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Chuang Tzu: The Inner Chapters
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This "Landmark Translation Series" is the first time in well over a century that the four masterworks of ancient Chinese thought have been translated as a unified series by a single translator. Hinton's award-winning experience translating a wide range of ancient Chinese poets makes these books sing in English as never before. But these new versions are not only inviting and immensely readable, they also apply much-needed consistency to key terms in these texts, lending structural links and philosophical rigor heretofore unavailable in English. Breathing new life into these originary classics, Hinton's new translations will stand as the definitive texts for our era. |
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Pages 144
Dimensions: Length: 0.5" Width: 5" Height: 8"
Weight: 0.35 lbs.
Binding Softcover
Publisher Counterpoint
ISBN 1887178791
EAN 9781887178792
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 | Spirit Lacking Nov 17, 2007 |
| A serviceable translation, but lacking in spiritual depth. Thomas Merton's translation gives a much better appreciation of the spiritual depth of the text. | | |  | Th e best book of eastern phiolospy I have read... Oct 9, 2006 |
| I REALLY enjoy this book. It is interesting and full of wisdom and leaves this simple reader with a lot to chew on. I especially enjoyed the tale of the butcher in "To care for this life". I have not read any other translations of The Inner Chapters, but I certainly will. I have compared other of David Hinton's translations with different translators, and find that his writing is touching and poetic, and for me, "hits home" the most. He seems to put great care and respect into his work, and I tend to enjoy his translations the most. I am gobbling up all his work I can get my hands on. Highly recommend his Wilderness Poems of Ancient China and translations of Tao Chien. I hope you buy this book. | | |  | A. C. Graham Jan 13, 2005 |
This translation, I have to say, cannot hold a candle to A. C. Graham's. Graham reorganized the whole text, and explains how and why very methodically in his 35-page introduction. He tried to put the Inner Chapters into what could be (he believes) more faithful to the initial text. His translations read beautifully, much better than Hinton's often clunky ones. Also, when Zhuangzi switches from prose to poetry, or vice versa, it is noted in Graham's translation, often by putting the translation into a poem. In Hinton's, you'll find no such doings. Also, call me a snob, but I like my philosophy books to be translated by philosophers.
I'm sure it's a fine book, but I really must strongly recommend the Graham translation over this. | | | | Wonderful book Oct 3, 2004 |
| I haven't read any other translations so I cannot comment per the prior reviewers' disagreement over this. On the other hand, some folks prefer a very literal translation and others perfer to optimize the poetic nature or the philosophical meaning and accuracy. There may not be a right or wrong on this point. However, the quality of Chuang Tzu's work is not in question--it's magnificent. This translation appeared to preserve the poetic beauty of the original while retaining its philosophical/religious integrity--but then, I don't read Chinese. I suggest you read it and form your own opinion. | | | | Brilliantly written Mar 19, 2000 |
| Chuang Tzu's literary themes and format of choice differ considerably from those of the more famous Lao Tzu; his prose anecdotes are more accessible than Lao Tzu's didactic verse, yet often deeper as well, and are worthy of examination even by those with no particular interest in Taoist philosophy. How accurate is this work as translation? Not being familiar with the original Chinese, I can't say -- but the English phrasings are extraordinarily effective in their own right, far clearer and more beautiful than those in another, more popular version that I've seen. | | | Write your own review about Chuang Tzu: The Inner Chapters
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