33. Let Us Count the Ways: What is Daoism?
What does “Daoism†refer to in a range of contexts, and how have excavated texts changed our understanding of the tensions between Daoism and Confucianism?
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• W.T. Chan (trans.). The Way of Lao Tzu (Tao-te ching). (Englewood Cliffs: 1963).
• T. Cheng, Z. Lu, W. Nienhauser, and R. Reynolds (trans.), “Sima Qian: Lao Tzu and Han Fei, Memoir 3,†in W. Nienhauser (ed.) The Grand Scribe’s Records. Volume VII, The Memoirs of Pre-Han China (Bloomington: 1994), 21-32.
• S. Cook, The Bamboo Texts of Guodian: a Study and Complete Translation, 2 volumes, (Ithaca: 2012).
• P. D’Ambrosio and X. Ouyang (eds), The Critical Annotated Laozi: With Contemporary Explication and Traditional Commentary (Leiden: 2020).
• R. Henricks (trans.) Lao-Tzu Te-Tao Jing: A New Translation Based on the Recently Discovered Ma-Wang-Tui Texts (New York: 1989).
• R. Henricks (trans.). Lao Tzu’s Tao Te Ching: A Translation of the Startling New Documents Found at Guodian (New York: 2000).
• H. van Ess (trans.), “Sima Qian: Sequence of his Honor, the Grand Scribe’s Own [History], Memoir 70,†in W. Nienhauser (ed.) The Grand Scribe’s Records. Volume XI, The Memoirs of Han China (Bloomington: 2019), 311-69.
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• T.H. Barrett, “Lieh tzu 列å,†in M. Loewe (ed.), Early Chinese Texts: A Bibliographical Guide (Berkeley: 1993), 298-308.
• A. Chan and Y.K. Lo (eds), Philosophy and Religion in Early Medieval China (Albany: 2010).
• L.K. Chen and H.C.W. Sung, “The Doctrines and Transformation of the Huang-Lao Tradition,†in X. Liu (ed.), Dao Companion to Daoist Philosophy (Dordrecht: 2015), 241-264.
• R. Kirkland, Taoism: The Enduring Tradition (New York: 2004).
• L. Kohn, Daoism Handbook (Leiden: 2000).
• Liu An, The Huainanzi: a Guide to the Theory and Practice of Government in Early Han China, trans. and ed. J. Major, S. Queen, A.S. Meyer, H. Roth (New York: 2010)
• X. Liu (ed.), Dao Companion to Daoist Philosophy (Dordrecht: 2015).
• I. Robinet, Taoism: Growth of a Religion, trans. P. Brooks (Stanford: 1997).
• H. Roth, Original Tao: Inward Training (Nei-yeh) and the Foundations of Taoist Mysticism (New York: 1999).
• N. Sivin, “On the Word ‘Taoist’ as a Source of Perplexity: with Special Reference to the Relations of Science and Religion in Traditional China,†History of Religions 17 (1978), 303–30.
• K. Smith, “Sima Tan and the Invention of Daoism, ‘Legalism,’ et cetera,†Journal of Asian Studies 62 (2003), 129–56.
In Our Time: Daoism
Comments
New theme for Classical Chinese Philosophy?
Do you happen to know when we will get a new theme song for this podcast series?
Will it occur once you have concluded Warring state era after covering Legalists before moving to Han Dynasty (new epoch) ?
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New music
I was thinking we'd change music when we get to the Han period; I think we'll also re-title the dropdown menu then (Warring States vs Han period).