Biografia de chuang tzu translation

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Zhuang Zhou

Chinese philosopher (c.369 – c.286 BC)

This article is about the Chinese philosopher. For his eponymous text, see Zhuangzi (book).

Zhuang Zhou (),^[1] commonly known as Zhuangzi (;^[2]Chinese: 莊子; literally "Master Zhuang"; also rendered in the Wade–Giles romanization as Chuang Tzu),^[a] was an influential Chinese philosopher who lived around the 4th century BCE during the Warring States period, a period of great development in Chinese philosophy, the Hundred Schools of Thought. He is credited with writing—in part or in whole—a work known by his name, the Zhuangzi, which is one of two foundational texts of Taoism, alongside the Tao Te Ching.

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See also: Zhuangzi (book) § History

The only account of the life of Zhuangzi is a brief sketch in chapter 63 of Sima Qian's Records of the Grand Historian,^[3] and most of the information it contains seems to have simply been drawn from anecdotes in the Z

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Chuang Tzu: Basic Writings
February 7, 2008
Zhuangzi has been labeled a "Taoist" since the 2nd century B.C., but what the hell does that mean? Sima Qian started this whole thing of calling Laozi and Zhuangzi "Taoists", like they shared the same world view and argued the same ideas. Wrong! Laozi and Zhuangzi really need to be taken as separate representations of different ways of thought, distinct not only from each other but from the wave of "Confucians" (another label courtesy of Sima Qian in the 2nd century BC) to come after Confucius himself.

Zhuangzi was a contemporary of Mencius. He probably lived in the state of Song, where the exiled Shang clans were allowed by their Zhou conquerers to quietly carry out their sacrifices to their ancestors under careful scrutiny. In a way, we might say a glimmer of Shang cultural values is coming through in Zhuangzi's writings, which are so characteristically different from the Zhou inspired Confucian thinkers.

Regardless, Zhuangzi doesn't l
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Translating Chuang Tzu into world literature:
Autores
Jiaxin Lin School of Foreign Studies, Guangdong University of Finance & Economics
Xinbing Yu Guangdong University of Finance and Economics
Song Liu Hunan University of Finance and Economics
Mingqiao Luo Guangdong University of Finance and Economics
Younkon Chou Nanyang Technological University
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.1590/0101-3173.2023.v46n1.p121
Palavras-chave:
Chuang Tzu, World literature, Translation history, Translation studies
Resumo
Chuang Tzu (《庄子》), as a traditional kinesisk canon, has been translated into English for more than 100 years since 1881, successfully carving a niche in the