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Traditional attribution

Zhuangzi, ch. 7: "Fit for Emperors and Kings" (Ying diwang)

《莊子·應帝王》

Zhuangzi en el álbum de retratos de soberanos sabios y ministros virtuosos
byZhuangzi

The political chapter of the inner set: good government is imposing nothing. It includes the shaman Jixian defeated by Master Huzi, the maxim that the perfect man uses his mind like a mirror that retains nothing, and the closing fable of Hundun, Chaos, who dies when his friends bore seven openings in him to give him a human face.

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Authorship note

Inner chapter (neipian). Even before Guo Xiang (c. 300 CE), tradition attributed the seven inner chapters to Zhuang Zhou himself, and most specialists (Graham, Liu Xiaogan) see in them the oldest and most personal layer of the book. Still, the titles and grouping are by later editors, they contain some additions, and Esther Klein (2010) has shown there is no evidence they circulated as a block before the Han.

Editions and translations

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English

  • Chuang Tzŭ, ch. 7: How to Govern

    Bernard Quaritch / Wikisource, 1889

    Translation: Herbert A. Giles

    Dominio público (Giles murió en 1935).

Français

  • Œuvre de Tchoang-tzeu, Chapitre 7. Gouvernement des princes

    Imprimerie de Hien-hien / Wikisource, 1913

    Translation: Léon Wieger

    Dominio público (Wieger murió en 1933).

Chino clásico · 文言

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Sources

  • Graham, A. C. (trad.). Chuang-tzŭ: The Seven Inner Chapters and Other Writings from the Book Chuang-tzŭ. Londres: George Allen & Unwin, 1981 (reimpr. Hackett, 2001, como Chuang-tzu: The Inner Chapters). ISBN 9780042990101.

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