First published in 1985, W. Allyn Rickett`s authoritative translation of the first 33 essays of Guanzi (or Kuan tzu) performs an inestimable service to the field of China studies. The product of nearly 40 years of careful, committed scholarship, it includes generous annotations and is the standard English edition of this work. The Guanzi, named for the famous minister of state Guan Zhong (d. 645 B.C.), was put together in its present form circa 26 B.C. by the Han dynasty scholar Liu Xiang. The surviving text consists of some 70 essays by anonymous writers dating from the fifth century B.C. to about the time of Liu Xiang himself in the first century B.C. Most noted amongst these essays is material concerning early Chinese economic and political theory, especially the concept of qing zhong, perhaps the world's earliest statement of the quantitative theory of money. The text also includes information on such topics as early Chinese social structure and practices, military organization and theory, early historical romance literature, and early Chinese thought, including Taoism, naturalistic theory, and the amalgam of Taoist and Legalist thought known as Huang-Loa.
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This review is from: Guanzi: Political, Economic, And Philosophical Essays From Early China - A Study and Translation (C & T Asian Translation Series) (Paperback)
Rickett's translation of the Guanzi in two volumes, of which the present is the first, has made a long underrated very important compilation of texts from early China available for the Western reader. Rickett has achieved an accurate and well annotated translation in a very readable, clear style.
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an academic work,
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This review is from: Guanzi: Political, Economic, And Philosophical Essays From Early China - A Study and Translation (C & T Asian Translation Series) (Paperback)
It's not a book for everybody. It's an academic translation. The editor doesn't make any effort to make the book interesting. It's a partial translation. The best parts of the work haven't been translated. I would have liked much more notes and explications. Chinese classics deserve a better handling and treatment.
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