“[Roth’s analysis] throws an interesting new light on the development of Taoist ideas through these various texts, and leads Roth to propose a fascinating hypothesis concerning the provenance of the various schools that make up the thought of the complete Chuang Tzu and how these chapters came historically to be incorporated into the text.” —Philosophy East and West 55 (2005)

At the time of his death in 1991, Angus C. Graham was one of the world’s premier authorities on classical Chinese philosophy. Of particular significance is his corpus of publications on Taoism, the most important of which was his groundbreaking translation of more than three-fourths of the Chuang Tzu, first published in 1981 and, until recently, out of print for almost a decade. The current volume gathers together for the first time Graham’s writings on the textual criticism and philosophy of the Chuang Tzu, most of which have heretofore been published in obscure sources.

Harold D. Roth is professor of East Asian studies and religious studies at Brown University.