Zōuzǐ 鄒子
Master Zōu by 鄒湛 (Zōu Zhàn, ?–299, 晉)
About the work
A lost Western Jìn 西晉 zǐbù treatise by Zōu Zhàn 鄒湛 (this work is not to be confused with the Warring-States Zōuzǐ of Zōu Yǎn 鄒衍, also lost). Reconstructed from quotations in 《意林》, 《太平御覽》. Not in the Sìkù quánshū; sourced from CHANT (CH2a1478).
Abstract
Zōu Zhàn 鄒湛 (zì Rùnfǔ 潤甫) was a Western Jìn official from Nányáng 南陽 — a native of Xīnyě 新野 — who served at the courts of Wǔdì 武帝 and Huìdì 惠帝 in successive metropolitan posts. His biography is Jìn shū 晉書 j. 92 (Wényuàn lièzhuàn). He died c. 299 amidst the disturbances of the Bāwáng zhī luàn 八王之亂. The Zōuzǐ is his principal zǐ-house work; the Suí shū jīngjí zhì lists it without specifying a juàn-count. Surviving fragments are short and aphoristic. The composition window is bracketed by his career under Wǔdì and Huìdì; the received recension is a 19th-century jíyì.
Translations and research
No substantial dedicated secondary literature located in Western languages. Standard fragment-compilation: 嚴可均 Quán Jìn wén 全晉文 j. 67.
Links
- Jìn shū 晉書 j. 92 (鄒湛傳).