The Writings of Kwang-ze
By Zhuangzi
Translated by James Legge
Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1891
First written c. 4th–2nd century BCE
In the public domain
About this text
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.
How to cite
Zhuangzi. The Writings of Kwang-ze: In The Texts of Tâoism, Sacred Books of the East, vols. 39–40. Translated by James Legge. Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1891.
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