莊子

Zhuāngzǐ 莊子

Master Zhuāng — the classical Daoist text

attributed to 莊周 (Zhuāng Zhōu, second half of the fourth century BCE) and his followers

A text-edition of the Zhuāngzǐ 莊子 in the canonical 33-chapter Guō Xiàng 郭象 (郭象) redaction, sourced from the CHANT (Chinese Ancient Text database, CUHK) critical edition. Parallel edition to [[KR5c0051|KR5c0051 Nánhuá zhēn jīng]] (the Daozang canonical edition); this KR5c0126 entry serves primarily as the linguistically-indexed digital resource.

About the work

See KR5c0051 Nánhuá zhēn jīng for the comprehensive treatment of the Zhuāngzǐ — its authorship, dating, 33-chapter structure (7 Nèi piān, 15 Wài piān, 11 Zá piān), the Guō Xiàng redaction history, and the full bibliography. This KR5c0126 entry provides only the minimal framing required for the text’s inclusion in the Kanripo corpus.

Source: CHANT

The text is sourced from the CHANT (Chinese Ancient Text) database, a major electronic-text project based at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. The base-edition collation draws on:

• Guō Qìngfán 郭慶藩, Zhuāngzǐ jí shì 莊子集釋 (1894, the standard critical edition)
• Wáng Shūmín 王叔岷, Zhuāngzǐ jiào quán 莊子校詮
• Fāng Yǒng 方勇
• Chén Gǔyìng 陳鼓應

(The header notes these as reference-edition anchors.)

Relation to KR5c0051

The canonical Daozang edition of the Zhuāngzǐ, preserved as Nánhuá zhēn jīng (DZ 670), is catalogued separately at KR5c0051 with full bibliographical and philosophical discussion. The present KR5c0126 is the bare-text / linguistic-research edition.

Prefaces

No preface is transmitted with this CHANT edition.

Abstract

See KR5c0051 for the full treatment. Summary: The Zhuāngzǐ in the received 33-chapter Guō Xiàng redaction (c. 290–312 CE) is the second of the three foundational Daoist classics (with the Dàodé jīng and the Yìjīng). The inner chapters (Nèi piān, chs. 1–7) are widely attributed to Zhuāng Zhōu himself (fl. late 4th cent. BCE); the outer (Wài piān) and miscellaneous (Zá piān) chapters are the work of his followers and later tradition.

Dating. Per the project convention for layered works: –340 to 312 CE. Dynasty: 周.

Translations and research

See KR5c0051 for the full bibliography. Standard English translations: Graham (1981), Watson (1968), Ziporyn (2009).

Links

• Kanseki Repository KR5c0126
• Parallel Daozang edition: KR5c0051 Nánhuá zhēn jīng.
• CHANT (Chinese Ancient Text) database.
• ctext.org: Zhuangzi.