{"product_id":"the-old-master-a-syncretic-reading-of-the-laozi-from-the-mawangdui-text-a-onward-9781438440125","title":"The Old Master: A Syncretic Reading of the Laozi from the Mawangdui Text A Onward","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Hongkyung Kim\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: State University of New York Press\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: State University of New York Press\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Taoist\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA unique translation of and commentary on the Laozi, based on the oldest edition of the work.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis unique, highly contextualized translation of the \u003ci\u003eLaozi\u003c\/i\u003e is based on the earliest known edition of the work, Text A of the Mawangdui \u003ci\u003eLaozi\u003c\/i\u003e, written before 202 BCE. No other editions are comparable to this text in its antiquity. Hongkyung Kim also incorporates the recent archaeological discovery of \u003ci\u003eLaozi\u003c\/i\u003e-related documents disentombed in 1993 in Guodian, seeing these documents as proto-materials for compilation of the \u003ci\u003eLaozi\u003c\/i\u003e and revealing clues for disentangling the work from complicated exegetical contentions. Kim makes extensive use of Chinese commentaries on the \u003ci\u003eLaozi\u003c\/i\u003e and also examines the classic Chinese texts closely associated with the formation of the work to illuminate the intellectual and historical context of Laozi's philosophy.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eKim offers several original and thought-provoking arguments on the \u003ci\u003eLaozi\u003c\/i\u003e, including that the work was compiled during the Qin, which has traditionally been viewed as typical of Legalist states, and that the \u003ci\u003eLaozi\u003c\/i\u003e should be recognized as a syncretic text before being labeled a Daoist one.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"State University of New York Press","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":47891025789079,"sku":"9781438440125","price":3728.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9781438440125.webp?v=1781182098","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/the-old-master-a-syncretic-reading-of-the-laozi-from-the-mawangdui-text-a-onward-9781438440125","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}