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The Writings of Kwang-ze

In The Texts of Tâoism, Sacred Books of the East, vols. 39–40

By Zhuangzi

First written c. 4th–2nd century BCE

About this book

Legge’s complete translation of the thirty-three chapters of the Zhuangzi, with its stories of the butterfly dream, Cook Ding and the useless tree, and its arguments on perspective, freedom and the equality of things.

The edition

Title
The Writings of Kwang-ze: In The Texts of Tâoism, Sacred Books of the East, vols. 39–40
Translated by
James Legge
Publisher
Clarendon Press, Oxford
Year
1891

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Period

Axial Age800 BCE to 200 BCE

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