Named for the famous Chinese minister of state, Guan Zhong (d.
645 B.C.), the "Guanzi" is one of the largest collections of
ancient Chinese writings still in existence. With this volume, W.
Allyn Rickett completes the first full translation of the" Guanzi"
into English. This represents a truly monumental effort, as the
"Guanzi" is a long and notoriously difficult work. It was compiled
in its present form about 26 B.C. by the Han dynasty scholar Liu
Xiang and the surviving text consists of some seventy-six anonymous
essays dating from the fifth century B.C. to the first century
B.C.
The forty-two chapters contained in this volume include several
which present Daoist theories concerning self-cultivation and the
relationship between the body and mind as well as the development
of Huang-Lao political and economic thought. The "Dizi zhi" chapter
provides one of the oldest discussions of education in China. The
"Shui di" chapter refers to the circulation of blood some two
thousand years before the discoveries of William Harvey in the
West. Other chapters deal with various aspects of statecraft,
Yin-Yang and Five Phases thought, folk beliefs, seasonal calendars,
and farming. Perhaps the best-known chapters are those that deal
with various methods of controlling and stimulating the economy.
They constitute one of the world's earliest presentations of a
quantity theory of money. Throughout the text, Rickett provides
extensive notes. He also supplies an introduction to the volume and
a comprehensive index.
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