A Chinese Reading of the Daodejing: Wang Bi's Commentary on the Laozi With Critical Text and Translation

by Wagner, Rudolf G.

• ISBN13: 9780791451816
• ISBN10: 079145181X
• Edition: Bilingual
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2003-11-01
• Publisher: State Univ of New York Pr

Summary

Rudolf G. Wagner is Professor of Chinese Studies at the University of Heidelberg.

Table of Contents

Preface	vii
Introduction	1	(2)
1 The Wang Bi Recension of the Laozi	3	(30)
Introduction	3	(2)
The Problem	5	(1)
Wang Bi's Original Recension of the Laozi	6	(11)
Superimposition	17	(8)
The Division into zhang and pian	25	(2)
Conclusion	27	(1)
Appendix A: Differences between Wang Bi Laozi Receptus and Laozi Text Used in Wang Bi Commentary	28	(2)
Appendix B Differences between Wang Bi Laozi Receptus and Places Where Fan Yingyuan's Laozi Daode jing guben jizbu Comments That Wang Bi's Manuscript Coincided with the "Old Manuscript[s]"	30	(3)
2 Patronage and the Transmission of the Wang Bi Commentary: Foundations for a Critical Edition	33	(36)
The Problem	33	(2)
A History of Wang Bi's Commentary on the Laozi: the Evidence	35	(30)
Conclusions	65	(4)
3 Wang Bi: "The Structure of the Laozi's Subtle Pointers," Laozi weizhi lüeli, a Philological Study and Translation Together with the Text.	69	(38)
Introduction	69	(1)
The Authenticity of the Laozi weizhi lüeli (LZWLL)	69	(4)
Wang Bi's LZWLL and the Transmitted Text	73	(2)
The Genre of the LZWLL	75	(3)
The Laozi's Structure according to the LZWLL	78	(2)
The Basis for the Edition of the Text	80	(2)
Wang Bi: The Structure of the Laozi's Pointers	82	(25)
4 A Reconstruction and Critical Edition of the Laozi Text Used by Wang Bi; a Reconstruction and Critical Edition of Wang Bi's Commentary on the Laozi; an Extrapolative Translation of the Laozi through Wang Bi's Commentary; and a Translation of Wang Bi's Commentary on the Laozi	107	(282)
A Note on the Edition	107	(5)
A Note on Extrapolative Translation	112	(4)
A Note on Previous Translations	116	(3)
Wang Bi, Commentary on the Laozi	119	(270)
Notes	389	(110)
Bibliography	499	(14)
Index	513