD. “A Study of the Chuang-Tzu: Text, Authorship and Philosophy.”
PhD Dissertation, Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison, 1978.
Cleary, Thomas. The Essential Tao. S.F.: Harper Collins, 1991.
Correa, Nina. Zhuangzi. Online. http://www.daoisopen.com/ZhuangziChuangTzu.html
Finazzo, Giancarlo. The Notion of Dao in Lao Tzu and Chuang Tzu. Taipei: Mei Ya
Publications, 1968.
Fu-feng, Gia and Jane English. Chuang Tsu Inner Chapters. Random House, 1974.
Reprinted as: English, Jane (tr). Chuang Tsu Inner Chapters. Amber Lotus, 1997.
Fung Yu-lan. Chuang-Tzu: A New Selected Translation and an Exposition of the
Philosophy of Kuo Hsiang. Beijing: Foreign Languages Press, 1989.
Giles, Herbert A. Musings of a Chinese Mystic: Selections from the Philosophy of Chuang
Tzu. NY: E.P. Dutton & Co., 1909.
Graham, Angus C. Chuang-Tzu: The Inner Chapters. London: George Allen & Unwin,
1981.
_____Chuang-tzu: Textual Notes to a Partial Translation. London: School of Oriental and
African Studies, 1982.
Guo Qingfan. Zhuangzi Jishi. See Kuo Ch’ing-fan
Hamil, Sam & J..P. Seaton. The Essential Chuang Tzu. Boston: Shambhala, 1998.
Harvard Yenching Institute, comp. A Concordance to Chuang Tzu: Sinological Series.
Taipei: Chinese Material and Research Aids Service Center, 1966 & 1986
(BL1900.C576C566 1986). Zhuangzi Yinde first published 1947. A 1986 reprint,
Chu-tzu Yin-de includes a concordance to Laozi as well (B125.C572 1986 V.3).
Herman, Johnathan Roy. I and Tao: Martin Buber’s Encounter with Chuang Tzu. Albany,
NY: SUNY Press, 1996.
Hinton, David. Chuang Tzu: The Inner Chapters. Wash. DC: Counterpoint Press, 1998.
Kjellberg, Paul and Philip J. Ivanhoe (eds). Essays on Skepticism, Relativism and Ethics in
the Zhuangzi. Albany, NY: SUNY Press, 1996.
Kuo Ch’ing-fan. Chuang Tzu Chi Shih. Beijing: Chung-Hwa Shu-Chu, 1961.
4 Volumes. First published 1895. (BL1900.C45.K8 1961 Ts’e 1-4). Basis of the
Harvard-Yenching Concordance.
Legge, James. The Texts of Taoism, Part II: The T’ai Shang Tractate; The Writings of
Chuang Tzu. NY: Dover, 1962. Sometimes listed with DT Suzuki as author.
_____ Clae Waltham, ed. Chuang Tzu: Genius of the Absurd. NY: Ace Books, 1971.
Mair, Victor. Wandering on the Way: Early Taoist Tales and Parables of Chuang Tzu.
Honolulu: Univ. of Hawaii Press, 1998. Also NY: Bantam, 1994.
_____ (Editor). Experimental Essays on Chuang-Tzu. Honolulu: Univ. of Hawaii Press,
1983.
Merton, Thomas and Edgar Neville. The Way of Chuang Tzu. WW Norton, 1988.
Also published as The Way of Chuang Tsaeu. New Directions, 1965.
Palmer, Martin and Elizabeth Breuilly. The Book of Chuang Tzu: A New, Complete
Translation of the Classic Taoist Text. London: Arkana, 1996.
Roth, Harold D. A Companion to Angus C. Graham’s Chuang Tzu, the Inner Chapters.
Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 2003.
Schoenwolf, Gerald. The Way According to Lao Tzu, Chuang Tzu and Seng Tsan. Jain
Pub. Co., 2000.
Shang Geling. “The Religiosity of Zhuangzi and Nietzsche: Human Liberation as
Affirmation of Life.” PhD Dissertation, Temple University, 1999.
Van de Weyer, Robert..Chuang Tzu in a Nutshell..Sydney: Hodder & Stoughton, 1998.
Wang Rongpei, tr..Zhuangzi..Hunan: People’s Publishing House, Foreign Languages
Press, 1999. ISBN 754-382-087-0. 2 Volumes, Inner & Outer Chapters. Bilingual
English-Chinese.
