"Zhuangzi: Modern Notes and Translations: Volumes 1 and 2" Author: Chen Guying Zhonghua Book Company

Zhuangzi is a famous ancient Chinese philosophical work and an excellent literary work. It has been widely circulated for thousands of years and has a great influence. Zhuangzi with Modern Notes and Modern Translations refers to various annotated editions from ancient and modern times at home and abroad, and selects the best ones to make detailed and comprehensive annotations and modern translations of the whole book of Zhuangzi. It is a classic popular reading of Zhuangzi. This book was first published by the Commercial Press in Taiwan in 1974, and was reprinted in traditional Chinese by Zhonghua Book Company in 1983. Afterwards, the author made significant revisions to the Laozi and Zhuangzi books respectively, and continued to be published by Zhonghua Book Company. In 1995, the Commercial Press in Taiwan re-arranged and issued it, and in 2007, the Commercial Press in Beijing typeset and printed it in simplified Chinese. Later, Zhonghua Book Company used the Commercial Press in Taiwan as the basis, absorbed the newly revised content of the simplified Chinese version of the Commercial Press in Beijing, and then re-collated it with the original Zhonghua version, correcting some typographical errors of the original version. There are about 100 additions, deletions, and changes in the whole book. The revised edition published by Zhonghua Book Company is the one that the author is most satisfied with. It is reprinted as a collection of his works.

Chen Guying was born in Changting, Fujian in 1935. He went to Taiwan with his parents in 1949. From 1956 to 1963, he studied at the Department of Philosophy and the Institute of Philosophy of National Taiwan University, where he studied under the famous philosophers Fang Dongmei and Yin Haiguang. In 1973, he was dismissed by the authorities for participating in the Diaoyu Islands Protection Movement on the NTU campus and publishing contemporary opinions, which triggered the famous "National Taiwan University Philosophy Department Incident" that lasted for about two years. He left Taiwan for the United States in 1979 and took a position at Peking University in 1984. In 1997, National Taiwan University rehabilitated him and he returned to NTU to teach until his retirement. Since 2010, he has been employed as a "Humanities Lecture Professor" in the Department of Philosophy of Peking University. Chen Guying is an internationally renowned Taoist scholar and author of "Laozi Notes and Comments" and "Zhuangzi Today's Notes and Translations" which he wrote have been sold for more than 40 years and have become classic reading materials for people to study Laozi and Zhuangzi. He proposed the view that the philosophical thought of Yi Zhuan belongs to Taoism, which is contrary to the old view that Yi Zhuan belongs to Confucianism for 2,000 years; his "theory of the main body of Chinese philosophy is Taoism" has an increasingly wide influence. The "Collection of Chen Guying's Works" series published this time is a concentrated presentation of his academic works.