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Article: Les grands traites de Huainan zi.
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- Asian Folklore Studies
- Article date:
- October 1, 1994
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THE Huainan zi [Book of the master of Huainan] is a philosophical and narrative text of twenty-one chapters that dates back to the court of Liu An (179--122 B.C.E.), grandson of Liu Bang and prince of Huainan. A comprehensive volume, the work comprises treatises on the Tao, the skies, the earth, the seasons, statecraft, military strategy, and human affairs.
Written in the tradition of philosophical Taoism, the Huainan zi reflects the Han-dynasty synthesis of the ancient schools of Chinese philosophy, integrating a fundamentally Taoist viewpoint with contemporary cosmology, Confucian ethics, and Legalist doctrines of statecraft. In doing so, the text not only ...