Ware, James R. The Sayings of Chuang Chou. NY: Mentor Classics, 1963.
Watson, Burton. The Complete Works of Chuang Tzu. NY: Columbia University Press,
1968. Have seen listed under author W. de Barry. ??
_____ Chuang Tzu: Basic Writings. NY: Columbia University Press, 1964.
Wieger, Leon, tr. D. Bryce. Wisdom of the Daoist Masters: the Works of Lao Zi, Lie Zi
and Zhuang Zi. Lampeter, Llanerch, 1984. (Xerox copy).
Wu Kuang-ming, tr. Chuang Tzu: Worldly Philosopher at Play. NY: Crossroad Pub.,
1982
_____The Butterfly as Companion: Meditations on the First Three Chapters of the
Chuang Tzu. Albany, NY: SUNY Press, 1996.
General Daoism
Blofeld, John. Taoism: The Road to Immortality. Boston: Shambhala, 1978.
Chang Chung-yuan. Creativity and Daoism: A Study of Chinese Philosophy, Art and
Poetry. NY: Harper Colophon, 1963.
Creel, Herrlee G. What is Taoism? Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1970.
Graham, Angus C. Disputers of the Tao: Philosophical Argument in Ancient China.
LaSalle, IL: Open Court, 1989.
Hansen, Chad. A Daoist Theory of Chinese Thought: A Philosophical Interpretation. NY:
Oxford Univ. Press, 1992.
Izutsu, Toshihiko. Sufism and Taoism: A Comparative Study of Key Philosophical
Concepts. Berkeley: Univ. of Calif. Press, 1984.
Jullien, Francois. Detour and Access: Strategies of Meaning in China and Greece. NY:
Zone Books, 2000.
Kaltenmark, Max. Lao Tzu and Taoism. Stanford University Press, 1965
Kohn, Livia. Early Chinese Mysticism: Philosophy and Soteriology in the Taoist
Tradition. Princeton, NJ: Princeton Univ. Pr., 1992.
_____ ed. The Taoist Experience. NY: SUNY Press, 1993
Parkes, Graham. Nietzsche and Asian Thought. Chicago: University of Chicago Press,
1981.
Porter, Bill. Road to Heaven: Encounters With Chinese Hermits. SF: Mercury House,
1993
Rawson, Philip and Laszlo Legeza. Tao: The Eastern Philosophy of Time and Change.
NY: Avon Books, 1973.
Saso, Michael. The Teachings of Taoist Master Chuang. New Haven: Yale Univ. Press,
1978. Not a book about Chuang Tzu.
Waley, Arthur. Three Ways of Thought in Ancient China. Stanford University Press,
1982.
Watts, Alan. Tao: The Watercourse Way. New York: Pantheon, 1975.
Welch, Holmes. Taoism: The Parting of the Way. Boston: Beacon Press, 1957.
Chinese Scholars on Zhuangzi:
Chang Ping-lin [Zhang Binglin]; Ch’en Ku-ying [Chen Guying]; Ch’eng Hsuan-ying
[Cheng Xuanying]; Hsi T’ung [Xi Tong]; Kuo Ch’ing-fan [Guo Qingfan, 1844-1897];
Kuo Hsiang [Guo Xiang]; Li Chen [Li Zhen]; Li Tz’u-ming [Li Ciming]; Lu Te-ming [Lu
Deming]; Ma Hsu-lun [Ma Xulun]; Sun I-jang [Sun Yirang]; Wang Hsien-chien [Wang
Xianjian]; Wang Mao-hung [Wang Maohong]; Wang Nien-sun [Wang Niansun]; Wang
Yin-chih [Wang Yinzhi]; Wen I-to [Wen Yiduo]; Yu Yueh [Yu Yue]; Japan: Mitsuji
Fukanaga
Zhuangzi Short List
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a Balfour, Frederick Henry. The Divine Classic of Nan Hua, Being the Work of Chuang
Tsze, Taoist Philosopher. Shanghai: Kelly & Walsh, 1881
a Cook, Scott, ed. Hiding the World in the World: Uneven Discourses on the Zhuangzi.
NY: SUNY Press, 2003.
a Coutinho, Steve. Zhuangzi and Early Chinese Philosophy: Vagueness, Transformation
and Paradox. Ashgate Publishing, 2004.
w Coxon, Anne Kogler. Chinese Religious Thought: Mencius and Chuang-tzu.
Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1975.
a Giles, Herbert A. Chuang Tzu: Mystic, Moralist and Social Reformer. Shanghai: Kelly
& Walsh, 1926.
a_____Chuang Tzu: Taoist Philosopher and Chinese Mystic. London: George Allen &
Unwin, 1961.
a Herman, Johnathan Roy. “The Text of Chuang Tzu and the Problem of Interpretation:
A Critical Study of Martin Buber’s Translation and Commentary” (Buber, Martin;
Austria, China). PhD Dissertation, Harvard University, 1992.
a Hyun Hochsmann, Hyun, Yang Guorong and Daniel Kolak. Zhuangzi. Longman Library
of Primary Sources in Philosophy, 2006.
a Liu Xiaogan. Classifying the Zhuangzi Chapters. Center for Chinese Studies, 1995.
a Kao, Caroline Jiu-yin. “Returning Home: A Comparative Study of Zhuang Zi and
Meister Eckhart (Daoism, Christianity, Mysticism).” Dissertation.
x Newman, Barnett, et al. From Chuang Tzu. (Art book)
x Ni, Hua Ching. Teachings of Chuang Tzu: Attaining Unlimited Life.
? Osho, Krishna Prabhu. The Empty Boat: Talks on the Sayings of Chuang Tzu. Rebel
Pub. House, 1993.
a Paz, Octavio. Chuang-Tzu. (Spanish)
? Rajneesh, Bagwan Shree. When the Shoe Fits: Talks on the Stories of Chuang Tzu.
a Rosemont, Henry, Hr. and Benjamin I. Schwartz..“How Much of Chuang-tzu did
Chuang-tzu write?” Journal of the American Academy of Religion..Thematic Issue,
Sept, 1979, 47/3, 459-502.
a Wang Xianqian. Zhuangzi jijie (Collected Interpretations on Zhuang Zi). In Zhuzi jicheng
(Anthology of Pre-Qin Schools of Thought). Vol. 3. Shangahai: Shanghai shudian,
1987. ASIN: 7101000754. Chinese Text.
a Wieger, Leon (Tr). Chuang-tzu: The Treatise of the Transcendent Master from Nan-hua.
LLanerch Press, 1995.
a Youru Wang. Linguistic Strategies in Daoist Zhuangzi and Chan Buddhism. Taylor &
Francis, 2007.
a Yu Shiyi. “Reading the Chuang-Tzu in the T’ang Dynasty: The Commentary of
Ch’eng Hsuan-ying.” PhD Dissertation, Univ. of Colorado at Boulder, 1998.
Hardbound version, Asian Thought and Culture, Vol. 39, Peter Lang Publishing, 2000.
a Ziporyn, Brook. The Penumbra Unbound: The Neo-Taoist Philosophy of Guo Xiang.
NY: SUNY, 2003. Guo Xiang (d. 312 c.e.) commentator on Zhuangzi.
a _____Zhuangzi: The Essential Texts. Hackett Pub Co, 2008.
Daoism Short List
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? Ames, Roger T. The Art of Rulership: A Study of Ancient Chinese Political Thought. NY:
SUNY Press, 1994.
? Chang Chung-Yuan. Creativity and Taoism: A Study of Chinese Philosophy, Art and
Poetry. Julian Press, 1963.
? Girardot, N.J. Myth and Meaning in Early Taoism: The Theme of Chaos (hun-tun).
University of California Press, 1974.
? Gotshalk, Richard. The Beginnings of Philosophy in China. University Press, 1999.
? Lau, D.C. and Roger T. Ames. Yuan Dao: Tracing Dao to Its Source. Ballantine Books,
1998.
a Lewis, Mark Edward. Writing and Authority in Early China. Albany, NY: SUNY Press,
1999.
a Rubin, Vitaly. Individual and State in Ancient China: Essays on Confucius, Mo Tzu,
Shang Yang & Chuang Tzu. NY: Columbia Univ. Pr., 1976.
? Wong, Eva. Lieh-Tzu: A Taoist Guide to Practical Living. Shambhala. 1995.
? Yates, Robin D. Five Lost Classics: Tao, Huanglao, and Yin-Yang in Han China.
Ballantine Books, 1997.