Media Recommendation
The Chuang Tzu（Zhuangzi）is one of the most justly celebrated texts of the style，it has been a challenge for centuries to the bestminds in the Far East，and has usually captivated even those it could not convince.
——Wm. Theodore ae Bary East Asian studies expert at Columbia University
The Book of Zhuangzi is one of the most entertaining as well as one of the profoundest books in the world.
——Arthur Waley English orientalist and sinologist
If all the Chinese poets，painters，and writers who ever lived were queried and asked to name one book of their favorite reading，the nomination would certainly go to the writings of Chuang Tzu.
——Sam Hamill
Librarian. poet and publisher of Unfinished Monument Press j. P. Seaton
Professor of Chinese at the University of North Carolina
Editor's Recommendation
This book introduces Zhuangzi with a new interpretation based on a novel Concept of tong（通）or throughness. By understanding the concept of tong we a re able to reveal the real originality of Zhuangzi's philosophy，Avery different Zhuangzi is p resented in this book.
About Author
Geling Shang（商戈令），born in Shanghai，got his Ph.D. at Temple University. USA, specialized in ancient Chinese philosophy and 1 9th century European philosophy. Shang is the author of Liberation as Affirmation：the Religiosity of Zhuangzi and Nietzsche（2006），Oswald Spengler（1991），0n Moral Values（1988）.Currently he is an Associate Professor at G rand Valley State University in Michigan, USA.
Table of Contents
9 PREFACE
11 PROLOGUE：WHAT IS DANCING?
12 CHAPTER I.ZHUANGZI THE PERSON AND THE B00K OF ZHUANGZI
12 1.Zhuangzi the Person
18 2.The Book Of Zhuangzi
22 CHAPTER II.ZHUANGZI'S PHILOSOPHY 0F TONG——DADTHROUGHS AS 0NE
22 1.Dao is the Ultimate Concern Of Chinese Philosophy
24 2.Zhuangzi'S Making of a Concept of Tong
28 3.Dao Throughs as One
31 4.Zhuangzi!S Notion：Dao Is What Throughs
36 5.ThroughneS S as One Could Be the Alternative to Metaphysical 0neness
40 CHAPTERⅢ.THE INNER CHAPTERS
40 1.Xiao Yao You——Dancing with the World
46 2.Equalizing Things and Opinions
73 3.The Nucleus Of Nurturing Life
79 4.Being in the Marketplace
93 5.Flourishing of Virtue
104 6.The Greatest Guidance
117 7.Idealistic Rulers of a Nation
124 CHAPTER 1V.SELECTED ALLEGORIES FROM ALL CHAPTERS
125 The Man in Miaogu Mountain
127 Three in the Morning
127 HOW Would I Know
129 The Character of a Shadow
130 The Weeping Lady
132 Is There Winner
134 To Hide Heaven Under Heaven
135 Friends
138 Shaman Jixian——Four Stages of Cultivation of Qi
141 The Empty Boat
142 Avoiding Machinate One's Heart by Using Machines
145 What Cannot Be Read in Books
147 The Sophist Encountering Zhuangzi
151 Talking to a Skull
152 Danger of Indulgence
153 HOW Many Confucians Are There
155 In Between Worth and Worthless——Thing Things Without Being Thinged by Things
157 Hunchback's Art of Catching Cicadas
158 Ferryman's Dao
159 Gamecocks
160 Swimming in Accordance to the Dao of Water
161 Comfort of Forgetting What Is Comfortable
162 The Old Man's Fishing of no Fishing
164 Know Dao and Know-not Dao
166 No-thing and No-nothing Or Nonexistence and NO-nonexistence
167 The Talented Monkey
168 The Zhuangzi thus Characterized
170 CHAPTER V．ZHUANGZI'S INFLUENCE IN CHINESE HISTORY
170 Philosophical Daoism
176 Religious Daoism
179 New Daoism．Or“Xuanxue”
182 Confucianism
186 Chinese Buddhism
191 0ther Schools of Thought
191 Chinese Art
194 Zhuangzi in Modern China
195 Zhuangzi in the World
197 EPILOGUE：RESPONSE T0 YUNFEI
200 SELECTED REFERENCES
