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2021: Intro II from Daoism/Zhuangzi: Zhang Yuanshan’s “Zhuangzi Restored Edition” 張遠山《莊子復原本》

Posted on 07/04/2025 by 高大伟 David Cowhig

Here continuing the translation of the preface and the introductions of Zhang Yuanshan’s “Zhuangzi Restored Edition” 《莊子復原本》that I began at 2021: Daoism/Zhuangzi: Zhang Yuanshan’s “Zhuangzi Restored Edition” 張遠山《莊子復原本》 Commentators have worked on recovering and correcting transcription errors and other problems with ancient … Continue reading →

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2021: Daoism/Zhuangzi: Zhang Yuanshan’s “Zhuangzi Restored Edition” 張遠山《莊子復原本》

Posted on 07/02/2025 by 高大伟 David Cowhig

As I continue reading some Chinese classics in Chinese with friends over the past few years — we have finished the Analects and the Mencius — we are moving on to the Zhuangzi. As I was looking for a good … Continue reading →

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2012: “Diplomacy with Distant States and Attacking Nearby States” and Modern Diplomacy

Posted on 03/20/2022 by 高大伟 David Cowhig

China as a growing modern Gulliver seems to despise the plotting of nearby latter-day Lilliputians to form alliances and find support from distant states. It may be that these nearby states have learned from the failure of the Warring States … Continue reading →

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